DumTeeDum - A show about BBC Radio's 'The Archers'

DTD 95 – Sorry its late

This week we heard a number of new callerinerers rising out of lurkdom and contributing to the discussions and provoking comments from our hosts. Not all of them disclosed their real life occupation. But many dumteedogs were named.Meanwhile the steady repatterning of activities in the village means that we are moving back in the direction of characters leading the action with issues hopefully being relegated to a lesser level. For example the wedding story reminding us of Emma's insecurities and demonstrating Kirsty's ability to cope with almost anything which arises. This is where The Archers should be and we obviously hope it will continue.The one character losing the plot is still Pat who seems to have gone completely deaf and blind over her daughter. Lucy knows that Lilian did not smoke in the kitchen at the Dower House so would not do so at Home Farm - and Jenny would certainly not let her.Roifield lectured us all on just how good the 70's were - mainly because of the excellent music which was the soundtrack to our lives whilst Lucy was not at all keen because of the poor fashions.Lucy is sad at the passing of Terry Wogan (Kosmo likewise) - but remarked on Terry's ability to create a community through the spoken word which she hopes we are emulating with similar eccentricity in DumTeeDum. I refer to the opening paragraph above - it seems we are - all welcome!KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from Claire from Clapham who’s worried about Helen rejecting help Andrew Horn who is irony spottingScarlett Sparrow who’s worried about KrustyHannah Clarke who has a way of getting rid of Rob and Toby at onceMrs M who was married to a robJacqueline Bertho who’s sick of hearing about BrightonKat Brown who’s furious with PatDusty Substances who’s got the wrong sort of germsandKosmo who’s disappointed in Brian.

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Duration:: 1h 31m
Broadcast on:: 04 Feb 2016
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On this week's episode we have calls from Claire from Clappen who's worried about Helen rejecting help and Drew Horn who is irony spotting Scarlett Sparrow who's worried about Krusty Hannah Clark who has a way of getting rid of Rob and Tony at once Mrs. Em who's married to a Rob the Jacqueline Bertot is sick of hearing about Brighton. Cat Brown is furious with Pat. Dusty substances who's got the wrong sort of germs and Dan Dan Dan Dan bringing up the rear it's Cosmo who's disappointed in Bryan but first before the quarter-inner is before the tweets of the week before we say Lucy you got any party shocked as he goes no it's Lucy V. Freeman and a week in Ambridge. Ian is thinking of bringing out a menu that's not too radical you don't want to frighten the punters he said so that's Scampian chips rather than Scampian jacket we then entered week three of Charlie's leaving with Adam chasing him round the village like Benny Hill if Charlie had been dressed as a nurse in suspenders with low self-esteem actually he could well have been. Meanwhile his father-in-law Brian is being courted by Justin about returning to the BL board how exciting! Trill Jennifer oh it's not exciting Jennifer rich bossy man gets thrown at a group of other rich bossy men and gets invited to come back in again to replace the only rich bossy woman it just means we have to sit through lots more meetings and Steven Ruddy chalkman and Damara sudding capital Rob is still playing shops he sold Adam some vastly overpriced flavored Amaretti biscuits flavored with what? Amaretti surely then Rob got a bit bored so he wandered around kicking things and decided the next thing he was going to do was dump some of Tom's sausages whoo the sausage walls Tom's sausages and Helen's cheese who knew Tichinob's Demise would come via the dilly counter. "Black pudding scotch eggs sell like hotcakes" said Tom mixing his metaphors enthusiastically but not as enthusiastically as Adam he seemed to be describing his relationship with Charlie at one stage as being like Rose Lam if I can join in this metaphor party chaps the thing is Adam if you leave things on a low simmer for too long they tend to go mushy and fall apart just saying more of the ludicrous wedding we don't care about and we still don't care about it although he did provide us with the opportunity to witness Emma's desperate hope that Krusty would somehow blot her copy book and accidentally put her boot through the cake or set far to the vicar we had a weird interlude with an unknown stamper who opened the door very loudly stamped across the room got shouted at by everyone and stamped back out again it's the person from Paulock the unknown stamper should be on the BAFTA shortlist I reckon the Snell's had considered a mural for their bathroom apparently dear god Robert in the nude rising from the foam on a half shell of hypoallergenic buckwheat holding scruff aloft they may wish they'd actually opted for that when they see the massive boss Eddy's gonna make of this shepherd's hut Eddy building a shepherd's hut for goodness sake Linda is the most cynical consumer in the world as if she'd let Eddy build her a Wendy house Dan is keen on getting into the rugby team so Toby the tosser is training him mostly trying to stop Dan getting overly engaged in the scrum maybe he's looking for Dorothy down everyone's shorts it's small but it's growing said Toby watering one of our eggs in an effort to seduce Pip and unfortunately Matthew who Pip decided would love nothing more than watch the brothers attempt to insinuate themselves it to hug us it the fair brethren's new plan is grass fed eggs for people who go to the gym at weekends their bloody genius is these boys they'll have a big field with lots of little eggs pottering around backwards and forwards and then the eggs will have chickens which will mow the grass I am the new agricultural correspondent by the way Tom has gone completely bonkers and believe Joe's nonsense at the special ingredient in black pudding is tea leaves whereas we all really know black pudding is made up principally of corn plasters and the cider club met again in the new Grange farm shed it's all right the new Grange farm shed sounds really like the old Grange farm shed anyway to hell with the government's guidelines on units and hurrah for the grundy world of alcoholism one of the village's greatest traditions the end well I liked it this week quite enjoyed that so I needed to pull you to task about that Steven Shortman reference he left the Beel board when he's scarpered off and left Matt in the she told her years ago when he might come back night and tea no no his name is mud around the Beel board it was nabbing back okay all right it was a proper blast from the past and you said it seemed short man I thought oh god yeah chalky Matt chalky yeah well that's why poor old Matt ended up in prison yeah no she's happily on that saying poor old Matt it's amazing how English people have this kind of ability to just sympathize with someone who's been to prison you know just because they're a nice person even though they actually did something hugely illegal somehow financially larrages don't count do they well it's white collar crime isn't it it's not it's not really crime yes but look at what he was doing to those poor old people that was horrible so now I should hate him for that really he should yeah however they weren't Grundy's you don't really care long do things against your old Grundy's yeah boy off the ducks back to you and then also I'm going to take to task about you talking about that wedding and say no one cared I absolutely cared and not because of my Fallon fixation and this is in his to think right here's the thing Mike Hatton does his statistics characteristics and they're absolutely a revelation also we are getting crowded out about the whole Robin Helen storyline yeah and as everybody says it casts a dark shadow over all of the goings on but Helen and Rob are never the the characters who are in the most episodes they're actually not no but it's just the emotional way that kind of clouds everything out so for me it was light relief to have that wedding and then to remember that Emma is incredibly insecure yeah that you had some character reaffirming what you know so she wasn't he wasn't just a part way she said oh Ed can you go and get me this or do that and I was curious there was actually some character interplay you saw Kirstie being smart you see Fallon you saw Fallon being diplomatic in getting stuff done she wasn't massively diplomatic actually oh no well she said girls we did a great job and we pulled it off but she kept she put Emma down twice in front of Kirstie and anyone that anyone that knows Emma as we do obviously wrote we sat on those those lunatics that shout at Kerry Davis I think I think you'll find we know more than you do care I'm erratic and this week he ended up on Twitter he ended up a Twitter saying look if Jess has just as accepted it's not Rob's baby why can't you I did have to look at TGS I mean what the hell is that oh for God's sake yes I'm gonna give himself an embolism if it gets on like this he's got to start rising to the