Archers Addicts.

Aha merlot or should we call you Sherlock?

Anyone else think Nocasha's idea is daft?

How can they plant fruit trees on any available space in Ambridge including gardens? What if the homeowner doesn't want a tree blocking their view. Who will actually own and manage them and harvest the fruit?

Eddie Grundy?

Aha! That’s a good possibility. Who invited the wheelchair bloke?

(

Thought it wasn't such a bad idea. "Ambridge" is near Evesham so they could try plums.

Toby could branch out into slivovitz.

Flippin heck Merlot had to google that ?It does sound quite yummy, but don't fruit trees take a bit of looking after, as well as harvesting the fruit?

I don't think they've thought of that, Lazigirl. Eddie will be rubbing his hands at the thought of all those free apples

If Joe's 'Tumble Tussock' grafts have taken they could plant some in his memory. Are you reading this SWs??

Oh dear scriptwriters of the Archers, you really aren’t inspiring us at the moment. Very thin story lines. We want something to gossip about please!

I think the man in the wheelchair who sent Jim into a frenzy is Alistair's real father, and that Jim was cuckolded many years ago.

I suspect it's a hamfisted storyline of Jim being abused as a child by the man who is in the wheelchair hence the mega wobbly he threw when he learned his keyboard had been played by wheelchair chap after Jim's swift exit from the party he didn't want a party is still a party no matter what you call it

I feel desperately sorry for Jim. His long suppressed painful memories that still hurt when they're exposed to daylight.

I do hope that I'm wrong.

You weren't wrong Dazed and I found it very sad and not what I expected at all.

I didn’t guess that either, poor Jim, moving scene between the three men

Excellent performances and very good script. Poor old Jim - not what I was expecting. I was going down the cuckold route

Ditto Merelina.

What was the point of Dan’s girlfriend? She was in a couple of episodes, disappeared, then Dan was apparently dumped!

I think I heard Shula thanking Alastair for talking to Dorothy, I didn't know whether I had missed a reconciliation with Dan.

Just a " by the by "I suppose, he doesn't really featured any more. Has Phoebe really done 3 years at Oxford? How time flies.

Was there any point to Lilian's party that I may have missed?

Good story line about Jim's abuse experience, well researched and written.
Will Shula and Alistair reconcile? It's one of my Polyanna moments, I don't believe they ever would have separated - well, not if I'd been writing the scripts anyway.

There's so much padding which can be rather boring I think merlot in between nuggets of topical story lines, which I agree they often do well, such as Jim's abuse.

For various reasons I have missed several weeks. Is Ed still in trouble with his extra work ? Has Joe died yet ?

SisterAct

I keep missing it for the simple reason that I sit down to listen, and fall asleep!

So I feel I may have missed some important episodes

Sisteract The only major storyline you've missed is that Jim, we discovered was abused as a child, and his abuser turned up at his (unpleasant) surprise birthday party. He hadn't told anyone before so is in a real state. Joe hasn't died (only in RL of course), and Ed not caught and banged up........yet!

Thanks for the update Sara65

My DH is convinced that Ed will be killed by the nasties, and that Emma & Will will eventually get back together as they once were. And at least that would stop two other innocent people being driven mad!