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

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed, and of course we are always delighted to welcome back former or occasional listeners/posters. We don't all agree on all points, although we do mostly try to be civil about it. Most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd love to have a moribund camper van parked indefinitely outside your home, or other unusual views.

Spoilers: not on this thread, please! We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4636789-the-archers-spoilers-thread-7-cant-wait-for-702pm-join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have - BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

Over to you!

Anybody else amused by Tom stepping on a 'plastic building block'? Took me right back to Blue Peter and sticky back plastic.

I just hope it wasn't Lego, as I expect we all instantly assumed, because Seren and Nova are not quite two-and-a-half and they shouldn''t be given Lego on account of it being a Choking Hazard.

Seren and Nova are not quite two-and-a-half and they shouldn''t be given Lego on account of it being a Choking Hazard.

Not seeing this as much of a worry, tbh. They’ve got built-in redundancy.

Was shouldn't a typo for should there?

Yes, I wonder what brand the plastic building block was? Can't possibly guess...

It was probably the Duplo version of Lego.

David went to boarding school😮

A 80+ otherwise fit grown up should (can) be able to take care of themselves in their own home even with a broken wrist). No need to decamp him somewhere else. Away from his stuff. Support him, (ie do his heavy shopping etc) but a absolutely no reason to move him out of his home.

Didn't like Gavin, Linda and the Revs attempt at restorative justice either.

I think David was at The Agatha Murgatroyd Academy for the Care and Pseudo-Education of the Terminally Dull.

That was unnecessarily unkind of Lynda. But she's always been a bully.

To be fair a broken wrist means essentially your whole arm out of action and in pain for weeks. And if it’s a fracture that needs surgery to be fully repaired the arm will become increasingly weak if you don’t choose to have the surgery.

Happened to a relative of mine in their eighties. Family weren’t keen on them having a general anaesthetic so the wrist never healed properly. Ten years later they’ve pretty much lost all useful functionality in that arm - and it’s still painful.

Certainly at the time it happened I wouldn’t have wanted them left alone to fend for themselves at home.

Helmet mentioned

can’t believe David and Ruth almost killed Leonard 🙄

More coughing…

well finally heard what happened to Lynda - strange people she meets for the first time don’t comment at some point

Bankholidayhelp
A 80+ otherwise fit grown up should (can) be able to take care of themselves in their own home even with a broken wrist). No need to decamp him somewhere else. Away from his stuff. Support him, (ie do his heavy shopping etc) but a absolutely no reason to move him out of his home.

My father at 80+ fell over in the frost on a slippery stone path in the garden and broke a couple of bones in his ankle. He pressed his emergency alarm, and when nothing had happened after half an hour or so he decided he didn't want to die of cold and dragged himself the fifty yards or so back to the house, arriving there just in tiime to stop the police from breaking in the front door; his two neighbours with keys were both out shopping in the local town and couldn't be located.

If my brother or I had tried to prise him out of his home for his own good we would have received very short shrift indeed!

Bruisername
well finally heard what happened to Lynda - strange people she meets for the first time don’t comment at some point

Yes, to each other if not to her (well, I'd blasted well hope not to her but not everyone is tactful...)

I still have a horrible feeling that either Lynda or Kirsty is going to offer to put Gavin up over Christmas because he is all alone and the SWs
are heavily into "heartwarming" at the moment.

Otherwise what is the point of Gavin's return? I don't think he is just going to disappear again and die quietly in a ditch somewhere.

You never know though. He could just as easily be yet another character who struts briefly on the TS stage and is never heard of again. (I'm still cross about Meg - although I do harbour a faint hope that she could redeem George when he comes out of prison.)

Can remember making a DNA model out of Duplo, stood about 4ft high. The great thing about having 2 is you can use the younger child’s toys to do older child's stuff.

Didn't like Gavin, Linda and the Revs attempt at restorative justice either. Nice to hear Lynda’s description of her injuries. Rather like SW filling in on what they didn’t make so clear at the time.

A 80+ otherwise fit grown up should (can) be able to take care of themselves in their own home even with a broken wrist). Resident 80yr old agrees. But Jill would understandably feel protective of him.

[hopeful] They can still do the Ruth/quadbike/no helmet thing, can’t they?

arriving there just in tiime to stop the police from breaking in the front door; his two neighbours with keys were both out shopping in the local town and couldn't be located. Keysafes are a godsend!

Gavin is accustomed to the outdoor life, so Kirsty and Joy could remember that there is plenty of room on Rex's boat.......except that it was swept away in the Storm Bert and Darragh rains.

Don't worry about the storm, which will have missed Ambridge and gone via the bypass.

Yes, we very unfairly got him one and installed it after that incident. He didn't fight the idea too hard!

I'm not sure it was unkind. It was honest. She can't forgive Gavin but she doesn't want ill for him either.

Yep. And I can vouch that Duplo is just as painful.... 😬🤣

It's also a heftier missile. 🙁

i was relieved that Lynda didn't just forgive. I wouldn't have either (but then i wouldn't have agreed to meet)

David - boarding school. Figures (I was at boarding school too)

Jill imperiously ordering them to take Leonard in via Leonard is infuriating. That is a discussion to be had first between Jill & Leonard, then Jill & DavidandRuth and an agreement if Leonard wants to do that.

tbh - when my 80 year old mum broke her leg, she didn't tell me herself that she was in hospital (a cousin phoned me, but only to stir trouble) and then with a cast up to her thigh insisted of living at home as usual. With me in Germany. But maybe Leonard wants to move in to Brookfield?

But maybe Leonard wants to move in to Brookfield? Maybe he wants to further his suit (although she's said "no" once) I've just been re-reading Pride and Prejudice and am reminded of Jane being sent over to Netherfield in the rain

Just catching up. Are the script writers making a point about the archetypes of folk horror in Lynda's production and the banal reality of evil in the modern slavery storyline? That would make an interesting juxtaposition. On another point, who is doing the actual story telling at Creepy Christmas, is it Mick? Role playing and storytelling are real skills, it surprises me how easily Joe or Jim or Ruth dressed as a 1930s farmer can hold a crowd enthralled!