bait doesn't he Derek Derek was very diplomatic was needed way in and he said if uncle God Kerry says it so that's good enough for me yeah good old Derek yeah I don't think she was massively diplomatic I think anyone that knows Emma knows that you kind of she does she needs a lot of nurturing she's high maintenance and she can't just get on with it in the way that you would expect Kirstie to rub a lot or fallow to just you know rub along together yeah but at what point especially you know you're in this high pressured circumstance you're servicing a wedding you can't think about the minutia of people's feelings all of the time whatever Fallon did but this was afterwards this was in the bit where they were having the champagne afterwards and Emma said did they say they like the food and she said you know they did Emma and I thought oh just give into her just go yes they really well done well done you know what loose as I've said before your emotional intelligence is somewhat higher than mine and he picked up on that and I didn't I was too busy listening to that episode whilst walking down Geary Street in San Francisco the Sun on my back oh shut your face I was clearing up some dogs I was clearing up some dog sick by the fridge that's what I was doing when I heard that episode so that was nice talking about dogs gosh I know we've got Dundee dogs coming out of her ears yes yes the mittens of the buggers there are and there will be a roll call of the Dundee dogs the hashtag Dundee dogs next week there is a so many that I couldn't kind of get them on the list but I spent the whole week on Twitter going oh look they're so lovely no they are and we have yet another class of a Dundee dump listener though I'm not so sure that all of these Dundee dogs actually are really listeners - yes I'm not sure however I love it love it love it love it and yes is it Dundee claws for the cats or Dundee paws I don't I don't know but gives all these people to eat and what about the cats what about the rabbit the British in the kind of ends it's the eccentric love of animals I don't know but it's been hard not getting rude letters from the guinea pig lobby next yes right so after that calling call is hello ambridge 3962 hello I'm too dumb my name is Claire and I'm a first-time caller in the earth and I haven't got a really clever name but I am in Clapham so I can be clear from Clapham that's Clapham Bedfordshire not Clapham south London I wanted to call in and agree with New York Nigel about Robin Helen I'll preface this by saying that I hate Rob he makes my skin crawl the reality of this storyline a painful as it is to listen to is that these things play out over a very long period of time and actually one of the most important things that we know about kind of these kinds of domestic abuse situations is that you know babies coming along makes a real difference and there's often a very marked escalation of bad behavior once babies have arrived and I'm assuming that that's gonna be what happens here I kind of agree also that no one will rescue Helen until where Helen's were ready to recognize the problem and be rescued and I suspect that a more realistic outcome will be that people will make perhaps some fudged attempts to rescue Helen that she'll knock back and it'll only be when she's ready to be rescued that something will happen and as a quicker side I also can't see the point of a fair brethren Claire from Clapham which is not London Clapham it is Bedfordshire Clapham I didn't know there was one yes I discovered that to my past few years ago you didn't go to a meeting at the wrong one did you no no no no I had a conversation with somebody said they're from Clapham and I went are you us to live in Clapham and I was wittering on about it meant no the one in Bedfordshire the slightly embarrassed I was not clapping to any patients at London I'd actually moved to blah blah blah blah blah blah and they went no you are us Bedfordshire but anyway go on Claire that's like my friend who was at a party and met this woman and she said she worked in the field of astro physics in in Houston and he said I have to are you just here are you here for a holiday and she said no I'm you know I I sort of I'm here quite a lot and they chatted and he said so you must know just a temperature distant difference and she said no Houston and they'd had like a 20 minute conversation with him treating her as if she'd you know just landed in a space rocket anyway she says reality of the storyline is that Ellen is going to reject help I'm not so sure now I think she would reject help because she would think that it was going to get worse that the zit that she would rather not put anyone else at risk I think that's the reality of it I think she would tell people not to get involved and she she'll also be feeling guilty and stupid I would imagine forget or foolish anyway forgetting herself as she I'm not saying this is she's right but I'm saying this is how she perceive it that she has let herself get into this situation and and is now stuck and all that and she's put Henry at risk and all that so it's kind of a you know save yourself thing I think from from my thankfully limited experience of reading that little sort of stuff and everything part of the problem is that the abuser has convinced the abuse that somehow they're doing something to cause this and they're doing it repeatedly and it's something innate in their nature that is allowing the abuser to continue and if the abuse didn't want it they wouldn't keep perpetuating the perceived behavior and I think that's yeah I'd imagine that's where that's where Helen is but there are some tough women in average who hopefully can overcome that and I think you also what we need to remind ourselves is that Helen though on the on the surface is a a competent business woman she's always being racked with a lack of self-worth that was a whole Greg thing that was the Anna Rexia way way back when and those thoughts and feelings have never gone away and she doesn't feel that she's worthy actually of love she hasn't so if you remember before she met Rob she had that very briefly relationship with somebody who she met in fell for sure on a night out and he just ran a mile you know after like a couple of weeks so she's she's grasping she's grasped for love and for affection partly one of the reasons why she then had the IVF then she has she bumps into Rob and you know the start when when she came back marriage kept on saying how he really loves me and he looks after me and that was genuine and it was like a pound of said sense of belief though she still mouths it now she knows it's not just that it's not love you know it's not love that it is kind it is it is control and and I think and I hope that what we gonna have when this storyline kind of plays out to his logical conclusion is that she isn't just this kind of shattered woman that she will be part of her part of her exit out of this will be that she rediscovers the fact that you know she has self-worth so she hasn't just been rescued yeah that I think she is making tasty signals actually to Kirsty that something is wrong and that it isn't just you know Kirsty or Kirsty and Tom or Kirsty Tom Pat you know a combination of all of the you know any of the three that come in and in a very common rescue her that she actually does confront Rob because we've seen that on a few occasions she has actually said no to him on occasion you know so but did you hear yesterday's I did yeah I did which flies in the face really what of what I'm saying but it's the great thing is no that wasn't it that was a definite accelerate I mean we won't talk about it yes but that was a definite acceleration wasn't it yeah yeah no absolutely and you know that she is actually completely now cognizant and aware of the predicament that she's in but yeah that's that's for next week nice to hear from a first-time corner in a row yes yes did you did you go through all of the checklist she didn't god lover but then you know she probably had things to do Greetings Earthlings Andrew Horn here I'm going to keep my comments just to Wednesday's episode because it was a joy in itself unfortunately we had the Prince of Darkness with his mixed-up thinking I want to treat you like a princess yet you've got by your clothes as a charity shop you can't spend any money because I won't get my own job to look after you like a princess I want to steal yours and Tom Tom you should have come back at him you make sausages and associated products for the whole of Bortchester and beyond not just for his shop as he now refers to it anyway the real joy about yesterday was the wedding piece and the interplay between the three girls at first I wondered about why was Emma so insecure and I was sort of perplexed about this but then I actually realized it's she's actually she is quite jealous we've seen this before she's jealous of Nick's relationship with Clary she's jealous of all sorts of things and I think it is another form of jealousy and jealous of Kirsty muscling in I have to say it must have been great for Fallon to have someone with initiative someone who just got on with things and wasn't so needy you know around so I can understand