BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:37 AM

A letter in today's Guardian has reminded me of something I'd quite forgotten - and I think it's the reason I've never been too keen on The Archers:

"You extol the Archers (In praise of, November 8). I haven't forgiven them for the "death" of Dick Barton, Special Agent."

What the writer meant is the slot on the radio which they gave to The Archers was the one which had previously been reserved for the exploits of Dick Barton. It was like taking away Doctor Who and replacing it with Come Dancing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:50 AM

A few weeks ago we had both Kevin!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:03 AM

Dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dar:

Dar dar dee dar dar dar dee, dar dar dee dar dee dum....

The Archers has a much better tune......

I used to listen to Dick Barton. And I thought we used to mek us own fun in them days.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:32 AM

No it hasn't - just listen to The Devil's Galop.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:53 AM

Good grief Topsie! That question really asks for a naughty answer!

I don't think they have a bull at Brookfield...certainly not a friesian anyway. There may be a hereford. If you use your own bull, after a couple of years you are putting him on his own daughters which is not good breeding policy at all. With AI you can choose the right bull for a particular cow, vary the breeds etc. Of course this is all a load of old bull......

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:30 AM

I thought that Sam's farewell address to the Herd was really touching, until that tart Ruth came into the cowshed and broke the magical bond between mand and beasts. God, she's hard.

She should have got Alister to put Sam to sleep (God knows Alister has that effect on me). Instead, poor Sam will now have to rove the airwaves alone, turning up occasionally to beg at the doors of miserable hovels like Start the Week and You and Yours. I don't know where he'll find work - I can't think of any other herd on the air. You can't call walk-on parts in Thomas Hardy serialisations a life can you?

As I write here it's just been on R4 that a listener found Ruth and Sam's failed tryst to be an "anticlimax".

Suggestions for next shocking plotline?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:41 AM

I know my granfer (dairy farmer for about 50years) had an arrangement with 3 farms in the area... they'd all swap their bulls around every other year or so, to strengthen the herds. After several rotations, the bull would end up in the butchers across the road and we'd invariably end up having a large piece of him for Christmas dinner.

That's what REAL farming folk do... don't recall any of these shenannigans going on in the milking parlour.... too much bloody work to do!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 06:18 AM

Them suction cups on the milking cluster are surely meant for more than one person at a time, there are 4 on each after all!
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:10 AM

I might be mistaken but have I not heard Sam the Milk in his new occupation doing the voice over on a Kwikfit ad?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:04 AM

So that's what he wanted to do to Ruth! She had a lucky escape then if you ask me.
Wye aye wor lass, fancy a Kwikfit?
That's just the sort of uncouth chat up line you'd expect from someone of an agricultural bovine background.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:50 AM

OI!!!!!!! See you Giok!! There are some sof..sopisc....sophisticated, cultured people of bovine agricultural background I'll have you know.

Yeah, you're right Liz, but walking the bulls round the farms as they used to do would these days mean he'd be too knackered to serve the cows since dairy farms are now few and far between.

Shenanigans in the cowshed......ah, those were the days! I was a young, free,single inseminator going round a large number of farms where young farmers' sons and cowmen were stuck without female company most of the time......my ideal job, it were....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:45 PM

Hi Guys, anyone seen Sam? I lent him £300 last week and he promised to pay me back yesterday. Said it was an emergency, needed to pick up some medical equipment in Oxford for his mum or summat. Anyway I didn't mind, as I know Sam's a reliable sort of feller. Only he did say he would let me have the money by Saturday at the latest. If it had been the Grundy's I'd have said they were avoiding me, but not Sam. I've knocked on his door but he's not answering, or is out. Hope his mom's OK. Anyway don't say anything if you see him, don't want to embarrass him. Just tip us the wink will yer. Ta very much.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 06 - 05:06 PM

Aha you've seen the last of your cash now mate, that ruthless bugger's gone, moved away, done a bunk whatever.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Michael
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:00 AM

'Ruthless bugger', Well done Giok

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:41 AM

Glok: i thought you were Scottish. how come you're discussing the Archers? You'll be discussing Test matches next.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:42 AM

You're not Jazzer's father are you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,...
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:43 AM

I believe they do get Radio 4 in Scotland, though there was a time when Radio 1 was not available in the north-west - the Radio 1 Roadshow went to Fort William and wondered why no one knew anything about it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM

Lol!! Ruthless!!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:33 AM

Sorry Greg, but yes I do like cricket, and we have country folk up here, any way Borsetshire is twinned with Tighnabruaich.

BTW, what is Radio 1?

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM

It is a wireless program about young people who inhabit an imaginary world of popular musical celebrity, and of course, there are trendy groups of 'believers' who maintain the cast list are 'real people'. I ask you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 12:17 PM

Sorry I forgot to add Achiltibuie, and Ecclefechan, as the others towns twinned with Ambridge.
G

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:51 PM

What's this wireless programme you're talking about. I can't get it in Ambridge. Is it only available on DAB?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:11 PM

So it's true, he's gone. I thought you were just jesting Giok but Kirsty confirmed it this morning. And he's taken my 300 quid with him. Sam, of all people, I ask you, Sam? Look 300 quid doesn't come easy to the likes of me as well you know, and, and I know you lot wouldn't want to see me go ungry at Christmas would you? So perhaps you could help us out on this one? See us alright, you know. Ta in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:20 PM

Well I can contribute a large quantity of apples from another thread......

