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ReplyDeleteAnneveggie - June 4, 2020 at 10:54 PM
Thank goodness they're getting rid of that hideous coffee table!!
stasia - June 5, 2020 at 9:18 AM
What a waste of half an episode listening to Emma prattle on about a bl....dy coffee table.
Ambridge is a bit like where I live, coronavirus happens on another planet. Social distancing, washing of hands, wearing masks, isolation, panic buying, no cornflour.
Maybe Susan can babble on with inconsequential nonsense because the shop is empty of stock.
MrsP see you emailed and got a mention.
stasia - June 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
I know the coffee table is central to their breakup and reunion. Enough is enough
Yes I had to smile at the Mrs P reference stasia 👍
DeleteGary, very topical again, were you hanging around Ambridge yesterday?
ReplyDeleteI'm always for more dancing space!
DeleteOur council tips are open again. Send it to me and I will 'recycle' it where Emma will never find it again. Well done Ed.
ReplyDeleteOn this blog people rabbit on about all sorts of inconsequential matters, which are read and commented on with interest, sometimes at great length. Why shouldn't Emma prattle about her coffee table?
ReplyDeleteVery true Sarnia! Very true indeed....
DeleteThank you Gary for the picture. It's even worse when you actually see it!!!
ReplyDeleteAnyone read the comments in the Telegraph's 'How Covid ruined the Archers'? I do hope none of the cast read them.
Brilliant picture, Gary ! It IS ghastly.
ReplyDeleteYes, Stasia, a wealth of symbolism in that bit of furniture !! Emma getting her priorities sorted out...Ed asserting himself....
Quite enjoyed last night. Would avoid going anywhere near Susan's shop.in real life, if I had the misfortune to live in a village where everyone noses around everyone else's business, but she's so entertaining to listen to !
Sure, she's an inveterate gossip, but I don't think she is intentionally malicious. Tactless, insensitive, yes, but her heart is in the right place when people are in obvious trouble. Her snobbery is kind of understandable unlike Jennifer's which is unequivably obnoxious.
Aren’t we being a bit ‘Jennifer’ about. Emma’s coffee table? All that matters is it did it’s job and brought her pleasure.
ReplyDeleteThat’s its not it’s.
DeleteI put a picture of a tacky looking coffee table at the top because I find tacky looking coffee tables amusing maryellen. Someone who would buy such a foul looking thing would, I imagine, have terrible, terrible taste in home furnishings. I couldn't give a damn if they were wealthy or poor.
DeleteIf that makes me a bit 'Jennifer' then so be it!
maryellen, I would have put a winking face emoji & a laughing emoji at the end of the above, but I can't do that on my PC!
DeleteI think Jennifer’s condemnation would be less extreme, so yes, only a bit!🙂
DeleteApart from the fact that Jennifer likes a streamlined kitchen with expensive mod cons, her taste in furnishing could well be naff or plain boring ( beige, beige, with insipid landscape prints to match on the walls...) If she didn't know Emma had bought that table, she might have fancied it herself...that's the horror of her style if snobbery - if mother's ex cleaner likes an item of furniture, it's no go !
Delete' of snobbery'
DeleteOoh Gary! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteIs this upcycling a bit like the Emperor's new clothes?
ReplyDeleteFind a bit of junk, paint it and then say it has been upcycled..
I saw a programme on TV where a young woman went along to the Council tip, picked up some rubbish,, tinkered with it to make it look even more ghastly and then managed to get "a fortune" for it which she then gave to the original owner.
I think the piece in question was an old cupboard which by the time she had altered it you couldn't put into a garden shed.l
Yes, I’ve seen bits of that programme and can’t believe people pay vast amounts for the junk they produce which most of us wouldn’t give house room to! Some of it looks better fresh out of the tip!!
ReplyDeleteGG Thank-you for yet, another topical photo, relating to TA.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Emma's new thoughts about her table.
She "turned the tables" - pun intended.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
DeleteSarnia. We have had months of Emma’s ghastly green dolphin 🐬 coffee table.
ReplyDeleteI agree we do engage in a lot of prattling on this and the other blog but it is usually informative, 😄 funny and full of wit.
I can understand why Ed wanted it gone, not only is it dangerous and downright ugly, it is GREEN.
Isn’t Ireland famously GREEN - the Emerald Isle??