why Fallon would be happy but the best points the whole episode Kirsty as a savor of a wedding the irony in it had me chortling Andrew Horn now who is is is of your view he loved the the chatty chat between Krusty Emma and Fallon but the thing I was thinking about why Emma would feel threatened by Krusty and Krusty we've got to stop calling her that because she's too nice to be called Krusty and you know she's a self-made woman she's lived away from home she's young she's signaled she's she's signal single she's got no ties she's she's living the life the Emma if she hadn't been such a sort of a plotter could have had if you know under different circumstances so Emma is and this is this is your your thing Emma is completely and utterly aware of the class divide between her and Fallon and or at least the aspirational divide anyway yeah and and Kirsty that's what it's all about because there's this line also in that episode where she says don't laugh at the crundies yeah yeah she was yeah she she she wrapped it she went very fast at his defence didn't she when Fallon said to little goes wrong and she said he won't make a mess of it or something he wouldn't leave them yeah but then you know she's she's she's seen her mum trapped in the in the kind of this this endless panicky desire to move up the social thing and being completely social construction being completely frustrated every time that she can't break through even though her son has married an Aldrich and all that yeah no no completely completely hello you two Scarlett Sparrow here I'm getting quite worried about Kirsty I'm concerned that either Rob Emma or Hayley is gonna bumper off we'll do us some serious damage with a black pudding I think it will be Rob if it is and I think Helen is now so scared of Rob that she will help him very Kirsty somewhere about the farm where she'll be discovered years later after her mysterious disappearance well I'm hoping I'm wrong because I do like Kirsty but Hayhoe. Scarlett Sparrow. Kirsty is now making enemies she says she's she's she's the ambridge number one target for Rob Helen and Emma now I'm just worried about Kirsty's voice because she's getting frotier and frotier and squeakier and yes when she gets excited it gets even worse Scarlett's very well actually ranked twice second time was to say that she was post-dorris and pre-antribus but unfortunately the cool quality was really dodgy Scarlett I don't know where you were but you sounded as if you were under some sort of train so we can use it but anyway yes yes I love Kirsty I really do she's bright and she's funny and she doesn't take herself too seriously and she stands up for people and I love her no doubt she'll do something to irritate me later on but at the moment I love her well can I just say I'm the crusty front yeah I'm gonna it was not contrary Mary not contrary who reminded people on the forum of the fact that Kirsty has been jilted by Tom twice yeah and I've forgotten about that that Brenda was just in between wasn't she yeah so who was he hang on the the the the the buyer the supermarket buyer was he with crusty there no was no he was with crusty wasn't he yeah exactly yeah it was with crusty and then he goes off with the supermarket buyer to try and you know forward his sausages if you get me yeah the underwoods sausages upon her and she was helpless so he does the dirty on her then that ogres cosplat he picks up with Brenda afterwards that ogres cosplat and then he goes Kirsty it's me and you again and she says and she didn't she say something like I always knew you'd come back or we were there was some line yeah so actually in so terms it's all about Tom and Kirsty again there will be a third time do you know do you know what it did that has made me think you know that is one of the grave disadvantages of of living in a very small village and having contemporaries the same age as you because I mean talk about sloppy seconds flipping neck I mean everybody Ed Fallon Emma Will Ed Fallon Emma Will Kirsty Tom and Brenda are basically it's just been this kind of you know it does actually make you think gap year into shag going on and you sort of think blimey we need some fresh fresh blood in here surely and that's before we do the whole brine and who is yeah but it's um yeah but I mean I don't think I would be comfortable being best friends with somebody who I know had bumped ugly's with you know someone I just reason why you ran out and left your village no everyone in my village about 153 that's why um but yeah it's it does sometimes I think oh that's nice Fallon and um Fallon and Ed sound like they get it on well and then I think oh well yes they are aren't they yes I know look here's back cuz did Fallon and at Fallon and Tom worth no they were ever together were they yeah well that's the it's just Fallon and Fallon and Ed then there was Fallon and the guy in the at the bath wasn't there yeah we're kind of went nowhere fast he was Welsh whatever the hell is his name Reese Reese there you go Reese from Wales yes right enough of that Hannah Clark mother of Dumpty Diddler and owner of Betty hi this is Hannah Clark I'm a first-time caller in her I'm mother of Dumpty Diddler Harry Clark and I also have a Dumpty dog Betty I've been listening to the archers since birth I think and the first storyline I remember was Brian and Chivall so what do I think I've loving this week Kirstie and Emma's bitchiness I thought that was excellent and I also have a plot prediction I'd like Rob to find out what Toby did in Brighton and then Toby can kill Rob Toby will end up in prison and we'll get rid of both of them so that's it from me from now I'm no longer a lurker I am now a proper caller in a row yes if Toby if Rob could find out what Toby did in Brighton attempt to blackmail him and they both went to prison that would be excellent however I think Rob is only keen to find out stuff and exploit it if it means that it increases his control over Helen I don't think he likes knowing stuff he likes to put on his superior oh it's just village nonsense oh the hideous bloody you know this little chuckle thing punchable chuckle so he thinks he's all above all that doesn't he and he's only really interested in village gossip when it means it gives him sort of leverage over over anyone connected with Helen and well done Hannah on graduating from lurker school to becoming a fully fledged caller in a row that's very exciting yeah yeah what do you think Toby did in Brighton well briefly touched on what I think it did last week but some see some kind of drugs and some there do well but I must admit though I'm now sold on the fair brothers I don't really so much care about this dragon out what they did in Brighton I'd just rather just hear it because and this was Scott Matthewman who on a post really summed up the reason why because there is a schism between arches listeners there are those that want the plots and this is what's happening and this is being driven by the fact that we need to get from A to B the plot then there are and I think it's the majority who just enter the characters I like I'm starting to warm to Rex and Toby as two brothers who are actually quite different I don't so much care about the the plot device of him having to go off to Brighton and then disappear for a few days you know I'm mildly interested but do you think we would do you think that you and I would listen if it was literally no plot if it was just I think let's have a listen in to the home farm kitchen then let's go and have a drive around with jazz around and I seriously think I think we would yeah I don't like it really I think they probably lose 30% but they don't have the hardcore still be there because all this stuff about arty Christine and her hard scones or whatever you know what's that about but we all remember it and we chuckle about it you know it's characters that we're concerning concerned with and you know I couldn't give a rat's arse really about about the plot hence Andrew Horne and I are saying love the wedding yeah loved it because it reminded us that Emma has these deep-seated insecurities that she doesn't quite feel as smart and as sophisticated there was there was an episode a couple years ago where she was talking about kind of below a track suit and whatever and stuff and if you look at her you know she is we know that she is you know becoming independent and she's getting a lot of kind of self-worth from that but she's constantly reminded that she isn't you know she doesn't know the right wine there was a line about wine and stuff wasn't there again in that in that episode lovely lovely lovely lovely where that's going to take us I don't really know but I love Emma yeah yeah yeah um we've now got a call which made absolutely stopped me in my tracks uh which was Mrs. M okay hello Roy Field Lucy and Dunte Thomas around the world I am Mrs. M I am a first-time caller inra you can probably tell from my accent that I live not too far from archer's country in fact I work in Wustath which I believe is meant to be falp-sham in the archer's another indirect link I have with the archer's is that I was married to a rob the storyline that struck a chord with me this week was about the maternity