Carol Tre-gone

0:00This is a Dumpty Dum production. This is Dumpty Dum, the podcast that lets you talk to the world about the archers and past weekend, I'm Michelle Wright, I can't wait to see those automatic, thermostatic venting action. And I'm Stephen Bowden, I'm a pretty good judge of character when it comes to relationships. And then there's you, our lovely Dumpty Dummers, with your award-winning ranges movie. Welcome to Dumpty Dum, the ideal place to reflect on the last seven days in our favourite or such a living village. This week's scripts were written by Liv John, who was able to give Joblene the line she was born to say, get out of my pub. Up we have Calls from Isabel, who was called back after a long absence we have thought

1:02on the future of the Lily and Harris' relationship. With a spoon who has further thoughts about Carol now that we have her diagnosis. Lakey Hill Limanon, who is very crossed about Carol's treatment as her favourite villager. And Barage, who is relieved that Harrison and Fallon have stopped being so nice to each other. Tarn, who isn't very impressed by the repair shop storyline. So Trotting Richard, who has financial advice for Esmi, Fallon and Harrison. He also offers a more positive view on the repair storyline. With a spoon again, we have final thoughts on Carol. And Joe and John in Scotland, who are convinced that there is something still to come about Alan and Carol's bank account. And finally Claire from Patron, who has been interested in the decision being taken by some of the older villagers. We don't have any emails this week, but we will hear a roundup of the Dumpty Dum Facebook rich from Jacqueline and a Twitch of the Week from Clear. But we will start with a look back on the Week in Ambrecht with Stewie. Hello lovely Dumpty Dummies, it's Stewie, Queen Autart.

2:04Still feeling a bit of a cold, but I'm soldering on regardless. All those complaining about Carol to Boggan complaining can rest easily in their beds now, as they will never have to hear her again. As Fair to say, she had a patchy week handing out flowers to apologise for being a right cow, being crossed with the repair brigade of Leonard and Tony as they repaired Dead Rich's watch, which showed the time he died like a piece of forensic evidence, or maybe it just stopped when the winding ran out. She had given Alan money to pay for the flowers and that's going to come back and bite him on the bottom, as we think she added an extra zero or two. I can't see Alan giving him the benefit of the doubt somehow, especially since he had the audacity to be sitting with Carol when she turned her toes up, having a lovely prayer. Ah, the lorries will not turn out to be her home from home, and we're not going to accidentally bump into Auntie Carboard. Fallon and Lily had a conversation, with Lily defending Harrison, which was not a comfy thing for Alan to hear. One thing they did agree upon was that Kenton had turned into a judgmental arse.

3:07I think that was St. Schiller's influence after he went up to see her, up north in the frozen bit of Sunderland. Joleen threw Harrison out of the pub, sounding like every land lady of the Queen Vic ever, and Harrison is moving back into woodbind, regardless of anything Fallon thinks. Jojen Mick helped out at the repair service, which left Tony feeling miffed, and very much like other people were taking some of his fun. Sabrina Thwite got her jewellery fixed, and Lindy Bottom now has a working hairdryer. Tony got Jon's tractor back from the actual repair shop, and is very pleased. That was about all that was good for Lindy, as they have decided to close down the B&B, which probably means moving out of Ambridge Hall. There is a vague thought of opening the dog field, and Lindy asked Esme if they can use a space at Medo Farm, which I nearly called Medo Rise. Her back was still up from Eddie and George, and even though George went cap in hand, to make a sort of vague something in the near vicinity of a partial apology, she is still

4:10cross, and not in the mood to play noisily with others. And finally, Amber thought her waters had broken, she had peed instead, and the baby was still in situ, as far as we know, on Friday night. I wonder if she'll give birth off Mike, and the spirit of Carol, who'll be reincarnated, or chilling thought. Till next week then. Thank you, Stewie. Now, it's time for Good Week, Bad Week. So, Stephen, who in Ambridge has had a good week, and who has had a bad one? As usual, it's much easier to find somebody who said a bad week than somebody who said a good week. The person I think had a stand-up bad week was Kenton, who returned back from Sunderland, and decided that he just absolutely had to interfere in the Harrison-Lily relationship. And he just opened up the door of Lily's car, came in sat-down, and started berating Lily, or asking her ridiculous questions, as Lily pointed out, it's none of his business. Everybody involved in this is an adult, and they can make their own decisions.

5:11And the one arguably led you from a question about whether this had started before Harrison and Fallon had split up. And I think there's a question about that extent to which that is a legitimate question for Kenton to ask, but the person he should have asked was Fallon, because she's the one that is in many ways in practice closest to him on a day-to-day basis, and is family to the extent that she's his stepdaughter, rather than going and jumping on for Lily. So I thought that Kenton had a bad week, because the one thing he did was a bad thing. And so, conversely, I'm going to say for a good week, Lily, the way that she actually dealt with him, was very satisfying, and I think she got that one exactly right, told him where to go in no uncertain terms. And otherwise, I think, what did she do this week? She joined in the call to talk to Josh, because it was Josh's birthday, and so she went off to do that. So I think she's trying to get on with her life. We'll get, I think, in our first call, a discussion of what's going to happen between Lily and Harrison, perhaps. But for now, I think that she is doing pretty much all the right things.

6:12Kenton was doing all the wrong things, plenty of other people are doing wrong things, but Lily, I thought not. Yeah, I think I'll start with my bad, because it's part of the triangle, so to speak, but Fallon not had a great week, because I think night Lily, last week, she was trying to move on with her life, that the Harrison could move down a bit briefly, was enabling her that break to get back to her thing by herself again, which obviously had been using it, and I really felt that she was trying to kind of strive forward, and then continue her life. And then it's just been completely shaken up by Harrison, peculiarly, by him saying about Lily, that was not new to you with expecting to hear. And then this week, we hear that she actually is on the kind of shaky financial ground, so, or she is excited by the opportunity to get in the correct path. It doesn't seem to be particularly promising and stable from her financial perspective, at least at the start, and she's feeling a bit more like a gamble, and she's on kind of shaky financial ground, because she is so reliant on Harrison, so, if you're not looking great for her, and I don't really, really feel sorry for her, if not of it really is of her making, but a person who's had a good week,

7:15though, I think he's joyed, I love joy, she's a kind, warm person, and I get the feeling that she's in her element when she can be helpful and feel needed by people. I think this is possibly because she's got a bit of an unmet need there, because, obviously, her wish is not around, and she's got no grandchildren around, and I think she feels that her best when she's part of the community, so she's part of the repair shop, repair grotto, and repair circus, which is pretty good, she also has that lovely conversation with Linda, so she feels part of the community, which she's a relative newcomer to, so, I thought she had a grand week, did I joy? I think she did, she does have a sort of child at home with it. What, Mick? Yeah. It used a bit, oh, this used to be like, I don't, I don't, it's like, as much as the people they, but I'll keep it up. But that's enough from us now. Before we get onto the important bit, which is you are lovely, Calla Raneras, we need to take a short break, but if you are Patreon's closer, and next thing you're here, the A4 of Call, Rock Isabel. The A4 of Call isabel.