Deletemaryellen. Indeed. But unlike green coffee tables the colour Green has political significance in the Emerald Isle. Wearing green dates back to the 1798 rebellion when rebels wore Glenn clothing and the shamrock ☘️ as an act of defiance.
DeleteWhere I grew up Orange 🍊 is a popular colour to wear Especially on the 12th of July. Usually in the shape of a Sash.
I have never seen an Orange coffee table even with shamrock legs.
BTW, I do not possess anything green. 🤢
How ignorant am I! I always thought it was a reference to the lushness of the vegetation!
DeleteSo did I. Green used to be my favourite colour, I like purple now.
DeleteMy surname sort of means green.
Emma the actress is called Emerald O'Hanrahan.
Gary - I had imagined 'the table' but it really is more hideous in real life! To me it looks like something you would see in one of those very large Drawing Rooms as in Buckingham Palace or some Continental castle!
ReplyDeleteWhen Emma described it I thought the scriptwriters were having us on! I never dreamt that someone somewhere would produce something like that! 😁
...but Fallon did. Emma saw it + bought it from her The rest is now history.
DeleteI might be so very wrong, but that is what I remember.
DeleteBit overpowering in a small 3-bed house, but I'll certainly have one when I get my chateau!
DeleteYou very nearly got it right Gary - correct legs but where is the green Marble. Good try!
ReplyDeleteThis all reminds me of a coffee table my late brother made for our parents, back in the 60s, because that was made of marble too.
He had been on a touring holiday to Italy & came home with lots of pieces of different coloured marble, picked up near quarries.
He constructed a deep table top which was filled with concrete (I jest not) into which he set the bits of marble, rather like crazy paving. It was finished off with a set of those very thin, black, tapering legs that were popular in the 50s.
The whole thing looked horrendous, weighed a ton so you couldn’t shift it, and took pride of place in our parents lounge for years. Oh, and the legs snapped under the weight more than once!
So I very much sympathise with Ed.
Gary - if you are on Facebook, take a look st the Archers Addicts page. A member has posted a picture of a genuine huge green marble table, with gold dolphin legs, a very fancy gold edging and a lower level also in green marble - oval in shape.
ReplyDeleteIt is Emma’s table exactly, and horrendous! It would be great if you could ‘steal’ the photo to share on here!
Sorry that should have been Ambridge Addicts. You have to be a member of the group though so perhaps I could get the photo, if you told me how to get it to you.
DeleteI wonder how Jill's bees are doing at Brookfield?
ReplyDeleteWith no verge cuttings etc. being done, I would think that they have so many more wild flowers + plants, to visit.
Who was it who was helping her - Ben or Josh? I hope, whoever it is, will continue to do so.
Naturial re-wilding is taking place already. Pheoebe + Co need to do nothing, as nature is taking over quickly, such as the cows + goats wandering through quiet towns.
This will change, as shops start to re-open - another time as this is not the place.
I have noticed so much more clover, now growing and in flower - which bees love. I hope The Brookfield Bees are enjoying them, but then there was probably a lot around, with Adam's herbal lays. Is this still going on?
DeleteFor those who haven’t checked TA website there are three videos from Ben, Tracy and Susan about how they are recording at home for instance using duvets to concentrate the sound. Susie Riddell doesn’t sound a bit like Tracy. She seems a lovely person as does Charlotte Martin and Ben Norris is a nice boy too! There are traces of Susan as Charlotte speaks but both her and Susie are much more well spoken than their characters!!
ReplyDeleteWell, I couldn’t work out how to post the marble table picture to Gary, so I have temporarily used it as my profile photo!
ReplyDeleteYou can’t see much here, but if you go to my profile you can increase the size to see just how horrendous this table is. It’s the sort of table you would have seen in posh hotels back in the 50s/60s (and can still see today in ‘posh’ furniture shops in Dubai, catering to the sheiks for their marble palace homes!
Preferable to the horrors of stripped pine!!
DeleteOh dear, can see what you mean ! Talk about overkill 😎
DeleteNormally I would prefer a nicely carved wooden table, but I actually like that, think I prefer the marble to plain glass anyway.
ReplyDeleteEveryone to their own taste Janice. I bet, like my brothers table, it is incredibly heavy and difficult to move. And think of the marks in your nice carpet pile! 😂
DeleteBit overpowering in a 3-bed house, but I'll certainly have one when I get my chateau!