tops I realized after I'd left my husband that I hadn't chosen my own clothes independently for 17 years and yes at the time it all seemed so reasonable I've been listening to the archer's for about 10 years which I do realize makes me a newbie I hope to call in again bye bye Mrs. M I am so glad that you have said you've used the past tense that you were married to a rob um and I agree I think the um the hymn making her by second hand maternity tops when he spent 10 minutes preening in front of the mirror commenting on how he still fitted into his hunting outfit that he'd had for you know 20 years or whatever just vile I am so glad that you are no longer married to a rob and yeah that was a really startling call which which yes brought it home to me again but yes hurrah he is an ex rob good good good yeah let's hope that he's not been a rob and some other poor yeah suspecting woman yeah cat brown she's a shaward can I just say I love me some cat brown I know she's got a great voice as well as a two yeah well she's just a great person and does whilst whilst you're on on that I have to say to to Vicki Cole who put a message out on the book of face saying she went oh Royfield says he loves me a little bit of uh Vicki Cole can she become one of one of my ladies well um I've kind of veered back on this Lucy I've gone from saying it was veering on some kind of creepy sexist kind of you know thing to be saying that they're my ladies like I own them all and then I call them the Wonder Women yeah because they're they're just one of the four I feel it's got a tip of feminists uh no I've gone back I've un-reconstructed cavemat they're my ladies she wants it she says can she be part of Royfield's ladies yes she wants it she wants it okay yeah so she's back right so in cat brown sorry sorry I don't know you know hello Dundee Dum it's cat brown here I should have said last time I called that I am a shavon in terms of listening longevity and while I don't have a Dundee dog I do have a Dundee cat called Ambridge I can't think of a better name to the Dundee cats at present but I have faith another listener will I'm sorry to call in about the storyline that shall not be named but I've just caught up with Friday's episode and what the hell I'm so frustrated with what's going on with Pat. I've not been convinced by many of the archers recent mental health storylines but Pat's attitude to Helen's clearly recurring anorexia is just unbelievable if someone close to you suffers from an illness you are eagle eyed usually for signs of it coming back and yet here she is ignoring what she has seen with her own eyes and taking Rob's word and let's remember this is a man who's only been on the scene for a couple of years well after Helen went into recovery as far as I know he doesn't have any experience with anybody who's had anorexia or mental health issues some people might say yes I just think she was you know dealing with having a terrible husband but I just think at the very least the archers clan could have offered him support and made sure he had the resources to look after Helen and know what signs to look out for and unless that's been really wildly happening off camera doesn't appear to have happened and it was really lovely to have Jennifer going over to see Helen but I still don't get why it wasn't Pat there's somebody glued her to a chair is she doing the duct tape challenge that seems to be going around on Twitter how can she take that man's word so much for granted and on the phone especially when she's seen how pale Helen is and how much she's withdrawn from the world Tom's obliviousness to anything that isn't sausages yeah we get that but Pat is not stupid and the way Rob spoke to her on Friday she'd have got her back up I really hope the script writers buck up their ideas about how they treat mental illness and that Pat is behaving like a decent parent again in time for mothering sunday and while I'm thrilled that everything is going brilliantly in the west end for the actor playing Tony and good night mr. Tom I just really hope that he can pop back to record some soon I don't really like Tony but at this point in time I just really need somebody to come back and be on Helen's side she is frustrated with what's going on with Pat because she said she rightly points out if you've had a child that has a condition like anorexia you are absolutely alive to its return all the time I don't imagine there's many days that go by when you're not thinking I hope that this situation isn't I hope that she's not too stressed or he I hope that this isn't going to set off anything I hope you know she seems to be good at the moment I'm really pleased and then there's any you know sort of dip why is she not looking why is she looking a bit pale whether or not and for Pat to just absolutely take Rob's word for it go oh all right then fine good when she can hear Helen vomiting in the sink or whatever it was you know and then as with the spoon said doesn't ring her up is and yes that's it that is a bit of a gigantic plot tool I agree it is yeah and it bears little more scrutiny than that because it's just and as you've said they live in a village you know in terms of everyone's bumping ugly's with each other you know so Pat is going to bump into a daughter frequently if they will you know if they were living in London fair enough you know one you know hang on though because he stopped her driving so she can't go out unless he takes her anywhere yeah they live in a village she she's Pat's got legs yeah unless she hasn't till we just don't know legless Pat uh Cosmo good evening to all dumped he dumb and all dumped he dumb it's Cosmo here I'm very worried about Lillian seeking advice from Justin Elliott as she has done Justin is a large owner of Damara a property company which owns a very large chunk of BL which is in partnership with Amazon in the board to market development the next stage of the market development needs land which Matt put into Amazon Justin has spotted this in looking through the books he is not local so why would he have good knowledge of local land prices has indicated he is simply trying to get that magic piece of land cheap come back tiger and rescue your pussy cat from the new rip-off merchant in town Justin's takeover of BL was illegal and a leopard does not change his spots I'm outraged that Brian is willing to get into bed with him as he is a far better judge of character and also as I covered in the wonderful podcast update what I wrote when you discuss the Brookfield inheritance last week and that will eventually raise his ugly head again sometime soon on that aspect I think that David and Ruth can only make their wills in respect of their active shareholding of the farm David's siblings will have to pass on their restricted holdings in the farm to their heirs easy for Schuller and Kenton Lizzy should sensibly leave hers to Lillius Freddie gets or has already got the house and so on what worries me is that once Pitt becomes Mrs Holman and inherits running the farm if not the Solona will program and be renamed the Holmans or unlike Helen will she keep her own name and bank account about five weeks to go to my next holiday so bye for now I got very confused in this call Cosmo I experienced similar I had my accountant talking to me on the phone for 15 minutes in the day and I experienced very similar feelings listening to your call as I do listening to her call and I try I set off very gamely and I try and write it down as she's going and then about two minutes in I get the theme tune for the magic round about in my head and that's it it's all over and I've got no idea what she's talking about and I go mm-hmm yep okay yep no problem yep no that sounds great thank you so much and then I go and I just sit there and think I don't know what I'm supposed to do now um I think it is that Justin he thinks Justin Elliott is trying to get into Lillian's jodpers because he wants to get some magic land from Lillian something to do with the housing and he but he did say that he doesn't believe that Justin would know about the local area probably the local area but Justin seems to have a finger in many pies and would like to have his finger in Lillian's pie but I think that um he seems to sort of know about pretty much every form of business and finance going on in the local area doesn't he and yeah you know and I can't how exactly was Justin actually introduced to the BL board? Oh Demara Capital Bortchets talking over something other than the Addie Addie Addie so yeah so it makes sense that he does have some kind of knowledge of the area even if it's just from you know from the sky looking down so to speak in terms of property prices are going up in this area and agricultural yields are doing x and y and z and blah blah blah it does does make sense because you know he's kind of swung in I don't know the sense that Justin is is after Lillian for anything other than he quite likes her and that his own wife sounds a bit I couldn't agree more it sounds to me pretty kind of genuine like they're just kind of getting on I think Cosmo's may be jealous I think Cosmo would like his finger in Lillian's pie but you know what I'll tell you again character