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

Pie-vate Investigations

This week’s podcast is presented by Stephen and Jacqueline.

We hear from:

Anna from Berkshire, who has a plot prediction concerning Fallon;
Tracy from California, who is enjoying watching Emma eating both crow and humble pie;
Love Jazzer’s Singing, who has been worrying about Jim’s bust;
Kirk, a first time caller-innerer - Hurrah! - who is feeling the deepest sympathy for Harrison;
Glyn, who is wondering whether Pat might come to regret her action on Thursday;
And finally Witherspoon, who has thoughts about George and his reference letters;

We also have emails from Val and from Katy in Arbeia

Plus: we have the Week in Ambridge from Suey, a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Vicky, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo.

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So, give it a try at midmobile.com/switch. $45 up from payment equivalent to $15 per month, new customers on first three month plan only, taxes and fees extra. The speed's lower above 40 gigabyte CD-Tail. This is a Dumpty Dum production. Hello, this is Dumpty Dum. A weekly podcast about the archers and the goings-on of Ambridge. I'm Jacqueline Bertow, who loves a locked room mistrate. And I'm Stephen Podden. Can you tell that I used Saigon's cinnamon? And then there's you, our lovely Dumpty Dhammas, foolish and impulsive. However, when you apply yourselves, you aren't only diligent and enterprising. You show signs of the colour in or as you could become. Welcome to Dumpty Dum, a place to talk about the things that are happening in our favourite boss at your village. This week's scripts were written by Tim Stimpson, who had Jim misusing the term "begg" as a question, which we know he would never really do. Coming up, we have calls from Anna from Berkshire, who has a plot prediction concerning Fallon. Tracy from California, who is enjoying watching Emma eating both Crow and Humble Pie. And love Jazz's singing, who has been worrying about Jim's bust. Kirk, a first-time caller in a row, hurrah! Hurrah! Who is feeling the deepest sympathy for Harrison. Glen, who is wondering where the pat might come to regret her action on Thursday. And finally, with a spoon, who has thoughts about George and his reference letters. We also have emails from Val and from Katie in our beer. Plus, we have the week in Ambridge from Suey, around after the Dumpty Dum Facebook group from Vicky, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo. So let's start by reminding ourselves of what happened over the last seven days with that week in Ambridge from Suey. And hello, lovely people. It's Suey Cleanall-Tart here, and round up at this week in Ambridge. There's been another week all round, doesn't it? The flower and produce show led to a collapsed table, resulting in almost all the fruit pies, bar kentans and a couple of others, being smashed on the floor, including gills, plum and marzipan, and jolines, apple and cheese. This would likely not have happened without Tracy causing a diversion to let Jazza dock to the sunflower, the tallest sunflower, you remember. So that Rosie ended up winning the prize. This may come back to haunt her in years to come and lead to years of therapy, though of course living at Brookfield will likely do that anyway. So, we've then treated the combined efforts of Dr Watson and Captain Hastings, muddling through without their primary detective. Linda and Jim has investigated how the table had collapsed to cut a very long story short. Linda didn't secure the legs properly because it was a new type of table. She ended up apologizing at the cricket division or dinner at Brookfield. Jim has discovered on his return home from outside Bookchester that Alistair had completely ignored the request he'd made over what was being moved to the recreation. Rather than demanding they put it all back, everyone acquiesced to where they all ended up. It seemed a bit of a waste of time ready. Usha wisely declined at the opportunity to become George's lawyer. George went to court with Will to his plea-pearing, and his sentencing will be on the 10th of October, which seems awfully fast. Oliver wrote a very well-crafted character reference, and then Pat, despite Tony's fury, that's the only word that really works. She also wrote one which almost caused a meltdown at Bridge Farm. Tony sounded like he was going nuclear as a result. Since Clarilove is unlikely to be back any time this side of Christmas, Emma is going to start making cheese in the dairy with her mum. That should be a riot. And I want to know what's going to happen to the turkeys if Clarilove is still in Norfolk. Back at Harrison's in Fallon, things are patchy. Harrison wants to chuck his job again, but if Fallon succeeds in getting the gig at the charging station, he will likely have to go back to full-time. Fallon made samples for her interview, including a vegan Reuben sandwich. I'd love to try one of them. There was a bit of actual farming when George helped Eddie prepare the sheep for topping, but he's expecting to be in jail by the time they get to lambing. There was then another minor meltdown over Eddie offering to sell his van, who used the bath for Bimalee to pay for a better lawyer. There were an awful lot of harsh words. Ed ended up telling George after his hearing that he thought of George's his, and Emma ended up apologizing to George after Ed asked for George to talk to her instead of George shelling out for a birthday present. After Emma saying he was a little boy regardless of whatever he did, he accepted all their apologies and reassurance without any reciprocity. Oh, I really hope he gets his comeuppance. Well, we'll just have to wait and see what happens next week. I'll talk to you then. Thanks for that, Suey. That's brilliant. Stephen, what have you been up to this week? The big news is that last night, for the first time since the end of January, I slept in my own bedroom in my new bed. Wow! But not quite so good news is that I was sleeping in a sleeping bag because the new mattress to go with the new bed isn't going to arrive until the middle of the week after next, which is a lot of pain. But at least I've got the room back and I can start moving everything that had to be moved out of the bedroom back in, and I can start feeling like I'm living a normal life. The person who's most upset about all of this changes tangle because there isn't really room for me and her on the sleeping mat. And so she tries sleeping on top of me and my shiny sleeping bag is not the type of thing for her to sleep on because she keeps sliding off and then digging the claws in. So she's a bit non-plussed about it. But when the new mattress arrives, she will be very, very happy. Yeah, she will. She's got to hang on just a bit longer. And of course, we're probably upset at this morning because we started talking before 6 a.m. English time and she gets by the 6, doesn't she? Yes, the timer went off, I think, at three minutes to six. So just before we started actually recording, she had her food. She's now satisfied and she should be quiet and possibly asleep behind me. That's the rest of the recording session. She usually is. She's always there. How about you? How was your week? It was pretty packed with activity, wasn't it? It has. I've had 13 days of travel. Great road trip. Took my husband's car, which is a hybrid, which I had never really driven before. Now I am an expert on that car because he is only allowed to drive in daytime because he's got a slight woman with one of his eyes. So he'd only drive some very short distances. So it was put through his paces. Hybrid, I was very skeptical. But in fact, in the 2,748 kilometers we did door to door. We only filled it up with petrol