🧦 Archers thread #133: Woolley socks it to them! Discuss The Archers and its Woolley thinking and plotting here.

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

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 would love to take part in the Mysteries, or other unusual views.

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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.)

Thanks to @ButtonSister and @BorsetshireBanality for title suggestions. I went with their idea in the interests of keeping the title fairly short.

@LillianGish and @FoxgloveSummers made cracking but longer suggestions, which (mashed up) will do a great job of kicking off our new thread.

Evictions (Tom and Tash), depictions (Bridge Farm Christmas card), conniptions (entire cast and crew of the Mysteries), convictions (Philip) and addictions (Alice) - what are our predictions for 2022 in Ambridge? All sure to make this the Best Ambridge Christmas Evah!

This thread should take us through to early January unless something very exciting happens (ha ha, fat chance). My predictions: this is a bit left field, but I wonder if Peggy will offer to buy the shop and flat so Tom and Gnasher (great coinage, whose was it?) can stay put. I don't believe Hazel is sincere about wanting to live in/regularly visit Ambridge. She's always been utterly two-faced and rotten to the core, why would she change now?

The Mysteries will, of course be a triumph and briefly borrowing the🔮 (sorry, Bore!) I expect we are going to hear them at some point over the New Year period.

Over to you!

Aww... love that.

Bethan perhaps ? But I love pinky & perky

Obviously Hazel for baby girl Archer (if there is one ?) is no longer on the table (it didn't make it that far .....)

Love the Welsh men, I meant

Bethan also very middle aged. Sorry. Know far too many of them, most of them over 50.

The male voice choirs sound wonderful

Ooh. Poxy party! sorry got distracted

I also loved that programme on Myfanwy! Soul Music is a lovely programme.

I taught a small Myfanwy in about 1982 and nearly called my daughter Carys a couple of years before that.

Oops !

@CaptainMyCaptain, Whereabouts in the country are you and do you speak Welsh?

[quote WhoppingBigBackside]@CaptainMyCaptain, Whereabouts in the country are you and do you speak Welsh?[/quote]
Little Myfanwy was in London. I'm not Welsh but my mum had Welsh connections.

Apparently I was nearly called Bronwen but my Dad thought it was too exotic. My mums name was Gladys.

Bronwen is nice. Gladys is too Under Milk Wood and Hi-de-Hi. Carys was the sort of name a much older cousin or a teacher at school had.

Could anyone say Myfanwy? I remember a friend telling me she loved the name Miffanway . I laughed

The welsh for Margaret is Mererid, which is usually used as a middle name, and I think that Anthony is Anhun but Im not sure

@BoreOfWhabylon

Thanks Whopping. Just beautiful. There was a fairly recent episode of R4 Soul Music that featured it. Very moving.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418kfw

Sausage Boy's progeny will, of course, be known as Pinky and Perky, irrespective of what their parents call them.

BoreOfWhabylon Sausage Boy's progeny will, of course, be known as Pinky and Perky, irrespective of what their parents call them.

And if that isn't one for the nicknames, I'm a banana.

I’d take a rough crack at Myfanwy as a sort of “mi FAN wee” but I have to admit I always misspell it “myfanny”

And if that isn't one for the nicknames, I'm a banana.

Fame at last!

Anyway, do we think Hazel is now going to shake the dust of Ambridge from her feet, never to return again?

The 🔮 thinks she'll now be wanting to flog the village shop to developers.

@BoreOfWhabylon

And if that isn't one for the nicknames, I'm a banana.

Fame at last!

And was I right?

ambridgereporter.org.uk/nicknames.html

@BoreOfWhabylon

Anyway, do we think Hazel is now going to shake the dust of Ambridge from her feet, never to return again?

The 🔮 thinks she'll now be wanting to flog the village shop to developers.

I think the 🔮 is spot on. Didn't the lease only run for ten years? that must have started ages ago, before Jack died.

Hazel will want to strike back. She is thoroughly unpleasant, and how she couldn't see the stairs to the fact would be too much. I'm sure posters on these threads predicted as much.:o

She's so solipsistic, expecting the past to be forgotten; imposing a task on Jim.. and as for describing/ summing up his appearance him as having thin, white hair: mean-spirited.

Hazel will probably follow through on selling the shop to developers.

But WTF was Peggy doing trying to impose her on Pat and Tony anyway? Utterly ridiculous to expect them to ask the women who evicted their son to a family celebration.

Woman, not women

Isn’t it some kind of community asset which means it can’t be flogged off? Sorry if that was discussed as I missed last night’s

Would Hazel use the word poxy? I don’t know her well enough to know if that’s the kind of adjective she would usually apply.

She’s a real horror! I would be sorry if her special guest appearance is over and she disappears in a puff of smoke.

@FoxgloveSummers, a single F in Welsh is a V sound. You need FF to get a F sound.

My-FAN-wy is Muh-VAN-wi
the wi bit is like the wi in with, winter etc

Hazel has served her purpose - Tom and Natasha would have had to move out of the flat anyway with twins on the way, but Hazel’s intervention has propelled them into the farmhouse. I find everything about her every appearance unbelievable - there is no way in the world Peggy would have invited her to Pat’s rescheduled birthday tea. I would have found it slightly more believable if she had overheard someone talking about her while she lurked behind a shelf in the village shop. Yesterday’s scenario was too contrived for words. The Archers at its worst.