Archers thread #179: Beavers, livestock, ferrets, but nododo! Discuss The Archers here.

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The title started life with @JanglyBeads, whose autocorrect turned 'Oh no, nor do I!' into 'Oh no, nododo I!' on the last thread. For reasons of cowardice/prudence/lack of inspiration and the character limit, I haven't included @BeaLola's even more mysterious autocorrect - her phone had her asking Abdul if he'd always wanted children instead of Neil. Perhaps one of the mooted beavers can be Abdul.

For the first time ever I've added a poll to the OP. Over to you!

I understand that Trump is threatening to annex Greenland. Perhaps Harrison is going to be seconded to NATO and sent there to keep watch? Very few other humans there for him to annoy.

Isn’t it a bit odd that the family didn’t make the funeral. Talk about contrived. He could have done a speech anyway

Yes, my FIL just died and we had speeches from his children and two of his friends from different stages in his life.

I guess it was to hammer home the “dying alone” fear.

I think the Leonard storyline is contrived so that Brookfield has an older person in situ , ready for when Jill gets dedded. There’ll be a long drawn out “will they get him to leave or wont they?” Storyline but in the end they decide to ‘keep” Leonard. He’s on hand then to provide lots of grandfatherly advice over the years. Not sure whether he can back flapjacks though.

I agree they're moving Leonard in permanently as the resident 'old person'.
I'm from the south east and would say 'wrap up warm' both as a generic well meaning thing to accompany someone's exit, as well as saying it to the kids as they headed out into freezing winter without enough clothes on.
So I think it can be a generic 'take care' kind of phrase or an instructional one.
I heard Ruth's as the latter, and I enjoyed Leonard's gently sarcastic response. I thought Ruth and David were both being massively patronising!!!
I had also presumed Leonard was in the Air BnB room... 'Rylans Room'.

Is that the room Josh was turfed out of?

Yes. Ben has his room back.

It’s got padded walls.

I'm a life-long Southerner and pedant and I say, "Wrap up warm."

I'm glad Leonard is moving into Brookfield in preparation for The Dedding of Jill.

The Brookfield lot are so boring, with the exception of Josh. He needs to wed someone with an interesting (and likeable) personality so that they and Leonard can breathe some life into the old place.

I was musing, during the funeral episode, that conversations between the Brookfield men - and Leonard - sound really quite natural. The chat about different generations was well done. It’s when Ruth and Pip get involved that things go awry. And yes, they are boring, but the family dynamics work well - Pip the golden child, Josh the scapegoat, Ben the one with no personality, etc. I always feel they don’t need much to happen to get quite a lot of drama out of it. David shouting at Kirsty and then his ire continuing into the family conversation is what I live for really, as a listener, along with Dave and Kenton together, and Helen bullying her family.

Eeek no! We don’t want him!

Well, I think we all know what he's being sent to do. He'd be rubbish at it.

I'm delighted Harrison is leaving and really hope he and Fallon break up and he never returns. But surely IRL he and Fallon could rent out their cottage (as everyone else in Ambridge does) and move to Yorkshire together?

Yes agreed, so much to unpack in that simple statement of separate rooms

@stilldumdedumming , all my sympathy. Horrible situation for both of you.

I checked and I'm glad to see Harrison and Fallon are married, which is excellent. The sooner the wild Yorkshire people bump him off the better, leaving Fallon with a widow's pension. Just what she needs to give the business a boost.

Is it just me or did Fallon get extremely enthusiastic very quickly?

Jill's not there at the moment is she? Isn’t she visiting Shula?

”wrap up warm” is something my mother might have said. I’d have said “look after yourself” “keep warm”. Wasn’t he just going for a walk round the garden? Does that really need a talisman?

i’m reminded of the all-but-compulsory modern day talisman “Take care”. Is that nationwide?

He always sounds so disinterested in everyone else

not surprised Ma’am suggesting he move away - if I were his boss I would too. Sorry for Yorkshire though - which is clearly so far away they can’t visit in his days off

Sounds like he’s joining line of duty. Hope she has an affair while he’s gone!!! With the new charging station vegan chef perhaps. Won’t be missing how he says baby and ‘Fallon love’ - or how Fallon says ‘my love’. When she said ‘this is really adult thing to do’ it sounded like something a teenager would say! And him asking for an ‘Ug and saying I love you so many times 🙄

and Henry and Khalil getting panto tickets - odd yet again. Do kids that age watch the matrix?

why was Justin at beechwood?

I also didn’t realise beechwood was that close to the village

I'm sure Susan will have an opinion on Harrison's posting. And it will get back to Fallon somehow as an assumed fact.

Not just you.

I was more surprised at kids that age using the term 'supergrass' - is it still current? It sounds very 1990s to me.

And a ridiculous turn of the SL. All neat and pat in five minutes.

Harrison plainly needs a change, but his senior sending him away from all family support?

not to get involved in warmgate but I usually tell my husband “don’t get run over” in a similar spirit We usually tell each other to “have fun” or “enjoy yourself”, perhaps dating back to sending children out in a positive frame of mind rather than saying anything that would suggest their world is a dangerous place (requiring talismans).

Yay! Adios creepy git.

Not just you, she sounded like someone being told they're going to be let out of prison.