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10:26since I listened to Dumjidam or called in, so I just thought why not. Harrison and Lily, I'm really worried about those two because Harrison and Fowlerne have literally just split up and Harrison, I think Harrison's gone on the rebound and has ended up getting with Lily too soon. You're not very rational when you just live from your partner and I know this from experience, rebound relationships happen and they don't often end well for either party. You end up with a lot of internal conflict, mental struggle, things like that. And I do wish them well and I do hope that everything turns out all right in the end. Or you can see it happening already with all this thing on Friday with all shall we try again and stuff like that. You will literally about to go on a date and then you're asking you other half to try again. That's a classic textbook, internal conflict situation or external conflict situation or everyone to call it. But yeah, I can see this going one of two ways or one of three ways. Either the relationship will end after a couple of weeks or Lily will end up pregnant or both.

11:28And I reckon this is going to be a long storyline. I reckon it's going to last a good few months at least. Yeah, like I said, I do hope that everything goes well for them. But I am worried because of yeah, part of my personal experience because I know how these things can end and you can see it already. I'm going to have a couple of seconds left. Thanks for listening and hopefully I'll be back fairly soon. I'm sorry, it's been a bit brief. I usually go on a five minute rumble but I'm trying not to do that this time. So thank you. Bye bye. Thank you for calling Isabelle and yes, it has been far too long since you last called in. So it's really good to have you calling back again. And it sounds as if your identification with what's going on between Isabelle and Harris is based in your own experiences, which I'm sorry, since you've been through a bad time on a breakup. But I think you're right that this sort of quick rebound relationship usually doesn't last and maybe ends without being too messy. But certainly isn't ideal. However, this is the archers and things are driven by the needs of storylines. And so I think it's possible,

12:30and I don't know whether it's going to happen or not. It's possible this could be a long lasting thing. And a lot will depend, I think, on whether Lily is ready to have children. She's 26, so she's probably got a good five years before she actually needs to have them. But I think Harris will be looking for reassurance at the very least if not actual evidence that she is having children for him. And so I think that's going to be an interesting hurdle to get across. It's what founded the marriage. And if Harrison doesn't fairly early on establish whether or not Lily wants kids, because I don't think she's ever expressed a view on that. If Harrison doesn't establish that, then it could all go the same way as the marriage did. On the other hand, if he does establish that Lily is keen to have kids and fairly soon, he might see that as an excuse for rushing forward with the relationship in a way that is unhealthy because it covers up other issues. We've had this one big issue in his marriage to Fallen. But there are all kinds of other issues that can come up in relationships. And if you're only focused on one thing and you get the right answer there,

13:30then you might ignore all the other wrong answers. What do you think? They just seem to be coming from different angles in that relationship. So Lily and Harrison, I saw Harrison first of all just seem to be he was coming on really strong with Lily like in different ways. So at the start, I think Lily was possibly the most flotatious and they've obviously got chemistry. But I think he's been the one that's been coming on the strongest. And they kind of shoulder a bit when he was calling a sweetheart. So she seems to be kind of listening to it and kind of liking it. Harrison strikes me as someone who just wants the need to relationship and the middle of it all is like, say that that desire to settle down and have a family. Lily is in her mid-20s. People are different. When I was in my mid-20s, I really wasn't thinking about having children or talking about having children. It just wasn't on my mind. So I think it's realistic that we've never actually heard of. Have a view on that. No, it might come as a bit of a shock in that relationship. Is he stopped to talk about that early quickly? I think towards the end of the week, that we did feel to me like, Lily does see this going somewhere.

14:33I think one of the big issues is going to be about the external support around them. Because they're just not going to have much support around them for that relationship. And I can see in Liz DeBurth potentially being a little hesitant about it because of her previous relationship with Rust, but I think, Rust and Harrison are very different people. So yeah, I think the external factors around them will be potentially one of the things that will make the relationship difficult but some kind. If a relationship isn't something that people want, that actually helps them spur them on and act together through it all. We will see where this goes, but I think this could be something that laughs and it could work out. It could work out. You know. I'm really looking forward to a Joeline Elizabeth composition because that could go in all kinds of different ways. And if Joeline goes in there moaning about this or bloating or something like that, Elizabeth is perfectly cutting it down completely. Definitely. I hope that the microphones are available for that conversation. I'm at it. Yeah. Next up, we've got Witherspoon, the first of two calls from him.

15:33You'll know how this goes. KBB are here, the blues is calling, Tosalids and scrambled eggs. Greetings, Stephen Michelle. At all, Dumpty Dummies around the world, it's Witherspoon here, coloring, entering very early in the week, actually prior to any archers episode, but just after listening to Dumpty Dum, they have more thoughts about Carol. I shouldn't pat Hip Fracture on my list of rule-outs last week. In any case, not a good situation for a 95-year-old. The risk for death in the year following the Hip Fracture greatly increases in the very elderly. As noted last week, Carol will initially need to go into residential rehab for a month or two. She will scream bloody murder about it, but her cottage, as Stephen said, is just not set up for it, and will increase her risk of morbidity and mortality. Even assuming after rehab, she regains a fair degree of mobility and strength, she will likely need an assisted living facility or a full-time care at home on an ongoing basis. I bet she would try to gill Anna into assuming this role,

16:35and how selfish is that, which brings us to the DNR, a difficult discussion, but necessary, not to sound cold, but if you need CPR, you are in up-breathing, and your heart has stopped. You are dead. The rate of survival in 90-plus-year-olds or administered CPR in the hospital is 12%, and in the community, it's only 2-3%. When a code is called in the hospital on a very old person, to vary on pleasant duty for the doctors and nurses, people don't realize the amount of trauma inflicted during CPR, especially out of frail body, rip fractures and contusions are a common place. If there's a return of cardiac functioning, her main damage from lack of oxygen is also common. Reflecting on the final years of my 95-year-old mother, who was not an easy person when she was younger, but who passed away fairly peacefully six months ago, I am extremely grateful she was not a carol. Talk to you soon. Thank you so much for your call and sharing, as I'm both your professional knowledge and personal experience.

