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🦈 Archers thread #137: See left - have they jumped it? Discuss The Caseys - sorry, The Archers - here.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/07/2022 16:03

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 think Steph Casey is a wonderful addition to the programme, or similar odd 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.)

Too dispirited to add much else. Have we reached a new low?

I suppose the Archer twins will be born before we need a new thread. 👶👶
Any thoughts on names? Patrick and Antonia were suggested before - inspired! Peggy has to be a strong contender.

Over to you!

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JanglyBeads · 01/08/2022 18:26

It's as if Peggy were HM the Queen and is saying "Let's create a national monument in a royal chapel for these little treasures"

TheHideAndSeekingHill · 01/08/2022 19:32

JanglyBeads · 01/08/2022 18:26

It's as if Peggy were HM the Queen and is saying "Let's create a national monument in a royal chapel for these little treasures"

I'd PMSL if the Queen randomly decided to do this in the royal chapel for Lilibet ONLY.

FlosCampi · 01/08/2022 19:38

Well, that Grey Gables " big reveal" was very damp squib! I'm trying to think, other than owners who are in some way notorious, exactly how a re-launched hotel could be contraversial or unwelcome to the nearby village. If it caused noise pollution perhaps with a helicopter pad or dirt bike track? Or became a sex hotel with themed dungeons?
Still, I am looking forward to a restaurant relying entirely on the produce of its own estate and a few local farms! So, no champagne, bananas, mineral water, orange juice....

MuddlerInLaw · 01/08/2022 19:57

Doesn’t Lower Loxley produce sparkling wine? I’m sure they could start, if not. I doubt it matters that it’s made elsewhere.

No one travels to a midlands hotel for bananas …

Mineral water? Dunno. Plenty of Scruff Gin available and whoever Toby sold the business to probably has a finger in the fizzy water pie.

Orange juice? Erm … What’s the name of Natasha’s juice business?

WhoppingBigBackside · 01/08/2022 19:59

Summer Orchard

Roysnewshirt · 01/08/2022 20:06

Still, I am looking forward to a restaurant relying entirely on the produce of its own estate and a few local farms! So, no champagne, bananas, mineral water, orange juice....

I think the royal chefs try to be quite self-sufficient at Balmoral and Sandringham, don’t they? And royal wedding/banquet menus seem to rely heavily on venison/game/salmon from the royal estates. Could all end up being very limited at GG though - there’s only so many ways you can dress up Borchester Blue and Tom’s veg box…

TheSummerySilveryPussycat · 01/08/2022 20:37

Is Ardil charming or not? Discuss.

Oliver certainly seems to think so. He doesn't seem charming to me (or very businesslike), but has a certain naive coolness which perhaps people find endearing after a while.

TheSummerySilveryPussycat · 01/08/2022 20:39

Oh, and I was glad to hear he had been dancing with Joy...

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 01/08/2022 20:46

You don't have bagpipes at Scottish country dancing. The instruments are fiddle and accordian ; can have keyboards, drums, whistles and recorders.

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 01/08/2022 20:53

Roysnewshirt · 01/08/2022 20:06

Still, I am looking forward to a restaurant relying entirely on the produce of its own estate and a few local farms! So, no champagne, bananas, mineral water, orange juice....

I think the royal chefs try to be quite self-sufficient at Balmoral and Sandringham, don’t they? And royal wedding/banquet menus seem to rely heavily on venison/game/salmon from the royal estates. Could all end up being very limited at GG though - there’s only so many ways you can dress up Borchester Blue and Tom’s veg box…

Depending on the quality of the local water supply, there might be either no need to supply bottled water or a local supplier. We (as in all of us) should be getting away from bottled water.

There's presumably plenty of game, although venison might be farmed , rather than wild.

Oranges and orange juice are difficult, unless they built an actual, working orangery. They could live without bananas.

TamzinGrey · 01/08/2022 21:20

WhoppingBigBackside · 01/08/2022 08:32

@BeardieWeirdie , Everyone knows that Granny is Nain in Welsh!
That's a bit of a generalisation. I doubt that someone with no connection to Wales or the Welsh language would know. It's Mam-gû in South Wales.

