Ambridge on the Couch

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Duration:: 1h 4m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jul 2024
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Love this podcast? Support this show through the supporter feature from Makecast. It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/Results to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com/Results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. Welcome to Ambridge on the Couch, an in-depth look at the arches with me, Harriet Carmichael, Lisa Freeman, Jeff Thomas, Matt Rodriguez Payne and James Everett. Now, before we make a start on your emails, let's have a recap of what happened this week in Ambridge. This week was bought to you by significant absences. We began the week at a festival that was either called wrinkly or winky, one of which sounds boring and the other one perverted. Paul seemed blithely unconcerned about his parents' imminent split. Considering his behaviour last week, I was expecting him to try and throw himself through plate glass windows, screaming, "Mommy, daddy, don't leave me." But he sort of shrugged and said, "Oh, well, never mind." This meant, of course, that he didn't know Alice there was about to be unveiled as his new daddy. Then grief vampire Lily decided to perform an autopsy on his still-twitching corpse and forced him to start weeping in a car park. She then laid into her brother, literally the second he emerged from a tent and accused him of being in a bad mood. Of course, he was in a bad mood. He just spent the night in a tent, unless you've been in there with Idris Elba or similar. You are absolutely going to emerge in a foul temper. Shelley Magna featured this week. She sounds nice. She's apparently a village with an Airbnb house in it, which Alina is going to have a hen party in. Chelsea has now started singing her sentences, which is pleasing, but I imagine would great on poor Fallon. The program seems to consist of eating cake, drinking tea, and having Chelsea fiddle with your feet. Sounds both bizarre and unhygienic. Natasha popped up, or rather clocked up, and ricocheted between how very dare you have a day off. The only reason she wanted her there in the first place was because they were having a new extractive fan fitted, which would just mean a man called Scott bashing it into play to the hammer-world drinking four cups of tea and swearing. Ruth then dropped Fallon and Chelsea right in it with Natasha, and with Natasha's custom ability to milk profit out of anything that befalls her, she has nicked the idea, and Fallon has unexpectedly found herself running a hen party specialist, making fairy cakes decorated with icing genitalia, and managing the career of a singing beautician. To a certain extent, though, it does entirely serve Fallon right, for using the phrase "ping my deeds." Stella's totally understandable reluctance to get involved in this shit show ended up in a somewhat bewildering conversation between Pip and Stella, a conversation like all the other ones they have, which purports to be about one thing, but as a strong undercurrent of something entirely different. It ended with what appeared to be Pip saying, "Get a kitten with me, or I'll marry you." Susan was getting overexcited about Milo Haywood, forager extraordinaire, visiting gay gravells and charging like a rhino for the privilege of stumbling round the woods with him while he waves weeds about. Susan tried to persuade Neil that paying £852 a person to eat a three-course meal that mostly consisted of things people have trodden on was worth it by pointing out that it was ages since they'd had a nice meal together. Neil was thinking more steak and chips than parsnip soup and poached bog trotter, so he went to bargain-root by offering to force feed her potentially fatal fungus himself. He tried it out on Jazza, and was banging on about ruined-worth, of which my garden is full and it absolutely stinks, you have to hold your nose to put it in the compost bin, so eating it would be utter madness. But that all happened off-mic, like everything else interesting that occurred this week, so we never heard Jazza trying to choke down a dog-leaf ristle. Anyway, turns out Milo Hayward is a git and was being mean to the staff, and what with that and Freddy's staff being mean to him, poor old Lily didn't know which way to turn in the bossy boots and steaks. Vince gave us a masterclass in 1960s workplace conflict management with Freddie, which mostly consisted of him saying, "You will be fine, so they put a few animal body parts in your pocket. Stop mowing you big fanny." Lily's response was to read up on HR Law while Freddie went "Lily, pack it in!" Elizabeth was apparently picking herbs. It was a shame, as it would have been nice to hear her view on her son, being decorated with pig innards, while her boyfriend does flop all, rather than leaving it to his sister to handle it. And by the way, when did we get to the "I Love You" stage with Alistair and Denise? They were looking at clouds like fatherington Thomas last time I heard. And to end a rather peculiar week, Lottie, a character we barely know and certainly don't care about, spent 10 minutes doing a tarot reading, the net result of which is that a group of women we don't know at all and certainly don't care about are now going to have to spend £20 each on a personalized dressing gown. Oh, no, how awful, how will we sleep? Good luck, everyone. The end. Oh, that gives me the shudders, that hen do gives me the shudders. If it was me and I was invited, I would spend every single day dreading it until it was over. Yes. Yes. And what a waste of money. Yes. I actually was, for the first time in forever, was on Pipside last night when she was going to see Lottie. Yeah. I'm not sure. Oh, God. Natasha. I love Natasha though. I just love her. I love her Lucy because she plays it so well. How about a towel, Ro? Yeah. I think we could do it for £20 a rope. I just love her. Is it Machiavellianess? Yeah. She's just an amazing character, isn't she? The way she switches as well, she's like, oh, I don't know. You have as much time as you like. I didn't realise it was something personal. You're doing what? Okay. And then she's like, Gordon Gekko, the second, you know, she's like, right, how can I exploit this to make some money? Right. But even the way she's Simon Kalds, the sort of... Yes. No, you are going to be fired if you weren't going to, you know, that's sort of like, you know, leading them. Oh, she is just perfect. A poor old... In a nasty way. Chelsea was just like a rabbit in headlights, wasn't she? Just flapping around, making it all so much worse. I couldn't really understand, though, whether... Because Fallon is employed, but she's not taking any business. She's... If the two rooms aren't doing Hindus, then Fallon isn't taking business away, and therefore she's not moonlighting. Fallon? She only moonlighting is... What Fallon was doing was absolutely legitimate, 100 percent legitimate. She