Archers thread #190: Carry on, Cleo! Best new character for ages. Discuss The Archers here.

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Charlotte Smith must have been delighted to get back to Countryfile and Farming Today. What a pile of piffle tonight. Ah well.

When is George expected back? It can't be long now, surely. It occurs to me that I can't recall whether he's ever spoken on air to Ruairi. As their actors are currently the best (IMO) amongst the younger members of the cast, I hope they will cross swords in some way.

And finally, I can't mention Carry on Cleo without squeezing in one of the best lines ever written (Denis Norden and Frank Muir have the credit): Infamy, infamy! They've all got it in for me! Currently, Lily probably feels this way.

https://youtube.com/shorts/eRnd48yTC5A?si=N05njp3uLfpSjAmI

Over to you!

There isn't much they can do with Alistair, unless Fat Dan comes back.
I like him as a character but Jakob is also a vet.

Shame because I like him.

Ha! I don't visualise Denise as remotely portable, and I imagine Shula as similarly on the hefty side. I have absolutely no idea why, though.

I don't picture either of them as hefty. About average perhaps.

I imagine Denise as quite petite

Ha! I wonder why I picture them both as large. Maybe it's because I find them both bossy, and being bossy is dangerous unless you have some weight to throw behind it! 😆

YKWIM … 😁

Omg dying 😆

Oh dear. Paul is camping it up again.

I visualise Shula as normal, but Denise as taller but...ahem...solid.

IIRC Denise was quite partial to biscuits and sweet treats (seem to remember the aftermath of a dinner date with Alistair where they talked about her love of custard and cakes) so I picture her as quite solidly built. But she’s also into dance fitness and apparently an excellent swimmer so perhaps not overweight as such.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jqy8pn275o tangential maybe but “Old Kate” good article today about being an SEN parent. Real Kate obviously wouldn’t even notice if any of her children had SEN.

I picuture Denise as her character in The Oulawas now, so that's weird in my head. Susan is more like Mavis from Coronation Street. I don't have a head picture for Clarrie but i can guess it would veer to a less extreme version of Hilda Ogden from Corrie.

That pub scene was awkward, so well done to writers & actors.

I think Shula is small and slim, she refuses biscuits but presses them on visitors. Denise because of the exercise classes I think is probably a size 12 and strong, getting into lifting to strengthen her bones post menopause.

We know that Shula is large of arse, because that has been remarked on n the programme.

Yes, I imagine her shortish, with an ample horsewoman's bottom. And I assume that Denise is much the same ... because Alistair seems like the sort of small-c-conservative man who would go for a "type".

"from my husband and I to" Tut,tut.

@RegimentalSturgeon , whopping big backside

Yes, Clare Perkins has a very distinctive voice, so that's who I see too.

I can't remember what was said about Shula's posterior. Was it Shula herself agonising in the manner of Arabella Weir in The Fast Show, or others making catty comments?

Susan was asking Shula about riding lessons IIRC, and mentioned that it riding gave a woman a whopping big backside.

WheresThatCatGoneNow · 23/03/2021 14:20

Best laugh I've had for ages!
Susan's unguarded comment about Shula's 'whopping great backside' 🤣😁 🤣
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I heard that too! May have to have a lie-down in a darkened room to get over it!

@Sidebeforeself survives another day... perhaps we should open a book on it?

I’m sorry Sides not here at the moment and hasn’t left a forwarding address.

my particular skill set, remember 😜

Just listened to the Omnibus and I think my heart might actually be broken 💔

On Denise’s figure, I seem to remember that, for a vet nurses’ awards dinner, she tried on a dress borrowed from someone (Chelsea??) we are supposed to assume is young and lissom, to great admiration all round - not to mention lustful thoughts from Alasdair. So I guess she’s pretty slender.