DeleteI read an interesting article yesterday about “What COVID19 has done to The Archers”
ReplyDeleteI didn’t agree with much of it but I did smile when the writer said she was unhappy about David being given the first monologue to do, because...
‘David has all the charisma of a beige polyester cardigan’
Rather a good turn of phrase I thought.
🤣 but he has been able to cobble a studio under the stairs, another character is in her daughters wardrobe 🙄
DeleteI remember a colleague describing her husband of 30 odd years as being like an old slipper..comfortable and well broken in.
DeleteI like David.
DeleteI like David too.
DeleteNext weeks cast list is:-
ReplyDeleteHelen
Tom
Natasha
Tony
Johnny
Natasha!! Is she still alive ?
DeleteSeems so 😁 guessing the Tony & Johnny combination is to be about hair - too much re lockdown v too little!
Delete💇🏻♂️ 💇🏼♀️ 😂
DeletePlease could spoilers be headed SPOILER ALERT so readers who don’t want then can try to avoid them. Thank you.
DeleteYes it is a good phrase Archerphile, but beige polyester cardigans can be very comfortable and comforting when slobbing about at home.
ReplyDeleteI imagine a clean pair of jeans and a fresh tee shirt are the height of 'scrubbing up' as far as David Archer is concerned.
Not like his dad who was definitely a collar and tie man.
Like Basia (12.06) I like David too. (apart from the favouritism he applies to his offspring).
DeleteI just liked the phrase.
Perhaps it would have been more appropriate applied to ....Bert, perhaps?
(And I hate polyester because it always makes me sweat and come out in a rash!)
It could be worse .Archerphile11:25am
ReplyDeleteBeige is a totally underrated colour
So useful for accessories.
I love cardigans ,long and made of merino wool and or cashmere
and the cardigan could have been acrylic ,a material which has nothing going for it.
Mrs P, surely you don't advocate slobbing .around.!
Yes, I’m a cardie person too and have them stationed all around the house for when I feel a bit parky. But I’ve never been able to wear beige as it makes me look dead! Though I use lots of it around the house in furnishings and so-on.
DeleteI suppose it depends on your colouring. If you are light skinned and have fair hair it can make you look washed out.
DeleteI don't think I have a single streak of beige in my house.
That’s me exactly Autumnleaves, Ash blond hair (now 50% grey) and fair skin does not go with beige!
DeleteAnd the beige in my house is more of a warm, but pale, terracotta colour which makes the cottage seem cosy rather than cold. Did have beige carpet once but it showed the dirt terribly! Now have deep terracotta which is more forgiving.
I read the article Archerphile has mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I laughed, at the comment of David, being compared to a beige cardigan.
I found the rest of the article, relating to The Archers, quite scathing, which I personally thought, was a bit OTT.
I am happy enough with the new format, and can totally accept it. I am, actually, enjoying it.
It is always the same - change does not suit every-one.
Times are now not as they once were.
I am waiting for some TA revelations though, to surprise us all.
The 1st was that Tracy is now the cricket captain.
DeleteWhat else and any ideas?
I posted yesterday about that article and said I hope the cast don't read it and the following comments which were indeed scathing and, I thought, uncalled for.
DeleteI have just listened to last week's omnibus, so the first week of monologues. I quite enjoyed hearing the inner thoughts and one sided telephone calls. I thought it gave us a glimpse into the characters minds minus the confrontations that we hear when they are interacting with others.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteI can even (almost) put up with Emma 😉
It is working in that way for me as well Zoetrope but I’m sure the beeb and the SW realised that audience reaction would be mixed.
DeleteI have been perusing the old BBC blog before they did the dirty on us. A lot of comments to review and my goodness what a different blog to this one.
ReplyDeleteI have to make an urgent plea to OWIAS.
Please can you revive your inner Susan?
I watched the vlog with Graham Seed (Nigel Pargetter) last night. What a lovely fellow he is and still not too happy about Nigel being killed off and I don't blame him. It sounded as if it wasn't handled very well by the BBC staff to add insult to injury. As was discussed, they missed an opportunity for Nigel to have been injured and left handicapped which would have made a great S/L.
ReplyDeleteI have today read a comment from Keri Davis, which was along the lines of - that listeners do not leave TA, as the writers are trying so hard to provide a new TA.
