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

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Could it be a ‘no room at the inn’ kind of storyline (trying to be generous here) in the run-up to Christmas?

I also had to check that I was on live radio 4, the first few mins was bizarre!

I thought that too! For a moment I wondered if they were running a three-legged race!

😂

Love the Terrence Jolly story. You couldn't make it up.

The Americans sounded like they’d walked out of a 1950s play. But also they had the characters of Brian and Jenny, the 1950s American version of them. God knows what that was all about.

I thought the American lady was the actress who plays Jolene , recast as a cost of living measure!

Since the scene with the coconut horses was a discussion of holidays, I wonder if the Americans are going to suggest a house swap to Kate as "payment"? It would be bizarre, but no more so than the actual plot!

I we going to have a recreation of The Holiday

About 6 weeks ago the little village where I live in the South East woke up to find itself without the internet. It remained out for 7 days. This was a total pain for me (couldn't watch TV or listen to TA on iPlayer and I ran out of data on my phone for the first time) but it was much worse for people who WFH and for the village shop (who could only accept cash and who couldn't open the Post Office) and for the pub. Apparently the copper wires had been stolen and it took a long time to replace them.
The day after I arrived at my mother's in Wiltshire last week the internet went down in the whole village and only came back at lunchtime today. The explanation is the same as in my own village - the copper wiring had been stolen.
I have been Googling and apparently this is a thing and is happening in villages all over the country.
There's a potential SL for TA.

(And, yes, I thought copper wires had been replaced by fibre optic cables too.)

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There's a potential SL for TA.

This has already happened in TA, in January 2012, and there were "hilarious" scenes during which Oliver helped Caroline by finding an ancient card-reader somewhere so guests at Grey Gables could pay when they signed out or in, I forget which. And Elizabeth irritated everyone by still having a connection at Lower Loxley and offering the use of it to anyone who bought food or drink at The Orangery, and Jim organised a rota to check up on anyone who might be in trouble because their phone wasn't working, or some such.

Please don’t let Kate give birth in a yurt.

Also, that sounded like a pod machine

That's exactly what I thought too @TherapistInATabard It puzzled me that they would think a pod machine was 'really good'. I mean, it's probably not as bad as a drip machine, but it's not exactly a proper coffee. They're fine if you haven't got the space for anything more, but you wouldn't be impressed enough to see one in an Airbnb that you'd comment on it!

Plus, Jakob would know that they're a false economy, and Kate would know that they're bad for the environment. For goodness' sake, just get a better sound effect!

Well as I’m being ignored by my teens and have nothing better to do I will listen…

sleeping in a yurt is my idea of hell. Poor Jakob. Did they even change the sheets for their illegal guests? And why give them the wifi password? Are we going to have Jakob arrested in 6 months because his IP address was used for illegal means?

the American accent seems like a caricature - like English accents in American dramas (like Friends)

as for Faith having grown up here - I need @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime to tell me more!!! Are they the scammers then? Or is Chuck just an arse?

wouldn’t Kate have asked her surname? It seems unusual in such a small village and Faith doesn’t seem that old

and oh my god - another person turning up with a false booking. At least Ruth has some balls.

didnt she say she had 6 year old twins missing school but Ruth said teens on phone - why would you drag teens out of school to stay on a farm for 4 nights?

and gosh the village acting to beat the scam - curing the ills of society one issue at a time

It’s the Russians hacking in to the site to Bring Down Ambridge.

Brookfield: In what circumstances would someone book a break in an English village in late November and drag two teenagers out of school to come along?

Is this utter rubbish going to continue all week? I am normally very much an addict. Listing at 7pm and 2pm and the omnibus. Today was the first time on godknows how many years I switched over at 2pm and switched back at 2.15

If I was Yacob I would be telling Kate that was it, end of relationship; she's taken making decisions that aren't hers to make to the nth degree.

Ahem! Not “older people”. SWs and editors.

Oh god now Brookfield is affected

Farce

Particularly 16 year olds (which is what I heard rather than 6 @Bruisername ). Shouldn't they be preparing for GCSEs or A Levels?!

@Bruisername - she said she had sixteen year old teens in the car

Faith doesn’t seem that old

Kate said yesterday that they were in their 70s, and she wasn't corrected.

And yes, @Bruisername , wouldn't Kate be asking a former Ambridge resident what her parents' names were, where they worked, which families she remembers from the village etc?

Is Faith going to stay in Ambridge as her husband seems a grumpy bugger.

Oh I misheard - that’s totally stupid!!!

Gah, the pod coffee machine strikes again!

The only thing that gives me hope is the CA saying the Grundys spot an opportunity tomorrow. I really hope that they try to resurrect the Grange Farm bnb idea: 'It's me grandson's room really, but he's in prison at the moment so it's going spare. My wife does a lovely fry up in the morning. You'll have to be up early, mind, she leaves for work at 7. Don't mind the mess, it's only turkey shit, it'll wash off. Tell you what, I'll give you a night's free guest membership of the Cider Club.'