Archers thread #155: Cold Comfort Farms! The rural sagas continue. Discuss The Archers 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, and of course we are always delighted to welcome back former or occasional listeners/posters. We don't all agree on all points, although we do mostly try to be civil about it. Most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd like to hear more scenes in the abattoir, or other unusual views.

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Lots of lively discussion about Brad's university aspirations and the Open Day on the last thread. Do you want him to end up at Felpersham or do you want him to spread his wings and go further afield? Where will Mia go?

Will this thread see the end of Rob, or do we have many weeks more before his long overdue demise?

What's going on at Grey Gables? Are they running into financial trouble? Will we hear from Roy, who I had forgotten was working there until he was mentioned the other day? Who are the mysterious 'Owners'? Will the locum GP turn out to be Adil's sister, as we have been surmising since she first spoke? Why's she been conjured up?

Talking of the GP, I'm hoping against hope we're not in for bad news about Jim's mole.

Praying that we're going to get a long and much-needed break from hearing P*p. Not praying that we hear Rob being christened. Who would be his sponsor, as someone commented on the last thread? Harrison? Surely that would be a conflict of interest. Can't see who else would do it locally.

I wonder how Ben is getting on now he's back on his nursing degree? Will we ever hear anything about Lily's course, or how Freddie's getting on at the abattoir?

So many questions! Over to you for some answers and boundless speculation.

Ah, I must have been mistaken. But they encountered Lee, didn't they? The partner of Helen, Clarrie's employer?

Wattle-like jowls? Chin sag? Charming! Genuinely this time.

I wonder if Jill was being portrayed as quite PA. 'Oh, a lesbian, eh? I suppose she'll be non-binary or vegan next. Always looking for attention!'

I'm quite glad my Granny was long dead before my cousin came out (to be fair, she would have been 110). Granny lost her inhibitions along with her hearing and I can just imagine a loud comment like 'so which one's the man then, in the bedroom?'

But the silly little conversations you have with your partner generally sound ridiculous to the outside world and the sw seem intent on exposing us to them.

also, Rosie doing cartwheels of excitement 🙄

I think the references to jowls etc was because clarrie sounds like she’s a turkey- that’s how I read it. Has Eddie killed clarrie and replaced her with a giant turkey?

FOOT-LONG TURKEY WORMS?!!!

Yes, stupid moment!

That was exactly my reaction as well 🤢

Alistair and Shula have been divorced for a fairly long time, I believe.

There's clearly something very odd about the GG story, but I fear it may not be a very convincing denouement. We shall see.

Oh, poultry medicine is fascinating and frequently horrifying. Truly.

I saw something on Instagram about tapeworms in eggs with an accompanying gross video

I’ve just decided to pretend I didn’t see it and assume the lion mark means it’s just a US issue

I advise you not to read about tape worms in humans

4m has been mentioned

I have had (professional) encounters with the human tapeworm - or rather, bits thereof.
Never in close proximity to a festive table though, and I'd like to keep it that way.

Read about them? I had to study them for O Level Biology A parasite with two hosts, as I recall, for different stages, the other host being the pig. A life cycle which includes a stage rather reminscent of Alien, though on a smaller scale.

Nobody ever served pork pink in those days...

Re Clarrie, I agree about her sounding like a wobbly turkey. She always sounds like such an anachronism, always picture her like a granny from the 1920s, grey hair in a headscarf, nylon pinny, rosy cheeked and very chubby. She's sounded like that forever.

I find it strangely comforting

Something like this, @Mumblechum0?

😂

Yes Clarrie's wobble is over the top, she always sounds like she is going to burst out crying. Mind you being married to Eddie Im not surprised.
I think Helen is going to be single again soon, and Henry knows who painted the church door. Perhaps it was Pat!
Ardil's allotment is going to need a lot of weeding if he comes back. He cant sort out GG and grow winter veg its too much for him.

It sounded a bit like a con last night.

If it was a long con by adil then he did a good job of it tbf. Would explain why he moved in with Lynda rather than commuting in from somewhere he could get a flat or something.

I'm assuming if it is a con that he has conned the other owners and they are a load of people investing in his company rather than a hotel group

If it’s a con, his sister also knows about it - I assume, from the conversation they had the other day - so I’d say it’s unlikely.

I’m more annoyed that we’re supposed to believe Oliver has sold his long-established and cherished business to a mystery buyer whose name has never once been mentioned, who’s never been glimpsed except through a single representative, Adil, and yet who has enough funds to embark on a year-long complete renovation of a large country-house hotel to a luxury standard. And Oliver doesn’t appear to think this is in any way odd, nor has he accidentally blurted out the name.

Who IS this person and why, for goodness sake, insist on keeping them shrouded in total anonymity? It’s the Gills all over again.

I haven’t listened for a month (covid, holiday, covid again). I haven’t kept up on here either. I’m hoping Rob is dead, Pip is dead (or at least no longer a lesbian) and the Grey Gables grand opening has taken place successfully. How disappointed am I going to be?

Sorry Chemenger, you may be disappointed enough to go into a relapse. Better have the medication ready before you turn the radio on.

Did anyone else find the sound was dodgy last night? I thought it was my radio, but the announcer afterwards and the subsequent programme were absolutely fine.

@Chemenger you have been found disappointed on all three charges, I’m afraid. The writing was better last week (Keri) so there’s that. I hope you’re feeling better x

Eddie is sounding more and more excitable. Is there something in the water?

Parasites are wondrous things. There’s one which has stages in mouse and cat, it disrupts the mouse’s brain so it comes dancing out in front of the cat saying “catch me!” Clever stuff!

Nylon wasn’t invented till 1935