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Just wait until Elizabeth finds out that Russ knew about darling Freddie's drug dealing and use it to blackmail him into not reporting Russ's affair with Lily to the college authorities...
ReplyDeleteWell remembered, Gary. Yes, that will surely be the turning point in the dismal Russ saga, & Elizabeth will finally wake up. I wonder how it will come to light ??
ReplyDeleteLost last comment on closed blog - just to say agree totally with Lanjan's post (7.28pm last night) about Oliver, & E.'s clumsy & illl judged attempt to 'help'.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carolyn
ReplyDeleteIn case you didn’t see what I wrote and either would like to agree or disagree with what I said and don’t feel like trawling back ,this is what I wrote.
Lanjan.October 24, 2019 at 7:28 PM
Once again Elizabeth has to open her mouth.
Why repeat gossip that Freddie is passing on to her.?
I hope this doesn’t make Oliver behave differently towards Tracy but I feel it will.
Oliver is old enough to look after himself and if he enjoys Tracy’s company and she makes him laugh then what is the harm?
If it does go further then good luck to the pair of them.
Gary 12:36 pm.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point there .However I wouldn’t be surprised if the scriptwriters have forgotten about that.
Well done you for reminding them about it.
Gary 12.36 pm
ReplyDeleteVery good point. How much longer will E and L be duped by that man.
Russ Wusses will need to be looking busy, Busy the whole day through, Trying to impress Lizzie, of his usefulness so he can continue scrounging in Lower Loxley.
ReplyDeleteI think he has realised that Lily is now maturing . She definitely gave him the impression that he wasn’t going to restrict her movements.
Now to continue With his current lifestyle a move on Lizzie is the only option. He can never go back to teaching as he left under a cloud. No references.
I am loving the Oliver + Tracy friendship. They are two persons, whose only goal is to bring GG more business, in a suitable way, yet enjoying each others company, as they do this.
ReplyDeleteI would not like this friendship to end, due to some malicious gossip.
I agree Miriam.
ReplyDeleteBut he's just spoiled it, if he's so conventional why did he take Tracy out and agree to whatever it was, mystery acting or something at GG.
ReplyDeleteI hope that Peggy changes her mind and keeps one of the kittens.
ReplyDeleteOliver + Tracy.
ReplyDeleteIt now appears, that will now go their separate ways, except for working in the same establishment.
What a shame, as they could have done so much together for up-dating GG.
It's Oliver's loss.
What absolute rubbish tonight!
ReplyDeleteEizabeth didn't mind taking sexual advantage of her employee, (husband of one of her very good friends,) yet 'warned' Oliver of employer/employee relationships! So Oliver reverts to 'toff' and embarrasses and hurts Tracey's feelings.
Absolute rubbish that Hilda comes home to give birth. Peggy has had this cat for more than two years, enough time to produce at least six litters of kittens!
I really, really hope that Alf is not going to stay as the 'comedic' relief!
There really is no need to clear Joe's room as there is a spare room empty at Grange Farm. Clarrie should put her foot down and say no Alf stays on the sofa!
Is there are spare room at Grange Farm, now that Will and Poppy have moved back?
DeleteI can't work out just who is living there.
plus Will + Ed's dogs.
DeleteThere are 6 bedrooms at Grange Farm. It is described in my Archers' book as 'the largest farmhouse in Ambridge.'
DeleteThere would be a bedroom for Clarrie and Eddie, Joe (now empty,) Will, Ed and one for Poppy. That's 5 in total with a spare room available.
George and Keira have moved out with Emma.
I said earlier. 12.58 pm “I hope this doesn’t make Oliver behave differently towards Tracy but I fear it will”
ReplyDeleteFor once it looks as if I might have got that one right.
What a shame.
I agree with what you say ,Spicycushion about Hilda.
ReplyDeleteShe apparently never set foot outside the garden.
Is white cat the father who has come to be with her at the birth?
Yes - However when she was in heat the Toms from a radius of 2 miles would be hanging around spraying smelly urine everywhere!
