For all you Archers fans.........

[Chopsy Varmint]

I wish there wasn't so much focus on Lynda's innards, and that poor Robert finds his emotional feet again.

Unfortunately, I predict that it won't be a semi-feral cow that will scupper the reweeding project (it does need nipping out), it will be a defrauding Justin draining Peggy's fortune into his own offshore account that will do the trick. Phoebe and Pip are meant to have taken business courses, yet they have as much gumption as 10 year olds when it comes to contracts.

Eek! The Easter Bonnets! Will Lynda find the strength to Lillian into organising it?

Yep, poor Robert. He needs a chat with Jim in the bird hide.

Pip and Phoebe are utterly unbearable. Didn't Phoebe leave Oxford with a PPE degree? Same as David Cameron if so. I like the idea of Justin snaffling Peggy's cash, just as long as cv19 doesn't finish her off before she realises what's going on.

I can't see Lynda being out of hospital in time for the Easter thing on the green, or at least in the real world she wouldn't be. Looking forward to hearing what Jenny is going to do with Brian's Big Box for her Big Bonnet.

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

Eli was a new one on me too.

Talking of sheep I recall that brookfield cut down sheep numbers by a third in anticipation of Brexit. I don't think they've mentioned that lately.

Must admit I'm kind of hooked with a horrified fascination on the slavery storyline. I'm back to listening every day. Though that might just be through grateful relief that we haven't lost Lynda.

Well-remembered re the Brookfield sheep. Although I guess they'll just get some more quick enough, like they did with swapping over the dairy herd.

Lynda sounds like she's getting back to her former self, even with a proper disparaging 'sniff' last night. She'd better be out of hospital before cv19 reaches Borsetshire.

 

[primmiemoo]

Meanwhile, who will be the sad old gust of methane sitting behind their keyboard with an aim to ensure that the late Joe Grundy's meandering "short cuts" home to Grange Farm from The Bull and The Cat & Fiddle are included on a definitive mappe of "my walking routes so there dot com"?
Or getting Brian's old trysting places marked as public space on "so ner dot com"?

 

[primmiemoo]

Yep, poor Robert. He needs a chat with Jim in the bird hide.

Pip and Phoebe are utterly unbearable. Didn't Phoebe leave Oxford with a PPE degree? Same as David Cameron if so. I like the idea of Justin snaffling Peggy's cash, just as long as cv19 doesn't finish her off before she realises what's going on.

I can't see Lynda being out of hospital in time for the Easter thing on the green, or at least in the real world she wouldn't be. Looking forward to hearing what Jenny is going to do with Brian's Big Box for her Big Bonnet.

Phoebe did graduate with a something in PPE, but it was all played down. I'm quite sad that her initial promise has been written out, and this weak and phoeble her put instead. Didn't her grandfather, Brian, risk his place on a board of business interests by warning her about Justin?

Dread to think where Pip dumps baby Rosie when she is at work (or down the pub with her brothers). She's unlike the working farming mums I've met, so the poor mite might not be safe.

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

Phoebe did graduate with a something in PPE, but it was all played down. I'm quite sad that her initial promise has been written out, and this weak and phoeble her put instead. Didn't her grandfather, Brian, risk his place on a board of business interests by warning her about Justin?

Dread to think where Pip dumps baby Rosie when she is at work (or down the pub with her brothers). She's unlike the working farming mums I've met, so the poor mite might not be safe.

Yes, Brian had his knuckles rapped by the board for warning Phoebe about Justin. At least if the rewilders get into property development they can also run things past Lillian although Amside seems to manage itself without requiring any direction from her. How is Phoebe supporting herself in the meantime?

I doubt Rosie is safe, and most likely left with Toby. She must be toddling by now so is probably a great help with the gin bottling or something. She'd be better off in a dog crate under the Brookfield kitchen table.

 

[primmiemoo]

Yes, Brian had his knuckles rapped by the board for warning Phoebe about Justin. At least if the rewilders get into property development they can also run things past Lillian although Amside seems to manage itself without requiring any direction from her. How is Phoebe supporting herself in the meantime?

I doubt Rosie is safe, and most likely left with Toby. She must be toddling by now so is probably a great help with the gin bottling or something. She'd be better off in a dog crate under the Brookfield kitchen table.

It'll be Scruff's Hand Sanitiser before long, won't it? - unless he doesn't keep a still.

Is Phoebe living on the Bank of Two Sets of Grandparents, maybe? She can't be drawing from Peggy's conservation charity just yet. They haven't any income, for one thing.

I think that Lillian is already in a sticky situation with her formal role within the charity and being so closely connected to Justin, so advising her great-niece as well could tip the balance of interests. I'm not a lawyer, btw, so it's probably all perfectly acceptable, and I'm just grasping at straws and wishing for a massive, cathartic, court case.
Maybe Lillian could train her lapdog to bark in code, or something.

Ooh. Just had an image of Rosie in the crate. Emma doesn't muck out Brookfield these days, does she?

 

[Rossymons]

She's too busy chasing Ed Grundy these days. I dont know if I would take her back or not if I was in his shoes.

 

[essexpete]

She's too busy chasing Ed Grundy these days. I dont know if I would take her back or not if I was in his shoes.

She is Susan's daughter. Let us ponder that.

