Archers thread #154: Cider with Fat Rosie, Meadow Rise to Candleford or The Darling Horrobins of September? Get your rural saga fix – 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 for the thread title suggestions. @HumanWetWipe came up with Cider with Fat Rosie and @BeardieWeirdie thought up Meadow Rise to Candleford. I wish I could have put in the Line of Duty mashups from the end of the last thread. Another time.

Heading for a ferry shortly, so nothing more from me for now. Over to you!

@harriethoyle you are very naughty indeed!

I am sitting tittering to myself on my train to work. This has cheered me right up!

Do you all like my username?!

😂

I know it’s a less contentious topic but IIRC someone started a Chelsea Horrobin “should I have an abortion?” fake thread and it ended badly.

Therapy, especially for children, could be said to be more about processing and understanding events and reactions to them. For children in particular, it’s helpful for them to construct a functional and clear narrative about what’s happened as this may not happen naturally/instinctively especially when a situation has been shocking, confusing, or upsetting.

I’m sorry you didn’t have a good experience with counselling

That seems so strange to me. The casual acquaintance who pops round for a coffee and to borrow a book can be introduced, but not a potential partner. I suppose it depends on whether you are able to curtail physical demonstrations of affection when DC are around

It’s a long time since I’ve heard anything other than “does the Pope shit in the woods”. I suppose it’s trying to make a cliché look original

For me the issue is that a partner is a different dynamic. I assume Stella will be staying over for example and she’s already shown she is happy to make herself at home there. Rosie is ultimately being brought into a step family and it’s very early for that - both in case the relationship ends in a short time but also in case Stella isn’t a great person to bring into the family - something I don’t think pip can have picked up on yet

@harriethoyle well done. Your introductory post crystallises just how ridiculous this storyline is and the replies back this up. It makes me all the more convinced that Pip will be pregnant - otherwise what was the ONS with Toby all about? The SWs seem to have given up on any pretence of trying to make things realistic in favour of EE-style drama. The constant reference to Larkrise to Candlestick only serve to hammer this home. I am now reading the aforementioned (the pig sticking is only about four pages in so no-one has got very far!) and finding it far more interesting than TA.

Oh @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g I'm sorry you felt the need to spoil that thread. Some of us were enjoying it even if you weren't.

Two, now. Gaspode has killed it. And of course ChelseaHorrobin is a poster here - I don’t think anyone else sussed it, did they?

@LillianGish Pip is definitely pregnant. All that nonsense about her glowing in the pub...

@MereDintofPandiculation I used the secret thanks button to acknowledge them 😂

I don’t understand how people can get so upset about a thread being started with a fictional scenario. Half the threads on here are fictional or embellished. Enjoy the ride!

and soaps are a good way of society considering moral issues so discussing the sl isn’t a bad thing - acknowledging it’s from a soap takes away from the question as people focus on their preconceptions

@CompaniesHouse , I suspect that I was of the mindset that it was a pile of tosh anyway. The 2nd counsellor was really nice and somebody recommended her. With the first one I felt a bit like I was sitting in a chair with a timer going so that the counsellor could pick £x at the end of it.
I didn't really know what I should do or what I'd get out of it.

I get it @Bruisername if it's a thread content where people might share their own private experiences of, say, SA, abortion etc and then feel like they've been hoodwinked. I suspect that's why the thread about Chelsea's abortion went badly. But on something like when to introduce a new squeeze to your kid which is done to death on here and attracts the same old cliches (as we predicted!) I can't take the frothing seriously...

I often use the flip-side to this and ask: “Is the bear a catholic?”

I’m so sorry! I noticed the decoy thread, rumbled it and commented on it way before I saw this thread and saw that it’d been a planned ruse 🤦🏼‍♀️
So I gave the game away - I’m sorry! 😞

I can see that but not on a frothy thread.

on the therapy, it may not have worked for you but that doesn’t mean it won’t help others - I know my friend said it only worked for her when she realised it wasn’t about the therapist telling her but about her coming to the realisation herself.

Don't worry @MuckyPlucky it wasn't your fault

HOWEVER! My account (harriethoyle here!) has now been suspended! 😂I've emailed Mumsnet to apologise and beg for forgiveness... If anyone knows who I should tag in a post to ask for redemption let me know!

Aargh! That’s pants. I’m so sorry if my post on that thread was what did for you 😔 . For what it’s worth, I didn’t report you! I loved playing along!

Not sure who to tag….hmm… been a while since I knew who any mods were.

Hope you get let out of detention soon tho!

It's not the same as that though. It means life isn't all a bed of roses.

very sad that i missed the thread before it got taken down

I've piggy backed on a different thread MN had replied to and asked them to look for my email @MuckyPlucky 😂I've grovelled and said I will never spoof the Archers again!

Ah well. It was fun while it lasted!

Testing... I'm still here.
Liked the username @harriethoyle

@helppiphasledtomybanning it was indeed a good bit of fun. And interesting to help us analyse what we probably see as ok on the archers because it involves ‘naice’ wholesome characters we thing we know…when if you just read the same scenario on here we’d all be instantly condemnatory (rightly so!)

I hope TA story editors are on MN and take note of our viperish disapproval! 😆

@Brefugee it basically went Pip's storyline - every single reply bar two or three - wait a year! are you mad? can't you see the red flags? put your child first! - then a couple of people clocked it - one posted said "oh it's you, you were both in the pub last night" - a poster called Chelsea called Horrobin which made me laugh - then Gaspode said it was a spoof and I got banned 😂

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