DeleteMaybe Hilda had surrogate kittens for a couple of nice tomcats in Felpersham...😼
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣
DeleteMy understanding would be that if Hilda has not stepped foot out of the garden in the time that Peggy has had her, she would not have come into oestrous as she never encountered a male to trigger it. Was she not also an indoor cat when with the hairdresser Fabrice ? And therefore may not have been triggered during that time.
ReplyDeleteObviously it's a bit of nonsense thought up by the SWs or a tale they have hard and wanted to recreate. Plus an ingenious way to introduce and ingratiate Joy to the community.
We took in a very young kitten many years ago. My Dad found it abandoned under a hedge and it was about four/five weeks old. At the time we were living temporarily in a flat in Blackheath whilst househunting. Anyway we took her, carefully looked after her, litter trained (no trouble at all) and she lived indoors on the first floor above a shop.
DeleteAt about four months she started calling and writhing on the floor. Dreadful noise and carry on. I can honestly say she never came into contact with a male! After a week or so she stopped so we whipped her off to the vet!
I have had cats for over 70 years and can say that female cats reproduce at a prodigeous rate from the age of four months or so unless kept indoors and you make sure the Toms cannot get access to her!
Is Kate about 7 years old?
ReplyDeleteShe certainly sounded like it, going all gooey over the kittens and expecting Peggy to keep the whole lot! “Oh please please can we keep the little ginger one”. She has no sense of the practicalities of cat keeping and expects her 90 yr old grandma to house and feed 6 cats.
Stupid girl!
Is the pink envelope a red herring and the “inheritance” arrive via one of the old Lottery tickets?
ReplyDeleteLet’s hope Tracey realises that Oliver is right regarding their professional relationship and continues with her Grey Gables career and not give her notice in in a fit of pique,
I agree with all that Lady R.
DeleteAs soon as the words “lottery tickets” were said my ears pricked. Was very surprised when Eddie didn’t latch on to their significance with more vigour.
I was even more surprised when Alf didn't!
DeleteSo the best the current editor can come up with are a cat having kittens, a banal rumour about a boss and his employee, and the old chestnut of a mysterious letter found among the deceased belongings?
ReplyDelete🙄 Indeed maryellen!
DeleteThere are time limits on the various lottery tickets and we've heard real life stories of people who neglected to check them. Susan found one worth £4000.
ReplyDeleteI note that Kate was very keen to call Jakob, in an emergency, any excuse.
Oh yes I’d forgotten Susan’s “late” win.
DeleteMaybe it will be the pink envelope after all then as 2 late lottery ticket finds......
Either way I reckon the SW intend to upgrade the Grundys, although surely not by being able to buy 6 bed GF surely!
Definitely have Alf in for some weeks now I guess although he might run off with the newly found family fortune of course! No doubt more to come from Kate and Alice as well🙃
I still marvel at June Spencer 100yrs young and continuing to give such a good performance as Peggy!
Yes, Maryellen, time to get back to Lower Loxley and sort out Russ once and for all; hear how the irksome threesome are getting on with their bid for Peggy’s Prize; find out what scheme Natasha has up her sleeve for the take over of Bridge Farm and hear more about the new owners of Home Farmhouse. To say nothing of Rosie’s progress at nursery, Bert’s vegetable harvest, Usha’s latest court case and how the wedding venue at Brookfield is doing.
ReplyDeleteSo much being ignored at present, but I expect things will hot up in the run-up to Christmas!
Agree 100% Archerphile,I thought when Brian (?) recently went back to Home Farm to a barn where they are still storing items that we would hear something about the current owners but never a dickie bird so far! Also recently mentioned on the blog what about Brian & Jennifer why are they not still searching for a new home. I’m guessing GF would be too big at 6 bed...?
DeleteThen again would that be a downsize for them - how many bedsprooms did Home Farm have?
6 or less if Grange Farm was described as the biggest! I don't think all the offspring have lived there together. I think there must be 5 as Ruairi, Kate and Lilian all were living there at the same time with Jennifer and Brian. Phoebe may have had her own room there too?
DeleteUmm so GF too big for B & J then!
DeleteKate wanting Peggy to let Mother Hilda keep her kittens/babies! I did laugh at the projection of her failure to keep her own. Maybe it would have been better if Kate had had kittens then she could have abandoned them when the next Tomcat come along. Would that be Jakob?