wasn't using any of her equipment. She wasn't using. The only thing she did was be disingenuous about... About... And actually, she should take that time off. Yeah, take that time off. And really, she should have just said, yeah, I mean, as tricky as I would have done exactly. I wouldn't have come clean either. But then, Natasha had said that to me. I think I just would have said, do you know what? I'm so sorry, but that's not going to work for me because... Well, I mean, it's hard, isn't it? Because Natasha... Because Natasha can't fire her for... But anyway... To her boss to say... Why? What are you doing? Yes, exactly. That's not really on either. Yes. There was a lot of very, very bad employers. Yes. In this week. Oh, the whole week, it was all a big, big educational lesson in it. What to not do. HR 101. I did assume that if you work in an... This is terrible, because I'm sure HR is V good. But I think I probably just assumed it wasn't going to be great in Natasha. It's such a yucky... Well, I mean, I've never worked in one. Obviously. And I probably should to broaden my horizons. But I can't imagine... I assume they must be quite the culture of an aperture. I think when you have... Quite laddie. Yes. When you have a very, very male dominated environment, it can be tricky. But it doesn't matter what the industry is, if you've got a good HR department, it doesn't matter whether you're selling this of Dead Cow or Lipstick, it should be the same. The rules should be the same and the HR department should be as strong. And if you get a good HR department, then they're brilliant and they... Well, not always. It doesn't... I've got... It's a really tricky thing though, the bullying thing, because I've got a friend going through it at the moment. I can't say what it is, but it's a bit... But the company is a private company and the trouble... The trouble starts with the boss. He is the problem. Yeah. But you know, the sort of feedback is always, "Well, the boss is the boss. He is who he is." And so... So she... My friend is going through this legal thing at the moment, but actually it looks like she... She probably won't. It's so hard to win against bullying, isn't it, unless you've got very clear evidence of what's going on. Yeah. And then what Vince is going to do is sack all his workers, because they're gagging up on Little Lord Fauntleroy. They need to... He needs to be... He needs to be... He needs to be... He needs to be... He needs to be documenting... A friend he needs to be... Well, I mean, he's not going to... He's not going to... He's good at it, isn't he? Yeah. Yeah. But it is Vince... You know, it's Vince's fault, because... Because Vince... You know, because Freddie was clear all along that he didn't want to get so-and-so into trouble. Yeah. And... Well, because Vince said categorically, if you tell me... He didn't say categorically, but he said, "If you tell me, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to fire you." So then he told him, and then he went right and fired. Yeah. So, you know, which, you know, dropped Freddie in it, because Freddie had sort of been quite relieved by that, hadn't he? So the problem... the culture problem is Vince, because he's creating this map show, sort of, suck it up. Yeah. But then you... But then... So that's... it's impossible to change while he's there. Yeah. So if I was Freddie, I think I would just be like, "I just have to get through this, and eventually they'll get bored of it." I mean, the trouble with... I mean, I'm just going to go in there and sort it out for you, Freddie. Yes, exactly. You can... if you play it by the letter, people win tribunals by playing it absolutely by the letter and saying employment law states that you should have notified me ten days before you did blah, blah, blah. You notified me nine days before, therefore, you're in the wrong. Oh, right. And that's how people... because it comes down to that kind of level of... 20 detail. Yeah. Pureocracy in detail. But that's... if it's a bad HR department in my view, but if you've got somebody reasonably reasonable who manages to spot conflict and create a culture that neutralises it straight away or identifies possible flare points and sort of works with the company to avoid that, you save yourself an absolute... you know... But then Vince's HR department, is it just his cousin or is there one? Yeah. Do you have to have an HR department? I mean, if you're a small business, presumably you don't have to have one. No, you have to have somebody in charge of each whose responsibility it is because of all the policies. You have to have a policy and stuff and somebody in charge of it. Right. But, you know, yeah. Yeah. But anyway, no, it's quite... I actually found it... I found this week really interesting. I really enjoyed it because I always quite like the employment politics. And I loved the... because I thought it was quite clever having the different... all the bullying stuff, like the Milo Hayward, showing me to hear him, because I assumed that he could be Lily's next boyfriend. Well, that was annoying. There was so much that happened. Yeah. We got the boring week and it was like all the interesting stuff was happening in the next room with the door shut again. Why was nobody sick after they ate the English mushrooms? Exactly. What was point? Yes. What was point? I mean, that must be an ongoing thing, isn't it? Like, it felt like... you know what it felt like this week, which is such a terrible thing to say and of course it was nothing to do with this. But I do a show, which I will not name, which is online only, and the show... the episodes are based on algorithms, so they're based on what's trending every week or... so the theme of the episode is always what's been trending lately, and it felt a bit like that was this week because you had bullying in the workplace, foraging, which is very current, going through divorce. There was quite a lot of themes going on, but they weren't... they were just sort of thrown away together. Oh my God, it takes months of preparation. And of course they're going to go on and on and on. But yeah, it was a shame that we didn't get... oh, and the hen party. It was sort of like, what's trending this week? What can we hashtag for our episodes? And because the foraging thing is really current at the moment, a friend of mine this week was talking about, she's booked on for her husband's birthday. I think it's with, uh, some... it's with one of the big chefs, any of it. He's only making stuff. They're doing exactly... No, not even him. Okay. It's sort of more a less cottage-y type chef. Right. I want to say Michael Corring, but that's one of our listeners, actually. Yeah. So, yes. I don't think Michael Corring... Oh, God. ...the librarian. The 18-year-old librarian. It's somebody... ...foraging. I don't know. Maybe it's a chef at the Corring, or something, or some big hotel. Anyway. And she was telling me about it. She was saying what she got for her. And I went, "Oh, my God! But that's