twice. So my driving was very, very efficient. All the car is very, very efficient. But we had a great trip, fabulous wedding in Scotland. Scotland was amazing because we had no rain. We had bright sunshine, beautiful autumn days. One morning, the morning we left, Glasgow, there was frost on the windscreen, so that's the start of autumn. And coming back here and realizing the trees are still green, made me realize we had actually been about a thousand kilometers further north than here on the Mackay to Scales. Yeah, great, but great, lovely to catch up with loads of people. And of course, I am absolutely delighted to have been there when my nephew got married, so it was great. And to me, it's lovely Melly McMaryweather and time with her. It's good. She even coped in the husband. There you go. He speaks English, apparently. And she speaks French. Who knew? I think that's more than enough about us. Let's get on to that important bit, which is you, our lovely cholera in our ears. And who are we beginning with this morning? We're going to hear from Anna, who called for the first time last week. She is back again. Hello, Pusscat. Hello, Jacqueline, Stephen. And all Dr. Dhammas all around the world. It's Anna from Berkshire, just leaving a voice note. I like to thank you, Stephen, and loves Jess as singing as well for covering last week. Great job. I do agree with your comment, Stephen, that you don't want Tom to change because we're with the fun in that be. What I would love is to see Tom actually spend the day working in the cafe instead of helping himself to walk the food and drink. I think it'd be quite funny to see him trying to take orders and clean down tables and actually get stuck in the cafe. I'm actually calling today, it's Monday, and I'm calling with a plot prediction, actually. For Fallon, who's one of my favorite characters, I love all the layers to Fallon. I think she's a very well-rounded character. I wonder if it's the case without the frying pan into the fire with the EV station for Fallon, because Justin is involved, and we all see his results when he gets involved at the stables. And at least he has the end to keep him on his toes. And I'm just wondering if he'll be able to stay out of Fallon's business or if he's just going to be poking in his nose and stirring the pot. Okay, that's a few puns, but I would prefer if Fallon could have started her own business, it would be great if she could have a mobile food van or something right next to the village shop. So when people are popping in to get their bits, they would go over to speak with her and order a drink and a treat and we could hear the back and forth in that way. By other side, it's not always easy to start a business when actually, and it might be easier for Bannon to work for someone else, but I wonder if the residents will actually be going to the EV station if it's asked away and you don't have an EV or maybe Fallon's food, it's just that irresistible. Anyway, I'm loving the arches and the pod as well. Thank you for all you do. I love the pod as it always gives me food for thought. That's my final pun that I snuck in there. Bye for now. Thank you Anna very much for that call and for coming back a second week in a row. That's brilliant. I think that Fallon's business, if she gets it at the EV station, will be very much her own business. Yes, Justin is a part owner of the charging station itself and he will effectively be her landlord, but I think she'll be back in the position she was in a bridge farm, but she was running a business within somebody else's premises. Justin won't have the ability or certainly won't have the right to interfere too much. Will he interfere? I don't know. I think that he probably won't try and get involved in baking because he really doesn't have a clue about that. He might try and advise her on what other things to get in or equipment or stuff like that where he thinks he knows something about it. But I don't think he'll want to interfere with her recipes or what she offers to customers, her main concern. His main concern will be that she pays her rent on time and that it's popular. I don't agree with you at all, I'm sorry. You've always said that you think that she should end up at the EV charging station and I've always had my doubts and I hadn't really thought about what was making me doubtful and hearing Anna's call as she formed all my own ideas about it. I've been worrying right from the start since it's a Justin project at the EV charging station. I say, oh, he's part of the group and he's the one who's advocated her to take a unit. I think he will end up interfering with her and she will be in not exactly the same, but a similar position. I think I said this a few weeks ago, I don't like the fact that Justin and the EV station are tied up together. I don't want Fallon to be involved with her. And also Anna said something that I've always worried about. We're not going to have the EV charging station as a drop in place where people bump into each other. Oh, hello, you too, kind of place. Because the residents, why would the residents go to an EV charging station? So let me disagree with you there. I think that because of where the EV charging station is, it will be exactly that because it is right on the edge of the village in fact. It's on Brookfield land, but it's actually for somebody like Chelsea, it is closer to her house than the village shop. And the village shop is only a couple of hundred meters away. But if you go out of the back end of the green, not the village being itself, but the street called the green. It runs off it where Jazza and Tracey and Chelsea live and where Will and George and Poppy also live. If you go to the end of that, it's a dead end, but there's a path that goes through to the road that runs by oratory. And on the other side of that road is the EV charging station side. So for Chelsea, for instance, it is closer than the village shop. It's very, very close. It's certainly a lot closer to the village than Bridge Farm. Right. And so if the competition is with the Bridge Farm T-room, you can walk comfortably. But from the village, even the elderly inhabitants of Manifield Close could walk to the EV charging station, whereas they would need to take a car to get to Bridge Farm. Okay, I accept your theory on it. But what about the idea of felling having a mobile, a food truck, which you could park anywhere she likes. The village at any festival, at any event. We've had mobile food trucks and people go to festivals so many times before. In fact, we've got it at the moment with Ian and his pizzas. Yeah, and pizzas. We've had it with Roy and Kate and the pulsations there. Good gracious. I'd forgotten about that. Vegan for Luffle. Yeah. Stand. And Tom and his sausage thing that he went festivals with, Jazza and Kirstie helping out. I don't remember that at all. All of those, we've done that one before, I think. So actually having an EV charging station at a fixed location. Now, I'm not saying that Justin won't try to get stuck in. What I do think though, is that it will very much be Fallon's business. I think that Justin won't be quite as interfering as Natasha was even before effectively kicked Fallon out and then re-employed. Yeah. I suppose I'm really hoping that Fallon will go back to being her own person with that business that she started at the tea room. I want her to be independent of all hangers on, probably including Harrison, but we'll get to that a bit late. Should we have our next call then, which is Tracy from California? Greetings, Dunte Dumbers. Tracy from California here. Color entering from Washington, D.C., where I'm doing advocacy work for military caregivers. Any who didn't get the call last week, I have to say that Tom is so up to. He moderated or