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🐷 Archers thread #127: Discuss the boars and sows of Ambridge here - or should that be bores and soused? You decide.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/04/2021 10:53

Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

Archers All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed. We don't all agree on all points and most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you’d love to live opposite Joy, or other unusual views. Grin

Archers Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

Archers For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have - BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

These threads normally last around a month. When I started the last one, we were bracing ourselves for the Mystery Play, but that storyline, which had never exactly set the airwaves on fire, fizzled out and has (I hope) gone away, never to return.

@LillianGish proposed a new thread title which I'll use instead as a scene-setter for this thread. What a carry on - Nurse (Ben), Sergeant (Harrison), Camping (Kate), Jack (either one of them), Regardless (all of us for continuing to tune tune in)

What a carry on, indeed! Other storylines sputtering away:

  • Alice, Chris, Martha - Have they split up, and if so where is Alice living? Will there be a christening and who will be godparents? When will the Aldridges and Carters find out about Alice's drinking? Too much to hope that Alice will get blind drunk at the christening party in full view of the entire village, I suppose. I'm still clinging to my hope that she lamps Alan after a suggestion that they pray together.
  • Will Rex find a new home for his pigs? If Elizabeth weakens, will the pigs escape and disrupt the Lower Loxley life drawing event on Monday? Might they stampede, knock Ross out and devour him?
  • Will Jazzer go to work for Neil? (This isn't exactly a cliffhanger. Of course he will.)
  • Will Justin bury Lilian under the patio? Not a jury in the land would convict him, I feel, if they were played a recording of that appalling cackle and her gloating about the daffodil photograph.
  • Will the life drawing event on Monday be a brilliantly amusing interlude, exemplifying how to write character-driven drama, with both comic and more serious moments? Answer: No, obviously. I may have to listen from behind a cushion.

There are more. I find myself struggling to care. Sad

Oh, and one final mention - I've proposed a webchat with the Archers editor. @MayIDestroyYou's idea. You'll find it here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4231475-Webchat-idea-The-Editor-of-The-Archers-Or-another-Archers-production-team-representative

Over to you!

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 28/05/2021 20:05

Can't be in the kitchen: there wasn't even room in there for a spare tagine. And I am not at all sure that there is an actual dining-room.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 28/05/2021 20:40

24 posts left and no episode for nearly three days. I'll keep an eye on how this goes over the weekend.

I feel desperately sorry for young people whose school/university experience has been thrown off course by the pandemic. I too would be keen to know what Ruairi has applied to do, and where.

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Madcats · 28/05/2021 21:12

Are Brian and Jennifer ever going to remember that they were going to buy a house?

Who is their landlord BTW?

(or maybe I just stopped listening to the Archers for too many weeks pre lockdown)

Ulelia · 28/05/2021 21:24

Very.conscious that I posted as a newbie 20odd pages ago and haven't been back, sorry all. Got a bit behind with all my podcast listening and only just caught up.
Have quite enjoyed bits these last two week, although Ian's horror at Adam suggesting they spend what can't have been more than about 4 hours helping a friend reminded me how boring and unlikeable he is.
I mainly came back though because I was browsing dresses online and found this, surely diametrically opposite to a ~cream~ ecru cardigan?

🐷 Archers thread #127: Discuss the boars and sows of Ambridge here - or should that be bores and soused? You decide.
Ulelia · 28/05/2021 21:29

Surely living so close to the Carter's is going to backfire now and remind them the Gils appear to have fled the country and they could reclaim the farm as their own? Squatters rights and all.

BTW I don't think anyone's mentioned that it was Mental Healh awareness week last week, which made Helens sudden care for Susan and Joy and Elizabeth's little heart to heart seem a little... contrived.

Ulelia · 28/05/2021 21:31

Apparently I can't reply, sorry @Madcats, that was in response to you.

And sorry @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g, I'm using up all the last page of the thread!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 28/05/2021 21:34

No worries!

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Taswama · 28/05/2021 22:21

I can't imagine Shula wearing that Ulelia !

I think Elizabeth did mention doing something for MH awareness week, so it was pretty obvious why her and Joy were suddenly having a heart to heart.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 28/05/2021 22:35

I thought it was 10th-16th that was Mental Health Awareness Week.

HaveringWavering · 29/05/2021 00:00

@Madcats

Are Brian and Jennifer ever going to remember that they were going to buy a house?

Who is their landlord BTW?

(or maybe I just stopped listening to the Archers for too many weeks pre lockdown)

I think some nameless people who bought the house from Mike and Vicky, but then had to move away for some convenient reason?
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/05/2021 07:28

Shula sequin dress! Not very vicarly.

New thread later today, I think.

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cameocat · 29/05/2021 07:50

I can imagine Shula wearing a smattering of smart sequins on an evening out (her racy cardi).

CaptainMyCaptain · 29/05/2021 07:55

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Shula sequin dress! Not very vicarly.

New thread later today, I think.

You should look at Rev Kate Bottley's Instagram. She's a very snazzy dresser.
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/05/2021 08:06

She may be. I bet Shula isn't.

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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep · 29/05/2021 08:57

Place marking!

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep · 29/05/2021 08:58

Oops no I'm not I'm gonna go do that on the new thread!!

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 29/05/2021 10:53

The people who bought Willow Cottage and are Brian and Jennifer's landlords are called Ralph and Alison Kemp. Alison Kemp got a job in Strasbourg for six months starting in January 2019, and they let to the Aldridges for six months. Her job was later extended by six months, taking us to January 2020.

Brian and Jennifer have never made any move whatever to find a permanent place to live. It's almost as if they had known in advance that SARS-CoV-2 would make it impossible for the Kemps to come back to England for more than a year.

ILoveShula · 29/05/2021 14:24

@Uleila, obviously Phase 8 are not TA listeners. Shula would never wear that dress.

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