ReplyDeleteHis suggestion, to those who are so disgruntled (not here obviously), was to listen via ear- phones or buds. It does make a difference.
PS I have a wonderful pair of stereo buds, which I found many months agoin Sainsbury's, half-price. What a good buy that was, as the quality does make a massive difference.
On listening to last weeks omnibus, my thought was it is awful, until I realised that they weren't plugged in correctly and then just Brilliant..😃
Keri Davis has lost me there - how would listening with ear phones make a difference to the content or quality of the scriptwriting we are currently listening to - or not bothering listening to much in my case? The man is on a different planet!
ReplyDeleteI think he meant, the recent monologue episodes, just sound quite different, which might help to encourage some, to keep listening.
DeleteI will not say anything more. 😣🤤☹
I know when to "shut up"!!
DeleteI listened to Sundays Archers Omnibus, whilst cleaning and doing the many house-hold chores, this morning.
ReplyDeleteI so enjoyed it, due to the continuous + seamless episodes, which made so much more sense - well to me.
I might be quite alone, in this thought.
I will listen again tonight - with whoever is talking.
ReplyDeleteI am liking this different aspect of Ambridge + TA.
Sad - but I still like my 12min evening visit to Borsetshire - even if it another Radio broadcast.
I wonder how Susan's chiili recipe, differs from mine.
Like you Miriam, I listened to the Sunday Omnibus and found it more enjoyable that way. Maybe it just ties everything together as you say. I thought the Susan as a radio announcer part was quite funny.
DeleteI will continue listening whenever things get back to normal but l can't seem to muster the interest with the monologues. (l get fed up listening to myself drone on so l don't want it on the radio). I've been listening to Cosmic Quest and The Great Post Office Trial (which is great) to fill in the time and I do like reading everyone's comments.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are still enjoying Cosmic Quest Fogey! I too have stopped listening to the New Archers, but will get back to it if & when it returns to normal.
DeleteI have never liked Tom much. Now I really don’t like him at all
ReplyDeleteAm not listening any more.
ReplyDeleteIf it was Tom this evening I am glad I didn't bother.
Good move LJ. It was Tom and his ghastly sister.
ReplyDeleteIt seems just a few here, will persevere and continue to listen, and still enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting to hear Kirsty, Roy, even Joy, again.
...even Lily + Russ!
DeleteI persevere but don't enjoy!
ReplyDeleteAgree that Tom & Helen are pretty irritating/unlike able.
ReplyDeleteTom came across as particularly unpleasant this evening, squeezing his suppliers just as he was squeezed when selling his sausages to the supermarket.
Surely Helen didn’t have to furlough both Clarrie and Susan, she could have kept Clarrie on to keep production going safely (Susan could probably have been sweet-talked into accepting this) then continued to sell through farm shop & box scheme.
Ghastly female.
DeleteNot sorry.
Old Fogey, also gripped by the Post Office Trial.
Oh Helen! What a miserable woman she is! Moan, moan, worry, worry.
ReplyDeleteI know she went through a ghastly time but as she herself said it was four years ago. And she is using it as an excuse not to go on Susan’s radio show!
I lost patience listening to her .
Then to be followed by Money grubbing Tom!
Urrgh!
Definitely the worst monologues yet!
Enjoyed tonight’s episode - so much more about real farming issues in these temporary episodes. Spoke with a friend last night for the first time since the new format and she to is enjoying them.
ReplyDeleteOn the "I have never" theme:
ReplyDeleteI have never been to IKEA! do intend to go at least once though, sooner or later!!
Oops! Wrong blog!
DeleteOh what worry. What anguish. What mental torture.
ReplyDeleteThat was Just my experience listening to Helen’s perseverance on doIng or not doing a simple act.
Tom rubbing and grubbing for money like a slimy capitalist. He will definitely need as much as his dirty hands can grab to pay off Natasha’s credit cards.
Another thing, Helen in bed with her laptop communicating with Mr Kung Fu. I hope we don’t have to listen in when they have canoodles. Yuck.
ReplyDeletePerversely intrigued by the above comments on last night, felt compelled to listen this morning....agree in the main reTom & Helen - hardly people to engage our empathy ! They are pretty sniffy about their long suffering & very agreeable parents too, especially Tom. ( Helen just dumps the boys on them when she wants to sigh, fret & avoid any positive action to rescue her business)
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, we did get more real life insight into the huge difficulties faced by food producers. Would almost any other 2 characters in the cast have given us that info' ! E.g, Adam, Tony, even Eddie rejoicing that he's got some delivery work out of skinflunt Tom - he could have filled us in about Bridge Farm problems.
