Archers thread #189: Brian reaps what he sows, in spite of himself. Discuss The Archers here.

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It would be really clunky writing to have Fallon almost drown, have a random wild swim where she gets over her fear but some other character drowns

That it would undoubtedly be very clunky writing doesn’t make it less likely, surely?

I don't get the golfing. Chelsea has no money yet she's on a golf course, one that has a dress code, so presumably private. Did Martyn pay for them?

I'll be gutted if they drown Jazzer. One of the few likeable characters.

Well we're all different but he makes my flesh crawl. I can't stand listening to him and the laugh is off the scale repulsive.

Presumably.

Would it be too much to hope that successful businessman Martyn might say to Chelsea why are you wasting your talent in these crappy jobs?

I think Tracy looks exactly like the actress who plays her. I don't know what she sees in Jazzer, I find him lazy and he leaves his undercrackers all over the bedroom floor yuk!.

I hope Martyn doesn’t take a shine to Chels but IRL we know that’s exactly what would happen…

At the moment Martyn seems to want mothering. 😄 And also the feeling of being in the midst of harmonious family life.

No one IRL could possibly take a shine to that gobby, adenoidal baggage.

Martyn needs smothering.

I ❤Chelsea.

I like Tracey and Jazzer, but if they murder Tracey it will free him up to marry Fallon and they can take over the Bull.

Why is everyone going on and on and on about swimming in a lake as though it is in some way remarkable? I live near a lake and lots of people swim in it, some of them all year round.

I suppose if you didn’t live near a lake then you would?

in ambridge every ‘new’ thing is amazing though - and everyone is always good at it

how many more hints do we need that Zainab is going to be the saviour of the cricket team and thus puts Lynda’s old dude in his place

If Ambridge was in the real world, wild swimming in Arkwright Lake would have become a thing in the last decade and we'd have had at least one 'funny' story about a dry robe.

it would be absolutely brilliant if Martyn spotted her go-gettedness and decided to back her in a salon venture. I would very much like that. Although then, of course, that family have 2 people beholden to him for jobs.

I really like the idea of 2 young women concentrating on positivity and doing things to make themselves happy.

If they ded someone i want it to be Fallon, her moping is annoying me. (actually, can't it be Joy. And Rochelle.) And i wonder if they are leading us up a false path, tracy does have a twinge which is just that. But Neil is really ill and leaves us permanently. That would make me sad, but is plausible.

Brad is adorable. I want to hug him. But i wouldn't because he doesn't like that.

I used to live near a lake and I didn't swim in it once. It didn't cross my mind. It was the tourists did.

Zainab is bound to be good at cricket.

Kirsty probably has a dry robe.

Brad is adorable. I want to hug him. But i wouldn't because he doesn't like that.
My first smile today. ❤

Kirsty does "wild swimming" though. I would have thought Kate might indulge now and again?

I have a lot of friends who do it, and where i live there are a lot of lakes formed from old quarries, that is where EVERYONE goes to swim as soon as the weather allows them to open for the season.

It's just a "plot device" (hahahaha) to get us thinking about Fallon and the crash and miscarriage. If they preggers her up i am going to be Very Cross Indeed.

She does, that's why she has a dry robe.

I’m back! My phone has been playing up and effectively banned me from MN.

obviously far too late to say how much I enjoyed Brad finding a backbone the other day?

Not at all @WitcheryDivine . Glad to hear your phone is OK now.

Does anyone dislike Brad? He seems to be about the only character who is universally liked. (For the avoidance of misunderstanding, I like him too!)

Surely not! Brad has become my favourite character.

He's lovely. I like most of the characters. Even the unlikeable ones add something.
There are ones I'd prefer to never have even heard from at all, and on top of that list is Rochelle.

Amber gets to stay just because of her giving her future MIL the perfect birthday present.

By unlikeable, I mean Helen and JustAnIdiot . Not Pip, Paul, Dane, Laurence (sp?),...

In Pip's defence, we do get Stella and Fat Rosie. Fat Rosie is going to be as ghastly as the Widderbeth, isn't she. only with more flab and foul language.

Brad is generally fine but I am still recovering from the GG scene when he was a comedy bell-boy and mixed up the luggage when Fallon had sex toys and a Maid Marion outfit in her suitcase. That was what was known as a low point.

It was. Blame the SW not Brad or Fallon.