happening in the arches this week." And she looked at me like, "What's he talking about?" She didn't... It's just annoying when people don't listen to the arches. Yes. And they can't go, "I know. It's so weird." And then you realise, "Well, I sort of go, 'Ooh, you...' ...and then just stop because I realise I'm going to be embarking on a world of pain, trying to explain to people that don't listen to what's happening." Also, I think she was slightly offended as well, because she was talking about it like it was... Of course, it's a... Well, they've had a lot of money, and it's a really big, exciting thing that they're doing. And then I was like, "Oh, my God! The arches do..." Yeah. And I could see her sort of... And that was pretending to be as much more... ...forrowing. Yeah. Yeah. But obviously they're not doing it, because it's so expensive, and you just do it on your own. But why was no one poisoned? Surely that was going to be the whole point of that period. People on Twitter were creating lists, of lists in order for whom they would like to be bumped off. You know, who they would like to not emerge from this crisis. It seemed to be going so in that direction when she was going, "Ah, yeah, now this is deafening to all of that shit, aren't you?" Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then even Neil was like, because she said, "She then said to Neil, is this right?" And he was like, "Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's fine." Yeah. And then maybe it just... I don't know. But they even put the warning on at the end, "If you're going to go foraging, please make sure that you're..." Did they? Yeah. The first time it was mentioned, they talked about mushrooms and said, "Make sure, you know, don't do it if you don't know what you're doing." Wow. It's a sweet... People are killed every year by eating. Yes. I'm not surprised. And it's so popular now, isn't it, to go and get... I sent Lucy a menu this week of a cafe I was in where pretty much everything on the menu was foraged. Yeah, foraged. I think they just made bought. Because it was... Because if they're in Donting Hill, and it said, "Foraged the Hampshire," and you think, "Well, then it was someone picked it and sent it to you," I might as well have foraged potatoes from Morrison's. Well, that's the thing, isn't it? It's always better to get frozen, because they pick it and freeze it immediately. If it's foraged, it's wilting in a van for two and a half hours on the M3. It sort of loses its charm. Yes, but you get to use the word "fourished" on a menu, which is worth an extra seven quid. If anybody's money surely, if you're in Donting Hill. Oh, my God, this was so much foraging. Oh, I want to hear more about Woundwort. Oh, God, it smells. I mean, I think what Neel said, "You don't eat it, then." Yeah, you chew it, and then you put it on Wound's. I love all that stuff. But how are you holding stuff? How you can let it even near you, I don't know, because honestly, the smell is foul. What does it smell of? I looked it up, and it was described as astringent, which is a very polite way of putting it. But so it's astringent, but I don't mind that. I don't eat bitter. Smell. OK, but it's not like it doesn't smell like an infected wound, because that would be... No, no, no. Yes. No, that would be horrible. No, it just smells... Yeah, I told you about my infected wound seeping out while I was watching a play. No. The theatre stunk, or it felt like it did. What? Now, my thumb got infected. This is so disgusting, so if you're eating your breakfast, please tune out. I had... I think my thumb got infected, and it was so painful, it was swelled up. I thought I got sepsis, everything. Anyway, but eventually, it was under my fingernail, the infection, and then I went to see people places' things, which is excellent, and it's about addiction, and well, that's quite intense, though, and quite long, and the infection was seeping out in a pus-like form while I was at the theatre, and I could smell it. Yeah, it was disgusting, Lucy. God, that's not what you needed to know. I thought you needed to know that. Yeah. I was going to have an egg sandwich after this, but I don't think I am now. It's stunk. I can't get the smell out of my nose. I can't un-smell it. Once you've smelled it, you can't un-smell it. Yeah. And I had to keep hiding my finger under my legs, because my neighbour kept sort of like turning around. Okay. What's that? It's that. It's that. It's definitely not Woundsport. That's a little bit more fun, more fungal, less astringent. Sorry, I'm so obsessed with the smell. I can't stop telling everyone about it. It's interesting, though, isn't it, that we have such a reaction to that, because we know it means it could mean death for us. Yes. So it's like we have this instinct of, oh, that's, you know, like rotting meat where you can't... You eat... It's like, you know, when ham's gone funny, and it kind of goes sticky, and you don't realise what you're putting in your mouth, and then my throat just goes, nope, and that's it. And you can't swallow it, because immediately your brain's going, nope, dangerous to you. I did it with malt. I did it. I think it was like a glass of water or something, and it was obviously old, but I hadn't realised that I took a sip, and I went, oh, because it basically had mould on the top of it. It was so disgusting. It's amazing, isn't it? What your body... Yep. How your body rejects. Yes. And bad stuff smells. Yeah. It smells people. Don't do it. Don't... When you open that fish... Don't eat carrots rotting thumb. That's... Don't knick it by rotting thumb. Don't knick it by rotting thumb. Don't knick it by rotting thumb. Don't knick it by rotting thumb. I'm obsessed with his thumb smelling funny, or his finger smelling funny or something. That's what it is. It's probably seen your thumb dangling off and stinking. It was so disgusting. And I've still... This is like five weeks later, I've still got a plaster over it, because there's no fingernail there. Right. Ooh. It's a medieval person. I was gonna say... Yeah. It does sound a bit black-deafy, doesn't it? Yes. And I'm really sorry to tell everyone, and I feel a bit disgusting having done it, but it's like I have to get it off my chest all the time. I have to explain to everyone why I've got plaster on my thumb, and then they're like, we never asked. It's my thumb squatting, and it really smells. Mark. Sorry about that. Sorry. Sorry. I'm going to tell you another disgusting thing now. Oh yeah, go on. Tell me. I love disgustingness. I love it. My friend took her little boy, who was three, to the doctor, and said, "The doctor said what's the problem?" And she said, "He just smells. He smells really horrible." She said, "When I kiss him good night, I can smell it, and he smells only on his face." So the doctor said, "Right, okay." And said, "Yes, he does." And this poor little boy said they're going, "Why do I smell?" And the doctor looked up his nose, and about three months ago he had inserted a small piece