mediated rather the combo between Fallon and Emma as if their argument was like about the taste of Vegemite or something simplistic. And I am also enjoying Emma having to feast on crow and humble pie is just what I wanted. And I hope it continues on for a little while longer. I also hope that she'll let it be less than her. I'm laughing at her attempts to get her lovely jars, these character letters. And I was thinking, well, maybe Joy will be nice enough to write him one that is honest because that's what she is, but also kind because that is also who she is. I imagine she would say stuff like he's very good at breathing through his mouth and is always kind enough to leave the shop when he's completed his purchases. I think her best bet for a character letter is going to be Martin Gibson, but we'll see the rest of the week. So anyway, I will think that's all. I'll go back to my view of the Pentagon and my walking in this industrial wonderland. Have a good day. Thank you for that, Tracy. Thank you for calling in even when you're not Tracy in California. Yeah, absolutely. Tom, come to Greenmore. I missed out on a rant about Tom last week, so I could have one now. Tom is the most annoying person that he could possibly be. Brilliant writing, brilliant acting, but I hate him. I really do hate him. I despise him. And one of the callers last week, was it Anna maybe, went into a rant about Bridge Farm? And I completely agreed with that call as well. I find them, I find Tom in particular infuriating. It's interesting that we haven't heard anything from Natasha this week, but we've heard of Natasha and the chaos of her standing in at the tea room, which doesn't understand because she's not a service person. It's not a person who is used to dealing with the tea room and all the people and all the things around. I really think she can, she put on a kettle, make the tea and hold the coffee machine or whatever, and now it's much, much more complicated than that. Now, these letters, Stephen, they did ask Martin, didn't they? I don't think they asked Martin. I don't remember them asking Martin, but there was a conversation in the week where George says, well, who would ever stand up for me, advocate for me? And somebody asked them one of the parents, the time of which one said, "Oh Martin Gibson, blah, blah, blah." And so I think he was mentioned in passing, but whether they asked him or not, I don't know. So obviously we had a letter from Pat, that call structure. It did call structure. One from Pat and one from Oliver. There have been various gestural social media that other people might have put letters in, but I think that since Will had to hand the letters over when he took the letter, he had to hand it. So when he took George to the hearing and them to the solicitor, I think we would know if any more had come in. So I think it is just those two letters, both of which were somewhat equivocal about George. Yeah, they didn't say at all, did they at all? They didn't say that he was a shining example of modern youth, but then I think if they had done so nobody would have believed them. So the mixture of the good and what we at work call areas for improvement was, I think, more useful than just a purely one-sided positive view. And I think that Oliver's description of him is, what was it? Foolish and impulsive. Yeah. It was right, and then setting against that is potential. And I think that it may be that the potential is where they want to make their arguments anyway, because the idea is that locking him up won't do any good, that he's not going to do all of this. He's learned his lesson. There was a case in a court recently where I think it was somebody involved in one of the recent riots got off with a very light sentence because it was argued they had had a real dressing down from their parents and would realize how foolish they had been. That was probably enough to set them on the right course. So I think it's something like that. Now, Tracy suggests a letter from Joy, and I love that. But she would be honest and kind, yes, he's very good at breathing through his mouth. But Joy was very good with George, even on the day of the accident when we went, we saw him going into the shop. It was firm, but very dealt with in a very correct way I felt. And I think Joy is someone that can always see a good side, but can be from early people. So a letter from Joy would have been a nice possibility. But yeah, we didn't. And I agree with you. I think that's the letters are over and done with now finished with. And the sentencing will take place very soon. Which over the 10th, yes, that is very quick. Yeah. What day is October the 10th? That is Thursday, I think. That's good. It's the day after my mattress is being delivered. All right. So you'll be very relaxed, like on your bed listening to George being sentenced. We will have a very good Thursday episode. Should we predict that? Yes, I think we will. Yeah, brilliant call. As always, Tracy, enjoy your time in Washington DC. Next up, we have what is now a very familiar and much loved voice. Good morning. Love jazz is singing here. So, Alistair and Denise moving in with the profit. So peculiar. Chat GPT tells me this morning that their combined salary is probably around 80,000 pounds. What are they doing? Is it just emotional literacy that when Jim says, I'd love to have you, what they care is, move in and take over. Also, am I the only one who listens out for mentions of Plato's bust as some precursor of what's to come? I predict that the denouement of this little carry on is going to be the beady Greek getting it, getting dropped or shoved, symbolically smashing on the floor. As Jim, the philosopher king of his own domain, is pushed aside. Jazz and Alistair, the ignorant upstarts. The other thing that's really keeping me up at night is Fallon's business plan. I love Fallon, and I'm cheering her on. Go with the loan, Fallon, put your own stamp on it, but plant-based, God, the amount of work that it takes to make a pound note in a calf is just, it's enormous, it's back-breaking. Managing the cost of goods of waste is a real art form. I've seen that from the inside, even with a small menu of easily available regular priced ingredients that you can get easily. God, her estimate of needing Harrison's salary to prop them up for you, I think, is a bit optimistic. And she's to make her dream come true, she's going to need to swap him out for a hedge fund manager. Anyway, he's probably not going to be a policeman for too much longer, sadly. I know people think he's a rubbish policeman, but I think he's had his moments when Rob was in the middle of the motorway having a meltdown. His approach was, anyway, I like Harrison as a policeman, but that's another message. Thanks for the show, and lots of love to all the dumpty dummas. Thank you for that cool love Jazz was singing, and I wanted to mention, since you're not in our Facebook group, that there have been so many posts saying how much they enjoyed your presentation last week. So, I'm really glad that you were able to do it last weekend. Next time, Jacqueline is off into the remote parts of the world, where there's no internet, it would be great to have you back. Now, yes, Harrison has his moments as a policeman. I would temper that admiration for how he handled Rob with the thought that if he hadn't intervened, Rob might have been involved in a fatal accident and think of all the trouble that would have saved us later on. But that may be a little bit too cynical. I think that is very cynical, Mr Bowden. That's what we're here for. I totally agree it's going to be a struggle for Fallon to make that business work. And even something as simple as a Ruben sandwich needs quite a few ingredients. And if you're putting any greenery in it