Substitute 'Adam' for 'Brian' & it's still true 🍿 #TheArchers

This, again 🙄 Whole thread, on tourist taxes, is worth a read.

A £300 tax on your UK summer holiday does sound like a lot... So let’s take a look at this tax, put it in a wider context, and find out where that £300 figure came from.👍🏻 1/26 🧵

Home Farm: will there be anything left to inherit? 🧐😬 #TheArchers

OH has been on live chat to Vodafone about our rubbish broadband. At one point they offered him an upgrade to a fast fibre package. He had to point out we don't have fibre connection to the house 🙄 It reminds me of the days of "could you quote to make the cavity first?" 😂

Last bits removed from flat & cleaning done today. Something I will miss about the flat is the view from the balcony, even if it it is currently partly of a large building site. Their new house is on a modern estate with a view of other houses.

What do we think Anna was going to say before she changed it to 'card'? #TheArchers

Last bits removed from flat & cleaning done today. Something I will miss about the flat is the view from the balcony, even if it it is currently partly of a large building site. Their new house is on a modern estate with a view of other houses.

I've been trying to find the reason for Kate's objection to moving Spiritual Home in #TheArchers Archives without success. However, I did find out a couple of other things. First, the contamination site was next to Spiritual Home, so Kate was already losing all her business because of it. 1/2

BBC News - 'My ovarian cancer mission in memory of late wife' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can anyone who knows about agricultural land values estimate how much land Home Farm would've had to sell in order to make as much money as they did from the house sale? And do we know the acreage occupied by Spiritual Home? 🧐 #TheArchers

It won't be until after Charles Collingwood ends his tour with #TheArchers Live at 75 at the end of November 🙂. I reckon Christmas, when Kirsty's baby is due. The SWs like a birth & a death for an anniversary 😁.

That really is a tight turnaround isn't it? I know we take the piss, but the actors and behind the scenes crew really know what they're doing #TheArchers

I feel out of kilter. Yes, it was a very proficiently written, acted & directed episode, but it didn't engage me in the same way as it seems to have done everyone else. Possibly because I don't really care which of these ghastly people runs the farm... #TheArchers

We have spent the day helping son & daughter-in-law move a few miles from their second floor rented flat to their new (bought 🥳) house. OH driving hire van, me & d-i-l's mum helping them lug furniture & boxes down two flights of stairs. We are exhausted & melting. Now time for #TheArchers

Perhaps fortunately, that wasn't the Clive related shock I was expecting. #TheArchers

So, you won't find much sympathy here for Sunak's last budget recklessly reducing national insurance or Starmer failing to take the opportunity of a huge majority. But are these really failings equal to reducing the country to a political nervous breakdown as per 2016 - 2022? No.

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Roy Tucker will be over the moon. I wonder if he was there? #TheArchers

Right... 🧵 (sorry) Even going back 30 years, not hearing from characters for months wasn't unusual. Individual actor unavailability has always been a problem, but in the decade or so up to the late-1990s, the speaking cast size more than doubled. 1/5 #TheArchers bsky.app/profile/bren...

You weren't too far off with Den's mention of casinos. I reckon that will be their next outing 😬 #TheArchers

Helen absolutely desperate to avoid hiring new staff. She will be asking Henry if he fancies doing a few hours after school next. #TheArchers

The BBC are re-showing the series A Very Peculiar Practice from this Wednesday (20 May) on BBC4 from 10.15pm after which it will be available on iplayer. The cast includes #TheArchers David Troughton.

The thing with the Glebe Cottage situation is I can see both Carol's & Anna's points of view! Good writing. And no easy answers. #TheArchers

Helen can't believe her serfs wouldn't jump at the chance to be involved in her new cheese. As Kirsty pointed out, Tracy already has two paid jobs (she also cares for her dad). Does Helen pay more per hour than the pub does? #TheArchers

Clearly Helen has heard us saying it's strange that she only makes two types of cheese. #TheArchers

Well spotted! Chekhov's rug? #TheArchers

James Bellamy is Lilian’s son from her 2nd marriage. He is also the partner of Leonie Snell and Mungo’s father. #TheArchers

Thoughts @bowsy.co.uk ?

It's occurred to me that Alistair will be 64 this year. He must be at least starting to think about retirement. I suspect the next couple of years will probably see him retire & Jim die 😥 or move to The Laurels. #TheArchers

"His big break came back on radio with a three-year run in The Archers (from 1957 to 1960) as Jimmy Grange, a Brookfield farm worker who played guitar in a skiffle band." 1/2 #TheArchers Alan Rothwell obituary www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Following recent discussion, I've been thinking of the Great Ambridge Circular House Swap of 2001-2004. In stages, and not necessarily in this order: 1. Bert & Freda moved from Woodbine Cottage to The Bungalow 2. David & Ruth from The Bungalow to Brookfield (Continued...) 1/2 #TheArchers

Alan Rothwell has died. RIP. He played Jimmy Grange. Before my time but he was on the lost tapes they found of old #TheArchers episodes.

I wonder if Kirsty had a flashback earlier to when Tom proposed to her when she was pregnant before? #TheArchers thearchersarchives.org.uk/helen-hears-...

I don't post much personal stuff on Bluesky. It's 10 years to the day since my Dad died. He was the last of my parents & in-laws to go, all 4 of them within 5 years.

Farage now insisting he is “not and has never been a crook”. Lucky there’s no political history of “I am not a crook” as a line of defence coming back to bite anyone.

Utterly in my head over the Starmer drama. Am I disappointed in him as a leader. Yes. Do I think the floated alternatives will be better? No. Do I want change? Yes. Do I think it unwise to change leadership now? Also, yes. Round and round in my head it goes.

There you go - for Azra and her MH initiative. #TheArchers

The best thing Streeting could do in the national interest - right now - is shut up long enough for this to be top news, and concluded.

Glebe Cottage. It looks like @scouselakes.bsky.social is right about the sloping ceilings. I can't see where the attic is, the upstairs appears to go right up into the roof space 🤔 #TheArchers

Happy Birthday to Margaret Calvert today. 90 years old and what an impact! Her work is in every local town. A Margaret thread 🧵1/11

I keep telling myself I'm here for #TheArchers, don't get involved in political discussions. Not sure what went wrong... (World went mad possibly)

‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’ Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats

Seems to me this is probably the least worst option.

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

We'd been on holiday in France. When we got to Toulouse airport it was on the front of all the British newspapers.

This popped up on my feed, and since some #TheArchers people asked...

I’m not expressing a view on Labour leadership. Just wish #BBCNews wd spend as much time on policy discussion+crucially,to asking voters what policies they know, understand+what trade offs they’d accept,as vibes+personalities. If they were better informed by broadcasters, the country might improve.

Very interesting suggestion! #TheArchers

Natalie Fleet MP: ‘Thought for the day: Grief is understandable. I feel it, just like I did last year. If we show that Reform’s “Get Starmer Out” campaign has been successful… Their next will 💯 be “GE NOW” We fought so hard for this mandate to govern. Let’s use it to crack on and deliver.’