BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 07:08 AM

I don't think so Keith. She'd felt threatened by David's 'friendship' with Sophie. He was taking very little notice of her and she was already low on self-esteen, possibly still carrying over from her mastectomy. She's also reaching a 'certain age' where people start to realize that time is creeping on and they aren't as young as they were (sorry about the cliches there!) And there, telling her how wonderful she was, was this hunky cowman. I think it would be in character for almost any woman to succumb. She did so fairly reluctantly and with a lot of wringing of hands, which was totally in character, and even then backed out at the last minute

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 07:47 AM

I see what you mean Lynne.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:10 AM

After last night, I am wondering if they are setting it up for Brian to bugger off with Siobhan?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Schantieman
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

to that great big agribusiness in the sky perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:23 PM

The poor man's hag ridden, he's surrounded by women, odd ones at that all of them, and then there's Adam!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:26 PM

Thank you, Lynne. I'm glad some people see things from my perspective.

And Sam WAS hunky...had an arse that could crack walnuts...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 08:42 PM

Also=David was gambling a lot with that Mat Crawford character (I can;t stand him!), and not paying attention to his wife.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 03:17 AM

Sorry j0hn but that was Sula's husband Alastair the vet, who was doing the gambling with oily Matt.
Do try and keep up, there's a good chap ¦¬]
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 03:41 AM

David could gamble if he wanted to. After all isn´t he related to the Duke of Portland? But you are right it was stupid Alistair, Shula´s hubby, and I believe is still goes to Gambler´s Anonymous.

Ruth didn´t gamble but she nearly gambolled.

But it is all right now...................

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 05:28 AM

*sigh*

Oh, for a gambol at the Randolph!

Sorry - did I say that out loud?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 09:21 AM

When are you free? Or at least very reasonable...............

xx

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: sian, west wales
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:50 AM

OK - am I being dim or what? How does Rauri end up with this irritatingly precious English accent when he's been brought up in Germany by an Irish mother?????

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:56 AM

What?? His accent when I heard him last night sounded distinctly Irish to me.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: sian, west wales
Date: 04 May 07 - 10:01 AM

Did it? Sheesh. Must be my Canadian ears. Better check out the Belfast accent thread, I guess...

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 04 May 07 - 11:47 AM

And it's not just Rooery [Jennifer's pronunciation].
Did anyone else think that was a decidedly dodgy sounding cuckoo the other day?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 04 May 07 - 01:52 PM

Probably Nigel again.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 May 07 - 02:30 PM

Sian - the accent's meant to be Dublin, not Belfast! It's Ian the chef who comes from the north, and I don't think Ruairi is his child....

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 04 May 07 - 02:43 PM

It sounded vaguely like a Dublin accent..but of course, the child wasn't brought up exclusively there, was he?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:26 AM

No, he has mostly been brought up in Germany hasn't he, so his accent would reflect that. Any Irish presumably comes just from his mother which is not the same as learning it from other kids and people around you

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:24 AM

I thought his accent was well dodgy, too. It's interesting that Jennifer pronounces Ruairi's name quite closely to its Irish spelling...almost as though she's reading it from a script or something. Everyone else just calls him Rory.

Wonder if he's ginger?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 05 May 07 - 12:48 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM

Oh I DID enjoy that! I have sooo been wanting to tell Alice just exactly those things. I thought it would be Lillian or Kate who finally told her to grow up. Adam put it perfectly.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 06:00 AM

I agree, andf i wonder who left the rubbish in the field?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 09:37 AM

Who has been having building work done lately?

My heart stopped when I heard that bit from Ruth. All to easy to imagine the horror of going down the field to fetch the cows and finding four dead! I've found one before but four!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 10:27 AM

Well I'm afraid that in our neck of the woods if there is garden rubbish and builder's rubble fly tipped, it is usually travellers sadly. They really should get their act together.
In the Archers the only other person we know who is doing that sort of work apart from Eddie Grundy, is Robert Snell. Now there IS a thought!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 02:02 PM

oooh! It could be couldn't it? For once we can be sure it's not Eddie. No farmer would do that.

