Archers thread #166: Choppy waters in Ambridge! Look out for the red flags and discuss The Archers here.

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Another thread started in great haste, mid-packing! Over to you.

😆 ha brilliant. I am so hoping we are right! 🤣

Well I guess the rude chap who sent Mick packing could be "Rochelle" ? Or sadly Rochelle died as a child but Joy has never accepted it ?

The bit where Joy went My Rochelle has always been a wonderful daughter etc - telling .....

Still think Rochelle is an odd name in this situation

The bit where Joy went My Rochelle has always been a wonderful daughter etc

i thought she said it in past tense. "My Rochelle had always been a good daughter..." ☠☠

Well done Fallon!

When did Harrison start making that dreadful groaning sound. Awful.

I hope he decides he can’t bear to be with her for now and needs to go and stay with his parents. Anything to spare us this dreadful whining.

Joy said Rochelle’s been a fabulous daughter to her. Fabulous being very much the operative word. Lying old trout.

I second Sturgeon; I was about to say the same. Just a fable.

My theory is that Joy killed her partner (Rochelle's father) and went to prison and that Rochelle became estranged from her as a result. Hence Joy's empathy for Helen.

We did. I made it at school.

No, you just have to cater dessert-wise for two or perhaps three times the number of guests.

Can I ask for Eton Mess and anything with apricots in it?

Yum, Eton mess. And a cherry clafoutis?

we could just have dessert?

(dried or fresh) apricots poached in orange juice, pureed, mixed with whipped cream and Greek yogurt and served with amaretti?

Harrison is deranged

Can we have what my mother used to call "elephants' breath"? That's puréed apple with whipped egg-whites folded into it. That’s one of my ways of coping with my annual apple glut.

Something I’ve failed to find the recipe for, though if I put my mind to it I could re-create it - Apple Granny, as sold in Morrisons cafes - basically apple pie with the top crust replaced by a thick layer of fudge. Yes, it’s disgustingly high calorie. And yes, it’s exactly what you want if the weather and life in general has driven you into Morrisons cafe as opposed to the bistro over the road.

After getting rid of Mick, didnt she recover her brightness quickly? You’ve got to admire her

We also got a more accurate idea of how pregnant she was and not far along at all

Come on! It ill behoves a sturgeon to use “trout” to insult a human

The mask slipped and then she recovered her composure.

Common in practiced psychopaths (sorry I was watching that Imposter Nicholas Rossi thing)

No detectable heartbeat might have meant the embryo was not developed enough to have one, of course; something I hadn't thought of until this precise moment.

I did think she sounded a little too bright a little too quickly for it to be natural.

Sturgeons don’t think much of trout on the whole. Or humans - keep your thieving primate hands orf(e) our eggses!

Fish fight!

I would quite happily swing for Harrison after that episode.

I am breaking cover to say that Harrison is an insufferable whiney pranny who deserves a good slap for the phrase "we were pregnant". It's all about him, isn't it? Self-pitying arse.

Ooh, that's better.

I would love to see a survey of archers listeners and their opinion of Harrison!!

Oh, it wasn’t natural. It was forced brightness covering a mind in turmoil. That’s why I admired her.

If only Harrison could do the same!