Archers thread #167: Welcome to Ambridge, the world capital of loose ends! Discuss The Archers here.

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It does sound marvellous. I've never had the patience for marmalade making, nor the household marmalade consumption to justify it. I imagine there's a lot of marmalade making in Ambridge, or perhaps those days are gone now. Jill, Jenny, possibly Peggy and/or Christine - all comparing notes in January on when the first Seville oranges arrived at Underwood's Food Hall or the market stalls or greengrocer's in Borchester. There must have been a marmalade category in the Flower and Produce show.

There were marmalade wars many years back with Phil competing against Jill, obviously not something that was going to end well. It might have been at the time that he was getting his head turned by Another Woman (was she called Myra? Moira?) so there was jealousy and unresolved sexual tension to the backdrop of boiling preserves. Or perhaps I'm confabulating.

It was long ago, when the concept of onion marmalade was new and exciting as opposed to retro and jaded.

edited to polish my prose

I have the vaguest recollection of kitchen tension when Ruth’s mother came to stay a very long time ago. But I may be mixing people up.

There certainly was kitchen tension around Ruth's mother, but I think there was also another woman, maybe someone he met through music? He'd turned over some of the farming and the increased leisure time left him distractable.

A bit like my dear dog Hector who discovered sex at the age of 10 - not in any hands-on way, but enough to hear the seasonal call of the wild. Fortunately he had slowed down enough mentally and physically that if he decided to follow his dream he has easy to overtake, round up, and distract with food and the comforts of home.

A technique Jill eventually applied to Phil, possibly after the usual griping about dead Grace.

@DeanElderberry ... he was getting his head turned by Another Woman (was she called Myra? Moira?)

Myra the Magistrate, I think.

YES!

thank you

Did we ever hear the whole of Constance’s letter? I may have dozed off in that episode and would like to hear it if it was aired.

I too think Fallon may still be pregnant. And Harrison will shortly meet his demise at the hands of MeatballMarkie or one of his hounds, without knowing.

I too think Fallon may still be pregnant. And Harrison will shortly meet his demise at the hands of MeatballMarkie or one of his hounds, without knowing.

Fallon will not still be pregnant. FFS, the foetus was dead, the coil was yanked out and there was a second scan a week later. I’m definitely up for a deading of Harrison, though. Make t’world a better place, like. Cocker.

I’m definitely up for a deading of Harrison, though. Make t’world a better place, like. Cocker.

Yes please. Dreary little man. If we want to be bored to death, we can always listen to Tom, or Will, or Ben ... so much choice.

If Fallon is still pregnant I will finally have to stop listening to TA. Even the dreadful doctor at the hospital cannot possibly have got this wrong.

I want to hear that it’s Tom buying stolen meatballs behind a pub …

Harrison dead, Fallon to be delivered of twins who she will name George and Alice, probably not in time to be the Best Christmas Ever, but with luck it can be latched onto some other significant date (St Valentine's Day?) much rejoicing from everyone except George.

oh joy

No, not Joy, joy.

With a side order of them being George's twins, because Fallon showed her gratitude for the rescue in the only possible way.

No No, they have to be Harrison's so as to rub George's nose in the whole mess.

also, ick!

and ew!

anyhow, EU election day, 17 votes to be placed in order of my choice. I'm going out now, I may be some time.

Actually - George would be the ideal person for whom to write a Young Father storyline …

(Not with Fallon, obvs.)

It would so effectively perpetuate the Grundy inability to take flight, tying him to dead end jobs and get rich quick schemes in the village for the next decade and a half. By which time it might be too late for him to turn any of his dreams into reality.

Not sure if I’d prefer that to billionaire influencer, though.

Assuming that they Grundys will at some point be re-evicted from Grange Farm (when Oliver is scammed into throwing yet more good money after bad at Grey Gorbles, for example), then they can all join forces with George and move into Fallon's house.

Oh the playlet was "cringe."

Fallon is going to want a baby now.

Oh dear, I just listened (minus the playlet, forwarded through that) but is Fallon's overemotional weepiness a signal that she's already upduffed?

I searched eagerly for Freddie’s name in this list, but strangely they seem to have left him off …

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/07/duke-westminster-wedding-britains-most-eligible-bachelors/

Or she now wants to be.

It’s so rare to have a character portrayed as not wanting to have children. I’d be really sad if fallon changed her mind.

Me too

Didn’t need the Fallon/harrison scene. Feels like they’re dripping a SL and I’m not really interested. And his scene with Kenton was weird. The whole son/daughter thing. And then Fallon saying things are on the up. Hopefully Harrison is going to be killed off soon. But it’s all quite a lot of drama atm

alice is the whipping boy so no doubt it will be proved it wasn’t her. Although I do think she needs a comeuppance of sorts or she will never learn

Lillian weird as well. And what was she expecting Oliver to say when his horse is about to die

markie sl can’t be wrapped up that quick? I was thinking maybe Jolene would be kidnapped while out or something