I was born and bred in Pontypridd, South Wales. The Grannies in our family have always been called Nain. Definitely not a North Wales thing.

BoreOfWhabylon · 01/08/2022 22:28

MysticBore™️ predicts (with the aid of her trusty 🔮)

Adil will turn out to be the mysterious New Owner of GG. Either that or the son of TMNOOGG. He will turn. out to be staggeringly wealthy - Borsetshire's answer to Rishi Sunak.

By the time The Big Reveal happens, he and Krusty will have fallen in lurve. She will be the first who has ever loved him for his true self and not his money. And they will live happily ever after. The end.

Quia · 01/08/2022 22:35

According to what I've read, the C of E isn't keen on replacing church windows, especially if what is there already is stained glass. it goes against the philosophy of conservation of original features, and they don't like people mucking around with the frame as it may compromise the structure. Piggoi would have to apply for a faculty (i.e. permission) to do it anyway, and that looks like a fairly long drawn-out process.

JanglyBeads · 01/08/2022 22:42

I can't work it out- TMNOOGG??

BoreOfWhabylon · 01/08/2022 23:00

JanglyBeads · 01/08/2022 22:42

I can't work it out- TMNOOGG??

The Mysterious New Owner of GG

DoctorTwo · 01/08/2022 23:19

My guess is The Mysterious New Owner Of Grey Gables Jangly. That's just going from past experience of acronyms, many of which can be found on an MN thread somewhere... DadDadDad is the curator.

JanglyBeads · 01/08/2022 23:20

Ah, I couldn't get the TMN bit!

Still think it's Hazel. As she left last time, her long Covid having suddenly disappeared, she literally muttered something like "Goodbye ..... for now!" So they had a plan for her to reappear quite soon and quite dramatically, I thought.

HaveringWavering · 01/08/2022 23:48

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 01/08/2022 20:46

You don't have bagpipes at Scottish country dancing. The instruments are fiddle and accordian ; can have keyboards, drums, whistles and recorders.

Yes, I was just coming on to say exactly that! Classic lazy mixing up of country dancing (aka reeling) and Highland dancing - very different styles of dance, the latter being solo competitive performance, not social dancing.

Also, there is no way that a serious country dancing society would be wasting their time doing the Gay Gordons- that's a social dance for weddings and the like, it doesn't even use proper steps. It's barely even acceptable at your average ceilidh.

HaveringWavering · 01/08/2022 23:50

WhoppingBigBackside · 01/08/2022 16:13

It's pronounced Nine, @HaveringWavering . It doesn't mean granny, it's the word for grandmother. Similarly, Mam is Mother, not Mum

It wasn't me who said it meant Granny first, that was @BeardieWeirdie.

MuddlerInLaw · 01/08/2022 23:56

Loving that prediction Bore. Dread of Hazel ruins any GG related chat round my way. Was horribly afraid she’d be revealed as the climax of tonight’s Village Hall meeting.

(And, if it’s still a secret then, we must have the lovely new acronym in the next thread title!)

Chemenger · 01/08/2022 23:56

I have been to a great ceilidh with bagpipes years ago - a band called the Tartan Amoebas. Definitely not music for a serious country dance society though.

HaveringWavering · 01/08/2022 23:56

I still don't understand why nobody is surprised that Ian was not kept on on a retainer to develop the new restaurant concept, especially now that they are saying that it will aim for a Michelin star - surely he'd be massively insulted, or deeply disappointed at not even being given the opportunity to apply? Or Helen would be affronted on his behalf?

Also, didn't Oliver sell the whole place? Why is he so deeply involved in the relaunch?

MuddlerInLaw · 01/08/2022 23:59

Only …

She will be the first who has ever loved him for his true self and not his money.

She couldn’t google?

(Will necessitate garbled story of his using a pseudonym to remain incognito.)

MuddlerInLaw · 02/08/2022 00:01

No, Oliver retains a share in the property. (Unless I was listening through an empty wine bottle …)

echt · 02/08/2022 00:35

I enjoyed Lynda Snell's blatant lie about her long conversations with Adil, cunningly disguised as cutting him dead, once he'd shown what a social hit he was.

I stand by my earlier prediction that Adil's bathroom voice will come into play for the Christmas am dram. Plus he's plainly game for owt.