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

It'll be Scruff's Hand Sanitiser before long, won't it? - unless he doesn't keep a still.

Is Phoebe living on the Bank of Two Sets of Grandparents, maybe? She can't be drawing from Peggy's conservation charity just yet. They haven't any income, for one thing.

I think that Lillian is already in a sticky situation with her formal role within the charity and being so closely connected to Justin, so advising her great-niece as well could tip the balance of interests. I'm not a lawyer, btw, so it's probably all perfectly acceptable, and I'm just grasping at straws and wishing for a massive, cathartic, court case.
Maybe Lillian could train her lapdog to bark in code, or something.

Ooh. Just had an image of Rosie in the crate. Emma doesn't muck out Brookfield these days, does she?

I can't recall if Toby has a still. I figured he's such a muppet he'd never manage his customs liabilities so just buys the gin ready to chuck in a pot of mixed herbs.

I suppose Phoebe must be living off Brian's largesse as I doubt Roy or Kate have much extra to keep her in fancy coffee and flippy hair cuts.

Peggy's envirotrust thing is so much incestuous nepotism. Charitable trusts are a good fiddle for the wealthy to reduce their tax liabilities, especially inheritance tax, but to be valid they must show both charitable purpose (attempting to fix Ambridge climate change with feral livestock is enough as both agriculture and environmental improvement are recognised by the Charities Commission as appropriate purposes), and also public benefit which, with a one-off cash prize awarded to her family, is dubious in Peggy's case. I daresay the scriptwriters won't let that bother them though.

I don't think Emma does any mucking out now, apart from Ambridge View for her mother.

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

She's too busy chasing Ed Grundy these days. I dont know if I would take her back or not if I was in his shoes.

I hope he does as she and Clarrie make a good team.

She is Susan's daughter. Let us ponder that.

True. But she's also Neil's and he's a decent lovely man.

 

[primmiemoo]

Dear old Neil. He's had a tough time with Justin, too, over the pigs. It makes me cringe knowing that there are people out there who think the Justin Elliotts in business are bluddygoodblokes.

Ed and Emma deserve each other. Sometimes in a good way. Ed has worked hard to turn his life around, and Emma sees that in him. She's nicer than her mother.

 

[PhilipB]

Dear old Neil. He's had a tough time with Justin, too, over the pigs. It makes me cringe knowing that there are people out there who think the Justin Elliotts in business are bluddygoodblokes.

Ed and Emma deserve each other. Sometimes in a good way. Ed has worked hard to turn his life around, and Emma sees that in him. She's nicer than her mother.

I'm undecided on the Ed and Emma question.

I thought the split up was a stroke of genius on the writer's part. Perhaps Emma will suddenly be content with a live with less expensive coffee tables.

And hopefully at some stage Will will be freed from the burden of being an object lesson in toxic masculinity.

 

[GrannyAching]

Toby buys his gin in and add's the "botanicals" and the skim milk from Helen's cheese (apparently or did that get knocked on the head?)

 

[Rossymons]

Dear old Neil. He's had a tough time with Justin, too, over the pigs. It makes me cringe knowing that there are people out there who think the Justin Elliotts in business are bluddygoodblokes.

Ed and Emma deserve each other. Sometimes in a good way. Ed has worked hard to turn his life around, and Emma sees that in him. She's nicer than her mother.

I have a good friend of mine who reminds of Neil. Decent, hard working and respected bloke - a good egg. But how he has ended up with who he has is beyond me! I know opposites attract but still!

 

[GrannyAching]

Oh Tracey Horribin - channeling Yoda (or Nanny Ogg @Pan mixer ??)! Gotta think the script writer is in love with her in real life!

 

[primmiemoo]

I'm going to have to put the lambers on pause just after 2pm tomorrow then? ;-)

 

[Pan mixer]

Oh Tracey Horribin - channeling Yoda (or Nanny Ogg @Pan mixer ??)! Gotta think the script writer is in love with her in real life!

Yes I was just thinking tonight that Tracey is getting written as better and better. Good thought about Nanny Ogg too

 

[Daddy Pig]

No, Eli the Shepherd is a new one on me too. I'd have thought the Brookfield lot would have mentioned him in passing previously if he'd been in post for a while, but it sounds like he's been around longer than lambing at least.

I was happy to hear Emma had come to her senses and try to patch things up with Ed but then hearing him turning her down... there's far too much doom and gloom on the Archers at the moment, just when the listeners need a bit of light relief and a happy storyline we can get immersed in. There's a lot riding on the Easter Bonnet competition in my house.

I'm hoping the modern slavery and Philip the Baddie story gets dealt with quickly; Roy and Kirsty get together; Lynda recovers her competent equilibrium; the Rewilders get stampeded into the dust by a longhorned semi-feral cow; Josh takes over as Home Farm shepherd; Ed stops messing about and takes Emma back; Jazzer gets swept off his feet by a new female character (yard manager for the stables perhaps when Shula effs off to start her holy-rolling); and Susan and Neil have a night in with a massive chili supper.

I think you should take over as script writer.

 

[GrannyAching]

I think you should take over as script writer.

There'd be too much farming in it then.

 

[GrannyAching]

Yes I was just thinking tonight that Tracey is getting written as better and better. Good thought about Nanny Ogg too

Yes she's a rough diamond with a heart of gold. She's probably got cold hands, too.