of bath sponge up his nose, where it had rotted, and sort of become stuck, grown into the inside of his nose, and the doctor removed it, and the little boy went, "Oh, that's better." He said, "It's been smelling horrible up there," he said. So for three months, he'd been walking around with a rotting bit of sponge up his hoot. I'm so sorry to all our listeners, Lucy. You started it with your rotting thumb, your medieval pen. Oh, my God, it's just disgusting. I know. But she went out. And her husband. What was it? Is it all right? Because her husband had been convinced himself that he had got a blow too, but she said, "Yeah, rotting bath sponge." And he went, "Oh." Wow. Aye, I can't believe it didn't crust up and come down. I know, because she was thinking it was going to be kind of like some horrible ear, you know, that he'd got rotten and some bang, and, "Oh, that is extraordinary, I've never heard anything like that." Poor little boy, though. Okay, that beat's my thumb. Poor little boy. Yeah, but he doesn't smell any more. No, he doesn't. Happy ending. No, yes, very happy ending. For all consent. Why did we get on to-- Oh, because of the abattoir. Because of wound work. Wound work. That's it. Would you like to go to a hen party? No. No. That hen party. I've never been to one, and I would not go to that. What? You've never been to a hen party. Nope. What do you mean? None of my friends get married. You've never been to a hen party. One of my friends has got married, and she invited me to the hen party. And I couldn't go. You've never had to wear a bunny tail? Certainly not. Or a t-shirt with the brides. No. What? No. Wow. You're so lucky, Lucy. Thank you. They are the most horrible occasions. Yes. It kind of feels to me quite kind of pagan and like your sacrificing of virgin or something. It doesn't feel very 21st century. Well, it's just how much money can we spend this weekend. That's what it is. Before we go and spend loads more money in the wedding. Yeah. And by the way, here's the present list. Exactly. And they're so tiring because you have to sort of keep your... I mean, obviously I've been on a couple of really lovely ones, and it's always great, but I just think it's... Can't we just go out from tea, which is an hour and a half and then go home? Yes. Because I don't... I mean, I don't... I think nowadays it's even worse, isn't it? But they are... They're all our tough friends. And she practically had to take time off work to just organise it. Not even go to it. She had to... No! It was incredible. Because you've got 20 people and if you're going away or even going to a cottage, and then that's the thing that you've got to provide entertainment. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think it's sweet. Like, I think the idea of Alina's party, where you just go to a lovely national trust cottage or whatever, and watch films, this is really nice. But you don't need to do Manny Peddi's and all that. No. You can't hear the word "Manny Peddi" one more time. I don't know. Who was it you kept saying it? Was it Fallon? No, Pip. Manny Peddi. Manny Peddi. Manny Peddi. Manny Peddi. Manny Peddi. Manny Peddi. But that's right. So basically, you've got... So if you've got Fallon and Chelsea's package, surely that's at least 25 pounds ahead for 20 and Manny Peddi's, at least, then you've got the cost of the cottage, which will probably be... Yeah. Plus those bloody gowns. So that's another 40. So that's... Yeah. You're looking at sort of 50/60. You're looking at... No, you're looking at... Well over 100 quid each. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're looking at 200 quid. At least. And that's before... And getting back. And the food and the lifestyle. Booze. Yeah. Exactly. It's a lot of money. It's enforced gaiety. That's what I can't stand. Making these decisions without checking with Alina first. Yes. If I was Alina, I'd be a bit cross about that. Yeah. She's like, "I don't want some flowers." Yeah. I find it quite triggering. Yeah. There's a wall going on in my country. Yes. And this isn't really... Yeah. Doing it for me. I don't want to put words into Alina's mouth, but I thought that might be a bit insensitive. So like, "Hey, let's really fill this house with what you created means to us." Everybody turn up and come back here. No. Oh. I would much rather hear from Alina. Yes. I'd rather not hear from any of them, to be honest, apart from Stella, who you can just... They were the whole weirdness is. This every, at the moment, almost everything that Pip does is sort of is or is referencing marriage. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The future of her relationship with Stella. Yeah. They've only been going out for six months. Yeah. Yeah. It's the only a fortnight until Stella says, "I can't deal with this level of intensity." Well, someone said, and I will read the email shortly when I found it, said, "Basically, it's until she meets Anna Trigorran." So, we're just going to wait until she meets Anna Trigorran and then Pip will be done. Another sent... Yes. A sensible woman. Yes. Exactly. An intelligent, sensible, yes, unflappable person. Yes. I've grown up. I've grown up. This is from Jin David, who said, "I have always been Team Natasha, but I'm thinking the unthinkable. Fallon cannot allow Natasha to muscle in on her side hustle. Has Fallon signed a non-competition clause as part of her contract? If not, then she can use her free time to do whatever she likes and Natasha hasn't got an upcycled leg to stand on. Chelsea showing her naivety in egging Natasha on. This is bad news for Fallon all round and hopefully will hasten her going off on her own to resume her business. Like any self-respecting Welsh person, Natasha was getting her extractor fitted before the ice deadfoot, which starts on August the 3rd, very sensible. But if I see Natasha on the mice, she will be getting a piece of my mind." He says. Nice. Why couldn't Natasha be there when the extract of her and going off? It's quite important actually. Because it goes on the ceiling? Yeah. Not by the door. Okay? So there is a ladder. Do you know what I'll come anyway and I'll just clop about behind you? Bloody hell. Now, who was it who said that? Was it Jennifer Cooley? Ah, that's it. Jennifer Cooley says. "Brogfield is the central farmer of Ambridge. Ben, Josh, Pippenco are beginning to get on a bit. But as yet, there is only one great-grandchild. Stella not keen to even adopt Kitten does not want to marry, and I can't see her wanting a baby to make a sibling for Rosie. While she's feckless, poor old Ben still traumatized, but unless someone breeds soon, we are doomed to the traviles of Rotund Rosie and her cats. Even the other arches have not really made us a new generation. Daniel Lou had so much potential as a friend of Dorothy has disappeared. Neither Lily nor Freddie married, let alone producing an heir. Mariel apparently phobic of flying and can't call. Where does this leave us? Come on, scriptwriters. We should be well into courting, marrying, breeding phase, even with the youth of today. I want to still have something to listen to in 20 years' time. Stella not marrying. I bet she might feel different if it was Anna Travogon. She was Anna Travogon. She was dating. Yes. Well, what's going to happen is the Grundy's are going to outgrow the arches, isn't it? And it would be too big of that, it's called it going to be the Grundy's. Oh yes, and lots of people said this, but I'm going to read out Carla's email. 