17:36You're quite bottom with your statistics in your prediction around the correlation between hip fractures and risk for death, but we won't dwell on that too long because you may defer at the call this week. Just reflecting on this week, I think it's been really, really, really well done, especially the stuff in hospital I felt with, particularly realistic in terms of what it's like when you've got an older person in a ward and they are hearing one thing from the consultant doing their round when those visiting aren't there. You hear this kind of Chinese whispers. Sometimes with older people and just people in general, they only hear what they want to hear and will then convey that to whoever's then visiting them. But it was really confusing at the start of the week. Firstly, obviously, because she was a little delirious with the painkillers and so on, intensively whether she was going to get rehabilitation or not, I doubt very much they said she wouldn't have had it, but she was just so grumpy at the start of the week and really shutting down conversation. Joanna really didn't know what to do next, so I thought that was particularly well done. And obviously later in the week,

18:37we talked about some of those things again in terms of your call about rehabilitation, where she would need to talk, whether that would be in the home or not, reflecting the realistic situation in UK hospitals that they really want to get you out that everything is quickly as possible. And we'll all so prefer for you to stay in your home and we'll do as much rehabilitation at home as possible because there's such a burden on the care system at the moment and it can only be expensive in residential care and she doesn't need to be in residential care then that wouldn't be supportage because of how excited either whether you're privately funded or whether the local authority will support you. So it kind of started with confusion, then it was moving on, looking for next step or looking like it was going to be the laurels. And then we had that ironic situation where Usher and Anna were at the laurels looking at and planning these next steps. And then Alan to the hospital. So I think when you listen back away, can you listen to both episodes that she was in? I just thought wow how really they conveyed how quick you think can change for an older person. So I think it was, it's been excellent with me.

19:39Yeah, I think it was very well written, a very well structured by Liz John. So she did Carol Proud in a way. And yeah, I agree with you and I agree with what Witherspoon said, it might have been interesting to get a feel for the suitability of Gleab Cottage under these circumstances. We had that storyline with the lodge when Chris had her fall and then Peggy was trying to get it made suitable for her to stay and then Chris decided to move permanently to the laurels. And so I suppose we don't need to go through all that again with Gleab Cottage, but the impression I get or the remarks about it being a bit of a hovel and things like that would suggest it's probably quite a small and pokey cottage and it would have been very difficult to adapt it. And it has the bats in the attic as well. So maybe we'll save learning a bit more about Gleab Cottage until we find out who's going to move in their next because it was left to bend under the terms of the will, I think. Oh no, it Josh. I thought Josh got the bungalow, but maybe it's the other way around. Oh, I just remember someone being grumpy about Auntie Carol and it just strike me that that would more likely be Josh to be the grumpy one.

20:42Yeah, but of course all that will only kick in when Ruth and David die and Gleab Cottage remains something that Brookfield owns and will want to use and it's probably an opportunity to completely strip it out and modernise it a bit and just generally make it a bit better with all the money that Brookfield probably have screwed away. So they never seem to have real financial problems. So we'll cite more about Gleab Cottage in due course. Meanwhile, we're going to hear from Lakey Hill Liminal. Hello, Dantitamas. It is Lakey Hill Liminal here. Excuse me for being slightly out of breath. I have just walked up the approach of Lakey Hill with my dogs. I'm calling her in a ring, oh, Steph. Monday's episode. Harrell has just a new massively costalying for me. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. I know that she'd be in pain and really uncomfortable. She's dealing with a huge life change and I want to be empathetic towards her. But she was just rude to my favourite Leonard. Lovely, lovely Leonard. I understand actually her having a bit of a reaction to the sentimental nature of the watch time.

21:45Now moving rather than being stopped, I get that bit. She wasn't very polite about it, obviously. The bit that really got me was where she then turned that into a little tack on his character and said, oh, you know, this is typical of you trying to help people when they don't ask for it. And actually that is just fundamentally not true of Leonard. I don't find him to be somebody who rescues without asking if the person would like assistance at all. He just volunteers things and is happy to be told, no, if that's not appropriate. I just, oh, I love Leonard. He's so sweet and lovely. Yeah, and then Carol was horrible to him. So it's something in me snacked a bit there. And now Carol has officially joined camp talk. Oh, I'm really cross with her. And Leonard was still so nice to her. Yes, that's all, that's it. That's all, I'm just cross and marching up the hill and wanting to defend Leonard. I'm wondering if anyone else felt like that. An early call in the week from me. Let's see how this plays out over the course of the week.

22:46Thank you for that call, like, hill liminal. And I suppose I better be a bit careful what I say because you're co-hosting with me next week. And so if I say anything to upset you now, you'll be able to take it out on me during next week's episode. While yes, Leonard is a lovely person. I do think that at times he feels just a little bit too good to be true. He turned up and he's been looking after Jill and baking her cakes for her and doing all this sort of stuff. And now he's the angel of the repair shop and he's got all these little skills that he can do. Is there nothing he can't do apart, obviously, from painting where we learn that he's absolutely rubbish. But he does seem incredibly nice and almost unrealistic. So I think he's this benevolent thing that has appeared in Brookfield and everybody gets on with him so well. And whatever happens, he's got the answer. Oh, I'll do that. I'll help this. Don't worry about that. Leonard to the rescue on everything. So I think that there's a balance to be struck here. Yes, he's lovely and nice and friendly.

23:46I think in real life, I probably get a bit irritated with him half for a while. What do you think, Jill? Oh, I never thought about it like that. I think you're suggesting that there's kind of a seed of truth in what Carol had said, which is quite a thing that Paul like Carol felt bad speaking ill of the dead. But I think she can be quite cutting in her remark and that the niggling way she does a fernel of truth in there and then she expands it and makes people feel bad. I quite like Leonard. I think he's lovely. He's potentially a little bit too dimensional. I suppose thinking about what you're saying. I think I'm probably in a cup of twix you and Lakey living all here. But yeah, I'd for me that the way that Carol was with it, I just found her unnecessarily unkind. I don't know. There was just such a darning it with the way she spoke to people and it was a lack of seeing good intent in people which was really at the heart of what she said, particularly around Leonard and the way she's treated Anna in the past.

24:46She's just so quick to judge people when they don't do what she wants. So I found her a bit manipulative but she's not around anymore. It's weird the way that I would have gone into a complete rant about her previously. But I feel like I need to stop because this fictional character has actually gone off the fictional, or love-tall coil. But yeah, I do think it was completely unkinded the way she said who Leonard and how she said what she said if it was just. She could have said, oh, look, I really would have preferred you not done that but to understand why he'd done what he'd done. But it is that the reason, the fact that there is that grain of truth in there which makes those remarks so hurtful and so cutting because you take a step back and you say, well, she has got a bit of a point. Yes, she's delivering that point in a deeply unpleasant way but it's still a real point and she does see things. She was able to cut through what she was looking at and find an uncomfortable truth buried within it. And so I think that's part of the problem. If what she had said had been completely unjustified,

25:48it'd be a lot easier to dismiss it. But because there is that kernel in there, it's much harder to actually turn around and say you are being a horrible old woman because she was saying things that other people might have thought and just wouldn't say. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Good luck with that. Let's have another call. This one is from Embarage. All right, Dumpty Dumber is this Dumberage? I'm wondering if anyone else can help me get a bit of distance from the Chame-Chame-N-Us. This week, I've liked it because the Chame-Chame-N-Us has ended between some of the couples, like Fallen and Harrison. The last time I called in, I think it was with Alice and Chris. Just everyone getting in everyone else's business. Stop asking questions if you don't want to know the answer. Everyone's in everyone else's business. Everyone is related and sometimes it seems a little bit too contrived and convenient. For example, now that Kenton in Lillia related, that's an opportunity for them to get their knickers in a twist and kick Harrison out of the pub,