stuff character stuff so we now know that Lillian is an absolute messy pup isn't she leaves her dirty underwear? Oh is that something happened and I thought no no no no no she said uh Brian said that she smokes all over the place leaves fags in the kitchen there is no way Jennifer would let Lillian smoke in the kitchen no way Lillian didn't even smoke in her own kitchen she used to go and stand outside at the dourhouse how do I know that Royfield that's weird anyway she did though because I remember I'm doing it yes you need to get a life Lucy I do don't I desperately hi it's Jacqueline Bertow in Sanguine in Brittany I'm here with my dumpty dum dog dumpty dog Julia and my dumpty diddler Emily although Emily's at that upper age limit because she's 13 I think the same age as Millie Bell's daughter um I thought I'd follow the rules I don't think I ever had so I'm going to I'm a stay-at-home mother elderly mum but I'm involved in local politics so I would like to say I'm a professional housewife and an agar owner so I'm a bit of a cross between a busybody Linda Snell and a and a Jennifer darling I've been listening to the archers since well since I was born really but really got into it in the 1970s when I was a student so I'm probably officially an Antrobust now I wish to just shut up about Brighton I'm really sick of it I don't want to know anymore I'm with all the others that called in last week I'm a week behind everybody else sorry he must be the time lapse from here to the front from here to the UK one of the things that's infuriated me over the last year or so is the fact that we get occasional mentions of technology I'm going to look on the website I'm going to do this I'm going to do that I'm going to create a website in some cases but it doesn't really touch rural life in ambridge whereas here in Sanguine which is the equivalent of ambridge because it's a very rural farm agricultural village with a massive pink production not far away and a meat processing plant and oh it sounds wonderful doesn't it oh you'll see it is lovely when you all come to visitors but our lack of technology is sometimes very frustrating or the fact that we have it and then it goes it disappears so we've been off the internet for about five days this last week but we've also had strikes a general strike no post office the farmers blockade in the the road so it's been a bit of a week here but I wonder whether the script writers will in the end add a bit more kind of savvy technology stuff not just the vague mentions of odd websites that people are looking up or some frustrations because that's real life isn't it the frustrations are things that don't work and and all these tractors and things I know one farmer down the road here has had a major problem because the GPS went wrong these lines are very wobbly anyway I hope the target to meet some of you soon and that Royfield and I can get together and talk about this the organization a bit more but that's all for now of where yes Jacqueline Beto who is suffering from general strikes basically she's living in England in the 1970s but in France so it must be better I'd imagine she says she's got general strikes and everything's going wrong and blah blah blah no electricity and no Wi-Fi and no not electricity I think tell you what loose but one of my first memories is the three-day week really and I can remember so what's that like 1972 1973 it's one of the other the three-day week because I can remember we had candles on like I didn't understand what was going on you know the it was always quite exciting when you got to have candles wasn't it oh no absolutely absolutely now the lecke meat would run out maybe for another 10 pence in it or whatever but I remember there was no electricity and we had to put candles on and of course as a kid as you said it was totally exciting yeah and that is one of my first memories you know properly constructed memories as being a little human being on planet earth oh and I think the 70s are much maligned much maligned and and and they shouldn't be in so many ways in so many ways no seriously I frequently frequently have this conversation with people you're about those strikes in the 70s and all these all kind of crap it was gone and grey in Britain right music from the 70s okay if you think of this that decade that could give us it could give us disco it could give us punk it could give us reggae it could give us hip hop it could give us two tone it could give us glam rock it could give us prog rock it could give us just some blind pop music like the eagles you know it's just in terms of musical richness there is not a decade actually to surpass the 70s where you could have somebody you could have t-rex mark fallen you could have a David Bauer and then you could have the jam and you could have grandmaster flash it's just a phenomenal and you could join them all in the dark wine the dark because there were power cards for about a week there's bodies piling up in the streets it's like the 70s needs you to do its PR for it and actually to for people to realize it was this was a great decade it's a decade really where women seriously started to make strides in terms of the workforce and we still have a way to go but all of that stuff really seriously happens in in the 70s you know it's an era where i think modern brick is truly formed and you see that in music whereby you have two tone which is young white working class kids are young black british working class kids as a new kind of british identity to say that to be english or british isn't just to be monocultly white i could go on and on and on the 70s why don't you go on the 70s i am it's my bloody podcast and i want to have a tangent i will it's the reflection it's the royff lecture that's what we're having it's just it's just the same about the 70s being sad and i just thought they were crap and the clothes were horrible but i wasn't i was i was um i was born in 1972 so i don't remember very much but even that right on the clothes thing and this is another thing about the pace of music and social change of the 70s it was so rapid so we think 70s and we think bell bottoms maybe like a 24 month period in the mid early to mid 70s by the end of the 70s 70s fashion is looking pretty cool again you know you look at the specials in the way that they addressed pretty sharp even now maybe no maybe about it anyway moving swiftly on as i answered that listeners call it was Jacqueline Bertow and she wasn't saying anything about England in the 70s but thanks um she wanted to talk about why wasn't she she was she knew she'd set off she'd trigger the re-electure that's why the boys liked it um she said why hasn't um why hasn't ambush got more sappy technology well Jacqueline i am still woken up at night screaming remembering that horrendous period when Brenda never opened her mouth without having to lecture somebody on social media um which was just too excruciating for words really it was it every it was like whole episodes were devoted to her lecturing everyone every lecturing tom and how to do twitter on his damn pigs and sausages and all that bollocks so it was hideous so i'm very glad that is not happening anymore i don't want them to have any more sappy dishes cloths these bollocks certainly not good right dishcloths need a voice hello it's dusty substances here the wrong sort of listener with another cold so i hope you can hear me um i got a bit confused about uh where Roy field said he'd put the categories um but yokele bear and i had a chat on twitter and i think we're from the aunt laura kernel damby area area and possibly earlier i'm ringing about no i'm not i'm speaking about the idea that yokele bear had um listening to the podcast and editing out all the robin hellen bits and i thought what a sound idea that was i usually listen on the proper radio so unfortunately i have to sort of put up with a lot of it really but just thinking about what i would normally be engaging with at this time of year i would be waiting um with with the mixed enthusiasm about the ambridge pancake day race and the the very funny routines that would bring i would be getting very shouty about lent um i don't think anywhere in the country and i speak as someone who goes to judge i don't think anywhere in the country does lent with quite the mindless enthusiasm that ambridge do it um and i would be starting to get excited about the possibility of the ambridge maypole i think um we should have a maypole scenario with the button girls doing their thing and it should be at about now somebody realizes they can't remember where they put the ambridge maypole so i would love all of that without having to worry about um rob and hellen dusty substances who clearly has the wrong sort of germs she sounds awful i hope you get better soon dusty um my mum says thank you for the advice about the squirrels by the way this is the only podcast in the world where you'd say thank you for the advice about the squirrels dusty substances um she's art Laura Colonel Dambi that's her era um and yes well now i am not a church going woman uh i am aware of that explains a lot looser i really do i am aware of the um obviously the the festivals but i thought i couldn't