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Unlimited more than 40 gigabytes per month, so full turns at mintmobile.com. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row, as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linked in. The place to be. To be. Uhh, Alison McNabb says I have resolved the pit wanting a kitten issue. She could adopt Hilda. Great idea. What has happened to Hilda now? Who's got her? Yes, I can't remember. Is it Brian still? Or did he give it back? Because Brian had, Brian was dumped with Hilda, wasn't he? Yeah. They didn't get on very well. I can't remember. I-I-I cannot remember. No. But someone will tell us, Lucy. Do you remember-- ah, no, this is from Caroline in Germany, who says, "Please definitely file this under misc or not relevant or interesting in the slightest. But when I just saw this news item, my mind went straight to the archers, of course, and I had to share. Ralph Schumacher, the Formula One guy and brother of Michael Schumacher, came out the other day and introduced his partner Etienne there, history solved. Sorry, Paul." She says, "Yes." That's a brilliant email. Oh, for you, at least we know where he's gone. Paul, how are you milliating? Andrew says, "George's walk," you know, somebody said last week, "I had to walk. George's walk will be spotted on one of Robert Snell's portfolio of video doorbells installed after the dog attacks. But he wasn't in the village. He was outside the village. He wasn't even walking through the village, unless he's been holding the ciders, maybe." Yes, yes, walking back. Oh, yeah, no, he's walking back from the village. Oh. There might be a house. What was that funny new village that we've got this week? Shelley Magna. Shelley, Shelley. Sounds like someone who was in dynasty. I know. I'm Shelley Magna. Welcome to Talking with Shelley. Do you want a hen party? No. Neither does anyone else. Bex says, "Please let Jazza and Neil have picked magic mushrooms. Please, please, please." That's what everybody was waiting for for the point. Come on. This must be to be continued, surely. You have said that before, Lucy, about many a story. Oh, yes. Many, many, many. Now, where is this amazing? You're going to have to talk amongst yourself, because I can't find it. Oh, I'll tell you what. I could read out the menu at my foraging menu, if you like, if I can find it. So, she can't find it myself. Nice. Nice noise. Cute. I just can't find it. So, this is really interesting. Oh, here it is. Here it is. Okay. So, what would you go for? In the foraging category, would you go for, obviously you wouldn't go for the mushroom coffee. I didn't think. Would you go for, what is lion's mane? So, you could have grilled lion's mane. I know this one. Oh, okay. It's hand up and waves it. Tell me. Like a good spot. It isn't. It's a fungus. Oh. And it's a fungus and... You can't call a fungus a lion's mane, because that picture makes me feel sick. Yeah. Hippies take it, or people who are gullible, take it because it's supposed to improve brain function. But is it like a sort of hairy fungus? No. No, I don't know. Oh, it's ragged. So, they sell it on, they sell it in, they were selling it in, in Jeremy Clarkson's shop. It's very, very popular with people who aren't very kind of a bit, you know, all the new fab things. Yes. I know what you mean. Do you mean people who bury their menstrual blood and have sort of rituals? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And organically grown in the UK, wild forage lions made, lightly grilled and salted buckwheat flowers served on a parsley sauce. No. Or, wild sea aster turned in garlic butter served in organic grass. Can't read the red, fed kefir. Oh. Oh. Sea buck thorn kisbachio. Sea buck thorn berries foraged in Scotland. They've come a long way. Bull's heart tomatoes parsley cucumber sea salt and apple cider vinegar. No. Oh, no. None of the above. Who is that? That's all sat horrid and you're paying to eat it as well. You couldn't pay me enough to eat that. And it doesn't sound like anything. It's just, you're eating grass. Is it here? Nothing's going to fill you up. How much is that stuff just, just to make everyone outside London laugh heartily? How much is it? The sea buck thorn berries foraged in Scotland with the gisbachio is seven pounds. The wild sea aster in garlic butter served in organic grass fed kefir is seven pounds. The grilled lion's mane, 11 pounds. Grilled mushroom. Grilled. It's not even a mushroom. I expect you only get one as well. Yeah. I mean, these are small plates. So. Yeah. Nah. Not for us. We should go for it. We should go for a foraged meal though, Lucy. No, we should. Well, only if we can film it. Or is that? It took for laughing. I do love mushrooms. Do you? Yeah. And actually, I didn't know you could get shunned around. I love mushrooms. And I love truffles. I love truffles. Yes. Oh my God. I once went to the truffle capital of Italy, which is near, oh, near Brasher, somewhere like that. It was amazing. And they do sort of competitions up there. And I, it is still the best meal I've ever eaten, the truffle. It was white truffle pasta or something. It was out of this world. So we should go there in truffle season. Yes. Let's do that. Because it was so lovely. And it was, it's a sort of part of Italy that you don't really go to because you haven't got the Leaning Tower of Pisa in it and stuff. Good. But it was so pretty in the food. So lovely. So you don't have to do any sightseeing, you can just go to restaurants. Oh, lovely. That's like lovely. Yeah. And nothing is silly money. It's just, you know, just really good. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. Let's do that. Ah. Right. I'm going to have to do a public appeal. It wouldn't be where else could it be? Whoever emailed me about the radio, the Gherka radio station, oh, yes, please, um, that you'll know what it's about when I mentioned your sister, please, please email it again because I can't find the email. I don't know where the hell it's gone. But it's gone. Why do you need it? Because it would help if we listen back. No, it is secret, but there's, there's an amazing thing has happened. And of course, now I can't find the sodding. Oh, oh, okay. So, oh gosh, let's hope they're listening to this episode. Yes. You could do a sort of challenge. Anika appeal, couldn't you? Yes. Let's do that. Two, who was listening to the Gherka? I can't remember. Surprise, surprise. We're a bit all over the place this morning, aren't we, Lucy? Because I, because we got our AM and PM muddled up. Yes, well, I did. I did. I did. I did. What I did too. I didn't check. I thought you meant PM. She meant AM. So we're running a bit late, you've been up for hours, you've got a guy picking your sweet peas. I don't know who it is. I thought it was Jeff, it wasn't Jeff. Did you hear? Could you hear all that? Yes. I heard everything. I was about 10 minutes. And you were going, because if you don't, they would die. Yes, I know. And then they would die. And I thought, oh, Lucy's being bossy to Jeff. I am. Well, didn't know. Yes, I'm much bossier than that to Jeff. You were giving your friend a job while you were doing your job. Yes. Which is very good. Right. Uh, this is from Paul Lee, who says everyone having a go at, um, about, um, poor old Georgie taking his shirt off and, um, getting some burnt. He said, man alive. Now the summer is here. My wife said to me while I was mowing the front lawn, take your top off if you're hot. Now 20 years ago, maybe, but moobs, a zipper scar under stomach, which has its own post coat screams, no, don't hurt the neighbour's eyes. Sorry, my front garden is on the local bus route. So what do we do suffer heat stroke or accept the wolf whistles of people I would liken to Lillian and joy and other demented farmers? He says, just chuck it in, darling, chuck it in. Uh, now Christopher's birth. Do you remember last time we were talking about? Yeah. Um, uh, this is from Bridget, who says, I remember the episode when Chris was born. He was carried out at the room before Susan had even seen him and the episode ended with her calling out, trying to understand what might be wrong with the baby. Very traumatic for Susan and clearly for me too. Some days later, Eddie Grundy came to visit and warmed Neil's heart by saying something like, he looks like Winston Churchill, all babies do. So yes, that was the story for that. Um, now lots of people have found the arches play at the water mill that we couldn't find. Wow. Yes. Oh my God. I don't know how people do it. Many, many, many. Well, some of them are librarians, which helps. Okay. Um, Ellen, however, is a vet and said, uh, she did a bit of digging in the British newspaper archives, uh, including and found, uh, including a great photo of the cast, including Lizzie. Uh, sounds like it was a great night out, complete with a real ambulance. My favorite line no came from the Reading Evening Standards Review, which after describing the unconventional staging said, it's not an approach one would like to see adopted for all plays. What were they doing as sort of, um, what's it called where you walk around? Yes. Yes. All right. Wow. Uh, Paul Wiskin found it, uh, there is a reference to performance by Charles Collingwood as being Brian Archer, um, which he, uh, clearly isn't his Brian Aldridge. Um, and it was reviewed in the, the, uh, his, his, uh, the times, June the 18th, 1985. Uh, Marilyn, uh, said that, uh, it started out, she's, she, he found, she found her husband's diary entry from Monday the 8th of July, where he'd written about it. Oh my gosh. Uh, started inside, moved outside in front of the river, then quarter of a mile away to Grange Farm back to the village fate where Marilyn bought a Mr. Snowy special from Nigel Padgeta and Elizabeth Archer added the marshmallows. Then back inside, Marilyn had the winning ticket, got kissed by Brian Aldridge and offered the job of accountant at home farm. Oh, that's really fun. Yeah. Oh, what's it called? A prom, a, like a bit like... So it started, yeah, it started off, um, inside the theatre where they watched rehearsals of the village entertainment, then the fire alarm sounded and we all had to leave the theatre. We gathered on the lawn where we realised we were frantically trying to attract our attention. It was Clary telling us there'd been an accident and Joe Grundy needed help, um, then they rescued Joe Grundy and then came back and found the ambrage fate in full swing on the lawn. That is so cool. See Perk's doing bowling for the peak and Mr. Snowy's ice cream van with Elizabeth and Nigel. Wow. What a trolley. Yeah. God. And how complicated as well. Yeah. They should do another one. Yeah. Yeah. Uh... Dum, dum, dum. Yes. Um, uh, Ray Bedo says, um, could we have an hour long special of you doing Clary? Clary sex toy. Oh. In person. No. Oh, Carrie, remember. It's a... What was she saying? It was a long... It was a long... Oh. It's so big. Oh, that'll never fit. All right. That's enough of that. That's too rude. Too rude. Too early in the morning. Ah, dear. Now. Do you remember last week's What's the Ellie's Happening Ear? Mmm. No. What's the L? It's happening. What the hell was happening? Hey. It was Lynda singing in a tent. Oh, yes. And we were trying to work out why she was singing in a tent. And we thought it was someone else, didn't we? Yes. Because at first it sounded like... No, it was... It was Lynda, wasn't it? But at first it sounded like Susan warbling away, I think. Something, yeah. Yeah. Um, Barbara says, was Lynda protesting about changing the name of the pub from the ball to the beer at Ambridge? This is a protest close to my heart as our local pub was bought by a swanky up-market restaurant chain who promptly stripped out all the previous owners' rather lovely decor and turned it into a Scandi chic type restaurant. They also removed all the draft bitters and only sell bottled continental lager type stuff. They have also changed the name of the pub without consulting the locals at all. The pub was called The Star, but I can't get the new move as it would... New name as it would pinpoint the location. The pub has been The Star since 1721. Oh no, I'm sorry. That legally shouldn't be allowed to change that. Absolutely. I kind of thought that... It was listed and you couldn't, but anyway. Wow, yeah, exactly. I'm so sorry. Yeah. So they did an attasher on it. Er... Yes, basically. Yeah. Um... So... But it wasn't that, actually. It wasn't Lynda protesting. It was Lynda helping Allen's Lent appeal, where he was sleeping in a tent for the whole of Lent. When he came down with a bad cold, Allen, this was, other villagers volunteered to take his place, including Lynda, who had set up the tent to the churchyard to watch out for a Peregrine falcon. And Kate had come back to Anchorage on a trip from South Africa with Sipo. Yes, I actually remember that. Do you? Yeah, I do. Do you know? Okay. I remember them... Because I knew they'd been all been sleeping. Yeah, sleeping in tents, something to do with the church. Okay. But Allen seems to be in a tent a lot, doesn't he? He does. He must do it yearly. She's been in the tent with him, hasn't she? Yeah. He loves getting in his tent, doesn't he? So, this is this one's, this week's. Ready? Yeah. Well, yes, Glen, I'd be delighted. And thank you very much. And... Laters. Goodbye. Thanks. Mike, Jim Lloyd. Oh, you're right, Jim. More than all right, you're going to be famous. Hey? They must have been desperate. No. Anyway. Congratulations. What? What was that? Yeah, that was it. And then it finishes. Yeah. Because