26:49which was a little bit too close for comfort that he was moved into his ex-wife's family's house. But they wouldn't have a story without all of these dramatic elements. I wanted to get a bit of perspective on some more historical situations that may have been more or less irritating in a similar fashion that of everyone being related and connected. What are your thoughts? Am I being unfair and intolerant? Just curious. Also, thanks to whoever mentioned that Stephen Fry was in an old dump-to-done episode. It's worth a listen. And I was reminded of how I get very nitpicky about sound effects when they talked about the sound of Alice's bottle being thrown in the trash can at the park. Thank you very much, talking about one of my favorite subjects. Soley artist and all that work. So I don't think you're wrong in what you said. I completely agree that it was all going well between Phalan and Harrison. And I really didn't think it would last that long and then being so chummy and everything going fine. And that was even before you add in the quickness

27:49of the new relationship that he entered into. Then, him moving into the ball was pleated after. I just thought that was just such an odd idea. I think the word I would use is it just feels incredibly claustrophobic in Ambridge at the moment. Is that the nature of village life that you can't escape from each other? If you are in a large town or a city, if you get divorced and you move on, you're chanted of bumping into each other. Isn't it particularly high? But when you're in a small village where there is that interconnectedness where it appears that not many people leave, that kind of drives that nature of them all constantly still being in each other's lives. But yeah, I do think it had felt a little contrived with the ball side of things. I thought it was going to be either Kenton or Joleen was going fine. Harrison was lily and it was going to kind of go down that line. But it appears it appears it was just there to give Joleen that opportunity to say get out of my pub, she's inviting to say it. So, yes, Harrison made the remark.

28:50I think after he told Fallon that it was lily he was seeing. And she said lily, why lily? And he pointed out that everybody in Ambridge knows everybody and is related to everybody. So it's very difficult to get away from that. And I think that's why you get probably a higher percentage of people just making the best of ended relationship. I think Roy and Kate got on very well with raising Phoebe. Oh, Kate made that easier by disappearing off quite regularly and leaving Roy literally holding the baby or the young child at some point. You had the Schuiler and Alistair break up, but that was Schuiler dumping Alistair. And then they had a difficult time, but then they got together again. The one, of course, where people are related to each other very much and very much in each other's business was the gruntly love triangle. But even that seems to have resolved itself into happiness. They don't appear to be any really long running grudges. It just doesn't seem to happen. No, other than with George. But then everyone came to be friends with George at the moment. Yeah, not me. I still got a grudge against George. No, I know you do. Undead mate, you and us mate.

29:50Meet, yep. Next up, we have the Nuttan. Hello, Stephen. And your co-host and dumped two dummers everywhere. This is Nuttan calling. I used to be in Nuttan from Portland. But as of two weeks ago, I'm Nuttan from New York City. Anyway, I hope you're all well. I just wanted to call in about this ridiculous repair shop which seems to have started in the last week or so. I don't even remember exactly how it got started other than maybe with that guy Dom who was on for one episode. And all of a sudden, everyone in the village is repairing things. I don't understand it. I don't see why it's interesting. I love the little ordinary things that go on in Ambridge. But for some reason, this particular one is driving me up the wall. It's like there's all these petty arguments about who gets to repair something and who doesn't get to repair it. And maybe we'll subcontract it to someone else. I'm sorry. I just, I don't find it interesting. And I don't even find that amusing.

30:50Anyway, I just needed to get that off my chest. Hope everyone's doing well. Take care. Bye bye. Thank you for that call on the time. It's not surprising that you're struggling a bit with this storyline because it is very much tied into a particular BBC program repair shop. And that's very popular. And it's one of these heartwarming programs where people come in with a broken object and a story and they talk about the object and then it gets fixed and everybody is terribly happy at the end of it. I don't watch this program. Particularly, I just know about it. But it has kicked off quite a wave of local repair cafes and things exactly like what's going on in the Ambridge. Indeed, one of our regular quarter-innerers and occasional co-hosts, Claire from Clapham, she works in a repair cafe from time to time. And indeed, she's doing that, I think, today, as we record on this way today. She is going to be doing repair cafe stuff in Bedford. So I think it does reflect a real thing and a fairly recent thing. I think that there probably were these events beforehand

31:51but the popularity of the TV program means that they have become more popular. And I think that it is a realistic reflection. Having said that, the focus this week has been a lot on Tony and his behaviour and his possessiveness about it. Seems a bit bizarre. Tony can be weird at times, but this is particularly odd. Really, really strange. Like you say, it's realistic in terms of that these things exist. But the way it turned from a suggestion or something to do, then then doing it and then Tony being possessive about it. But the same thing that got me a serve of great protective of joy. I just found it a bit schnobby. It was like if he would next expect make a joy to be capable of the things they were doing. And so when joy paint, they can glee, mended this beautiful road. She seemed, oh, sup, and me because of the nature of the industry that is working will be competent and capable when it comes to electric. So of course you can do this like that. Plenty of people have those abilities

32:52and those skills. And I just found him really, schnobby the way he didn't want to pass it on. And also, I don't know. I really, I don't know whether I was reading too much into it. He didn't want to just going missing or getting lost or things like that. And I was like, I don't wish for Smith enjoy to do that. It was particularly weird, given how Tony and Joy first got on with each other. Because they bonded over a shared love of MGs. And there was that storyline when Joy first arrived, the suggestion that Tony might be inching towards having an affair with her. And if there's anything about an MG, it's a sort of car that you spend ages fiddling with and trying to get working. And so I think that he should have had plenty of experience of joy's capabilities in these areas. And they were supposedly great friends and are still supposed to be friends. So it just was a bit odd that he was so standoffish. Maybe there's something underlying that. And it may be that because he feels he's being edged out of rich farm, he doesn't want to be edged out of something else. And this was a new thing for him. It started because they did it for the Flour and

33:54Produce show, didn't they? Yes. It took off from there. So that's how it happened in Amber. It was a one-off thing at the Flour and Produce show, but it was so popular that they've kept it going. Whether it'll last for much longer or whether it'll be something that just disappears and is forgotten about in a few weeks' time, I don't know. The Therapy's biggest impact doesn't show up in some dramatic breakthrough. It shows up in the smallest moments. You bite your tongue instead of escalating. You put your phone down instead of firing off that text. You say what you actually mean instead of what would hurt someone else the most. Nobody applauds those moments, but they quietly change your life. That's what growing feels like. And that's exactly what growth therapy is here for. Grow is therapy that works, covered by insurance. Sessions average $21 with insurance and some pay as little as $0 depending on their plan. There are no subscriptions, no long-term commitments. You just pay per session.