or serving it with it, it won't keep. And so you need to know exactly how any of those sandwiches you're going to be able to sell during the day and not over cater and not under cater to severely. Otherwise, you will turn disappointed customers away and will lose any return business. I've got a question, which is relevant to the arches this week, but I don't know what a Ruben sandwich is. What is it? It's, I believe, a sandwich with, it's either salt beef or pastrami in it. They can then. That's really why I don't know. It's a New York deli specialty sandwich. Right. There we go then. That's, I'll have to look out for that next time in the real world, because we certainly don't get Ruben sandwiches here. We don't really get ready. We made sandwiches here. We don't have sandwich shops here. I must move to a city, I guess. Brilliant to hear from you, loves Jazza Singing, and thank you so much for such a brilliant job you did last week. Everybody's very appreciative of how it worked out with you. And I'm definitely going to need to stand in around Christmas and New Year, possibly even more in the future. So, I think Steven's got you earmarked. Sorry to your family. You had to be shut off in another bedroom. Look upstairs. We needed quiet atmosphere. It doesn't always happen here, but you did very well. And thank you very much again for doing that. As to Sue as well, who stood in a few weeks before. I can tell my husband's taking almost full retirement now, and we're about to do a lot more traveling. I think Saturday mornings are going to become a different setup in the not to distance future. But Fallon and her finance, we've already talked a bit about the financial side of it. And I know we've got another caller in us talking about Harrison and where he stands in that. But I'm very curious about this plant-based idea. I know she decides to do something different and has developed it. But do we know where the idea came from? It just seemed to pop up one time. It did seem to just pop up. I imagine that it's because more and more places are offering vegan options. And so she thinks she'll go the whole hog. The top with Fallon marrying a hedge fund manager so that she's got the money. Isn't that sort of person tends to turn out to be a real ronger when it comes to the archers? I'm thinking of Cameron Fraser, who was in that line of work. Oh, yes. Yeah, not a good move for Fallon. And also, I can't imagine Fallon, who is really an easygoing country girl, singer, rock chick. That character, to me, going for a hedge fund manager. And anyway, wouldn't they have to live in a city? These days, they can do it all down the line, I suppose. Oh, no. What about all that networking? Maybe a retired hedge fund manager who's made all their money. And it's now just doing a bit of venture capitalism here and there, but it's otherwise spending their time. That's almost as bad as dealing with Justin. So I think we're going to leave that there. It's the first time caller in a row. And this is Kirk. Hello, dumb to dumb. My name is Kirk, first time caller in a row. Listener to the pod for about six months on and off, more on than off at the moment, as I am engaged in a employment crisis, not unlike Harrison's. Actually, no, it's completely different to Harrison's. I'm calling in after Tuesday's episode this week. And I just have the deepest empathy for Harrison is he obviously has huge problems with his chosen career, which he thought he was probably amazing at when he joined the police service probably in his early twenties and has changed as a person slightly. And it's causing him quite a lot of angst. And Fallon obviously wants a change from Bridge Farm because who wouldn't want to escape sausage boy. And yeah, poor Harrison is going to have to suck it up and continue to be a policeman. And against his better thoughts on the matter and it can only go badly wrong unless he comes out now and says, look, I don't think police is for me. I'm sure there's plenty of jobs that Harrison would be suited to. And his experience in the police service would help him so much in getting them. When changing jobs, it's really difficult, especially if your finances aren't tip-top, which I guess these guys are. Anyway, hopefully it'll all get resolved in the next few episodes. And when George is sent down, we will have a resolution for Harrison and maybe he'll go back to being a policeman. Tata, for now. Hi, Kirk. Thank you very much for being a first-time caller. And I'm sorry that you're having more time to listen to the likes of us due to an employment crisis. And good luck with sorting that out. Yeah, Harrison, he does have a problem. He doesn't want to carry on being a policeman. I've known that for a few years now. He's been slowly withdrawing, going part-time, wildlife officer. He's expressed that very clearly. How he hopes to support a family, have children, and going part-time, I don't know. And I don't know what he does with the rest of his time. I know he's partly to do with a quick-hit club and all the rest of that side of it. But he's got the chairman in the form of the wonderful Linda Snell. So it doesn't need to spend too much time on that any longer. And I do think the whole having a mortgage, having regular outgoings must make it difficult for him to stop working. And we've always said he would be ideal for taking over the pub. Is that the way that he could, as many X, please, wouldn't do, go forward with his career? I just don't know. And I don't think their finances are good enough to just fail to just stop. And I think it needs to be thought up very, very thoroughly. And as the last jacket just was singing, suggested Fallon's business plan. Yeah, it does depend on Harrison a lot. What struck me about Harrison this week was we heard him saying that he wanted to quit as a policeman altogether. And then Fallon says, "I'm going to need you to go full-time." And he immediately just swallowed that up completely, bottled it up inside and said, "Okay, I'll look into doing that." And that's obviously a second major thing he's buckling up inside. And we had real problems. We had a crisis around him having bottled up the decision not to have children when he wanted children. And I think doing it again is going to be really challenging, particularly as they've been through such a rocky patch in their marriage. It struck me as odd that he would not even want to say anything about it because he must know that it's going to come out at some point. At a moment of stress, it's going to come across a lot worse than it would have done if they had even just spoken about it. And if he'd said, "Look, I recognize I need to do this. I really, really don't want to do this. I want to be able to support you in different ways. And so please understand that I'm doing this for you, but it can only be for a certain amount of time. And then once you're up and running and settled, I need the space to move on to something new and different that I really want to do." So that it's clear to Fallon what he is putting into it psychologically as well as financially. Yeah, I agree. I mean, they've had, as you said, had a rocky period. And I love Fallon to get me wrong. But there have been times, especially this week, when I feel like she's kind of bulldozed him. And she's focused on her samples for her pitch for the EV charging station, her ideas and everything. She's only concentrating on that. She wasn't really listening to him. So he's actually saying, "Okay, is she even shushed him out of the kitchen?" And so I think that her, the fact that she is so focused is giving him no space to talk. You'd think he would have learned a lesson over the last four or five months about being open with his feelings. And the only person he seems to ever talk to about these kind of