Jim was clearly doing something Machiavellian, wasn't he? Because he sort of went... Ha ha ha ha ha. I'd probably... But what? It wasn't enough. There wasn't enough content. No. What was? Sorry, James. No. I couldn't. It wasn't enough clues. And what... He said it wasn't Wayne. Who did he... His voice... His name, did he say? He said thank you, somebody. Oh, did he say a name? Yeah. Oh, James. That's too difficult. Oh. Well, what would... What did he think Mike was going to be famous for? Not ball dancing. What else? What other... What other... What other... High achievements, is Mike... Come to... No. No. I've no idea. No. That's very tricky. I have now found the email that I lost. Oh, good. OK. Oh, the gurker one. The gurker one. Oh, no, this is great. Do you remember... Oh, hold on. Sorry. Is this... Is this the big news? Yes. Oh. Do you remember... I told you I was better at faking it. This is from Fiona. Do you remember... Last week, we talked about this poor lady in Hong Kong trying to listen to tapes and that one week they just used to put the tape on and sold off and then it was a week, a week wrong. Yes. So... So funny. And the gurker show was after or before in the same studio? After, yeah. Right. So... Fiona says, "I listened and laughed at the story. I listened and laughed at the podcast until we got to Alison's email and I dropped the turkey plucker, not really. It was a pizza cutter. That I had been washing and said loudly, 'Allison, Lucy, that was my sister.' My sister, Fiona's sister, who was decidedly not an archer's fan, years ago was charming my boss at the radio station where I worked. He was explaining how my job required attention to detail and I was rather good at it. She laughed and said, 'Well, when I worked for Forces Radio in Hong Kong, I got into terrible trouble one day when instead of loading up that day's the archers, I accidentally loaded up the following week's episode, which apparently ruined a plot. There were so many complaints.' Oh my gosh. Alison, I am so sorry, she says. My sister really wasn't as she doesn't like the archers and couldn't understand why I was so horrified that she'd done that. Keep up the good work, Fiona. Wow. Oh my goodness. Of all the coincidences. I know. That's amazing. I know. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. That's amazing. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. Wow. Yeah. I'm not faking it loosey. I didn't even think that. So we've had like a challenge and then we've solved it. We've had a mystery and a solving in two weeks. We know who the c- I think she should step forward. Yes. Onto the podcast. Forward Fiona's sister. Formal apology. Your please. From Alison. That is hilarious. Wow. Oh, guys, let's all get together. Fiona also says that Alexa very much struggles with playing Ambiage on the couch because her Alexa is American because she's in Pennsylvania and she's tried to get it to be English but it doesn't understand her accent. So she says play Ambiage on the couch and it says playing Ambi Dukes and she said no and from the couch and it says playing ambient music, no. Play Ambiage on the couch and it probably played Playing on the Couch by Prince. Which is what we named our podcast off. Yes, absolutely. Totally totally. I'm sorry but Alexa is, I think the trouble is you have to update her. We haven't updated a lot in 10 years because you could say something as simple as play the locomotion and she'll be playing Ellie Eilish and it's just, I mean like, she gets more and more ludicrous in her wrongness. Yeah. Yeah. Playing the new Testament. Red by Benedict Cumberbatch. What? I don't know. I don't know. I was like anything else. I did like that. AC, DC. Yeah. No. I want it. I want it. That's a good plan. Bless her. This is a throwback. Is that because this is that? Yeah, because that one was so obscure. Right. Listen to this. Yeah. I'm getting a doll's house for my birthday and it's a bit too. Yes. That's nice boy Kate. Don't cost 95 pounds. Oh gosh. Daddy says I'm spooked. He's still right for me now. Well you do ready? The cold are here soon. I'm in here on Tijoo. That's a good girl. On Tijoo. Don't you think she'll look like Sam? I don't think so. I'm in here on Tijoo. I'm in here on Tijoo. That's a good girl. On Tijoo. Don't you think she'll look like Sam? No. She's better not go keeping any fog. That's a laugh. Come and go here. In a minute dear. Why don't you go and look out for the car? I want to sit in the middle. Should I stand on the steps and wait so they know they've come to the right place? Don't crease your dress. All right. All right. I won't. I give her two hours. Then I throttle her. Is this head dress all right? It looks lovely. Oh dear. We come to the bells. I don't know who's more nervous. Your father or me? What's dad got to be nervous about? It is the moment he's been waiting for since Shulu was born. It's very emotional for him. He's got to give her away. He says he has. No one's going to buy her, are they? Oh. Hey, she remembers to swap her engagement rent to the other hand. Yes, I saw her do it. I do hope David recognizes Bunty. She'll be furious if she had to find her own pew. Oh, can you miss Bunty? She gets it? Oh, can you miss Bunty? She gets her clothes from rent to tent. Well, someone get that child out of the house before I break her neck. If anyone's going to strangle Kate, I think as chief bridesmaid, it should be me. What's she doing now? She's decided she wants to wear nail vinyl. Oh, I'll sort her out this bed. So that was... Oh, I love it. That was baby Tracy, wasn't it? Yes. That was Susie. Yeah. That was Susie playing little Kate. Wow. You wouldn't know, would you? She had to try and push up and sound just like the others. Yes. What on earth is Bunty? Oh, all right. I will. Oh, my God. So Bunty... So Bunty, that was Mark and Sheila's wedding in 1985. Wow. Oh, same year as the play. Yes. And 1985 and so Bunty was... Susie was only about six or seven then. Yeah. Bunty was Mark's mother. Oh. She gets her clothes from rent attempt. Yes. She gets her glaze from rent attempt. So funny, isn't it? It's the way... It's that lovely... It's the pattern of the speech, isn't it? Yes. Dab-a-dab-a-dab-a-dab-a-dab-a. Yeah. It's so evocative of... I mean, I think of the 1950s or... Yes. Well, especially with the old bacon frying in the back, which kind of adds to the whole thing. Yeah, makes it so much older. Yeah. Oh, that is brilliant. Oh, James, I love these. They're amazing, aren't they? Yeah. Jill sounded so terribly terribly. Yes. Oh, it's just gorgeous. Nice to know that people wanted to strangle Kate even when she was six. Yes, I know. It was very funny, actually. She wants to wear nail varnish. It just shows, though, the character consistency that they do when we moan about it. You know, they do... They do... The script writers do, you know, Kate's always been... Yes, exactly. Difficult. She's always been demanding. Yeah. It's going to cost five pounds. Daddy says it's going to get it for me anyway. Because