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37:03Standard practice when herring salespeople or anyone who has compensation has based on results. Lasting Harrison, whether you're a teen Harrison or a team, Fallon, and there are arguments on both sides, it was really stupid of Harrison to blurt out, but it was Lily. He needs to give it under wraps until he sorted out technically, not technically, but financially very important discussions about how to deal with their shared asset of their shared liability of the mortgage. It's not going to make it any easier to figure it out. How am I cubally so silly of Harrison and an undercover policeman, surely should be able to control his time and not say he just spoke, because that's what you do. Finally, good for Tony and Leonard with their repair venture. There's a great global movement called recycling cafes, and surely they should be having some kind of arrangement well when they fix things. People make a donation to charity or the alternative model. They fix things, sell them on eBay or wherever, and give the money to a good cause. So great that they're doing it. Good, the joy and make in the picture, but the cap are recycling cafes and doing it in a good cause.

38:04Bye-bye. Thanks to your call, it was like no gin there as ever. I think the least likely in cafe they're going to continue in the tea room, so it looks like it took become a permanent fixture, and potential for them to do good, so individuals and violence to community, which is a really lovely idea. Going into the kind of financial part of things, I think Esmae, yeah. I think the thing with Esmae, she seems to be really short-term issue in the way she makes her decision. I can understand her being annoyed with George, though I get her decision on choosing not to continue to employ him. But I feel like she makes her decision not based on financial reasons, but on kind of gut feels, and doesn't really take time to think things through. So she was immediately dismissive, orls Linda and Linda's idea, and burnt bridges with her in the way that she spoke to her, which I don't think is a particularly great way of going about things. Sometimes it's better and kinder to say, can I have time to think about this? But I think she's a woman who found incredibly overburdened and overwhelmed, and not really sure what to do, which might explain why she was the way she was with Linda,

39:09but I don't think it was the right way to go about it, both professionally and from a personal perspective, where are you? I think that it's right that she is feeling totally overwhelmed. She's lost a reliable farm worker, who's replaced him with a very unreliable one, who we've never heard of before, I'd have to say. But I have to say that my dear of a dog field is a bit alarming. Look at it from David Archer's perspective. Linda has had a dog who got out and savaged his sheep, so her next move is to fence off some of meadow farmland, which is right next to Orta Brookfield, and put our load of dogs in there. And so increasing the number of dogs, and therefore the risk of one of them getting out, all of them getting out and doing horrible things. Now to be fair, I think that the sheep aren't on Brookfield land there on home farmland, so there's a bit of a distance between where the dog field is going to be and where the Brookfield sheep are. But I still think that David will not take the idea at all well if Linda does go ahead with it, and I suspect that Linda needs some sort of approval for it. And she needs to put up a fence, and they haven't really talked about the practicalities of that.

40:12So that's going to be an interesting thing. I don't think we've heard the last of that. And as you and I both said, it's partly a story about the way that Esmi is under extreme stress at the moment because of what's been going on with George, and the struggles she's generally having with meadow farm and trying to get used to all of that. The solution, as we've said before, is for her to employ Akram, but she hasn't spotted that one yet. On Fallen's remuneration, yeah, I don't think the Fallen would necessarily know how these things are done properly. And Elizabeth is a sort of person who I think will look to get away with not paying more than she has to, and she's telling Fallen that she'll get results from when she's up and running. And I don't think Elizabeth would necessarily think to pay her a rate that reflects the fact that she can't have results at the moment. And therefore she gets paid her sort of standard. If this was going well, you'd be getting this amount of money, therefore you're going to get this amount of money now. Elizabeth will say, well, I'm not getting the income from the people coming in, so I can't afford to pay all of that. And Fallen is a loser in that respect, because I think it's right that she's not getting as much as

41:13she should do. But I don't think that the people involved really know enough about the way this is done elsewhere for it to be something that they would have come up with. On Harrison, one question I have, though, is he, was he actually an undercover officer? I don't think he is not the proper undercover officer. I think he was moved up there because they wanted people from outside the area, and that's often because of the risk of corruption. And if somebody is trying to corrupt the local police and he bring people in from outside and nobody knows them and they don't know the people, and so the opportunities of that happening are much lower. And Frank Harrison isn't the brightest cookie in the box, and he does do these things. And so I think him blurting that out was pretty inevitable. I just don't think that he's the type that can keep things secret. And he got into trouble with his Inspector Norris for betraying confidence is about investigations. So I think it's part of the course for him. So I don't think that that's really a surprise, and I don't think he's got the skills that Richard was hoping that he would have. And that's bound to make things complicated, yes.

42:13But I'm not sure that it's massively complicated, because these days when you have divorce settlements, there's a fairly clear set of rules, which basically said, you work at what are marital assets, and you divide them in 50-50. And that's the house. It's any savings that they've got. It's Harrison's pension. I don't imagine if Harrison's got much of a pension. But all of that gets lumped together. If I did 50-50 and there you are, it doesn't really matter how you behave or what you're doing. There is no difference between the way that stuff is allocated to the party at fault or not at fault. And in this case, anyway, there isn't anybody at fault in the actual marriage. And we do know that the Lily relationship came along after they had decided to separate. So I don't think it becomes a big issue. No, no. I would have thought, because they're on good terms, they would have potentially used the mediator. I think they probably should do and will do. They haven't actually talked about that. I don't think they've gone that far. They definitely need it now. Yeah, the issue of the accommodation is going to be a bit of a problem, because I think looking at it from Harrison's perspective, I think it's not unreasonable to say,

43:13why am I the one that has to move out? And Fallon is seeing it in terms of, well, I was living here over this long period. It's more my home than it's Harrison's home. And Harrison is saying, it's more my house than it's Fallon's house. And there are two different perspectives. But the fact is at the end of the day, it's equal for both of them. And there isn't a right answer as to who should be staying there and who should not. And if it means that the two of them have to end up, both of them sharing the accommodation, they're just going to have to find a way through. Not nice, not nice. Let's hear now from Witherspoon again. Greetings again, as I call her in, with a code to this week and the story of Carol. We had just come back from the latest chapter of the always very amusing and imaginative Sean, the sheep film series in which dog and sheep get along. When I listened to today's sad episode of The Archers. In my first callarin, I noted that the risk of death was much higher in an elderly person who suffers a hip fracture and so it came to pass. Nonetheless, I was surprised and thought we'd have Kentanker's Carol at the laurels,

44:15but is Alan noted, and as it's been documented, it's not unusual for old people to briefly cognitively rally just before death. I was also reminded of six months ago when my brother and I flew down to Florida, arriving at the hospital three hours after my mom passed away and sitting with her body, speaking her final words to her. Fortunately, there had been nothing that I had needed to say that my relationship with my mom, despite earlier bumps in the road, was good, unlike the relationship between Carol and Anna. I felt sorry for Anna, although was there just a bit of self-indulgence there? A treat she shared with her mother. Finally, I was very happy that the DNR was apparently not revoked and Carol was allowed to have a peaceful passing as a 95-year-old should have. Starting CPR would have been a violent assault on her body. One final thought, I imagined a story was planned before the death of Patty Green. I wonder when we'll be having Jill's final story. That will be much sadder.

