Archers thread #188: New Order, please! Discuss The Archers here.

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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 spend time with Martyn Gibson, or other unusual views.

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In some haste as we are going out for the day. I was asked weeks ago to put I've Killed the Vicar in as the new title but I agree with more recent comments that Peggy's funeral feels like old news now. Great line, though. Sorry not to have used Markie Malarkey, though. I've settled on something that will only make sense to people who were also youngish in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Here's a clue. If a certain person appears in tomorrow's episode the title will be relevant.

Over to you!

Oh ho! Brilliant title!

(As was the one for this thread!)

It was always obvious to me, having grown up there.

Nicest for a while.

It had everything, including a lemon drizzle cake from Jill.

We're allowed to laugh at Chris's illiteracy for much the same reasons as we laugh about Rosie being Fat Rosie.

We are, although I wouldn't, (because we know they're not real) I would think less of Kate and Kirsty doing it.

I didn't hear the episode but I would assume we were meant to be laughing at Jakob for wanting full punctuation in texts rather than Chris at not bothering.

I can't bring myself not to punctuate in texts though I understand that it isn't the 'done thing' by younger people.

I was only there for a year, aged 11. Blandford Grammar School was the happiest school year of my life!

We have loads of Red Kites, I love them.
I do not believe any farmer would leave a field of wheat to rot just to get back at someone. I was waiting for Brian to turn up after Stella or Ruth said they had seen Ed, so he must have told Brian, not in a vindictive way but " oh I thought you weren't going to bring in that field cos Ive just seen Ruth and Stella clearing it".or whatever farming jargon is used.
The lunch sounded lovely. Ive got a big pork pie in the fridge and as I'm on WW my DH will have it too himself, but its been calling me (food noise is real), since I brought it along with the Flakes I can't have either, why do I torture myself?.
I'm glad Stella told Brian to stick his job , he will be very sorry.
Someone will see the podcast and Stella will be offered loads of jobs and will move away , but I know Pip won't go with her as she won't leave the farm , so all you Pip dislikers, (of which I'm one), won't be able to celebrate I'm afraid.

@MinnieBaldock - excellent post! Might you consider copying it to the new thread? I’d assumed the podcast was just tying in with other BBC stuff - but it would definitely be interesting if it opened up other possibilities for Stella.

The thought of a huge pork pie is making me reconsider the last two decades of pescatarianism! 😂

I think so too.

Also Dorchester/Borchester.

It was the Trollope connection I saw first.

There's Bryanston. List of Old Bryanstonians - Wikipedia

I liked Blandford. Beautiful countryside to the north towards Shaftesbury.
Lots of interesting village names.

Badbury Rings | Dorset | National Trust
Hambledon Hill | Dorset | National Trust

No girls at Bryanston School in my day! But I do remember my very first lesson at Blandford Grammar: our form teacher was the Geography master and he kicked off with: "So, is Bryanston north, south, east or west of Blandford?" And pointed at me. I said I had no idea. "Good grief, HOW long have you lived in Blandford?" Three days. "Oh! Well, where did you live before?" Singapore.

He laughed, apologised and asked me questions about SIngapore before returning to the lesson. I think the object of it was just to get us to speak up in class. He was a lovely man.

military brat?
I did a short stint at Blandford right after basic training, i used to love driving past the sign "welcome to Blandford, a historical Georgian town". There was a relief map of Blandford which some say was an exact mirror image of what it should be.

Why why why didn't Stella or Ruth just say "food security, Brian"

@Brefugee ... Yes, Signals. But Oy, missis! Who are you calling a brat? Come outside and say that! But we were an odd bunch on the camp. We arrived in 1962, the year of Ye Great Snow, and woke up one morning during the Christmas holidays unable to open the back door for the drifts. We were basically snowed in.

When the school term started, the camp was still cut off from the town, though there were tyre-tracks where army trucks had got through. At 8 o'clock my father had gone to work and my mother sent me off to catch the school bus as usual! There were four of us with lunatic mothers, and when the bus (obviously) didn't appear, we walked down Black Lane along the tyre tracks, with snow up to our shoulders on either side. This seemed wiser than the sensible alternative of going home.

When we got to school, only about 2 miles away but more than 2 hours later, it was (obviously) closed and the caretaker sent us home. So we walked back. For some reason I was told off by my mother: apparently it was all my fault that (a) the school was closed and (b) the caretaker hadn't even offered us a hot drink.

am also a military brat...
that's a fab anecdote though.

Can you imagine the AIBU if that happened now?

AIBU to be incensed that the caretaker at DD's school didn't make her a cup of tea after she walked 2 hours through the snow to get there and found it (incredibly) closed! School closed and school bus cancelled just for a bit of snow! What is this country coming to? If we had to fight a world war now we'd have lost before we'd even started with attitudes like this.

Ha! It would been one of those AIBUs where 100% voted YABU but the OP came back and argued until even the most patient poster gave up and left her arguing with herself.

You wouldn't be incensed, you'd be fuming. You'd probably be literally exploding with rage if the caretaker had offered tea when your precious DD is only allowed organic herbal tea. Not to mention that it left you needing to make alternative childcare arrangements.

I think you’d be “crying and shaking”..thats the standard MN response to anything remotely miffing isn’t it?

A bit late to come back to this, but as we're well into the next thread, why not? I like to think that on MN she'd have been fumming rather than fuming. Bloody hell, she was an awful woman! Another glorious memory is of her announcing, whenever I mentioned a friend, that she had never liked him/her. She even disliked people she had never met (I sometimes called her out on those, but she insisted she had met them and they had been Very Rude), and people I had invented for my own amusement, just to test her.

When she died, I rang my (much younger) sister in NZ and said: "Tragic news: you're an orphan!" She laughed.

Why do MNers loathe everything? (or loath if you are an MNer who breaths and wears cloths)

'Natasha' has directed some of the Pobol y Cwm episodes. She appeared in the soap a few years ago.

Isn't it compulsory for Welsh actors to fo a stint on PyC?