ReplyDeleteExcuse me Stasia, your question Maybe it would.............
ReplyDeleteisn't that precisely what Kate did do, abandoning Phoebe to follow some hippy dream including, I seem to remember some hippy tom cat, then years later repeating her behaviour by abandoning her children in SA for yet another tom cat affair.
I too had expected to hear from or about, The Gills, the new Home Farm residents.
ReplyDeleteThere has been no mention of them, by anyone in the Shops, both Village + Bridge Farm, the Tea-room, the Bull, dining out at GG and so on.
I had great hopes that they would be a new Ambridge family, who would give the likes of Justin/Lilian, along with Brian/Jenny, a "run for their money".
Instead what have we got:-
Joy Horville + Vince, such "charicature" new participants.
I still enjoy it, none the less.
MrsP 2.57.
ReplyDeletePrecisely, that is the point I was, trying to make. Although not very well. If Kate had another child I’d call social services.
First she offered herself as surrogate, then she goes all goofy over zander, and she Now is meowing over Hilda’s kittens 🐱.
You would have thought Peggy would have had her neutered as all cat owners should given their pets’ propensity for roaming!
DeleteYes I agree..and then perhaps the cat as well
Delete😯😂😂
DeleteI am quite pleased tough, that Ian + Adam, as new parents, with baby Xander, has not been as prominent, as I expected.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how Ian's stand-in, is doing at GG, and has Lizzie replaced him at LL?
Minor story-lines, but could still be more more interesting, than hearing Alf + Joy.
Agree Miriam, your two suggestions might well be ' minor ' but could introduce new or possibly forgotten characters.
DeleteEven if said characters were silent, simple mention of them by those given voice could enlighten us as to who else is active in and around Ambridge.
Some of us might well say...... bring back the days of Martha and her redundant telephone box as the instigator of gossip aka local knowledge.
Also agree, not too much air time given to new parents Ian and Adam, for which many thanks.
DeleteThe occasional mention by grandmother Jennifer will be enough for me.
Archerphile wondered ironically if Kate was 7yrs. old ! Agree, she's stuck at the age that demands instant gratification. At 40 something, she comes across as totally shallow.
ReplyDeleteExactly what qualities of character does Kate have that are positive? I can think of so many negative ones but get stuck on trying to think of others. Hilda needs to be spayed asap.
ReplyDeleteShe is bright, imaginative, has kept her business going, and is not unkind.
DeleteNot quite sure whether your comment above applies to Kate or Hilda, Maryellen.
DeleteTo Kate - it’s my answer to Anneveggie’s opening question.
DeleteAh, I feared as much...
DeleteDo you mean those are not positive qualities? They are ones I’ve always rated highly.
DeleteMe, too, but don't see that Kate lays claim to any of them.
DeleteI think she does. I thought Anneveggie’s question was good because it shifted attention to Kate’s positive qualities instead of harping on about her negative ones.
DeleteKate does not live independently. She's had two failed relationships. She and Roy were young, but she left Phoebe behind, found a man who loved her, was unfaithful and abandoned two more children.
ReplyDeleteRoy was also unfaithful to the woman who loved him and would have abandoned his two children if he hadn’t been stopped.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn’t excuse Kate’s actions and she is still self centred having learnt nothing from past mistakes.
ReplyDeleteKate: bright and imaginative, has kept her business going at a cost of living with family in spite of being given land and generous financial assistance. It has nothing to do with Roy.
ReplyDeleteWell it does, he was left with Phoebe whom Kate tried to take out of the country and was stopped by a legal action and then again when Lucas stopped her.
DeleteI agree Basia. There was no need to bring Roy into the discussion about Kate and whether she has any positive qualities. The original comment was about Kate, and Roy was introduced to add another contentious statement!
DeleteI was simply pointing out that the things for which Kate is being criticised also apply to other Ambridge residents. What’s sauce for the goose etc. I think drawing paralllels like this is a perfectly legitimateactivity and accusing me of being contentious is contentious in itself.
DeleteHad Basia not introduced Roy’s name into hthe discussion, the parallel might not have occurred to me.
DeleteThe be at thing about Kate is that he actress who plays her is very good .