understand how lent everybody in ambridge i was going to say does lent religiously ha ha everybody in ambridge is so keen on lent and i don't really know many people at all who give stuff up for lent possibly because we're all so flippin solipsistic now we give up everything all the time just because we want to live forever um and it's all about health and you know and endless youth but yes they are i mean every this it's kind of become a bit of a story peg hasn't it somebody giving up you know shoe less struggling giving up chocolate um and then kenton and jolene having the round about the easter eggs because he bought her an easter egg and she'd get it or something in my balance about this briefly last year at the same time and the ambridge in many ways is an idealized english in inverted commerce uh or is that just a parenthesis or is that just chiseled into stone english village isn't it it's idealized whereby still a significant proportion of the population goes to church and obeys uh church festivals and rituals and being somebody who's never lived in the english countryside to me um it doesn't ring as being true but i thought last year you said that um you know the rhythms of the english church do still in a method the imprint on a you know a regular english village yeah so it would make some form but not lens i mean harvish festival in rural communities harvish festivals uh christmas all that sort of thing well that's a big deal in kind of junior private schools isn't it yeah but lent you bring in your tin and baked beans yes harvish festival yes and everything sits in the church and goes off and oh so she's right it is about now generally that they realize they can't find something isn't it maybe the maple has run away with the bunting in the village all curtains um that's all i couldn't imagine and with your question about jess i would suggest that i just remember and i keep coming back to you know why an earth would jess want to want to have fought for rob when when he's such an odious man but a she wasn't fighting for him she was fighting to make him pay for her child because she wanted revenge on him because of the way he behaved and she did say that weird thing to um that's not quite true lucy there and somebody some listener correct me if i'm wrong but when he goes off with Helen number one she followed him to ambridge yeah but that's what i was about to say she she said that thing to Helen about when he looked when he is with you he makes you feel like the only woman in the world and all that stuff um you know but clearly maybe she was a different sort of character to Helen and wouldn't let him do that because she was definitely not as you know under the thumb as as Helen's all that is Helen no yeah no that that is true well it's not door matty is bullied isn't it i mean she's not as as no but there but there is something incredibly fragile yeah about Helen yeah when she walks into any relationship yeah you know yes yeah oh poor Helen yeah absolutely oh and just just whilst we're on this not that i know anything about anything this is uh frequently itself evident on this podcast every week but this type of narcissistic bully that that Rob is don't they normally go for vulnerable women because you're completely right then Jess the Jess that we've had snippets of didn't appear to be at all vulnerable no but then he did say and i don't know whether i'm being too psych therapy a shit but he did say that his mother adored Jess and he is the kind of person that would want to have a trophy wife a kind of a you know and and if mummy had approved that might have sort of um uh papered over the the the cracks of her inadequacies as as uh suitably uh having suitably low self-esteem maybe that's what swung it hmm don't know who knows a man's an arse ah right uh we've had he male orinerous shawn brown father of any brown who took the role of uh tilly button um he said re Matthew and Pip i have to admit to not having red 50 shades but i've never called it i've never heard it called an afterd in a mint yep his plot suggestion is that lord justin avillate is marries lillian moves into the dauhaus and then buys gay gabels because he said there's only room for one 19th century plummy accent in ambridge so we we lose olivre and we gain justin hmm could happen i do think that there's a but also something that are quite cheered me about lillian and um and uh justin is that lillian is not being silly this time and she is just taking it at face value that she you know she said oh we we get on quite well and that's it she's not you know throwing a hat over the windmill um and being and being ridiculous and girly about about uh justin she just says yeah he's a nice chap and we get on well and that's it um and it seems to be coming from his side not hers for once she's not you know running around and screaming which is a good uh which is progress for poor old lillian uh mrs bubbles uh said wasn't it interesting how the fair brother and have a whole discussion about how vital it is to ask pip for her advice on their next venture yet when she provides that advice they don't like it and declare that they have no intention of following it very true yeah but to be fair that's kind of just about everybody who's an entrepreneur in business yeah you only actually seek out advice of such you're going to validate what you believe anyway and you're doing you know just discounted if it flies in the face about you what you're going to do and as she said it will all go wrong they'll all be by foxes and she said then they will say how unlucky they are and how could they possibly have known uh but it doesn't matter because daddy's an unable prop them up so no doubt they will live too far again um and karry flanigan uh said that she is an american who uh is living in northern island and she said um she really enjoyed the um the the the chat from san francisco uh and it was really interesting perspectives on on ambridge and she said it's really nice to know that there are archesites everywhere oh yes i was no getting away if you're looking for flexible workouts peloton's got you covered summer runs or playoff season meditations whatever your vibe peloton has thousands of classes built to push you we know how life goes new father new routines new locations what matters is that you have something there to adapt with you whether you need a challenge or rest and peloton has everything you need whenever you need it find your push find your power peloton visit one peloton calm Ryan Reynolds here for i guess my hundredth mid commercial no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no honestly when i started this i thought only have to do like four of these i mean it's unlimited premium wireless 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you were in san francisco this was going on and i didn't know the next one yeah i thought i was going to be there so you know the more than marries would i say do you know i need to do something as well i need to say a little thing um i was very sad this week because terry woken died and a lot of our overseas listeners won't know who the hell he is he was a very um people miss misinterpreted him as being cozy he wasn't very cozy he was a DJ um but what he did was he was a huge fan of kind of whimsical humor and english or british eccentricity he was an irish comedian irish uh uh DJ and um one of my earliest memories is sitting in the back of the car listening with my mum and her listening to tarry woken on radio too and her laughing and it was some ridiculous thing that a listener would ring would phone would write in with some nonsense idea and then this would get sort of seized upon and then extrapolated to some ludicrous conclusion by all the listeners and it really and that sort of and i thought how lovely to have a to have a program where people go into your imagination and they go they they take it with them somewhere else and they kind of get what you they can see what you can see in your head and and and it makes them laugh and then they want to join in and in a very small way i think we've got a similar thing and it's an absolutely lovely feeling and um yeah so it just i was i was very very uh sad to hear that he died because i thought he was absolutely brilliant and i thought nobody comes close to his relationship with his listeners was just incredible um but yeah i thought uh i thought it was nice that we've kind of carried on that tradition of eccentricity who rougher us and to rar for him yes not our ip who are in a nice way right should you tweet to the week after some camp coffee so it's advertisement time it's the story of a cultural superpower that danced and sprinted its way to success it brought the world reggie compare rastas hip hop bop molly 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you available from sainsbury's for the posher washer proud sponsors of dumty dum i've just had a look at the dumty dum shop they've got no tracksuits but they do do t-shirts which are very flattering nice if you want to show off your figure a little bit nick couldn't carry one off of course but i can good day everyone this week we asked you if you had any thoughts on rob reducing the bridge