things is Kenton. But I'm quite disappointed that Fallon's not giving him the opportunity to talk properly with her about it. But she's definitely shutting him down in my view. She's showing signs of being very stressed by the whole application process. And I think that her response to stress is to narrow her focus incredibly. And she then has very much tunnel vision on that one thing and can't make the headspace for dealing with anything else. But given how difficult some of the conversations she had with Harrison about Harrison's behavior following the crash, I can understand that the last thing she wants is to open up the possibility of Harrison raising something difficult and complicated. But I think that Harrison was wrong not to raise it when she did open up to him and talk to him about the money. So I think that's where the problem is. It's that he missed the one opportunity he had to get in there and express himself when for all the rest of the time. She's not interested. She's not listening. She is just too laser focused on getting the contract for the EV charging station location. Well, Kirk's last suggestion was that George going down will give Harrison some resolution. Whereas I don't think George is going down. I don't think the state of the prisons, we've had enough news about that first offender. I don't think he's going down. And Harrison has to learn to deal with that because he's still angry, he's still bitter. We had a conversation this week about it was to deal with Emma and Fallon. They were talking about Emma and Fallon and the fact that Emma knew that George had done it and hadn't shared it and continued being supportive and friends with Fallon and sharing and pretending. In his words, she was Emma was pretending. Actually, we know that Emma was in a complete crisis anyway and anything she was doing was trying to preserve her friendship with Fallon and being kind. If we just ignore the George side of it. So Harrison isn't over anything yet and has a simmering hot. I and my suggestion would be my suggestion. It's going to boil over at some point soon. Absolutely, we're building up to that which will be great. Can't wait. Those are the first few calls that there has some more to come along with those emails. If you would like to join in by calling us yourself or dropping us a line by message or email, Stephen is here to tell you how and all the details are also in the show notes. The first option is to record a message or a plot prediction by going to www.speakpipe.com/dumbtydumb and as I hope you all know, the issues we were having with Speakpipe have now been resolved and you can leave a message of up to two minutes. 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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. Who's up next, Stephen? It's another regular caller. It's Glenn. Hello, dumpedidum. It's Glenn here, calling in on Thursday evening. And I have to say that I'm wondering after tonight's episode whether George is going to repay Pat's faith in him, or at some point in the future, Pat is going to come to regret giving George a character reference. Do wonder whether her actions are really to do with George or whether they are actually some kind of hangover from the Helen and Rob affair where clearly Pat thought she didn't do enough to protect Helen and it's now working out in a strange sort of way where she's trying to protect George from going to prison. Apart from that, I have not been terribly excited about Linda's sleuthing into the goings on at the Flower and Produce show. It does seem that it was all to do with a faulty table at the end of the day. And I suppose that's just been a bit of light relief this week. All that remains is for me to say thank you to the hosts of the podcast. Congratulations to Love Jazz's singing on an excellent debut. But of course, I will be pleased to hear Jacqueline back this week. Bye for now. Stay safe, everyone. Thank you for that call, Glenn. And I think you're right that Pat is motivated by what happened with Rob and Helen. And I think that she feels massively guilty that she got Rob so wrong. So I think she just feels that she doesn't want to be on the wrong side of that sort of thing ever again. And I can't really blame her. I think that she went through an awful lot of pain during that whole process. And by writing a reference for George, she's expiating her guilt and trying to put it behind her. But I do think that it's going to have ripples if George doesn't come out of whatever sentence he gets. And I agree with you, Jacqueline, that he's unlikely to end up inside, but he might get community service. Community service might well be something that would help. But if it all goes wrong, then Pat will face a huge backlash, not just from Tony. But I also suspect from Tom, who has shown absolutely no signs of understanding of any of this or any compassion whatsoever. But then this is Tom, what would you expect? No, Tom, exactly. I think you live in Hope, Stephen. Oh, no, I don't live in Hope in the respect of Tom. I just rely on him as a source of entertainment and amusement and somebody to shout out. Yeah, exactly. It's definitely so funny. Oh, good. I was in a bad mood. And you're in now because somebody's really made a bad mood. Yeah, it makes feelings about Pat and what her motivation is, because Pat has shown extreme kindness to people. She's quite an empathetic person, and she can often see things, the grey side of a story. Probably because she drinks a lot of grey soup. But she, I don't feel like she necessarily has, she probably is feeling guilty about how the robin, hello, went. So he went and that was absolutely a nightmare for her. I can understand that completely. But I'm not necessarily thinking that she's doing this because she's carrying that guilt. Obviously she was traumatized by that. She's still traumatized by that. But I felt that over the years, I can't say I find her very nice character. I feel like the way in which she's handled her children has created the monsters which we see them as today. Plus the fact that she lost John, who was her first boy. But she was kind, she understood about Johnny. I'm not even saying that she was very nice at the beginning about Sharon and Johnny and all that story. The very old story of how Johnny came about. But I was not surprised that she was the one who said yes, he's been a good worker. He can do this, we've worked for us, I've known him a long time, and to write that. Our Tony also was completely and utterly acting as I would have expected him to. Black and white, the family, our family. And not that he's ever, ever criticized and moaned about his family as in the older just side of it. And that cheap line he made of, oh, I can't help thinking about Jenny and all of this. Yeah, that's very easy to say, isn't it? When actually him and Jenny spent a long time arguing and being loggerheads with each other. I am not unlike Glenn. I'm not convinced that she's done it because of guilt. But I do agree with Glenn that if it all goes wrong, Pat is going to get it in the neck from the whole family. Which will be another exciting time for us, wouldn't it? Yes, the soup will be flying. I wouldn't touch the soup if they cross with her. The soup will hit the fan. That's it. She will be in deep soup. Oh, he's super. Just changing the subject from soup. Let's go to the table gate crack. Just in fact, Glenn says he wasn't enjoying it. It's one of those things that happens in the arches with the writing. They have this very tense build up something and then they throw in this kind of... Oh, yeah, it's Linda doing her investigation. And raking Jim into it. But it was good to hear Jim. We haven't heard Jim for a while and so it was good to have him back. Despite the fact that, yes, as we've said, already heard, people are worrying about what's going to happen to Plato. Getting muddled up with the soup probably. Yes. I'm not sure what the Plato bust is actually made of, whether it's made of ceramics or maybe it's a room. Marble, resin or cluster. It might be pretty indestructible. Yeah. What did Brad call it? A weird beardy man. We'll see. I think there's a storyline there, Currie. Another one that will just zap over our heads. But while we're waiting for that to happen, let's have our final call. And it starts like this. Y'all know how this goes. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling to salads. That's scrambled eggs. Greetings, Jacqueline, Stephen, and all dumb tea dimmers around the world. It's with the spoon and Angus Haggis here. Call our inner ring prior to Friday's episode. It's shaped up to be an interesting week, despite its initial twin focus on pie gate and sunflower gate. I should mention that I've actually enjoyed Linda and Jim as Miss Marple and Poirot. I've been reading over the comments on Facebook about George's reference letters. And the empty dim community seems very divided about the topic. I find myself having ambivalent feelings about it as well. All along, I've thought that what George did was reprehensible and he should be appropriately punished by the courts. Despite his crimes, George still has a right to a legal defense that would include reference letters. Both Oliver and Pat had dealt with George in specific circumstances and viewed some positive aspects of him. I was surprised that Oliver and Pat didn't talk to George first before writing the letters. I was also reminded of the bench incident involving George and Brad. I don't remember the details, but I imagine Stephen does. Seems that George weadled his way out of responsibility for that and put the blame on Brad. Hmm, that was a foretelling of what would come. Anyway, George has seemed to be more mature and accept more responsibility this week, but maybe it's just because he's facing a prison sentence. I'll agree with Pat. George needs a chance of rehabilitation, but I truly, truly hope it's authentic. I'm also glad that Pat stood up to Tony, which she'll have to incur the wrath of Brian. I believe that then Alice will step in and defend her hands. And finally, in the category of prediction sure to go wrong, I think that George will get six months. Talk to you soon. Oh, and thank you, as always, covering quite a wide number of subjects away the spoon. Let's start with the last one. George, six months, no, we don't agree. We think that he'll get a suspended sentence or community service or something like that. Six months would be ridiculous for a first offender, and Alyssie Corte falls on a judge that really wants to make it known that this is not the kind of thing that is looked one lightly. And I hope that the shaking of this waiting to be sentenced and the court on the 10th of October is actually going to make George the man he should be and not the grandiées. You enjoyed the winter and Jim breed detectives. I suppose it was a light relief, but I'm more of the wistling really on that side of it. What did you feel about the table gate? I thought it was okay. It was a little bit, obviously, a light relief story. I just wanted to get back to the bench incident and say what actually happened there. George and Brad were caught, banged the rights, having broken the bench. George told Brad not to admit anything, and if the two of them remained stunned, they would get away with it and the police couldn't touch that he then immediately folded, admitted to everything, but Brad didn't know this. So Brad was lawyerly keeping quiet about it, refusing to admit anything. And George wasn't. As a result, George got let off a lot more lightly than Brad. And in particular, Oliver, who didn't know that George had put Brad up to it and then relished on his own side of the bargain, was very disappointed in Brad and much less disappointed in George. So it was all very unfair, but it wasn't George slipping out of take responsibility. It was almost the opposite. He took responsibility and thereby condemned his supposed friend to a very different situation. So that's how that one worked out. It was devious, though, and it showed that George was a bit of a worm. Yeah, that really was one of the stories that made us think, "Ah, George, we don't like you. You're not to be trusted." Because our lovely Brad was put into a difficult position through that. Now, when it's been called in prior to Friday, he was the last caller in a row that we received, so we have no comment on Friday's episode. But I found Friday's episode quite moving. I felt it was the coming together of Ed and George after a very difficult horrible game that George was playing and then Ed joined in and they bonded over that and Ed talking to George about how he felt about him as his son. And that hurt that came out with the act of Ed saying to him, "The day that when I found out you weren't my son was absolutely devastating to me." And then getting George to go and see Emma, I just thought it was such a brilliant scene, a brilliant... And we know that this writer, Tim Simpson, is very good at these kind of emotional scenes, but I just thought it was a piece of perfect writing. And obviously nobody called in about it. And I shouldn't really be talking about it because that's the rule. But I just found it incredibly moving and I want everyone to tell me what you thought of it. If you thought it was silly or... No, I thought it was good. I thought Ed was coming across slightly more morkish than I would normally have thought he'd be. But I think he's done that before. I think it probably is a sign to his character, particularly when it comes to family matters. So yes, it was a very good way of reconciling that particular family unit because George had very much, I think, shifted over to the will side of the fence, particularly with his really negative attitudes towards Emma after she had reported into the police. And I know that on the Facebook group, there have been a lot of discussions about whether or not it's appropriate to dub your child into the police. And I think it does depend on the seriousness of the conduct as to how morally acceptable it is not to do so. And I think this is not as clear cut as when Emma previously dubbed in a member of her family because she anonymously reported her uncle, Keith, but then Keith had burnt down the barn in which she and George had been staying at the time and could, had they not been out of the building at the time, could have killed both of them. I think that was far worse than what George did, although that's not to say that what George did wasn't bad, and he did notice that a veteran of course of justice could lead to life imprisonment. It was good to hear. Who's sure, wasn't that? Yes. I didn't actually recognise her first. I thought he was talking to the new doctor. Oh, I don't think they sound that similar. No, I think the first time I listened through, though, it was on my phone in a noisy environment. So those are all the calls, and we do thank you sincerely for calling in. We always say this show is about what you, the listeners think. So please do tell us how the week was for you in Ambridge and call in next week. Now, I think we've had a couple of emails this week. Yes, we have. And the first one is from Val, with the subject line, "Love Jazz Us Singing". And it goes like this. Hi, it's Val again. I just wanted to say how well Love Jazz Us Singing did on Sunday. Really enjoyed hearing a different point of view, and her giggles. I'm loving the arches at the moment. On a Sunday, I listened to Dumpty Dum in the bath, where hubby is not allowed to disturb me. My Sunday treat, "Keep up the good work, love Val". Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah, it was great to hear somebody different, and I think Love Jazz Us Singing did very, very well. And listening to Dumpty Dum in the bath, blimey. We better not make it too long. Or too exciting. Don't want bathwater scattered all over the place, or bubbles all over the floor. Oh, we do. Thanks for your email, Val, and thank you very much for the encouragement. And the second email is from Katie in Arbea, which is the subject line, "Alice". As long as I'm all right, Aldridge, and it goes like this. Hello, Stephen and Jacqueline and all fellow Dumpty Dumas. It's Katie from Arbea up north, also known as South Shields. It's been a while since I've called in, but the lack of accountability by Alice and the hypocrisy of the wide-ambridge crew has compelled me. Alice was blackout drunk in her car. You should absolutely never do that. Even if you have put your keys in the glove box. The repeated nonsense she would somehow know not to drive in that state is bonkers. She could not possibly know that. I will remind us all of brick-throwing friends' husband snogging Alice Carter. Many drink drivers are caught in the morning, incorrectly thinking that they've slept it off. Alice didn't drink drive that night. It sounds like she's been doing it this way a lot. To the wider hypocrisy, it is surely unusual to grasp your kids up. Emma had such horrific time trying to manage George. I feel a bit of compassion from her so-called friends is the least she would expect. Would Adam imagine he would grasp Sanderub? Would Chris, Martha? Would Brian? Alice? Would Pat? Come. Unlikely. I'm worried Emma is going to come to harm from all the stress, and the village will. Too little too late, hang their heads in shame. Hopefully, some bouts of kindness will break out soon instead. Lots of love, Katie. Oh, and then she added, "Ah, I may allow the cheeky wee update." After Thursday, yes, Pat. The sort of kind, compassionate grace we can all aspire to have. Oh, Tony, no wonder our son seems to have such little empathy. Katie. Thank you for that, Katie. And I think you do make a good point about the lack of compassion for Emma from other people in the village. And there has been discussion about the circumstances where Helen was drunk driving. This was 20 years or so ago. And knockdown Mike Tucker. Tom was a passenger in the car, hadn't been drinking. So they conspired to pretend that it was Tom who was driving. He took the points on the license. I think Helen had she taking the points and the drunk driving thing. She would have been unable to drive, and that would have been a particular business where as Tom could take the driving without you care and attention points. And the question is whether Pat and Tony knew about this. The general consensus is that they probably did know about it, and they did not do the right thing and tell the authorities that it had been Helen who was driving. So that there is that Chris Martha, now that's an interesting case because Chris can be incredibly sanctimonious at times. He's certainly inherited that from his mother. And I think that he would be in a really difficult position if Martha did get up to something truly nefarious and criminal because it would, I think, really tear him apart. I think that would be an interesting storyline. I think Brian and Alice, Brian would probably go to a solicitor and talk about how they can manage it in a way that will get Alice out of trouble. So I think that he wouldn't necessarily go to the authorities, but he would probably try to do something about it. But it's an interesting challenge. It is a very interesting challenge. I think that point with Brian and Alice, I don't think Brian would ever shop any one of his children ever. No, I think the sort of people who have been particularly hard on Emma include Kenton, and I think that he's not being hypocritical at all because I think Kenton will just take whatever line suits him at the time. Yeah. I think could easily change next week. But yes, Tony and his line, I think there's a difference between grassing somebody up and being prepared to write reference letters for them. So I think that Tony was not in any way hypocritical in not wanting to write that letter, but I do think that he was probably a bit hypocritical about just how bad Emma's behaviour was. And also Adam, but Adam said that he didn't want to see Will. Yes, I think this is because Adam has this very, very protective position, respect of Alice, and I think that it was that has driven him in this space. So again, he wasn't saying that anybody should have grasped anybody up. He was just saying that because of Will knowing about it and not doing so. And because Adam has such strong feelings for Alice, as said big brother, that he was being fairly genuine about his feelings. I think he would struggle with that. Yeah, and also it just helps the shenanigans of lack of staff and the problems that bridge farm just complicates another side of it, which is absolutely brilliant as far as I'm concerned. So great. Thank you very much for that email, Katie. Please keep giving us another point of view. 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Any extra money will go towards a Dumte-Dum get together, and as soon as you sign up to Patreon and pledge a few pounds, the sooner that will happen. Let's move on to that Facebook group and give a warm Dumte-Dum welcome to the following people who've joined our group in the past week. Ellen Slater, Fiona Dyes, Joan Kay, Susan Taylor and Judith Williams. Welcome to you all. Don't be shy about joining in and never hesitate to start a new conversation, and we actively encourage you to go fully merchant and start posting, cornering and emailing or in the same week. So let's hear what's been going on in the Dumte-Dumte-Dumte Facebook group this week from Vicki. Hello everyone. This is Vicki with a random with the Facebook page for this week, calling in before Friday's episode. First of all, can I say hello to Louise, a friend from way back that I saw last week for the first time for a while, and it turns out she is a Dumte-Dumte hooray. I'm in a slight state of shock, actually. My husband just asked me what was going on in the arches this week, and I said, well, there was a lot of silliness about the Flower and Produce Show. And he admitted that he, as a smallish boy, had been responsible for disrupting a village Flower and Produce Show with some chums. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say a firework was involved during the judging. I was appalled, frankly. Anyway, on with the Facebook page. As I said, there has been a lot of nonsense in average this week, including, in my view, an utterly ridiculous cliffhanger about the table on Thursday's episode. Darcy Jorgensen has christened the wholesome table gate. Chris Gibson put it like this. Jim and Linda star in another mind-numbing episode of Too Much Time on Our Hands. Paula Louise couldn't give a toss about the fruit pies, and Sarah Passingham suggests an offshoot podcast with Jim and Linda doing a version of the Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth Llewellyn says Markle and Poirot join forces to solve the most complex mystery ever, and Adrian Garvey suggests that once table gate is solved, they can look at some unsolved crimes. For example, the Kenton Dogatonk, gangster threatening Jolene and stolen meat saga. Maybe by the time you hear this, we will know the truth about the wretched table. KP Cunningham thinks the real crime here was baking cheese into an apple pie. Well, that might be controversial. Now onto the Grundy's. Darcy again is wondering why the Grundy's always suffer, with a bimonocles thinking emoji. Classism says T-brown artivist, and Elizabeth Ben says