Skinflint
DeleteI haven't listened to any of the monologues. They just don't attract me. I''ll pick it up again when things get back to normal.
ReplyDeleteI listened, eventually, to last night episode and although I can agree with others at both Tom And Helen, and the angst that both expressed over current difficulties, I felt very differently about Helen and her inability to make a decision about talking with Susan on her 'show'.
ReplyDeleteWe have all expressed our dislike and concerns for Helen and her mothering as well as many aspects of her character, but I felt that the script writers were last night beginning to delve into the interior Helen and her lack of confidence as a result of her experiences of four years ago. Four years is not a very long time when taking into account dramatic and overpowering events in a persons life. And dependent on that persons character and inner strength such events could affect them for the rest of their life, and beyond into the next generation.
And we on here have expressed many times our concern for that next generation.
I don't like Helen much any more than many of us, but I do think some compassion is required to understand her.
And please do not think that I fail to recognise what a selfish and self obsessed madam she is, because I do.
I agree Mrs P. The current situation has quite likely revived her insecurities (as it has for many people) emanating from her relationship and marriage to “Rob”. Like most I don’t find her the most endearing of characters but is well played by Louiza Patikas.
DeleteMay I ask a quick question??
ReplyDeleteThe new style TA, is not being received well, what is to replace it?
No TA at all for a while, or repeated episodes again?
Sorry that is 2 quick questions..😣
I never get it right, Miriam 😂
Miriam, l was thinking about that today. l thought of a third option which * I * would enjoy but maybe not everyone else. I really enjoy listening to audio books; it would be great if the script writers wrote the current story line in the third person and got one of our great readers to do their stuff. I realize we are too far into the monologue way of going and the Archers players do need their jobs but l can always hope.
DeleteWhat an interesting and wonderful idea.
DeleteSadly, it is now, probably a bit too late.
If only this could have been done, as soon as Lockdown started...
That is an interesting thought. It would make it easier to move story lines on which I would welcome. However, it would be a totally different animal, but is that a bad thing?
DeleteI’m ok with either Miriam - just hope it is not cut altogether !
ReplyDeleteThat is my worry..😣
DeleteI found the end really creepy and quickly switched off.
ReplyDeleteI would be quite happy for them to stop doing anything now and then when things get back to normal for them to take off where they left off .
ReplyDeleteI am not going to bother to listen again unless it emerges that something has happened on the Kirsty/Phillip front.
Are they scared that listeners may ,having lost the habit ,not bother to listen when it does return?
My sister and two of my friends who are all keen Archers fans are not listening.now.
To be honest I think they may have made a big mistake and will lose more listeners because of what they have decided to do.
Found this episode the most interesting so far. Plenty going on, anxiety from Johnny & Natasha, understandably, but humour as well - a good mix.The stress of work & the private distress, all from likeable characters ( ok, imo !)
ReplyDeleteTom has had a very bad press the last 2 nights, not being sensitive to his wife, over working Johnny, selfish & mean in business...
Oh poor Johnny, so worried about his apparent hair loss and then taking the huge decision to shave off what is left.
ReplyDeleteI just hope it makes him happier but personally I really dislike completely shaved heads, especially on the young.
I see they have tempted Mali Harris back from Pobol y Cwm to record a few words as Natasha.
I expect, like other TV soaps, they are unable to record new episodes at the moment so Natasha can return, but in a much different mood to usual. Where has the super confident business woman gone? It seems as though Tom has taken on the role of go-getting, super entrepreneur business person in that marriage!
Yes agree Archerphile, a bit of a turnaround for Natasha wasn't it.
ReplyDeleteBut then internal monologues will bring out, very cleverly IMO the sides of a personality that many would not normally see or hear.
At last Johnny has bit the bullet. What a pity he needed to take a year of deep anxiety to make a sensible decision.
I don't much like the fashion for so many men to have shaved heads, but many decades ago my daughters boy friend, like so many Indian men, lost most of his hair in his mid twenties, shaved the rest and was even better looking as a result, than before.
Some men look so hard with a shaved head, but not all.