ReplyDeleteWhen she arrived at her Grandmother’s and saw that Alice was there it was obvious what she felt by the way she spoke.
True Lanjan, Kate is very annoying and often raises my blood pressure but then I think as you do good acting to get that reaction from me!
DeleteAlso well done to June Spencer still portraying Peggy at 100yrs - voice still strong!
Did Alf sound so like Joe before? I do hope he is not going to be a permanent fixture to replace Joe and is Vince Casey the new Matt?
I do wish some of the old characters could pop in now and then. Mike could visit Roy and have a pint in The Bull, and we really ought to hear Kathy as she is such a prominent employee at GG. As others have asked for instance how is Jamie getting on - info such as this could be dropped into conversation easily enough.
My favourite line of the week:
ReplyDeleteEddie to Alf-
“Clarrie really couldn’t let Joe get to the Pearly Gates with gravy stains on his lapels.”
😁
😁😁 yes archerphile..that tickled my funny bone too!
DeleteLady R,
ReplyDeleteI too thought that Alf sounded like Joe and that Vince behaved in the same way as Matt used to.
If Hayley left because the actress was moving on to better things like the actress playing
real Pip did, surely they could find an actress with a Brum accent to replace her.
I would love her to return but failing that why not re introduce Roy's younger daughter whose name escapes me because Hayley used to call her Sweethaert.
The Kathy situation is ridiculous.
If she isn’t going to be heard at all,why can’t they write her out.
She could have moved to be nearer Jamie (unless he is still skulking somewhere in the village)
Archerphile 11:25 am ,
Why didn’t Clarrie just sponge Joe
‘s suit with a bit of fairy liquid and warm water?
She obviously has money to burn.
Someone will surely remember Hayley & Roy’s little ones name Lanjan but I can’t so 🤞
ReplyDeleteWasn't it Annabel or Amanda orsomething very similar?
DeleteNow i remember ...it was Abigail....Abby for short
DeleteWell done Autumnleaves.
DeleteI knew it was a shortened name
Mind you, Hayley was into that sort of thing.
She often called Phoebe, Pheebs.
LanJan 1:05 pm: I think Clarrie would go without to make sure the funeral happens with dignity and I can imagine her getting Joe’s suit dry cleaned.
ReplyDeleteAlfred has a touch of an Irish accent. Last I thought he sounded a bit Welsh. Whatever the actor's accent Alf's awful mummerset voice is going to prompt me to switch off. I do hope he doesn't become a permanent ambridge resident. He is even more unsavoury than Joe, and that's a complement for Joe.
ReplyDeleteI am confused about this meeting of Joe with Carmen.
ReplyDeleteThe mysterious letter from this Carmen, was written in 2019 (sorry not sure of the month though) and no-one knows who she is.
This indicates, that this meet-up was secretative! No member of the Grundy's knew about Joe, either going out, or receiving a visitor. I just find this strange, as at his age, surely he would have needed some help from someone.
Joe is just having a final, meaningless prank, and the letter is a true Red Herring....
unless there is a hidden meaning.
Carmen (as per the opera) worked in a tobacco factory, so is there an old tobacco tin elsewhere containing something relevant??
Oh I think the SW are milking it for what it's worth.
DeleteOoh the mystery of Joe's will..just in time for Halloween 👻👻👻
NOT!!!
DeleteSo far - Joe, a pink envelope / old lottery tickets & original vinyl records!!! Which are really coming back in and the rarer they are the more they are worth. So which will the SW choose or are they all red herrings!
ReplyDeleteMiriam regarding Joe needing help to meet up with Carmen it appears that no one in Ambridge over the age of 80 yrs needs any assistance whatsoever at anytime which I think is stretching the truth a bit. Last week Peggy “rushed” into the garden etc. Many people do retain very good health these days but most by the age of 98yr do need a modicum of support even if just now and then. It has been pointed out before that apart from Jill’s cataract ops no one can recall hip of knee replacements (or did Christine have one post fall?) However I am thinking of normal wear and tear ops.
(Of course there was Jack’s dementia which was superbly covered at the time my mum was in exactly his position )
I don’t very often listen live but glad I didn’t wait with anticipation until later tonight. Imo a boring episode and please Alf do not stay for months or even worse years 😱
ReplyDeleteI thought we would hear something of the Hunt Ball in the first part but over and done with.....
esp. with Oliver.
