Archers thread #177: Will Bridge Farm get a PassiveAggressivHaus? Discuss The Archers here.

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I will be a bit cross if they dead Leonard and not bloody Ruth.

that's village life here though, they do All The Things. It is very sweet.

oh god, are they going to shoe-horn the assisted dying stuff in if they not-quite-ded-leonard?

would that be too political? Could be seen as bias if they go down the ‘lovely peaceful death’ route or the ‘pressured to end it early’ route

Monday 26th November, 2018
Natasha isn’t eating Pat’s stew and when questioned, she notes she doesn’t really eat regular meals. She works too hard for that and, besides, the stew seems to have cinnamon in it and she doesn’t care for that.

I'd like Ruth to have one of those head injuries where they come round speaking in a completely different accent.

Not that I dislike the Geordie accent, just what Ruth does to it.

I love Leonard"s voice. Wish he'd move into Brookfield.

I love Leonard"s voice. Wish he'd move into Brookfield.

That would be fine, provided that all the rest of them moved out.

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime . I thought you would confirm.
I remember the episode.

@BeatriceBatchelor , Ruth's accent is not geordie. The character is northumbrian not geordie.

Ruth's accent is a travesty is what it is @FlyingFlapjack 😂

I think it's fine. Her natural accent is nicer. Neither accent is geordie.
Ruth's accent is much more bearable than many of the other characters' accents.

btw i put a pinch of cinammon in my moussaka (vaguely follow the Linda McCartney version) and it really gives it a lift.

OK but there was also something wrong with the stew she made for Olwen.

I just heard the Lynda bit again on the car radio. Why on earth does she think David and Ruth should police Leonard's behaviour. Why does nobody just tell her to piss off?

I liked Olwen. She made a change from all the people in TA who flounce out of jobs without giving notice, or sack people without any regard for employment law. Didn't she have a genuinely believable story of losing her job?

I have a feeling it was Pat''s vegetarian stew, and the chances are it was therefore inedible, but it was not mentioned in Lowfield.

Hadn't Olwen been kicked out by her husband, and that was why she was sleeping in her car?

It wasn't the cinnamon.

What happened to Olwen in the end? I'd forgotten all about her. ISTR it got edgy for a little while, then I stopped listening for a bit.

Ruth's accent is not geordie. The character is northumbrian not geordie.

I stand corrected!

Olwen had a serious row with Pat, left the charity-computer Pat had given her on the doorstep one morning, and went away very thoroughly, after Helen had been fair-to-average vile to and about her and made no secret of despising her.

Hadn't Olwen been kicked out by her husband, and that was why she was sleeping in her car?

Yes, but IIRC she had also lost her job around the same time. She believed it because she was bolshy around workers' rights, but had no proof and hadn't been there long enough to get any kind of protection.

I think it is traditional to add a little cinnamon to moussaka. I always do. I love it and on the strength of this mention I have just added aubergines to my next supermarket delivery.

Learning Welsh? Nice language. I was brought up within view of Wales, lots of Welsh or Welsh derived place-names around. I gave up and started learning Russian instead. Much easier. Might try again now there’s the internet and all sorts of things to help, back in the 70s it wasn’t so easy.

In case you get the wrong idea, I’m absolutely hopeless at languages, I just enjoy seeing how they’re put together.

Hers is the accent I hate most. I wonder if it depends on where you live/where you were brought up.

Lynda mispronounced Mari Lwyd, but she has form for over-exaggerated attempts. She got both words wrong. Mari is like marry, Lwyd is like Lu-id but one syllable.

Yes, that’s what I thought. Bad enough when people come and suggest you should get your elderly father to do this, that or the other, but Leonard isn’t even related!

I don’t want him dedded. He’s resourceful.