BS: The Archers UK Soap

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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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,Ancient Briton
Date: 05 May 07 - 12:48 PM

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: 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: 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: 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: MBSLynne
Date: 04 May 07 - 01:52 PM

Probably Nigel again.....

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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 05:46 AM

Ruth was an unlikely candidate for a fling with the cowman.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 05:33 AM

And I think they all sound like Kenton.....

I don't think people act out of character often. In fact I've been impressed in the past by how3 they manage over 55 years to make people's characters consistent. Lots of people in the other world (ie Not Borsetshire) will suddenly do something unpredicted when something happens that knocks them out of their usual channel. Who were you thinking of in particualr Giok?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 05:25 AM

What worries me is that Nigel was getting his wine made by the nasty man who was causing Tom problems with his sausage van last year, and now the same chap seems to be advising Ruth and David about their new hedge. OK, I know he is appearing under different names, but I reckon they are just pseudonyms. I wouldn't trust him with my wine.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 04:22 AM

Thing is, that to pull off these stories Lynne, it is often necessary for people to act totally out of character, which is what annoys me.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 03:30 AM

I think that over the last five years or so the scriptwriters have come up with some brilliant stories. At times I've been hardly able to wait for the next installment. They must be pretty good or why are we a)listening to it and b) spending time discussing it.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: terrier
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 08:25 PM

I think maybee an ancient quarry has opened up and the scriptwriters are about to fall in! Yawn!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 10:40 AM

The script writers would have to get rid of an awful lot of other heirs for him to inherit Brookfield! It could be the theme for a good disaster folk song....mass deaths of David, Ruth, their three children, Shula, Kenton, Lizzie and their children, not to mention Tony, his kids, Jennifer and her kids and her kids' kids.....

Of course those older Archers fans will remember something similar in a Tony Hancock script called "The Bowmen" - when as they all came walking across a field towards him (Hancock) an ancient quarry opened up and they all fell in.............as my memory has it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 08:40 AM

Oops! Sorree, I got my farms muddled - I meant Home Farm, not Brookfield.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 08:08 AM

The script writers would have to get rid of an awful lot of other heirs for him to inherit Brookfield! It could be the theme for a good disaster folk song....mass deaths of David, Ruth, their three children, Shula, Kenton, Lizzie and their children, not to mention Tony, his kids, Jennifer and her kids and her kids' kids.....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 07:50 AM

Ian and Adam would be a very good solution though Lizzie and Nigel are the most likely adopters.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 07:38 AM

If Nigel and Elizabeth adopt him he could be up for inheriting Lower Loxley as well as Brookfield [just have to arrange for Lily and Freddy to drown in the lake].

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: terrier
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:11 PM

Struth, Ruth, great minds an' all that.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 07:17 PM

I reckon it's Lizzie and Nigel who'll end up with him.

This is, of course, a set-up for what may be the most slow-burning storyline in soap history: who gets the farm when Brian - well - buys the farm.

Answer in 2032?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: terrier
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 04:40 PM

Oh Lizzie, I feel so guilty about how I treated poor Siobhan, we'll just have to adopt poor little Ruary now !

Now, now, Nigel, we mustn't get involved......


'scuse me while I go and eat some grass......

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 09:46 AM

Waht deliberate mistake?

anyway-maybe Maddona will adopt him?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 09:24 AM

Perhaps Ruary could replace Ed's lost "son".?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 09:19 AM

Well not to me Giok...maybe to you...

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:40 AM

I just wish Jennifer and Brian would stop angsting all over the place. Personally I can't understand why Siobhan would push it further when Jennifer was so blunt with her, I wouldn't chance my child to her under these circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:29 AM

A pain in the arse Lynne?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:16 AM

Yes, I thought it would be spelled the Irish way but couldn't work out how that went.

No Jennifer has no responsibilty for him at all, but Brian does. That's what makes it so difficult. And responsibilty apart, this is a little boy with no mother. He needs family.

Actually I like Brian. With him you know exactly what you're getting. And I agree with Giok, Debbie is a pain. Not half so much of a pain as Adam though.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Michael
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 07:07 AM

Just been reading the synopsis; it's spelt 'Ruari'

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Anne Lister
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 06:36 AM

I think Lizzie and Nigel will adopt the little scrap. Personally (and surprisingly, as I generally think she's a pain) I'm with Jennifer on this one - can't see she has any responsibility at all for Brian's by-blows. Brian took her on knowing her history and the score, so his attitude to her kids is of course different.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 06:12 AM

Adam and Ian were the ones I thought of first funnily enough, but although Adam started feeling sorry for Brian in an episode the other night, do you think he hates Debbie enough to take on Rory just to upset her?
G ¦¬]