Archers thread #194: Bottled on the Bridle Path! Discuss 75 years of The Archers here.

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I am all Archered out after the excitement of the 75th anniversary yesterday, the special drama (Truth and Lies), the podcast, you name it. Now it looks as if George is going to pull through, the hype seems a bit overdone. So it's over to you!

D'you remember when people used to be said to be "in love with being in love"? I think that Amber is in love with saying that she is in love.

Our local (very small town) Boots was only closed on 25th & 26th, then open as usual on Saturday 27th and Monday 29th. So there would definitely have been somewhere open in - say - Felpersham. The idea of her even considering going down the Breed-With-A-Grundy route is just depressing.

Ah. Trick I have missed: what time of day was it when she belted George and fled the house? If it was evening, it might have been after the shops were shut. In which case she'd have had to go the following day and it might have been too late anyway.

The idea of her even considering going down the Breed-With-A-Grundy route is just depressing.

She's already gone down the Get-Married-To-A-Grundy-Who-Is-Prison route!

Exactly. They are both very emotionally immature even for their age. You can just imagine after a few Christmas eve drinks, all of a sudden they are madly in love again and a baby is the perfect idea to prove just how much they love each other 🤦‍♀️

I think the slight needling of Brad was that she was expecting him to compete for her with George.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 for Brad.

nooooooooo Amber, no, no, no, no, no

what is she thinking
we can only hope she has a mc (I'm sorry but this IS fiction)

I think a miscarriage would make her even more determined to have a baby!

If it is less than a month in actuality (as opposed to a fictional however many extra weeks) she wouldn't even have known she was pregnant before she had a heavy period, back in the sixties and seventies. Just being "a bit late" wouldn't send you to a doctor for a pregnancy test back then, and DIY ones were not yet readily available. (It didn't occur to me to use one in the 1980s when I was having my children. And ultrasound scanning was not available for my first pregnancy.)

I think a lot of women then may have had early miscarriages and never known they had even been pregnant, which probably saved quite a lot of heartache.

Amber is doomed and Brad should run. Far, far away

I agree. When I was pregnant in 1979 I couldn't go to the doctor for a pregnancy test until I was 6 weeks late then it took two weeks to get the results. Anything could have happened in that time which would just have registered as Not Pregnant. In the event I had already got terrible morning sickness before I got the result.

I don’t know what to think about Fallon and Harrison. Will she realise that failure to hand herself in makes her a huge hypocrite re George/Alice. Harrison should be fired, maybe Fallon can DOB him in too when she confesses

But these days there are tests that will register BEFORE a missed period.
eg less than 2 weeks after conception

And how horrible it must be if you really want a baby and you and your partner are ttc, and you keep testing pregnant and then having a period as usual. Shudder.

Can't forensics recover deleted footage? If the police knew there was anything to recover, that is. I don't trust Harrison.

I just don't care about Amber, or George. Amber can't be very bright or ambitious to have shacked up with George and be trying to conceive at 19 with a part-time retail job and unemployed boyfriend with anger issues. Or maybe she knows the bank of mum & dad will bail her out?
Chelsea is winning at life compared to Amber, and I think she knows it.

Even worse when they tell their other small children who then come in to school and tell everyone including the teacher (me). I'm sure it makes it more difficult if things dont work out.

Speaking from experience back in the very late 1980s and early 1990s, yes, it is horrible. We got there in the end, fortunately. I don't know when home pregnancy tests were first easily available in the UK, but as I recall they were very easy to get hold of and pretty reliable by that time. There was, fortunately, no testing for ovulation or anything like that.

Thinking about pregnancy tests, didn’t Amber reference “not being able to believe it when she saw the line”? But pregnancy tests have two lines: one to show it’s working and the other one only appears if you’re actually up the duff. Could she have misread it?

This sounds as if it might be worth a look, if anyone is in the Badminton area in July. https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/the-archers-bridge-farm-rhs-garden-75th-anniversary-newsupdate/

Please, PLEASE don't make Brad raise George's baby 😡

Dooof it on the fontanelle with its own bottle. It could become a Grundy / Horrobin Tradition.

Yeah but didn’t she mean the line which tells you you’re pregnant?

Perhaps they'll demonstrate how to claim on insurance when there's a sewage spill. With the starry twins drowning in it.