Archers thread #171: Harvest's nearly over – but will George ever reap what he has sown? Discuss The Archers here.

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All I have to say about current storylines for now is that I want the George Alice crash stuff to come to a resolution, sooner rather than later, and I also want to hear very little indeed of Alistair, Denise and Paul maundering on. More of Jakob would be very welcome. His brother can come back any time too.

I now declare this thread open for business!

It’s Brookfield b&b that’s closed. The snells is still operational

I would imagine the Snell's B snd B is relatively expensive.

Clive Horrobin turning up at Brookfield?

I am here for that.

Mostly I'm looking forward to George going to prison and a tree branch falling on Emma causing her to go mute so I don't have ti hear the Gwarge pronunciation anymore.

I assure you I didn’t work in an investment bank in the City or a Magic Circle legal firm

And why had Alistair never met John at a single one of the practice’s Christmas lunches or parties?

Perhaps because spouses and partners don't attend office Christmas lunches or parties?

And in the decades I've worked I don't think I've ever seen anyone take in their children's graduation photos. I didn't.

I really enjoyed Clive's attempts at hippie psychobabble this evening. It reminded me of a character in a well-known novel who took to wandering the countryside in robes, saying things like (I can't remember the exact quote) "the ineffability of being is the harbinger of time". For some reason Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time springs to mind, so it probably wasn't that!

whilst I partly agree, given he is a vet nurse it is so unlikely this would never have come up in conversation

For sheer frightfulness I offer you Wodehouse's Leave It To Psmith and Our Hero, pretending for reasons too complex to recount that he is a modern poet, being somewhat baffled by the line 'across the pale parabola of joy". That is up there with Waugh's "feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" in Scoop, I feel. Clive was a bit also-ran after those two. (Actually he wasn't in the same league as Kate, now I come to think about it.)

"feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"

Love that line.

It is a real shame the Bulwer-Lytton awards didn't exist in 1938, because that should have been a shoo-in. Except I suppose technically it wasn't an opening line, but it ought to have got an award for something.

Also, and I may well be wrong about this, were the Bulwer-Lytton awards not intended for lines that were unintentionally ridiculous?

I have a feeling they are for custom-written first lines. https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ says they challenge participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written.

I thought the fact that Clive and Susan met in Borchester indicated that's where he was staying. I really doubt Will would have put him up anywhere too close to Ambridge.

You'd think George would get it when Clive expressed impatience with his going on about his fears. Clive really is a nasty piece of work.

Does Clive know that Tracy is named on the tenancy agreement of No 6, The Green?

Sent a bit of a shiver down my spine when he mentioned wanting to see his ancient dad. I mean, he must obviously live somewhere, such that he was able to take George in for a couple of nights - and he hasn’t come to rescue George - so what does he actually want?

Hopefully when Tracy hears about Clive, she'll be more forceful than the rest of the family at telling him to sling his hook

What Clive was doing and invited George to join him in

I'm so desperate for this storyline to be over that I'm going to Felpersham (Borcester?) police station tomorrow to hand myself in and confess to driving the car and framing Alice.

Thank you. Taking one for the team.

Looking back on the quaint old days where I thought the worst possible storyline was just Alice going back on the drink.

Much more of this and it will be life imitating art, and I’ll be turning to it.

I will join @OverArmour and @comeondover !

Fruit cider, anyone?

I will go with you and admit I was in the car also.
Change of subject but I was watching Hugh Lawie playing House and cant get over that he was Bertie Wooster and other idiots in Black Adder. What a fantastic actor he is even though he is suppose to be very un-confident in all he does. No doctor whould get away with what he did these days. Love watching old series that Ive never seen before. Not that this has anything to do with TA.

We were all in the car.