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:28 PM

Crab?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:35 PM

You couldn't sell them and let me have the cash could you 'Lynne'? And perhaps turn a few in to a nice drop of cider?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 07:23 PM

There was a man who fed his wife to the pigs in the news last week, you don't think this could give David ideas could it........could it.....?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 08:29 PM

No, don't be silly.

Brookfield has cattle, not pigs...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 03:09 AM

Isn't Phil's pet, Freda the sow still there in the orchard? Anyway, there are enough pigs in the vicinity...

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 12:16 PM

It could give a whole new taste to Tom's Prime Borsetshire Sausages.

Course there are pigs locally........

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: terrier
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 12:58 PM

+++ Well I can contribute a large quantity of apples from another thread...... ***   MBSL


You mean that those awful Grundy people havn't scrumped that other thread yet for their cider buisness ?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: danensis
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 08:30 AM

First time I'd think of Ruth as sizzling

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 08:34 AM

Wholesomeseems more apt, somehow. I'm not sure a wholesome sasuage is a good idea though....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:17 PM

You'll never guess who's asked me for a character reference. Cheeky so and so.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:55 AM

ok so I got it wrong about Ruth's fall.

But remember what I earlier pointed out about David's forthcoming night out with Sophie on Nov 25 (as I recall). Question is, have the scriptwriters remembered?

Go for it Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 04:49 AM

I am hoping David tells Ruth that he and Sophie are having an affair just so we can hear her say "OoooooooooooH Daaaaaaaaaayvid"......

And I do like the way the sound effect people do heavy breathing, "Moooooh, Arrrghhhhh, Moooo Arrrghhhhh".

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 04:55 AM

I don't think Ruth has told David about the phone call from Sophie so he doesn't know about the invitation - so she will ring him afterwards and ask why he missed it . . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Schantieman
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:01 PM

And then the undigested remnants will really come into contact with the air-moving device!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:01 AM

Hey IW...how about Saturday night for the folk club, as long as there's nothing on in the room upstairs? Sounds like an ideal place for it to me. Is there still a piano in the Bull? I know the one in the Cat and Fiddle was never any good again after Eddie threw up in it

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 04:45 AM

I'd be prepared to come along if you'll promise that Ed Grundy doesn't do his guitar thrashing thing. And can we agree that if Eddy comes the only American stuff we do is pre-war(II). And keep Jolene behind the bar or she'll take over. As a plus, I hear that Fallon's got quite a repetoire of Borsetshire songs, and Jazzer is a whiz on the bodhran when he can find the time and energy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:11 AM

I bet Lillian knows a song or two if we can keep her G&T-filled. Since William has taken over a lot of Tom Forrest's inheritance, do you think he's also learnt "The Village Pump"?

How about next Saturday if we can persuade Jolene?

Love Lynne the Ambridge AI

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:36 AM

You're right about Will picking up Tom's bad habits of being a boring and smug knowall so I suppose it's only a matter of time before he goes to air singing Tom's song.

Next Saturday's cool. Lets go for it (by the way its also the night of Sophie's do. She might drop in the Bull looking fo Dave so we could set her right about Ruth etc)

As I recall Tony used to have a hankering for folk music - wasn't he groupie to a singer called Allan in the 60's?

See you Sat. Get em in if you're there first - mine's a Guiness.

AB

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:26 PM

Mine's a pint of Shires. Best beer in Borsetshire.

We need to get in touch with the morris dancers - they would help swell the crowd.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 01:38 PM

I was wondering whether to bring a North West side along but I guess Jolene wouldn't like clog iron scars on the dance floor. It'll have to be the local side I suppose - I think they dance in pumps in Borsetshire.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:13 PM

Yeah..village pumps.

I think the Ambridge side disbanded years ago.

Don't suppose Jolene will allow some of Eddie's cider in? No I thought not. Actually, what kind of cider DO they serve in the Bull?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:29 PM

Want to know how to make Sid and Jolene go into hysterics? Ask them if you can hold a folk club in The Bull on Saturday night. Bloomin' embarrassing it was. "Saturday night? Saturday night?" they said, and then it was the hysterics. Said they hadn't had such a good laugh in ages and pulled me a pint of Shires for my sense of humour. When they realised I was serious they said they could do Tuesday no problem, or at a push, Thursday. (Sid said if he'd known I was serious at the start he'd have charged me for the pint). Can you manage any of these dates MBSLynne? If so perhaps we could get a list of Mudcat performers prepared to do a gig on the cheap (very cheap) to get us started. I think Ann Lister's posted on this thread, so perhaps we could sweet talk her into doing the gig for free? When we gets a few names we could put a flyer together. What do you think?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:46 PM

Sounds like a good idea to me.

The perfect bill for me would include someone with a sense of humour (Vin Garbutt, Les Barker), and up and coming group (Devil's Interval, Kerfufffle) A top celtic band, (Croab Ruah, Lunasa) and a solo artist who could do the Village pump and similar songs.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:51 PM

Weren't there some morris men in Loxley Barret a few years back?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 03:10 AM

Yeah, sounds good to me. Thursdays are not bad, except they clash with our Quarter session.
Still, that's only once every three months.

We need some singers/session nights as well as guests though.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 05:59 AM

I can't resist the urge to post
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Ruth I know who you are, so behave!

Giok