DeleteLady R - you beat me to it. A dreadfully boring Sunday episode. Yes, we were denied the Hunt Ball, I like these episodes, with the background music and the clinking of glasses, too costly to record? Instead, Alf on a wild goose chase and Shula's life story.
ReplyDeleteI wasn’t listening properly when Alf found a letter from someone called Carmen with some old lottery tickets.
ReplyDeleteI presume that was what happened.
The whole thing is ridiculous.
When did Joe find the time to meet or communicate with this Carmen?
It is obviously something Alf has dreamed up so that he can stay longer at Grange Farm.
Since the Grundys were supposed to have left Grange Farm by now or in the very near future,why was the barn not cleared out ages ago?
Who put the 78s there in the first place?
Surely all Joe’s treasures would have been kept in his bedroom.
The storylines get more and more stupid.
Feel exactly as Eddie & Clarrie feel about black sheep, scrounging Alf - just GO AWAY !!.
ReplyDeleteHe's an almighty, parasitical bore, a drain on their emotional, financial & spatial resources.
Instead of nosing round Auntie Shula's autobiographical attempts, Freddie would be better employed trying to mend fences between Oliver & Tracy, as he was instrumental in breaking them in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI think the only practical way he could do that would be to confess, which might lose him his job and their goodwill
DeleteI also think that Alf sounds like Joe when he first starts speaking and it's a bit uncanny.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same - I guess it’s a deliberate decision by the editor and actor. I don’t know what it tells us.
DeleteGood thinking Carolyn.
ReplyDelete2nd attempt
ReplyDeleteI'm worried about Freddie's party at the Stables. I hope that Ellis doesn't reappear, pushing drugs, or that anything else bad happens.
Oh Zoetrope! I am sooooo hoping for BOTH of those things. At the very least!! 🍺💊🎇🔥
DeleteRe Alf and Joe hope they are not following in Fools and Horses route where they replaced Grandad with his brother! Seem to remember he came to the funeral and never left!
ReplyDeleteMy immediate thought when Freddie asked to have a few friends round was that all would not end well.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think he can be blamed for the gossip re Oliver and Tracy, as Alf also mentioned it in the Bull, having picked it up from another GG employee at the bar.
Ev: 6.48
ReplyDeleteI do do agree with you about Alf. I’m fed up with his voice and devious ways already. I sincerely hope he will disappear after the funeral, though some of the dialogue seems to be pointing in the direction of him hanging around and trying to freeload on Eddie and Clarrie permanently.
I, personally could do with a complete rest from the Grundy clan for a while. They have been taking up far too much of our daily 13 minutes recently.
Utterly, utterly boring.
ReplyDeleteMy comment of 3.47pm yesterday about Alf as a permanent fixture sees him now bent on overstaying his visit possibly “for years”.
Clarrie washing Alf’s pants, Will she be cutting his toenails next?
Is Shula so gullible that she trusts an ex drug dealer, who sharms her into letting his friends have the run of the house? All this I want to read your life story malarkey was simply a waste of air time.
I have a vague memory from some time back of an American woman coming to Ambridge to research her family history and Joe driving her around in his pony and trap. I wondered if she might have been called Carmen.
ReplyDeleteGood heavens, Janice (9.35), that rings a faintly tinkling bell with me ! I think you're on to something.
ReplyDeleteKPnuts (8.01), F. is not the only gossip spreader but he is one of them, & it would be refreshing if, for once, he owned up to a mistake, in this case, thoughtless words, instead of waiting to be found out. It would show he actually has learnt something from the drug dealing & subsequent imprisonment.
Well remembered ,Janice.
ReplyDeleteRe Freddie.
Why is he so interested in Auntie Shula’s (sometimes she is just Shula) life story.?
I wouldn’t trust that lad as far as I could throw him.
I think he is sneaky.
He has a wheedling whiny voice
He is checking up on the chef and reporting back to Ian..
He should not be divulging information about his boss and other members of GG.
He is not a pleasant young man at all
Shula would be mad to let him have a party or whatever at her place.
These parties always seem to have gate crashers .