I'm me. Brilliant. Oh, I love that. Thank you very much, James. Thank you, James. And now we are going over to Gay Grables, where Milo Haywood has a few concerns. Spencer, can I have a word? Oh, no, oh, no. Coming, Mr. Haywood. Call me Milo. Yes, I may have been on Celebrity Springwatch. Did you see it? I was in the feature on Woodlice. Really important stuff. But I am still just good old Milo. Just good old BAFTA-winning Milo. Milo Haywood MBE. OK, Milo. Have I done something wrong? Was it the Duckweed Jew? Only. I've never made a Jew before. I've been sick-handed from Lower Locksley for political reasons. And they don't need to just put me on peeling eggs. So Duckweed Jew was challenging. I did try and get all the leeches off. No, I'm sure it's great. Super. Now, I know the rest of the brigade is a little bit... well, they found me difficult, Spencer. I know I've been short-tempered, but to be honest, I've been finding things here a little... unusual. Gay Grables? Well, it is of a different caliber, Milo. Well, it's not just that. It's... I mean, who's your head chef? Erm... would it be me? If it is, no one said anything. It used to be Ian Craig, but he left the village when his husband kept moving alcoholics into his pizza van. I think... Your head chef runs a pizza van? I know. You'd think running a big restaurant like this would be enough. But apparently he spends every evening and weekend driving all over the country in a van full of... malchorellables. And your kitchen's back to front. You know that, though, right? Oh, yes. I do know about that. Apparently, it's a second-hand kitchen that we got out of a skip outside a restaurant called... Cersei Rose. Don't get babies. Cersei Rose. I can't remember. But first of all, Chevy was very upset and walked out. And then he came back when we had the new second-hand kitchen. Once we'd gone over it with Mr. Muscle and got all the mice droppings off. OK, well, that is not a Milo problem. What is a Milo problem is the weirdos that came to the tasting. You know what I do, right? Weeds. You cook weeds. Nature's bounty-bangarding, yes. And yesterday I met two total nutjobs who weren't even booked into the tasting. But, you know, the fans. So I signed her book and she kept going on and on about chili. Did I like chili? Could you make chickweed chili? How did I like my chili? It was so weird. Then at the tasting, there was this woman that sniffed constantly, which I am really hoping was hay fever because if she's compromised my immune system, I will take legal action. I'm contracted to do celebs go pot-holding next month, and I am not losing out of Danny Dyer again. Wow. This is a real insight into a different world, Mr. Hayward. Would you ever go on strictly? A brave Spencer, but I'm not suicidal. This is very exciting. Do you know Hugh Whitler's phone installs? Hughie, the Fernster. Of course. Great mate. Saw him last week. Cheeky Nando's near Hammersmith Flyover. Nando's? Yes, don't look shocked, Spencer. The weed gigs are over, I reckon. I've got Milo's meat mastery coming out for the Christmas market. Embracing Palleo. I'll have the housewives of England sweating, crackling by January. Oh, one more questions, Spencer. Would I be right in thinking that this God forsaken place is haunted? Er, don't think so. They did have an explosion because they got slaves to make all the toast, but no one died. Why? Have you seen something? Heard something, yes. Sounded as if it was coming from the roof. Rivemic thumping and a woman's voice shouting down a bit pet. Any ideas? Never mind, I'll ask the general manager. Oh, you can't. He's in splot, working for a charity. Chief Exac? Helping an old lady, plant vegetables in Pakistan? Well, then I'll just have to go to the owner. She looks a complete cow, but if there's no one else, I'll just have to go to the top. Oh no, Lily's just no work experience. Oliver Sterling's the one in charge. That old guy that shovels about in his slippers? I thought he was the caretaker. What a place. This is the last one of these things I'm doing. There's no respect. I sell as much to Jane McDonald. Anyway, you crack on rinsing your duckweed. I'm popping into a boarchester. There's a bacon double cheeseburger and a full fat with my name on them. I'm glad we get to hear Milo Heywood. Finally. I think he's going to marry Lily. Do you? Yeah, but we thought Lily was going to marry Ardil as well, didn't we? Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't, you know, I don't want to sound patriarchal, but Jane's right. They need to crack on. Someone needs to have quads. Otherwise, we're going to be way behind. It's true. And please don't let it be pippin' Stella, but we'll find them together forever. I don't think Stella could live like that. I don't think I could live like that to be honest. No, no, no, no, no. Maybe Stella will meet someone else at the hen party. There'll have lots of children called Rosie Posey. No, Rosie. No, Rosie. No, Rosie. Um, maybe. Yeah. And that's it. We've finished. Oh, thank you. Thanks so much for having us. Oh, there's a bit. There's a bit. Uh, and we needed to say thank you to Matt, because he has done a bluegrass arches. Oh, a lovely verse. As an homage, which is a folk gig that the young ones went to. Yeah, I would have quite enjoyed that folk gig, I think. He has used a Stradivarius violin as opposed to a fiddle for the upper-class partitors. Um, presumably he doesn't really have a proper Stradivarius. Stradivarius, does he? Is it in a computer? Nothing would surprise me about Matt. I'll tell you another uninteresting thing about Italy. Oh. I went to Cremona once. This is when I used to tour with like Americans. Yes. And that is where the Stradivarius was invented, or something like that. And so we had, I was going to say we had to sit through her with a title. We would love to invent it, because it was he, the man, was born there. Must have been. Otherwise, why would we have been there? It's obviously a reason we went to every single place. And that was the reason it was something to do with the Stradivarius. Anyway, another stunning city in Italy. I thoroughly recommend doing a tour of Northern Italy. Of the obscure bits. Of the obscure bits, but beautiful bits. Yes. Sorry about that. Right. You ready for blue glass? Blue glass? Oh, yes. Okay. But if you've enjoyed the show, please give us a review on iTunes or Spotify. I'd like to be Commanders and Facebook, Twitter, on Ambrage. Febreze is at fabulous rubies, or you can email us with your thoughts, plot predictions or what you think we all look like. No. No, don't do that. Average on the couch at gmail.com. No, because we don't read those emails out because they're too offensive. Ambrage on the couch at gmail.com. Thank you so much for reviewing and liking and subscribing, et cetera. Yes. Also, I second this statement. Thank you. I seconded. When the kids are watching YouTube and I hear them go, "E like and subscribe." And I go, "No!" Like and subscribe. 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