I was completely bald for ten of the years since I lost my hair and was far more comfortable about it than I have been now for the last six years with sparse fuzz.
Go Johnny, finally you’ve discovered your inner Yul Brynner thanks to grandad 🤗
ReplyDelete💇♂️🧑🦲
DeleteI think that the shape of the skull has a lot to do with the attractiveness, or not, of a man’s shaved head. There was a character in yesterday’s edition of Doctors who had very strange shaped shaved head. It was quite pointed and he a distinctive round dent in one side which looked as if he had been hit very hard with a hammer - very odd!.
ReplyDeleteThat means they will have to change the photo of ‘Johnny’ on the BBC’s TA Chuaracers Pages, so we will be able to see what shaped head he has.
ReplyDeleteEd Grundy is also a skinhead so Johnny won’t be alone.
DeleteHow do you know that Ed Grundy is "a skinhead"?
DeleteBarry Farrimond is bald.
Tom Gibbons may not wish to part with his full head of hair just to follow Johnny's example.
Besides, Johnny has followed Tony's example, so he's not alone.
DeleteActors commonly change hairstyles to suit the character they play, including for radio publicity. Though, I have to say.although Jill as a young woman is consistently referred to as blonde, in the elaborately posed, group photos in my book, her hair is always black!
DeleteCont: “David Archer was born in 1959 and because of his blond hair (he takes after his mother) was nicknamed Snowball as a child” - so says my book.
DeleteContrary to some opinions I do not perceive any great profundities in these soliloquies.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone even mentioned the word Covid?
Natasha, get out of your pyjamas and get planting some 🥬 lettuce, 🥕 🥬🍓🥦🥒🧅🧄🍅.
It’s not hard. You will certainly get your hands dirty.
Don't hear any profundities, either, Stasia, but we do get a bit more insight into private feelings & opinions, which is mildly interesting, if usually pretty predictable. Last night made Johnny's anguish abundantly clear, not that it wasn't before, but at least, & painfully, he's arrived at a solution of sorts ! Tony is clearly quite enjoying himself, & it was of interest to see Natasha's vulnerable side. It's much easier for Tom, working on site, but a lot of her work is away from home, only a certain amount by email etc., so more problematic.
DeleteI don’t really think I’ve learned anything new about these characters. For me Natasha was too good to be true. Manipulating credit cards to keep a business a float doesn’t smack of confident entrepreneurial skills.
DeleteJonny is also insecure and I’m not surprised he has shaved his head, I expected him to do so earlier. At least Tony is easing the work burden Tom throws at Jonny, who seems to be unable to say no.
I do admire your ability to see something in these (in my view) inadequately formed stories.
Now for me the best ever written soliloquy belongs to Molly Bloom in J. Joyce’s Ulysses.
I went to hear it aged 19 yrs and even then it was controversial. Does anything controversial happen in Ambridge in the 21st century?
No, it doesn't ! Nothing to frighten the horses....though some couldn't listen to the Titchener/ Helen saga, which I found riveting & convincing.
DeleteAshamed to admit, never got round to Ulysses....
Is Johnny really that insecure ? Saying this, as can imagine most young men in their early twenties ( I think he's 21) would be devastated to be losing their thatch.
I think that Johnny was brave.
ReplyDeleteI prefer a man with a shorn head, than those trying to do a comb-over.
I am confushed about Natasha and I think she is still hiding something.
To add, why bring in a new character aka Natasha, when the actress is far more involved in other programme, so is seldom heard from.
DeleteThis is like Carole T. who is still living home alone in Glebe Cottage, but has not been heard from, for must be years!
OMG I typed confushed- that sounds so bad 😣
DeleteI still have to open the "Scruff" I bought yesterday.
Carol Tregorran isn’t new to Ambridge, she arrived there in 1954, so well ahead of Aldridge who didn’t arrive til 1974, and many others.
DeleteI think last night's was better and Tony was pretty good. Sounded natural and not forced like some of the others. I could have done without hearing from Natasha as I don't find her interesting or likeable. Good for Johnny.
DeleteSeems as if the general consensus is that the monologues are not enjoyable. They are certainly not without problems but I would rather have them to listen to than nothing at all.
I have just taken a look at 2015 BBC Archers blog and see Gary's name there .
ReplyDeleteIn August I read that Spicycushion was not very happy about the programme and I asked her to keep on listening!