(There was one in the Press the other day where tragically gate crashes killed to young man at a party)
Change your mind. Shula before you live to regret it.
👏👏👏👍👍👍
DeleteJoe offered to pay for his lady friend to return but she said it was her last visit. He was talking to Alan in the graveyard when he heard of her passing and she was definitely not called Carmen.
ReplyDeleteAs for Freddie's party, there was a lot of concern when he and Lily had theirs, was it at that time that Noluthando passed out? In any case, no one heard the ambulance and Elizabeth only found some empty beer cans. I may be confusing two different occasions.
Even if Joe and Carmen amassed a fortune she'd be the only one with a claim to it unless they also married in secret. I thought it might have been fitting to have the funeral on All Saints Day but we're in for another two weeks' worth.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Grundys gave up the turkeys last year but perhaps my memory is playing tricks.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Alf will be able to stay if Oliver sticks to his word and takes back Grange Farm because surely Will's house on The Green is only 3 bedroomed?
ReplyDeleteThere has been no mention of a spare room while Tom, Hannah and Johnny were living there and 4 bedroomed ex Council houses are few and far between.
Good Point about the Grundy's move. I do not think Oliver will extend their stay at Grange Farm, any longer. Also, I am sure neither Clarrie nor Eddie, will want him to stay around, longer than necessary.
DeleteYou heard it here first.
ReplyDeleteThe next Ambridge ISSUE will be Gambling.
Freddie is setting up a gambling den at the stables.
He has mentioned the game of black jack a number of times even though he claimed they didn’t play for ‘real money’. He couldn’t tell St Shula the real reason for wanting a party given she will probably be the next Bishop of Borchester. Isn’t gambling a sin in some religions?
I have heard of black jack, but have no idea how it is played.
Will Alistair turn up and somehow get involved??
DeleteAfter all, he was a gambler, ending up going to Gamblers Anonymous. Didn't this result in Shula re-mortgaging The Stables, to pay off his debts, or have I remembered wrongly.
I don't think another gambling S/L is warrented, just yet.
I hope that Freddie will be sensible, as he has too much lose.
I reckon you are spot on .Stasia.
ReplyDeleteWell done.
But we’ve done gambling already with alistair.
ReplyDeleteI would prefer the next issue to be about a disability, as to a wheelchair bound resident (but who?).
ReplyDeleteDisability access to the various premises, the pavements etc. probably meet all the necessary requirements, but it would be a different focus on this.
I was a wheelchair pusher, for my late father. I was surprised how difficult it was, esp. when a blue badge parking space was not available.
Does Ambridge have designated disabled parking spots?
I am thinking about, at the Tea Room, the Bridge Farm shop, GG, LL and the new Brookfield Wedding venue.
DeleteI just heard a very bad pantomime in two parts, in each a man apologizing to a woman.
ReplyDeletePity that Alice had to intervene for the second time.
When Kate says we are really having fun together that sounds like she's trying to convince herself.
As for Kate, I can only think that the SWs write such rubbish because that is how they behave.
ReplyDeleteHelen may have taught Toby a valuable lesson.
The one that tells you that because you have made a mistake, some people might just expect that you have made a mistake, and weren't deliberately messing them about.
Toby, generally messing people about throughout his life, wouldn't have known this previously.
✓✓✓ Interesting that Helen, of all people should be the one to give him that lesson. Most apt, actually, as she is no stranger to making mistakes...
DeleteAnd she admitted as much.
DeleteIt seems that Kate & Jakob have morphed into the Ambridge Comedy turn - The Odd Couple.
ReplyDeleteNo. Jim + Jazzer are the true Odd Couple.
DeleteMaybe Helen will go away and have a little think and come up with the necessary cash to invest in T❤️O❤️B❤️Y’s milk gin production. I admire them both for admitting they had made mistakes, that’s quite rare in my experience.
ReplyDeleteAgree Maryellen Agree.
DeleteThinking about it - Bridge Farm already has a tie in with Hollowtree to supply the pork for Tom’s sausages, so another tie in, involving Johnny’s cows/Helen’s cheese and the milk gin production, seems a logical progression ....
DeleteTonight's episode was just daft IMHO. Jakob and Kate kissing was yuck.
