Archers thread #191: Mulligan: stew made from odds and ends; second chance after poor shot. Both fit the bill. Discuss The Archers here.

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Mulligan mostly makes me think of John Finnemore's Souvenir Show. This is good, and tenuously connected to a recent TA storyline

Over to you!

I reckon the creme eggs would survive an apocalypse!!

I'd eat the mince pies if they looked and smelled OK.

I couldn't leave creme eggs on top of the cupboard as they would use thier siren song calling me. Food noise is real believe me.

The Creme Eggs looked a bit scary.
The mince pies are unopened. I might give DCat one. If she survives, I'll share the others. If she dies, I'll be too sad to eat and I'll feed the others to HCat (Hated Cat). Would the other way round be better?

She tried to get out of the car in order to be sick. I don't think there has been any suggestion she tried to grab the wheel: if what she wanted was to be sick outside her car, why would she lean further into it?

If George had stopped when she first said she felt sick and wanted to get out, instead of telling her she had to wait because they were nearly at the bridge, the accident would have been averted, too. He really was behaving in a totally stupid way that night.

(Synopsis for Sunday 5th May, 2024)
They are nearly there when Alice suddenly says 'stop', and then that she feels sick; George, alarmed, tells her she can't be sick in the car, and she takes him at his word and starts to open the door. He is frightened and tells her to leave it alone: they're nearly at the bridge and then she can get out, but she can't get out when they're moving.

Mind you, in my car she wouldn't have been able to open the passenger door anyway if they'd been going faster than about six mph; it locks all the doors automatically at that speed.

Before you feed your cat poison mince pies look on the post we're the OP was up last night while her cat had 5 kittens.
It will make you think twice.🤣

I don't understand. DCat loves mince pies and is spayed. HCat is male.

Urgh near squelching

Hazel?!? Surely the will would have stipulated not to invite her. Ruairi is definitely paying for this booking himself 😅

Your typo made me cackle - any episode where George goes to 'meat' a dragon should probably be broadcast later than 7pm...

Does dragon meat taste a bit like chicken?

I think it's probably a bit like crocodile.

Is crocodile a bit like chicken?

Yes. I had a crocodile burger, or was it a sandwich? at a crocodile farm in Queensland.
Cue -I want crocodile sandwich and make it snappy!

I am told crocodile is like fishy chicken

i imagine dragon is like smoky chicken

When Kate was concerned about Phoebe's health and the beaver enclosures I'd immediately thought of all the signs up round petting farms about pregnant women and sheep.

So people say. That was rather the point of my post....

It was a light-hearted post on my part. Probably because I couldn't think of anything to say about TA. Amber seemed more keen on George tonight.

No it's a bit tasteless. I had crocodile in Namibia.

Crocodile is pretty gross, and I’ll eat most things. It has the texture of fat and is (fish) oily and I don’t remember anything chicken like about it at all. Maybe I had a bad bit but that was enough.

Crocodiles creep me out. They just lie there so still and then are so fast when they want to get you. And then the death roll. and they are just pure killing machines.

i mean wild dogs are brutal but at least they are cute!

Sorry. I forgot o was on the archers thread!

so we are thinking a dragon in the castles dungeons? I wouldn’t put it past these sw. Perhaps they are going to channel sleeping beauty with phoebes newborn. Who will be despatched to rescue them in 100 years?

Raisins are poisonous to cats!

I don't care about Amber's reconciliation with her mum. I would like to hear Elizabeth (remember her?) talking to her daughter about her plans for her year in Australia.

And I'd like to hear Josh talking with his Dad about taking over the tenancy at Meadow Farm (is that what its called?) and David being supportive and offering advice.

And I'd like to hear Kirsty and Rex realising they are meant for each other - no on air snogging though!

I don't want to hear whatever Joy is planning for the village Xmas event.

I don’t understand why we get brand new characters, and characters having relationships off screen (like Phoebe) when we hardly hear from existing characters and they don’t seem to ever move on in their lives. Like Freddie, for example. They must’ve been setting up his succession storyline for his whole life and now we don’t hear anything about it for years while we get random new characters we’re supposed to care about.