Archers thread #161: Kenton seems to be getting better, but the storylines aren’t. Discuss The Archers here.

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Well, here we are. I was strongly tempted to go for the dog's dinner, dog/human bullies etc suggestions for the title, but Mere asked if we could not have anything graphic in the thread title, so I've held back. In a couple of weeks when this thead is nearing its end the attack may all be a distant memory, anyway.

Goodness knows what's in store for us now. Kenton seems likely to have PTSD, not surprisingly. Surely we must soon find out why HARRY talks so. Unconvincingly. Alice! Hello. CHRIS. CHRIS. etc, and also whether he is (as many of us suspect) addicted to opiates and/or up to no good. Too much to hope why nobody in Ambridge horsey circles had ever heard of him until recent weeks.

Over to you!

Can’t blame you for not!!

I though the redcoat referred to Butlins too. Butlins Redcoats - Wikipedia
especially as Paul is camp.

Hidey-hi campers! in my best Gladys Pugh accent

(Redcoats to me are members of regiments in the British Army before WWI, stern cruel men enforcing the Highland Clearances and such, and I really can't see Paul as one of those?)

Im reminded of Mrs Bennet telling Lydia how she “liked a redcoat” herself before she married Mr Bennet.

I didn't realise that Butlins existed in Jane Austen's time.

edited to add the winky wotsit

I think the Red Costs reference was to Butlins.

Edit - sorry it has been mentioned.

New thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/5023788-archers-thread-162-this-is-like-talking-to-lassie-how-right-you-are-fallon-discuss-the-archers-here

No. You can form the intention to murder even though you haven't actually got the knife in your hand - e.g if you then go looking for the knife. Or you could go into the kitchen having no intention to kill, find the knife, and for some reason decide to kill someone at that point. You don't have to prove premeditation to prove murder.

There’s a new thread!

Hi all. Apologies if this isn’t the right place for this but I’d be grateful for any help. I got several weeks behind with the omnibus listening and then bought a new phone which failed to transfer all my omnibus downloads 😱

Any recommendations on where I can listen to 11 Feb to 3 March please? They’re no longer on iPlayer.

Have screenshot this to the current thread, @MeridianB

Thanks @JanglyBeads

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Thank you, @Heather37231 💖