ReplyDeleteIt sounded a.pretty restrained kiss by TA standards. The record for slurpiest kissing is held by Harrison and Fallon.
DeleteOh dear - dire, and
ReplyDeletebreaking news Kate you are not a girl 😡
Dire indeed Lady R.
DeleteLast nights episode reached an all time low. I normally enjoy Kate’s dialogue, but not this time. Although how the actress manages to keep a straight face whilst having to spout rubbish is down to being skilled in the role.
Toby Fairborer has suddenly had a insight “I still an idiot” absolutely right.
At least there were no Grundys last night, for a change.
DeleteYes, but that's only a brief respite because they were on the Carmen trail.
DeleteKate: you've never met anyone like me, Jakob: that's definitely true.
ReplyDeleteJust listened this morning - have I tuned in to the wrong programme? I heard a teen drama🙄
ReplyDeleteSeasider ✔️✔️✔️
Delete😄😁
DeleteExactly,Seasider.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was like an extract from Bunty or some such teenage magazine.
If any of us had told someone yesterday that we listened to the programme and they switched on to hear it last night to see why we listened, we would have been so embarrassed.
We have heard some rubbish recently and that comes pretty close to being one of the worst episodes.
Kenton was rude and unprofessional referring to one of his regulars as a miserable old git - a great example to set our new young audience.
ReplyDeleteLanjan. More like HEAT magazine. I don’t recall any infantile romantics in the Bunty.
ReplyDeleteCertainly not with the four marys😁😁
DeleteNo hanky panky there
Freddie is just so horrible, first spreading rumours about Oliver and Tracy, spying for Ian, blabbing to Kenton, slimy little sneak.
ReplyDeleteYes He was back to 'Poor me'. I thought he had grown up and had shown some maturity recently. Horrible whiny little oik!
DeleteTotally agree with you Basia, I’ve been inclined to cut him a fair amount of slack over the years, but he doesn’t seem to be evolving much.
ReplyDeleteI wasn’t quite sure what to make of Alf’s ( a reluctant Eddy) escapades tonight.
Stasia,I have never read Bunty.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to sound as if I knew what I was talking about -ie that the scriptwriters were writing for a much younger audience.
Haven’t a clue what is was about.
After my time.
I read Girl, GirlsCrystal and School friend.
Kind of lost the will to listen during the Alf, Eddie & fairground drag queen Carmen or whatever he/she was) scenes. Not to I care to be enlightened.
ReplyDeleteAt least the Freddie carry on bore some relation to ( dismal) reality. Thank goodness Shula responded with suitable disgust. Shame on you, Kenton, for encouraging the feckless idiot. Now Freddie needs to see what unhappiness he's caused Tracy & Oliver, & attempt to remedy the situation.
He was getting somewhere with the GG job, but is he doomed to be one of those people who unfailingly screws up & never learns anything ?
I am getting a bit fed up with these fill in episodes. It is obvious why, as major S/Ls will begin again in a week or two
ReplyDeleteI am just disappointed that these are just not more light-hearted.
All we need is Lynda (with Monty + llamas) and Susan to reappear, along with more of Jazzer, Jim and Kiki.
PS Is Jim still planning to build the extension? This has not been mentioned again.
DeleteLike KP I've been prepared to give Freddie some slack, but am now wondering if Carolyn's question is the correct one...... a dismal failure unable to learn any of life's lessons..... forever ?
ReplyDeleteI still believe Freddie will show his true worth and has learnt his lesson. He is Nigel's son after all, and look how Nigel began (in a different era though).
DeleteI think that at Freddie's party, he will be the one, to put a stop to untoward events.
I am still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, at this moment in time.
I might have to eat my words though.
I think that Shula should stop his party. He needs to learn that bad behaviour has consequences (although his time in prison should already have done that).
Delete✔️👏✔️👏
DeleteI remember Bunty so well and I used to love it and look forward to it. Definitely for little girls though and not teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI remember it too. My mum didn't really approve of comics, but my little friend always lent me hers when she had finished it.
DeleteNot one of TA’s finest episodes tonight - or last night come to that.