farm sausage order i have to give a special comment to philip townney who said he's the first i guess someone had to say it uh vicky berry said i just read thoughts on bob reducing the bridge farm sausage order out to people at work her armpits far too early in the morning to be facing the wall of abuse that came back philistines dave harding said no rob is wrong the only way to make a profit is to sell more stuff the quickest way to bankruptcy is to order less if the sales that bad then rob should have brought the matter of the business meeting let it great crash last week and not just sprung the matter on tom on a sunday morning just before releasing out amount of seven quid for a packet of biscuits uh you and philip said philan did say tom sausages had been selling one in the cafe so that suggests that rob is pulling a fast one dave harding said bridge farm products really shouldn't be going out of date if stop does get close to sell by then it should be passed to the tea rooms as they should be able to use them far quicker and i guess that was really my thought and we had a number of amusing responses to that and if you would like to see more than i suggest you head over to our facebook page uh i also asked for guesses on who will move into the dower house and uh it looks as though that may have resolved itself during the week and cara little wood aquarium said just in and i see a saucy romp with lillian in his future a very prescient cara victoria hogan agrees and said unfortunately boring repetition that always mentioning erring laws prior to shaking her off mark evidence said just in shacked up with lillian could you imagine that i was warming uh fiona griffin and said oliver and caroline while they wait for grange farm to be de grunted what a brilliant word i'm so using that sera charlie harding said darryl he made his millions finally and wants to live it up a bit mmm um and rudhamson said just in the aging lathario those pea these people did get in before we knew it was just in some people like guy labrog was suggesting lillian might move back in um and andrew maling suggested adam and charlie we also had some absolutely fabulous really fabulous shots of um our dumpty dogs so if you like pictures of dogs and they really are some gorgeous ones i suggest you scoot over to the facebook page because i can't describe them here and we also asked uh whether anybody else would realize because i honestly haven't realized this that uh emma had felt so threatened by kirsty and the general feeling is seems to be that emma is very good with males not so good with females it really feels easily threatened um raceral louise it was very much in character she probably didn't have an issue previously but felt threatened by her joining in uh yuan phillips is obviously a bit of a classing going on too the comment about pina gregio she feels threatened that kirsty will bust in on her own felons business venture which is fair enough i think um and andrew melings said emma is threatened by any other female she's one of those women who manipulate men and are hostile to other women who she views as rivals that's a bit sad isn't it so until next week everyone keep busy on facebook and on our forum whoooh can i just say loosey yes that i tell you who doesn't get enough kind of plaudits for all of her work is one miss millie bell no she doesn't i know i have a twitch of guilt every time we go to millie bell you know and it's uh no not a massive uh it's not too far away from what you were saying before the break is that uh there's this kind of community of listeners and it's kind of the british eccentricity and um here we go dear listener um the communication between uh loosey and i and miss millie bell is literally kind of zero in the night in the nicest possible way she gets on and does this for the love of uh the archers and dum de dum and she's doing an amazing job in helping us to foster this community with all of her work on the book of base and she has um obviously she was born in the uk but now she's the other side of the planet and um to say that um ambergees of village and and now we kind of exemplify kind of the global village is somewhat kind of trite but i just think that millie bell i'm gonna i'm gonna do this and applaud because um we don't thank you enough for all of your hard work and um you know and there you go i've said it and no doubt on the show i'll say it again but i just wanted to say that because it was i was just i was i was lying in my bed loosey one day last week and i just shot up upright and i thought we just don't thank you enough so there you go we're going to have to do a special show at some point where we it's all about millie bell we're going to have to do that now it's has tagged the archers sweets of a week john porter pina pint uh look at the size of you a new diet book by our titchener the sequel to it's not my baby and culvert blocking made simple um julia lee who's saying the only thing that's comforting me is that it is very easy to dispose of a body on a pig farm yes i just imagine he's overall leg poking out or tweedy little sticky leg poking out of a pig trough um Denise Tomlinson who is dusty substances perhaps titchenob could give up breathing for leant yes that would be good hinge zandal so lily and what first attracted you to the millionaire just in elliot and steven perkins who has used a phrase that i've never heard before but i will be using henceforth on an hourly if not minute by minute basis given how clumsy toby is around pip i refuse to believe that any woman has ever offered him more than upstairs outside ease yes three to three that was who are well done steven perkins that made me laugh like a drain a lot me too that was good we are rapidly should we be telling people about the thing that derrick sorted out oh yes go on derrick has had a fit of uh enthusiasm and proactivity which is very unlike him probably because he can't get count down on the tv anymore so he has decided to book the bbc club for us who i can't tell you how every time i say these words my stomach sort of dissolves in a mass of diarrhea adrenaline um we're going to be doing a dumpy dump in front of a live studio audience at the bbc club which is in w1 a london uh on the seventh of march seven till ten uh you have to build b there yes obbs and the and the other lucy freeman yes trapped in the revolving door do you know that happened to me the other day and i thought the irony of this that i am actually going to be the lucy freeman that is trapped so yeah uh it we we get it we're still going to have the caller in iris but we will play the calls out to the audience so everyone can hear the calls and then we'll have a little chat about them uh and um uh derrick will be recording it with his uh spectacular equipment um and royfield then edit it and and put it out but the audience will be live if any of you turn up it will be there and it will be then be lost towards the sundry yeah absolutely um but we're not broadcasting it like lucy how do they come up it's ticketed so because of security and stuff you actually have to register to make sure that you're not going to rush in an attempt to assassinate zu lolly so um we will we will um and we'll put right to pasture probably yes no because she introduced the wreath lecture this year did you see yes introduced even hawking um yeah so it goes on uh it'll go on our website how to get tickets and then you do that so that's good and please come otherwise we will feel a bit stupid sitting in the theater all by ourselves i think there is room theater okay go on yeah i think there's there's there's room for seventy people good grief i know oh and when he told me i said oh thank you and then sat in our chair walking backwards and forwards and primal screaming um the seventh of march and what day of the week is that it's a monday crumbs why can you make it i'm going to be completely stuffed if you can't make it so i'm sorry it's london again guys but um it's quite it's very it's just very tricky to to not do it in london to be honest because we are both in london and so is derrick and so it is a venue that couldn't be used rapidly and and and is sort of willing to be used to those derrick's equipment that's also in london yep yeah and he can't be hauling that up the m11 right just just whilst we're on this at point um before uh my attention deficit uh disorder brain uh completely forgets this thought um if and i know there are a few dum de dums if there are a few dum de dums uh in new york and if they were so inclined to potentially do something round about maytime i wouldn't be averse to finding myself in manhattan or broklin in maytime that's all i'm saying that's all i'm saying you basically youth hostile through dum de dum don't you i'm not saying i want to sleep at their houses yes you are you're on a gap year not it's just it's your inter railing on dum de dum you're really sown your age into railing right do they not do that anymore does your express not go i'm just saying right i'm kind of have this loose plan in my head that um your plans are loose that's very true just bit like this podcast yeah and that's been a rip roaring success so don't knock loose plans i haven't