Archers thread #151: A Fête worse than death or a reverse ferret? Helen’s got the Borsetshire Blues, Tom’s talking shiitake, George is a rotten apple. Discuss The Archers here.

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

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Thanks to @OverArmour for various title ideas! I would have liked to incorporate the suggestion from @Fleetress, which was

‘Do do one Ron, Ron, do do one Ron’

(Rob is Ron for many on this thread now)

Possibly a bit obscure for newer posters, though!

Anyway: we got through that last thread in no time at all. Combined effect of Rob and George, I suspect. I wonder if Rob will have made it to Ambridge by the time we need a new thread. I'm still waiting for Pat's shotgun to feature. That can't have been mentioned for the first time ever for no reason at all.

Over to you!

George also has a wildly over-inflated view of his own capabilities and ideas of grandiosity which will surely come back to bite him. Big time.

Also, farming/rural communities are small. Not physically small but close-knit and with few degrees of separation. Farmers will talk and it will become widely known what a huge liability George is - I can’t imagine the likes of Brian, Stella or David having much time for him or being a pushover in the way that Tony was.

Good point well put!

Oh I think I missed that sotto voce bit re the charity money!!!

It was in the fête episode @JanglyBeads where he was talking about the QR code for the fête history, IIRC.

I have just listened again and I think George stumbled over where the money from Lynda's brochure would go. Rather than the hay bale donation. How on earth will he get that past Lyndy?

Oh! And just remembered that Brad is treasurer so he will be racked with doubt as to what to do when he discovers George has diverted the proceeds.

He did stumble. I thought the first time I heard it, and again when I re-listened just now, that he was about to say that all the funds will go 'to us', but he corrected himself to 'to charity', so it sounded something like 'all the funds will go to u-... to charity'. We've all thought the whole thing was a Grundy scam. That could be the mechanism. George got most people paying for things electronically and the funds go via a Grundy account. They may not grasp that you would normally expect the committee to go over a set of accounts. Lynda will have a very good idea of how much money the fete should have raised, with all her years of experience.

When Helen discovers how and why Henry was able to contact Ron she will go berserk. George will deny everything of course and accuse her of being a stupid, insane woman. They are working towards him becoming the village villain, hated by multiple people.

Maybe he’ll be attacked on a dark lane and there will be a Who Attacked George whodunnit for a few weeks.

A re-working of who ran Matt over? Yes, I wouldn't put it past them.

And the plot twist will be the attacker turns out to be a member of his family. Perhaps he’ll push Emma too far one day…

He's going to sexually harrass Stella isn't he?

Harass*

I wouldn't put it past him.

(I never know how to spell that either.)

Oh I know someone who did that course at Myerscough.

There are lots of such courses for the academically challenged who have access to a tractor.

I've worked out why George is after Stella's job:
He, too, can't tell her and Hannah apart!

Does anyone on this thread go around saying that his/her manager needs time off as they're upset about a bereavement? The scene with Ed worrying about Stella sounded bizarre. I think some of the scriptwriters have never had a job in the real world.

Oh George is a little shit isn’t he!!

George has lots of online friends…

so I don’t mind a little stretching of reality.

Well, I thought I didn’t …

Lets see if the narrative pay-off is worth this bit of fantasy.

Adult male ferret: between one and two kilograms in weight, well over a foot long and that's not counting the tail.

How the blazes do you fail to notice you have one of those in your trouser pocket? That's the equivalent of two or three tins of baked bins all on one side of the garment, you'd be walking with a limp.

And I need to listen again to hear who Eddie was comparing joy to... Catherine someone, a filmmaker??

Yes noticed the mention of G's many online friends.

🤣🤣

Kathryn Bigelow

George is both cunning and evil.

So I assume George is trying to replace Ed - emphasising is previous dog murdering form.