Where I am it tends to be 'ordinary peope' who do the fly tipping. The same ones who leave their old mattresses, settees etc on the side of the road. You know, the ones who think that the countryside is their own personal rubbish dump.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Mrs Dale
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 03:41 PM

"i'm just worrried about Edward Grundy "

I'm still worried about Jim.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 09:18 AM

I reckon Alice thinks it would be grown up to join the RAF, so that she gets a financial contribution to her uni course...

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 10:32 AM

Hurrah! Let Alice join up! Spoilt, self-centered little madam. I bet they don't have ponies in Iraq.

I remember my friends having a load of rubbish fly-tipped onto their farm, including a sofa, some old carpet and a number of black bags. Well, they opened up the black bags, and lo and behold, found a load of post addressed to a house in the neighbouring village. They loaded all the stuff into a trailer, drove it to the house, and dumped it on the drive.

As there was never any comeback from the offenders, I guess they got the message.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 10:40 AM

Ruth - WHY does that remind me of 'Alice's Restuarant' !???

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 11:10 AM

Keed, we found a envelope with your name on it, at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 11:44 AM

Have you noticed how often Alice has said "They didn't think about ME!"? I should think she's doing enough of that for everyone.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 11:55 AM

Yew clippings? Sounds like the churchyard to me, I think a visit to the vicar might be in order.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:22 PM

Or a stately home. I bet Lower Loxley is chocka with topiary yews. And they're building that stupid memorial to Uncle Rupert.

Families at war. Bring it on.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:33 PM

But the clue on the bag was "undy....post" (which reminds me of the late lamented Alan Bond.....)

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 01:01 PM

Can't see Nigel or Bert flytipping somehow.Isn't Matt Crawford in the building game though? Hurrah for Adam, I honestly didn't think I could stick much more of whiny Alice or worse still, how cowering and cringy Jennifer became when dealing with her.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 01:11 PM

Some children haven't been smacked enough. Alice and Kate clearly fit into this category.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 01:21 PM

Hope it wasn't Jason.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Anne Lister
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 05:01 PM

Me, I wish Tony would go and give Brian the good smacking he needs (and has needed for some time). I'm not normally a violent person but this whole storyline has irritated me beyond tolerance levels. And I don't blame Alice one bit for how she feels about both her stupid parents.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 05:09 PM

Alice is being selfish, and there's no need to wonder from whom she inherited that trait. Jennifer is just a stupid woman, why can't she call her daughter Alice instead of 'darling'?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 05:53 AM

Mat Crawford is an arseole.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 06:08 AM

At least he's macho j0hn, unlike the other men on the Archers who are wimps, with the possible exception of Eddie Grundy.
Whys does Jennifer put up with Brian, Pat with Tony, Sula with Alastair, Kathy with Kenton, Elizabeth with Nigel, Jolene with Sid, Clarrie with Eddie, Susan and Neil with each other.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 06:09 AM

hEllo jOhn, good to see you. Matt is an uber-creep....and I wonder what he really wants with Hayley?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 06:17 AM

Or even Brenda Tucker!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 06:56 AM

Thanks for dropping in, JOhn. Hope your house is not still underwater. And your analysis of the Archers is as penetrating as ever.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 07:34 AM

Never trust an Archer - except for Ruth.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 07:58 AM

Oh yes of course, Brenda.....I still get them mixed up.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 11:06 AM

Brenda's the gold-digging tart, Hayley's the one with the heart of gold. How long before she flashes her baps at Crawford and sets Lillian off on one again?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 12:22 PM

Baps Cap'n, is that a nautical expression?
Hayley isn't Hayley any more.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 12:42 PM

At least she sounds more like Hayley these days. At first she was like Hayley on valium.

I really don't know where Jennifer gets her moral indignation. Didn't she have an affair with Adam's dad when he came back?

I'm still praying Alice joins up and gets sent to Iraq. Hopefully she'll take bloody Spearmint with her.