been to new york for about five years and i'm thinking mmm round about maytime i should really go again it'd be really cool just to meet up i don't need to stop in anyone's house on anyone's city that's fine i can air be in b right so no one needs to put me up right food is looking for a bed in new york in may okay absolute opposite to what i've just said but anyway so new york dum de dum is i'll leave the ball in your court i think it's just about the end of the show so what should we crack on about with now articles on the website don't come yeah comment on shows you can message or the listeners and calling us directly um that type of thing yeah great all right really bell it's going to start around a forum news uh to go in with the kind of book of face dumbly dumb news uh and uh and that post was on dumblydumb.com so there you go so there are things that are happening in the dumbly dumb universe that you can only get hold of and know of first off you go to dum de dum.com so go there now in shop news uh this is a bit that Lucy absolutely loves especially when we go to the minutiae who's bought what and what size yes he should extra large for free man of all things so yeah yeah shop is laura from marin county is going to take over the running of the store so expect exciting news soon what i'm excited that was my excited face because it's just it means i won't have to worry about it and keep forgetting stuff uh over to you now Lucy news news of reviews we have an international smorgasbord of reviews this week can't read fed up from the frozen north miss joanna from also from canada land from the colony they got away brown dog pwm from blighty three kids one cat uh jack cuzzy splogget and tishin 73 who came along to our do did old tishin 73 um and then from the land of barbers and creeping republicism we have a review from psna you thank you for your reviews it's really good that um we put out this kind of culture everybody saying the itunes reviews are super duper important but they are because it pushes up the itunes charts and uh and that's all a good thing so please if you haven't written a review for us please go on to our tunes and please write a review and get your name on the end of the show and and next week we will present the extensive roll call of dumpty dogs but first the last two weeks have also seen an avalanche of love for the show informs of donations and if you want to help keep our little show on the road there are a couple of ways these can be done go to patreon.com/dumptydum and find us to support the show for two dollars or if you want to simply donate you can go to dumptydum.com and hit the donate button on the site on the forum there is a post it says 100 club meetup ficki from cambridge who wants listeners to add venue to where they would like to meet for the 100th episode she kicks things off by saying that cambridge england a flying pig hills road seven p.m. Thursday after the 100th podcast mrs bubble says she would also be very happy to meet pretty much anywhere in sydney as there will probably be only one or two others i will wait to see where you come back with before suggesting a place so please post if you're interested in the sydney meetup that is sydney australia not sydney bed for cheer or anywhere else hmm remember you can get in contact with us you can do that by sending us a voice message via our website on speed it's a little red tabby thing or you can call us on a zero two zero three zero three one three one zero five to leave us a telephonic message if you can't speak pipe or you can find us on the twitters where we're at dumptydum or you can tweet me on at ryfield me @lucyv freeman or sera smith absera_smith and finally you can find us on the book of face where we are dumptydum and we have nine hundred and twenty seven like our lurkers remember folks if you want to get to one thousand by our one hundredth show which is in six weeks time and my stomach's just gone again perfect time to finish the show i'm going to be on valium by the sixth of seventh of march well i'm surprised lucyv freeman you've been so reticent uh to uh perform in public that you want to perform not only in public but at the uh the bbc club what do you mean reticent about performing in public oh come on you get all funny like oh what people like me will put in the first time so will people come the people listen to the podcast will people like me will i be wearing the right front for the occasion you know it's all of that nonsense when it's done it it's come you poor boy it sort of starts off with eight no one will come and then oh my god they're coming now now they'll hate it and then all right well so if they don't they don't hate it then they are just take me and then yes and then on we go so the long day wears on deep breath sluice i'm sure it's going to be fantastic i'm super deeper looking forward to it and on that note it's goodbye from me and goodbye from me hello dumpty dum it's mary not contrary in taranto i'll start off by saying i am a mark that means the first thing i remember hearing on the arches was the death of mark hepton in 1994 so because i can just about remember that character i believe that according to the dumpty dum classification of different vintages of arches listeners i'm a mark pretty sure i did actually give that story about how i got to know the arches the first time i called dumpty dum which was round about episode three but i don't want to fall foul of lucy and moyfield's new rules so i'll say it again that i'm a mark what i'd like to talk about today is my frustration that various people who have different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is rob's treatment of helen don't seem to be able to put those pieces together because of constant interruptions so helen and kirsty um when helen was at the spa and seemed to be on the verge of opening up to kirsty they were interrupted by rob calling and then fallin we know saw helen was with helen when she broke down in front of clarry and susan um and then brushed it off and then so later fallin and kirsty were chatting in the tea room and again they seemed to be about to connect different parts of the helen story but they were interrupted by tom and of course that you know caused all kinds of other trains of thought for kirsty so and then when fallin emmer and kirsty were catering the wedding together kirsty had tried to call helen said to emmer maybe she can't call me back maybe she's not allowed to call me back something along those lines and before that thought could be taken any further fallin interrupted emmer and kirsty i'm just hoping that the women who kind of hold the different pieces of the puzzle of helen can kind of get together have some in uninterrupted time to really work through all of the different things they've seen i don't really know how to engineer those circumstances but i really hope it happens soon good day it's milli bell here i've uh called this in as a separate call because it's not really part of my dumpty-dum facebook roundup uh this is another page on facebook i just wanted to draw your attention to it's called the Tim Watson appreciation group and it seems to have started about a week ago and it already has 360 members uh just a little bit of attention because that's quite uh white one of the fastest growing arches pages i've ever seen apart from when the original page disbanded and three groups set up interesting in that the people have set it up obviously wants different shape between the excellent Tim Watson the actor and the part that he plays in the arches of rob titchener if you are interested in joining it i'm sure that you can i think that the original belief that uh Tim Watson had to leave social media because he was being harangued over his part as rob titchener was a big beat up i don't think that that's necessarily accurate but nevertheless those of us who enjoy the arches realize that the part of robbie's been played exceptionally well it's not an easy part to play because there are so many soft nuances so if you're interested uh scoot across kenny's family health care benefits kicked in the day he started his hourly job at amazon but two kids he was a big fan of that then he took advantage of amazon's on the job skills training program that helped him launch a new career in software development kenny liked that too that led to a bigger paycheck so he was able to get his youngest son a drum oh please drum set next up drum lessons learn more at about amazon.com amazon every day better so good so good so good what's better than black friday deals? rack friday deals and norstrom rack that's right for a limited time take an extra 40% off red tag clearance for everyone on your list save on ug, vince, free people, and more with an additional 40% off norstrom racks already reduced prices we're talking amazing savings on your favorite brands all sales final and restrictions apply so bring your gift list and your wish list to your nearest norstrom rack today and i'm not sure if you have to apply to join in but you can look for it and enjoy talking about Tim Watson and his many roles across lots of performing platforms, hooray!

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