BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 10:22 AM

Sounds good to me, how many people would be interested and at Sidders?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 06:25 AM

Terri, for many years "The Archers' Workshop" took place on Sunday morning on the campsite. It used to be a great way to start Sunday. There were, in the early days, probably 20 people at them and they had different names. One year it was called "The Grundys and their opressors". It used to take place on camp Derby at the bottom of the field though later migrated up to Steward's village when camp Derby became sparser. One year there was a shelter between the tents called "The Grace Archer memorial Hall". It bore a sign "No admission after Midnight". We even used to have an Archers' quiz. Should we resurect (How the bloody hell do you spell that??) it?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 06:20 AM

OK - Where are we meeting on Sunday at ten am to listen to the omnibus ??

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Morticia
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 03:54 AM

Don't hold back there, John, tell us what you think. We should have an Archer's meeting club at Sidmouth for those of us who will be huddled over our radios on Sunday morning. Personally I can't imagine the RAf wanting whiny, spoilt brat Alice but you never know

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 12:48 PM

I expect Brian wants a Nanny for Ruaridh in order to get another bit on the side.
Alice won't join the RAF, she just wants to upset her Father, and one way of doing that is to reject his monetary input.
Will Debbie even speak to Brian when she arrives? If he's lucky, she won't, stupid bitch.
No wonder she can't keep a man.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 12:27 PM

Due to the puerile storylines we are getting these days, I imagine they have hilariously tipped ten tons of shite into the wrong person's garden. This one will keep us laughiong till poor Alice is killed on her first training flight/bombing mission over Basra(whichever the script-writer feels is more likely when advised by her mentor on the GCSE Creative Writing Course).

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 07:46 AM

Kenton's due to suffer anyway. How often lately has someone said "Aren't you supposed to be helping Kathy?" to get the reply "She's coping ok"? His chickens will come home to roost!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Michael
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 06:28 AM

They'll suffer for it, anything Kenton is involved in goes wrong. And remember David and the badger!!

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 06:17 AM

I think it was him and I also thought it was something to do with muck spreading. It will be interesting to see

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 03:11 PM

Ah but was it actually him wot did it?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 03:02 PM

The Builder who dumped the rubble and yew clippings !!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 02:52 PM

Yes that's what I think, I reckon a load of slurry delivered somewhere.
G

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 02:49 PM

Something involving muck-spreading?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 02:18 PM

waht was David up to?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 02:56 PM

One of my best friends claims Lillian for her role model.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 01:36 PM

Ah now Lillian! I think she's probably my favourite character. As straightforward as it's possible to be, loves a bit of fun and doesn't seem to suffer from all the angst and hand-wringing that everyone else does.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 11:34 AM

I have this image in my head of tanned, blond Adam in his cricket whites...

*sigh*

He moans a bit sometimes, but he's one of the few I'd have dinner with. Him, Ian, Lillian, and Joe Grundy. There's a dinner party for you.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 09:49 AM

Ian's lovely but Adam is a whining, complaining, humourless Aldridge. I still fancy Jazzer

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 07:43 AM

Adam's lovely. I'd have him.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 05:44 PM

One of them is Simon Frith, currently chief judge in the Mercury Music awards.
It's true, though - the blokes are either drips or cads. The women seem to be more, er, rounded.
Sorry, I'll get my coat...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 04:55 PM

I thought he had a more strategic role in deciding which important farming issues would be incorporated into the storylines...

Anyway, I'm pretty sure there are a fair few men on the scriptwriting team.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 04:38 PM

Graham Harvey only checks the veracity of the farming bits, he doesn't write the scripts.
G

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 04:30 PM

What, because the editor is a woman?

Last tome I checked, Agrcultural Story Editor Graham Harvey was a bloke.

Anyway, where's the logic in saying women write wimps? I think it was a woman who dreamed up Mr Darcy. And another who gave us Heathcliff.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Kampervan
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 04:10 PM

Of coure all the men are wimps, the programme is controlled by women!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 03:00 PM

But Lynne, she's not exactly the most conventional woman to be holding up the values of the county set: four kids, three different fathers...and her first child born out of wedlock, to the cowman (ooooh nooooo!)...her mortification over what the village would think about Ruaridh coming to live with them seemed a touch misplaced.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 04:41 AM

Will Adam make it to Norfolk and back without having an accident?
G

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 03:18 AM

Yes Ruth, that was my thought too, though it was just the one fling, where Brian has been consistently unfaithful most of their married life. Besides, it's different when the shoe is on the other foot isn't it?

What I want to know is what country Borsetshire is in to be having perfect weather for the harvest??

Love Lynne

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.

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: 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: 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: Folkiedave
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 07:34 AM

Never trust an Archer - except for Ruth.

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: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 06:17 AM

Or even Brenda Tucker!

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 - 06:08 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: 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: 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: 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: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 01:21 PM

Hope it wasn't Jason.

Kitty

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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