the poor always do suffer. Richard Openshaw is amused that Eddie was so perplexed how his sons, and now grandson, turned out to be trouble. What possible reason could there be? Those with long memories, for example Kate Lyle, are reminding the rest of us, including me, about Helen's drunk driving episode, where somehow Tom took the blame for running over Mike Tucker, and that Patton Tony went along with this. According to Catherine Langley, this was back in 2006. In a long post, she outlines the differences between Helen and George's actions. Helen doesn't come out a bit at all well. She and Richard Woodfield would like to hear Tony being reminded of this. Kate Lyle wonders if the editors have forgotten about it, as it's strange there's been no mention at all of this at Bridge Farm. This like me, you have forgotten all of this, Emma Dwyer posted a link to the BBC blog at the time. Thanks Emma. Still at Bridge Farm, Susan De La Mer, Audrey Brown and Zina Romano applaud Pat for her empathetic gesture of writing the reference. But Kate Lyle says if she were Helen, she would be so upset if her mum stood up for George, bearing in mind his misogynist attack. Helen Blackburn is appalled that Pat is willing to defend the indefensible. Michael Duffy thinks that Alice will put in a letter for George, which sparked a good discussion, as most of our posts do. Well, will the tablegate mystery be neatly solved in Friday's episode? Time will tell. Do have a look at the Facebook page and join in if you can. Till next time, bye-bye for now. Thank you for that Vicki, and thank you so much to everybody on the Dump to Dump Facebook group. If you'd like to join them, please do, but don't forget to answer all the membership questions so that we know that you are a real person. And if anybody out there would like to write a review, please do. There is a link to the instructions on how to do this in the show notes. If you can't leave a review, or if you already have, the other thing you can do is tell three of your friends about us. You never know, and it might be the start of a long obsession. Now we're moving on to Twitter, where you'll find us at Dump to Dump. Make sure you include the arches hashtag using a capital T and A, so the visually impaired who use screen readers can enjoy any arches based tweets. As well as at Dump to Dump, Stephen can occasionally be found at Wenlock House. And we can both also be found with the arches friends on Blue Sky, where I am at wenlock.bsky.social. And I am at jberto.bsky.social. So let's find out who's won the Twitter medals this week with Theo. Tweet tweet tiger. Hello, Jacqueline, Stephen, and Dump to Dump is everywhere. It's purple pumpkin here with tweets and skits of the week. This week on Twitter and Blue Sky was mostly brought to you by a shrug, and the word there. Many people complained about the dull or fluffy or filler episodes that didn't progress any storylines. Should we be most contemptible about the pies, the decor in Green Acre, or about Linda Marple in the case of the dodgy tressel table? Felpushing Cathedral at Felpah Cathedral took time out from its busy schedule to tell us it was painful jazoon stuff. Not a word I get to say every day. But as Nancy said this week, one of the chief joys of participating in hashtag the arches is the opportunity to use vocabulary. You don't have recourse to otherwise. Al Southern at Daydream2323 suggested that even a broken tractor would be more interesting than a pie in the position of a bookcase. Matt at Matt_Mark2 thought they were trying to break us with the Linda investigation storyline. But Adam Hickford at Adam Hickford thought that the idea that Linda did it herself is probably one of the best of new mons of these silly plots. Sarah Maddox at Sarah_Mattox pointed out that if only Linda started rehearsing the pantomime now, she'd have something else to do other than her stupid fruit pie investigations. But Louise Lombard at Lulum responded, "There's a set calendar to these things. First Sunday of November, Robert and retiring from the panto." Last Sunday, before Advent, stir up Sunday, mid-December, Linda starts to prep a pro-level Christmas show as director and producer. Most of the acrimonious discussions this week were about Tony, who as Peter Bauker at P. Bauker 7, among others pointed out, it seems to have forgotten that his two children covered up a hit and run due to driving well under the influence. For those who weren't listening 20 or so years ago, Helen was driving with Tom in the car and hit Mike Tucker. They agreed to say Tom was driving because he was sober, and we think Pat and Tony both know all about it, but have they forgotten. But then, as Alistair Lawrence at Spaced 1999, aka.bsky.social said, it was a different Tony back then, so maybe he can't be expected to remember what went on. There is one thing I'd like to ask people for feedback on. A regular tweeter, Pickwick the Dodo, at Leslie Hustler 1, pointed out, there's a small group of archers fans on threads. The Instagram related alternative to Twitter, which now does have a search function and hashtags, which it didn't have when it launched. I took a look and couldn't easily see a lot of current action about our favourite borsets of village, but if any listeners are finding that is an active community, do let us know, and we can start looking to include threads in this roundup as well as tweets and skits. But now, over to this week's medals, for blue sky skits and exposts, all of which we continue to consider in our Tweets of the Week. In bronze position, it's Bob Hawkins at bobhorkins.bsky.social. Pat, welcome back to the garden reading Tofu eating wokarati, here here. The silver medalist is Sheel, at Vera Bling. Eddy is currently sitting at the kitchen table, writing Georgia character reference, signed by the king. And the gold medal goes to Rachel Parkin, at H.J. Parkin. I've just heard Eddy in the archers use the words hood, flaps and hard at it in a single sentence, referring to his hedge trimmer, and I'm still sniggering. Was that a script writer's bet? We need to know. And on that innuendo field note, that's it for this week. I hope to see you all on hashtag the archers on Twitter or blue sky next week. Thank you for that, Theo, and congratulations to all who have mentioned in the streets roundup. And don't forget we are on Instagram @dumptydum. Please send any of the archers or podcast relevant photos to the Dumptydum email, and we will publish some of the credits to you. Dumptydum@mail.com. In fact, I did receive a stump grinder video from a loyal listener, Tim Durham, at the beginning of my holiday, and today Dan White worked out how to share it on the Dumptydum page. But my daughter arrives home today, so it'll probably sort out the problem. We will be recording next week at our normal time, crack of dawn on Saturday morning. In fact, it'll be even earlier, as I have a ticket for a rock festival that weekend. So please get your calls in by midnight on Friday, UK time as usual. And as we come to the end of this episode, we need to say thanks to all our wonderful contributors and to the team of Dumptydumas behind the scenes. And we need to say great big thanks to all of you who are listening to us too. We love making this podcast and sharing our love of the archers around the world. And we must say thank you to Kim Durham and Sonny Almond for their voices and pay our respects to the creators of this podcast. Thank you so much for listening and joining us today. We're now off to make sure we've locked our legs together properly, so it's goodbye from me. And it's a revoir from me. Dumptydum, Dumptydum, Dumptydum, Dumptydum. Neat new glasses or one of fresh new style, Warby Parker has you covered. 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