45:16Talk to you soon. Thank you for that call with us, Boone. And yes, I think that you're right, having an attempt to resuscitate Carol after her heart to start would have been very traumatic. And I don't know how formally it was a matter of DNR being revoked or not being revoked, but I think it was pretty obvious to all concerned and Alan who was right there that Carol was slipping away. She said she wasn't frightened anymore, and I think that was very much a signal that she was ready to die. And so it would have been totally inappropriate to bring her back because that would probably have made her frightened all over again because if it were to have in the second time, though the chances of being in a situation where you could do it a second time would be pretty remote. So I think that that was the best way for it all to go. I don't think Anna was being self-indulgent really. I think that she'd had a difficult relationship with her mother and she'd missed the actual moment of death and that was upsetting for her because I imagine she'd imagined being there for it and just being slightly too late is quite an upsetting thing to happen.

46:17And so she was just being a little bit unguarded, I think, rather than anything else. What'd you reckon with, Sean? Yeah, it's incredibly common that that happened. But I just thought they did it so realistically, that kind of time when they were on her. I do feel that, she's so Anna because obviously lost her mother if her end is but it complicated by a complicated relationship. I saw particularly one of the things that Carol did to Anna that was just so hard was the way that she made this brother the perfect thing that she couldn't live up to. And that's impossible to live up to someone who's no longer living. And so that was kind of tension in their relationship, I think. So yeah, I think it's going to be hard because Anna's going to grieve her mother than the mother but Grievous, they're the loss of their relationship that she didn't really have and how difficult it was towards the end. I think we might be able to something though because I don't know. Did Anna receive the flowers or not? Will there be some kind of lovely message in it? I don't know. I thought it was done so well. And those last few moments with her when she was talking to her, you could just really feel it. I just thought it was really, really well done.

47:19But poor Anna, it'd been a real shock and to go from that going to Laurel's one minute and then coming back to find that she was no longer there, it will be really, really, really difficult. But that rallying she did because I really listened to the episode on Wednesday and she was so uncharacteristic here at B and it is that kind of thing that will happen before someone dies that they have these moments of kind of lucidity and clarity and setting next steps. One of which might be related to your payment to Alan but I think we might come on tonight in a bit. Yes, let's have our next call and this one is from Joe and John in Scotland. Good evening, Stephen. Good evening, Dumpty Dummers. This is Joe and John in Scotland. We've just listened to Wednesdays Thursdays and Friday's episode. We had a bit of catching up today. Tonight was beautiful. It was beautifully written and it was beautifully axioned and you just had to have had a heart of stone not to shed a tear at that one. Really well done. However, some things going to happen with the fact that Alan put his bank details into carols online banking. That was a big, big mistake

48:20and I think that potentially will end badly. John's got something else to say on that. Yeah, it was a good, going on, absolutely. It was a bit of a shuffling. It was a bit short. For the bell. Yeah. And there he's got a bank that's just has details on how to bank. That he put in. Yeah, that he put in. What has gone to come here? Yeah. Are we going to find out that carols donated the missing five grand or what? Yeah. People might believe that. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see what happens. There's an employee not there. He should know. Kind of a stand and a setting. So that all was. I thought he was horrible. To Linda. When Linda was saying about it. She really was. That was terrible. It was made for that. Yeah. That was cruelty because it was on the side. Help. And as for Amber, if she or isn't she in labor, it's quite interesting. Now often it happens in life that a baby's born just as an elderly person died. It happened in our family. My grandmother died. And a couple of days later, our first grandchild was born. Yeah. It happens a lot. So I think that carol dying

49:20and then baby drundy arriving is quite timely. Yeah. I think that's what you know, anything to say on Harrison and Lily. Not really. I'm just saying you see what happens. They are harvesting him back to the house. He has to get over it right. But he's sensitive. But it wasn't. Yeah. But even though he's a little bit healthy, he has a little bit. And as he says, he has been my jolly other than the mortgage owner. And you know, that'll be our two minutes. Yeah. Bye. Thank you. Thank you for your call. I love your calls. And the conversations you have with each other while you're having your calls are brilliant. Really love them. All about to cap things on Wednesday. I said, I was shouting at the radio. Alan, will you never learn just couldn't believe he put his decals physically in her phone? I just thought you should just say just forget about it. Or maybe write your bank details down on a piece of paper just to say, we inverse that your own time. Surely he's had training on what you do here. It's just incredibly messy. Who knows which way it's going to go? I think like many of the said,

50:21I think she's going to have her zero in the wrong place. And a 40-hound per case is going to go to either 400 or 4,000 pounds. Which will conveniently solve Alan's problem. I'll be able to use that money for the bell repairs. But whatever he does, he's doing to have a conversation. We Anna about the fact that payment with maid. And she's already had a conversation with him about the fact that he shouldn't be being involved in her mother's finances. So I really don't know which way this is going to go. And I don't know which is more realistic. Is it going to be that this is just going to have that she'll have put a nice little note because she immediately became savvy about what she was going to do and literally wrote on the thing to say, thanks for sports hours. Also, here's some money for the bell tower in the note bit, making it clear what her wishes were. Or is it going to be that it's going to turn into some scary thing about Alan and potentially Alan for think her and coercion and all of those things that he should have been avoiding by taking the right procedure

51:22to think that it's not being involved in her banking at all. What I would actually go one or two ways. Yes, I think there's quite likely that she will have transferred a large amount of money. And then there will be this question about whether she intended to or not because we just don't know if that is what happened. And yes, 40 pounds to 4,000 pounds is quite likely because you think you're putting in the zeros for the pennies and actually it doesn't need them or it doesn't recognize them or whatever. So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Alan looks and discovers what has happened and then he doesn't know quite what to do. The answer is what to do is to talk to Anna about it. And I suspect that he won't. I suspect that we'll get some sort of complicated mess that will result in all that. Joe and John mentioned the idea that when one person dies and another person is born, of course, the most dramatic example of that was from 15 years ago when Nigel fell off the roof at pretty much the same time as Henry was being born. So they've certainly done that thing in the arches. Should we have our final call? And this one is from Claire from Clapham.

