The Archers

mumofmadboys - spending time with the parents of infants and small children reminds us just how joyful parenting can be. Its those loving foundations that keeps us in there when they morph into Freddie and Lily - poor Elizabeth.

Goodness, I'm just listening to this week's omnibus.

"No wonder she's so upset. How would you feel if you were told you had to BYOB for your daughter's wedding?"

What, that and a massive discount?! I'd be absolutely delighted, Elizabeth, delighted! Kerching!

Correct me please if I’m wrong, but didn’t Rex go home to care for his father because he’d had a stroke? Q

Or was it a heart attack, DoraMarr?

I'm glad Freddy's been nicked!
As my gran would have said 'Hell mend him!

Am I alone in thinking The Archers is overloaded wirh sensational plot lines at the moment? I keep thinking of Emperor Josef II's comment about The Marriage of Figaro: "Too many notes, Mozart."

Thank goodness that spoilt, whiney, 18yr old baby Freddy has been found out - I hope it all comes out now, but yes, poor Elizabeth.

End of Sunday evening episode hilarious with Jill and Kate!

grumppa I don’t think the plots are sensational at the moment - all very ordinary day to day events for 2018 (apart from the Llama), not like the tv soaps which I haven’t seen for decades - but maybe that is the difference between town and country.

Where is Lily ? Is she with her married man? But isn’t he on holiday with his wife? When will the sh1t hit the fan? Poor Elizabeth.

Grumppa, putting the archers aside for a moment. Don’t diss Mozart! I saw a great tv prog inrptroduced by a composer/conductor whose research led him to conclude Mozart warranted a diagnosis of Turrets Syndrome. The conductor had that diagnosis, which he felt enhanced rather than inhibited his achievements. He followed Mozart’s compositions and highlighted what he believed was progression as Mozart let rip with his twtitches

Yes. I'm wondering where Lily is too. Surely Russ would not go off with her.

I think that all this drama is not a recent thing - Elizabeth and her abortion, Jenny pregnant and unmarried (shock, horror in those days!), Grace and the fire etc. Never a dull moment!

DH gets very exasperated with it. The Canadian authorities know what's going on as they have first hand testimonies from the escapees so why no international intervention and why no SAS style rescue attempts at key loctions?

I get really wrapped up in it and he's muttering, 'Load of b*****ks'

What's the betting the evil Aunt Lydia isn't dead and makes a miraculous recovery at the beginning of the next series.

Oh No! Wrong thread.

merlot you had me worried there, thought I was losing the plot!

Blame my cat, phoenix. She wanted to go out so jumped up on the back of the sofa and started 'playing the piano' on the top of my head while I was typing.

Thanks for the laugh, merlotgran! I usually listen to the Omnibus with half an ear while reading the Sunday paper. I was worried there for a minute that I was actually taking in even less of the plot than I thought!

I didn't diss Mozart, Iam64. The Emperor did.

Re previous post I meant Jenny and Kate ( Kate and her mother)

merlotgran what programme are you referring to? Sounds better than Archers!

Maybe so Grumppa but, you repeated the diss.

Poor Elizabeth, it just needs Lily to get pregnant now to complete the tale of woe. At least we have Jazzer in ill fitting suit to look forward to as 'bridesman' tomorrow.

The only interesting thing about Harrison detecting who nicked off with Lynda's llama (he went for the person least likely to) is why he didn't apply the same logic to who ran over Matt Crawford.

Having at last solved a crime, he's now going to keep it a secret.

Never liked Susan, but she plays a great character, and she's gone up a notch in my ratings now

I've been away all week and reading the last few posts has definitely made me want to listen to the Omnibus tomorrow

I usually listen to the omnibus but not being able to get to sleep listened to all this week’s episodes in the early hours. Now know where Lily was but won’t give anything away.

Overall quite a boring week in the end.

Judging by some of the comments on another thread about listening to TA I think we should be whispering on here. [shh]