🌟 ⭐ Archers thread #138: Two new stars on the Ambridge firmament, but will Peggy’s retirement leave a black hole? 🕳️ Join us here for a window on The Archers.

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Thanks to @LillianGish and @MuddlerInLaw for title ideas, which I have played around with a bit. I'm sad to have heard the last of Peggy. An era starts to draw to a close.

What a relief to be out of the Steph Casey phase, which I hope was an unfortunate blip, not to be repeated. [Triumph of hope over experience there ... ]

@BoreofWhabylon has asked the 🔮 about Adil and it predicts that he is actually the Mysterious New Owner of Grey Gables but won't be revealed as such until he has won Kirsty's heart (or some similar Mills & Boon level tosh - apols to the 🔮 but it does seem to have a mushy side). I still cling to the idea that the mysterious silent and invisible Gills who now own Home Farm may have some role at GG, but why not name them?

No mention of the heatwave in Ambridge, but budget constraints probably severely limit their scope for topical inserts these days. IRL I believe this has been a tricky time for farmers. Perhaps the SWs will catch up with this over the winter and start putting in some farming chat about diversification away from oats to olives, or similar. We already have at least one vineyard in the Ambridge area, at LL. (I understand there was another, in the heart of the village, decades ago, but the SWs have now forgotten all about it, sadly.)

Over to you!

Maybe it was Ambridge Extra but Ivy Horrobin definitely spoke for several episodes just before she expired from lung cancer- I remember it clearly as the hacking cough was bloody awful to listen to.

I feel like I can remember Bert too, but possibly I'm just thinking of Alfred Steptoe.

Isn't Freddie Chelsea's boss?

Chelsea wanted to keep her job a few weeks ago.

That would put the cat amongst the pigeons a Horrobin as heir to LL

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Ah, I didn't listen to Ambridge Extra. Didn't realise the Horrobins had featured on it.

Is Chelsea actually pregnant or is this just speculation (fingers crossed) on this thread? If the former do the SWs really think this is all a working class young woman can aspire to? Chelsea deserves better.
And teenage pregnancy and secret father was done to death by Eastenders with Shell and Dirty Den

Good points. He's groomed them all really, Lizzie only second to Lily, I kept thinking he'd go for her.
Maybe no (inc us?) will discover for months and months? Certainly not til R and L have bought the flat.

Will the unborn baby be a Chelsea Bun?

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But so can on to say

Is Chelsea pregnant? She said she took a test. So yes. How far or if will stay we don't know yet.

Aargh that was meant to say, I came on to say

Poor chelse, poor Tracy.

It's a chelsea bun in the oven

I suppose it would be too much to hope that Chelsea has taken herself off to Manchester for an appointment with Marie Stopes or BPAS?

Wasn’t that a massive Data Privacy fail from Harrison? “Tracey has just rung to say she needs to speak to me urgently”

But it ensured the news got to nosey Jolene and therefore to the whole village. A mechanism for getting the news to Russ.

Could Chelsea be at Lower Loxley?

Yes but Harrison's a flaming clumsy copper.

Do we presume Russ (if it's him) already knows about the pregnancy then? Surely not.

It seems a bit strange that they've gone through the list of her friends and not phoned Mr Jones along the lines of 'we know she confides in you and wanted to ask if she's said anything to you that might give us a clue as to where she is'.

Someone posted this on Musterland. Tracey knew and approved Russ being the appropriate adult at the police station. That would add another twist, but it does make sense to ask him.

Anyone whose hair has been cut by Chelsea is in the frame- even Harrison. But Freddie would indeed be the most disruptive story.

I think it’s interesting that we’ve had no clue of this hitherto - unless I’ve missed something. I think it says something about how easy it is for something this momentous to go unnoticed within a family. If you think about it the possibilities for a coercive, abusive, illicit, or indeed loving and entirely healthy relationship to go under the radar are huge

It HAS to be Harrison. She is cutting his hair every two weeks!
he wanted a baby a while back right?

Oh absolutely @girlwhowearsglasses

No way is it Russ. And not just because I love him.

Harrison worships Fallon - there’s no way he’d cheat on her with a stroppy teen.

I agree. It won't be him.