52:24Hi, John to John. It's Claire from Clapham here. I've been meaning to ring in to reflect on all of their thinking that older generations were doing about what a good future looks like. Well, it's Friday and I've just caught up. And there's probably ever shadows by Carol. But not so much. I think that it's been interesting to hear how Linda and Joy were talking about where they were living and putting their money into where they're holding for joy and Linda and Robert needing to downsize if they weren't running the B&B, which makes sense, that's the huge place. I know they love it, but things a bit unwieldy for a couple of years, late 70s and 80s. So that's just a bit of a choice. And I think Joy was quite a big house, but a modern new build house that doesn't need a lot of maintenance at least. And Carol had to have some thinking about tactical issues like adaptations of so on. In fact, I've been looking forward to the conversation with the occupational derives, but that's not going to happen now. It could have been a really interesting storyline,

53:24not least because the new voter's rights act does give tenants rights to request permission for adaptations from their landlords, which cannot be withheld as well as they were before. So I thought that was an opportunity for some public information there. Anyway, that's not going to happen, but good to see people making some sensible decisions about some of their long term thinking as they get older. More people should do that, and it's a bit of a hobby horse puppet for me. So yeah, keep up with the work, speak to yourself. Thank you very much for that call, Claire. I think we did have some conversations around the responsibilities of the landlord. A few months back and Ruth talking to Anna and Carol about what they would have to do to need cottage to make it suitable. And of course, as I mentioned earlier, we had all of this when it came to the large and Christine, although that was before I think the change in the legislation. And that was very much more peggy doing what she could to keep Chris in her house, rather than because she had obligations as a landlord, because of course, they were both living there. So yes, there was an opportunity there,

54:24but maybe they felt that they'd already done quite a bit of that. More generally, yes, all these people thinking about what their future is going to be like. Amrich Hall is big. And I know that Linda said that she always imagined staying there and retiring and settling down in her beloved Amrich Hall. It does look like that's not going to happen. It'll be interesting to see what happens to it, because who will buy it from them if they do sell it? Will there be an opportunity to bring in some more incomeers? And there seems to be a bit of a changing of the guard at the moment. We've lost Carol. We're going to lose Jill. Linda and Robert are moving down. Alan might get sacked. So there's a lot of strange stuff going on at the moment in terms of almost a generational shift. And then, studically, when I think about housing, I'm so grateful for Claire and her knowledge. But when I think about housing, I think about it as a musical chair. So you've also got issues around studically where people are going to be living. Hannah, where are Hannah living at the moment? Great. My song she did in Ricciard Cottage and that she did a house swap with...

55:25Ah! ...with hip. But the question then is, who is paying rent to whom? Because Hannah was subletting effectively from Stella. So I think Hannah was paying Stella and Stella was paying Brookfield. But if Hannah is now in Ricciard, is she paying the same amount and is she paying it directly to Brookfield? And does that mean that they can kick her out rather than Stella having a say in it? It was all a bit brushed under the carpet in terms of what's happening. But I do think that she's most likely in Ricciard. Yeah. But then where are Harrison and Fallon going to go? Because I think all road deleting to them potentially having to sell a house. And I don't think either of them potentially Harrison. No potentially Harrison may be able to stay there and buy it. But would you be able to buy out fast? So they will potentially... Well, definitely one of them going to need to move. If not two, where do they... So this is the thing with each house. It is where do they go? And it seems to be that there's an abundance of large houses that are difficult to afford. But let's go from all the houses that are available to single people. So we do wonder whether we might see Fallon maybe sharing Ricciard or I don't know.

56:28I think that Fallon is actually a stronger position to stay in woodbine than we think. Because in the split, if they look at the big assets, the two big assets in the marriage are woodbine cottage and Harrison's pension. And it might be that they would work out that rather than splitting the pension, they need to get a valuation of it. But rather splitting the pension between the two of them and selling woodbine and splitting the proceeds from it, they could work out a thing where Harrison keeps all of his pension. Fallon gets the bulk of woodbine cottage and then they work out a way of balancing the two things out, taking account all the other things. But those I think are much bigger than anything else that they've got between them. I don't think either of them have got significant savings, for instance. So I think that it might well be that they could work out that Harrison will move somewhere else and Fallon will keep the cottage. But who knows? Because it's still on a mortgage. So keeping the cottage would probably mean paying the mortgage, maybe the crack upon will be so successful that the payment by results means that Fallon can afford it. But yeah, there's a lot of mess to come, but that always happens when there's a divorce. You can't have a neat and tidy divorce even if you're getting on with each other very well.

57:32You'll show me, show me, as Amber Rage was complaining. Yeah. That doesn't mean that it's not going to be difficult to get the financial stuff sorted out. I have all we know is that removal companies will be kept very busy in Amber Rage, that's the sure. Removal companies are eddy. Yeah, a man with a van. So that's it for the calls this week. If you'd like to join us by calling us yourself or dropping us a line by message or email, Stephen will tell you how and all the details are also in the show notes. To record a message or a marvellous plot prediction, go to SpeakPi.com slash dumpydum where you can leave us a message of up to two minutes. Alternatively, you can send us a voice note or drop us a line via WhatsApp and the number is in the show notes. If you'd prefer to email us, please aim for a maximum of 250 words. Our fan-led podcast is all the richer when we hear from you. Our fans are at the heart of all things dumpydum and we never know what direction you wonderful people are going to take us in and we absolutely love it. So once again, all the details are in the show notes. And we will be back after another short break unless you are a Patreon supporter.

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1:02:48here with a roundup of the Facebook page after Thursday's episode. No prizes for guessing what top account dominated the page in this week. If you don't want to hear about Harrison and Lleitz to kiss fingers in your ears and go la la la la for the next three to four minute. Take it away Mallymere where the of my pub Mally has beaten Helen Cook to the punch. Ha, you posted what I have also come to post. Julia Delwich has questions. What happened to Harrison being family then? I had to include all of these are just two and good. Christine Layland is getting Albert Square vibes. Well, sage, Jolene Piggy Mitchell Archer, Charlie Bird, Barbara Windsor, will be grinning. Zuna Romano can understand where Jolene's coming from. Short memory but I suppose it's different when it's your own daughter. Jacqueline Berto, I heard someone saying, Duh, duh, duh, after that episode, the O'Brien is voicing her housing concerns. Just as while the cricket season is over or near a marsh, I'm assuming. It's found and just made herself homeless. After her behaviour surely all

1:03:53the nice, nicely stuff is off the table now. Harrison will want his share of the house rather than the next daughter of his nasty in-laws. Don't get me started on Jolene and her hypocrisy. So where's you going? This smells new lodger, a boat on the am, Hannah's new housemate, or out of Ambridge all together. Do we know what the actor is doing in the next year? Is Panto calling? Alan O'Loriati would like a memory check on Jolene Jolene. As Jolene can be, at least forgotten that she had a massive affair of sed when he was still married to Kathy. Famous show-a-scene, ugh, leave get why she's protective and furious with Harrison. He hasn't actually had an affair with anybody. Just moved on incredibly quickly, just understandably shocking and upsetting. In great radio drama, Lillian Harrison give me the ick as well. All opinions are welcome here. VB is here for it. I'm rooting for Lillian Harrison. I'm both lovely and would make great parents. Harrison may not have a body clock but it's time he got on with his life and the family he has always wanted. His marriage to Falun was over after the crash. They want