ReplyDeleteThe scene in the nightclub was horrible, I didn’t enjoy being exposed to a raucous drag queen, nor to Kenton pumping Freddie, then Shula for information from her autobiography.
It feels as if we have descended into a sort of limbo, until Joe is buried. Nothing of much consequence happening and the SWs gone on holiday (or strike) until after the funeral.
Roll on episodes after 8th November!
Perhaps more Jackie magazine. Not many drag queens in Jackie though.
ReplyDeleteLess is more - maybe TA and tv soaps should return to basics ( in case of tv back to 2 episodes a week) then they would not need to fill in with either dross or sensationalism.
ReplyDeleteTv already given up on but had hoped TA able to keep to a standard in order to ensure reaching its 70th anniversary in 2021.
Entering the comic discussion a bit late, I must declare myself as an avid “Girl” aficionado!
ReplyDelete“Girl” was the sister comic to the boys “Eagle” and I loved the stories about Judy & Jinx, Belle of the Ballet and Lettice Leaf, also the stories of real-life héroïnes on the back page such as Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale etc. I still have half a dozen Girl Annuals from the 50s tucked away with my other childhood books
But there were most definitely no teenage romances, boyfriends, or drag queens! In fact I don’t remember much about boys being mentioned at all. (And most depictions of men had them wearing V-neck pullovers and smoking pipes!)
I've just listened to the last 3 episodes and agree with all the comments above.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when all the teenage angst (and I include Kate since she thinks she's the eternal teenager) was banished to Ambridge Extra. Not any more much to our loss.
They say that fact is stranger than fiction but after listening to this weeks episodes of The Archers so far I would say that fiction is far more ridiculous than fact.
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of tripe.
ReplyDeleteExcept for Lynda and Tracy the rest was cringe worthy.
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I agree,Stasia.
ReplyDeleteTracy is fast becoming my favourite character..
At the moment,Freddie is my least favourite..
Lanjan.
ReplyDeleteI am also loving Tracy, but I hope that the S/Ws don't overdo her prescence.
I would like to hear more from Hannah, with Neil, at Berrow..
What happened after her fall from the ladder when she complained to Justin, where is she now living, and does she meet up with the other Ambridge residents of her own age?
She could become more prominent, like Tracy, and deservedly so, with her working with Neil. I think that there is a SL there, yet to be explored.
If Hannah was to become a more regular character I for one would listen less. She is everything I detest in a person. So, so angry and bitter all the time. Sorry Miriam!
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DeleteAll here, very often have differing thoughts.
Thanks to you, these can be expressed calmy and civilly.
You are doing brilliantly as the administrator.
I for one, so appreciate it. 😉👏👏
Got it in one Miriam 🤗 🌟
DeleteI was very disappointed in Freddie last night. Especially his explanation (?) to Shula about looking at her book (don’t know why I did it!) and attempted apology. He sounded just as whiney and pathetic as when he was caught drug dealing.
ReplyDeleteI thought he had grown up a bit since his incarceration but it seems not, sadly.
Again it was painful listening tonight. The school boy Jakob, what shall I wear, just like Russ, what shall I bring. Then the two overgrown lads visiting their late father's unknown lady friend, pitiful.
ReplyDeleteAgree Basia. Yet another pitiful episode. More ridiculous situation comedy from the Grundy brothers.
ReplyDeleteI must look up who the SW is this week and avoid future episodes by the same writer.
Never have the blogs been so quiet understandably so here as tonight’s episode just dreadful....
ReplyDeleteThe dinner Friday of course the big finish to the week - not!
Paul Broderick Archerphile checked under this Fridays episode on the sounds app. No relief for the next two nights according to the strap lines 😱
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of tripe!!!
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ReplyDeleteAgreed, I feel like switching off it is so bad.
I agree. The comments on here are getting fewer and fewer, and it’s not surprising because TA has descended into rubbish.
DeleteThat is me for this day.
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My nightmare for Halloween:
ReplyDeleteAlf Grundy and Carmen become permanent characters in TA 👻
(I would add Joy too, but I know some people like her)
I missed her being present in Ambridge before. Was it on Ambridge extra? I never listened to that as I didn't have a DAB radio.
ReplyDeleteApparently she was a pleasant and interesting character.
Why bring back a character but make them completely different?