Glad you took my advice Spicy (not that I am at the moment)
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How spooky LJ I did exactly the same thing earlier and it was weird seeing forgotten names and so many still familiar ones. Our current blogs are much better so in the end the BBC as well as doing the dirty on us inadvertently also did us a favour closing us down.
DeleteGone back as far as June 1915 .
ReplyDeleteI remember Sandrakay and Ellie May (she wrote a great script where Rob on a horse failed to clear a fence and was killed.
Annhill wrote some good stuff.
A lot of the names have turned into U followed by numbers.
I think it was Basia who knows my surname because when I first started blogging I didn't know how to get a nome de plume.
I spotted a Miriamy !
Rather have our blog now.
Interesting what you discovered Lanjan, even though 1915 was before you were born:-)
DeleteYes, someone told you how to change to user name.
I'll have a look tomorrow.
nom de plume
ReplyDelete😂Just testing Basia!
ReplyDeleteI feel that if they are making an effort to bring us something then I should make the effort to listen. But now at the end of the show I am having to make a rather loud aargh!!!! to get rid of frustration.
ReplyDeleteThe last 2 episodes have confirmed my dislike of dopey Helen and the newly weds even more.
Helen realising at last that her parents (well Pat ) is getting older. Although at (only nearly) 70 Pat is of course still a youngster aren’t we all are these days - the new 50 so they tell us 😂 which to be honest is how I feel well maybe 55yrs 🙃
ReplyDeleteLadyR, 55 is my age forever, anyway, this way we are younger than the children. I know my dob by heart but stopped counting the passing years.
DeleteMaryellen, I don't follow your reasoning about actors taking on their characters' appearance, especially for PG to have dyed her hair blonde.
ReplyDeleteBecause in the staged photos in my book, it’s the characters who are shown interacting with each other, not the actors, so the actors are dressed and given props to look their parts. For a radio recording it doesn’t matter what the actor looked like, but for a visual appearance in character, they should match the known facts.
DeleteWe are not told much about a character’s appearance, but the point about Jill being blonde has been repeatedly made. The production team should have thought of the publicity photos when they cast the Jill part, or she should have dyed her hair/worn a wig. imo.
Do you know, I had completely missed out on the information that Jill was blonde!
DeleteBecause I had seen Paddy Greene’s photo at an early age I have always thought of Jill as a brunette. I vaguely remember the ‘Snowball’ nickname for David as a baby but never caught the connection with Jill being blonde’
Selective hearing I suppose, the evidence of my eyes being stronger that the evidence of my ears! 🤔
Here is a conundrum. How many people can you fit into a ‘social support bubble‘?
ReplyDeleteOne person is now allowed to join a ‘social support bubble’ in another household. When that news eventually reaches Ambridge perhaps Natasha could pack her bags and head back to Wales. She can then join her father in a conjoined Bipolar breakdown.
I don’t want to hear her, ramping it up, 24/7, round the clock, night and day, getting things done in the flat above the shop.
I entirely agree, bubbly Natasha can bubble off and join another bubble somewhere else. Since we've not been introduced to her parents, I'm not interested.
DeleteLanjan. Basia, is right I didn’t think you were over 105 years old. Even older than Peggy!!
ReplyDeleteQuite achievable nowadays.
DeleteP tb Y I take your point ,11:26pm yesterday (gosh you were up late!) about the BBC making an effort but in my opinion it was a very feeble effort and may well have back fired.
ReplyDeleteIf we had been denied anything to do with The Archers for several months and knew we were going to return to where we left off ,I think most people though disappointed would have accepted it and looked forward to it re starting.
Stasia I am obviously even older than 105 because I started to blog in my 70s!
Though I says it myself as shouldn't I really don't look175 years old!
I'm rather with PtbY (11.26 last night). There was a desperate attempt to make Helen more likeable - will do the broadcast, actually refering to mum as a human being with needs, rather than a childminder on tap - but I have a confession : I just don't WANT to like her ! 😗she's been wet, self absorbed, parasitical, patronising, precious, & evasive for too long for her, suddenly, to have a lightbulb moment & reform, imo ( also disappointed that Lee, who was originally a fairly interesting newcomer, has turned into a nonentity since becoming commited to Helen)
ReplyDeleteCouldn't but chortle at Stasia's characterisation of Natasha, but, another admission, I do warm to her.....a refreshing change from those stodgy, parochial types.