1:04:57different things. Sandra D Jenkins and the thinking similar housing things. Rick Hill reminds us that while I agree, didn't Falun have a heart to heart with Linda recently making her more teen-fallen? You're terrible with this thing. As punishment, make Harrison move in with Carol. Catherine Langley also sees possibilities at Ambridge Hall. A lodger or two would give them an income with much less work and being bigest. Lillian, who are like me with the life to see Hammer the Roan to the path of Harrison. Could be a solution for Hannah Chu, now be the pop-reliction. I'm right behind. A husband who's cricketer, set the top of wedding cake too much. Too soon, I'd eat schmatz, Lillian Harrison can't even sing edge. Of course we know couples with size-bill age differences but they're older people, 50, 60, 70s. It's not just older men, older women too. It's a matter of the stage of life you are at. I would be worried if our 25-year-old daughter bought a 40-year-old man home bound to have emotional baggage. We come to the point now. Furthermore, I do not see what they have in common apart from physical attraction. She's being

1:06:01to uni and has travelled one week in Australia to be fair and has expressed an interest to travel more. He's in a totally different stage of life and wants to be a father. Finally, he suggested her reunion to bow then watch as his main. Would he really leave Lily so soon? This way until Kenton and Lily find out then the sparkful sigh. Doris Rook Barton, I am too but I love the confrontation of Jo Ling finding out about it today. I was on the treadmill at the gym and I had to laugh out loud. Aja Pinberto has sorted the vibe, Ecclea Cottage, Rex's boat empty, Lin Full Love offers a gear change. The latest dumb-to-dum newslet of the Patreon has been published. Looking at Arches, who are not Arches. I think it's out for your ears because something different. Jonah Titchmarsh, Joy's bag, Hirey, Soes, Nick, Hemu, Jolie Ferrand, Anstey, and Seer's safe-guarding storyline hurtling down the track. I'm not sure Carol's unsavory as she makes out. Certainly, manipulative what she up to. Not her near. And what in

1:07:06universe would anyone think that Kenton's behaviour tonight was appropriate? What gives them the right to interrogate nearly about her relationship and when it started? What a vile prick. I'm glad she gave her what for? Are the topics of started to flood in? With a spoon sets us straight, by the way, Monty isn't allowed as gravel would. Apparently, according to Fiona Armstrong Hall, it's also allowed in Wordal. If you'd like to catch up with this hop on over to the Facebook page and check it out. Keep your brilliant contributions coming everyone. Have a good week and thanks as always. Bye for now. Thank you Jackleen and thanks very much to everyone on the Dunc-Dum Facebook group. In addition to Facebook, we are also on Instagram, at www.dumtidumpeach.com and any varchers or podcast relevant pictures of that same Dunc-Dum email or via Facebook Messenger.

1:08:08And we will publish them with credit to you. We can also be found on Blue Sky where you'll find us at www.dumtidum.bsky. Make sure you include the Archers hashtag using a capital T today, so that you visually impaired who use screen readers can enjoy any Archers-based skits. As well as at www.dumtidum I can be found at www.whenlock.bsky and Michelle is at www.Michellerights.bsky. And we're also on Twitter at www.dumtidum.com. Now let's hear almost brilliant skits about the Archers over the last week with Theo. Tweet, Tweet, Pusscat or should that be XX these days? Hello Michelle, Stephen and Dunc-Dum as everywhere. It's Purple Pumpkin here with this week's Tweet and Skits a Week. And my thanks as ever to people who tag at www.dumtidum to make sure we see all the best ones. This week we were treated to more developments on the Lyrison, Fallison Front, plus the final week of Carol Triphorin. First we had the return of Kenton. As Victoria Stacey at vintage 347 said, that Kenton he's a bit thick, isn't he? And Stuffy Eed at Mama Fakcaffey

1:09:12feels this foolish intervention from Kenton might have cemented at least determination shackles when she'd been having second thoughts. Lany, a delay in Warden, one asked, whether to last see your own daughter, Kenton. While Katie, agent, Eck, at Leo D. Hasse said she can't think of any time one of her uncles gave unslisted dating advice. On the topic of Harrison's return to the Marital Home, Judy Astley, at Judy Astley said, he agreed to leave, to think he can walk back in while romancing Lily is a bit much frankly, but Pickwick, the Doe Doe at Lesley Hustler dot B. Sky thinks Harrison is absolutely right. He pays most of the bills, why shouldn't he live in the house? Thaun's mother has thrown him out, what else was he meant to do? Trubbs at Trub Shore dot B. Sky Loth Harrison, that thinks he has every right to sleep under his own roof rather than mom and lie low. While Aymomoteumni at Eotmni thought the understatement of the week was when Dilly said, I must be the last person you want to see and Fallon replied, not quite. For Carol, the week started badly and got worse, as Aymomoteumni at Eotmni said,

1:10:17Carol toboggan went downhill quickly. In planning for her surgery, Gillesie L. at Gillesie L. asked why both of the surgeon, when Lemord could do it, and following that Peter Balker at P. Balker 7 suggested that in tonight's episode, Carol insists that the surgeon removes her artificial hit because her old clicky hit reminded her of her son. And Rick Lujardinier at Rick Lujardinier said, he always needs a dead person's watch to tear him up. Ridwik, Susanna Till at Susa Till was among those wondering, will Carol have accidentally shed type of regular pain of Thaun? But by the end of the week, Lottie von Fuxhausen at Lottie von Fuxhaus dot B. Sky Loth, couldn't the Grim Reaper do a two for one and take birth as well? And Lamy at Eotmni, Lleymorton one said the lengths Carol were going to to avoid the laurels. While Mark B. at Whole Moe, 45 dot B. Sky looked on the bright side, still, a house has come free for the average house ferry to do its magic with, so that's all good. And just as Linder and Robert

1:11:17have decided to downsize. And finally, there was the soapy trope of Amber's false alarm, Felicity Bounfluff at Bounfluff suggested, silly Amber, doesn't she know the baby has to be ball on a Friday and preferably with it cliffhanger? In which case we now have a week to wait, and Lim Bird at lingeybirds dot B. Sky said, if this baby is not accidentally born in the grondis side to shed, I will be very disappointed, on which side do we note over to my medals for Blue Sky Skeets and X posts, all of which we continue to refer to as Tweets of the Week. In Bronze position, it's John Cavanaugh at John Cav 209-22342, who says, when I was pumping up the bed at 4 a.m. I was thinking, I'm letting myself down, I'm letting Falon down, I'm letting the air bed down. The silver medal is for Charlie Notten, at CharlieNotten.bisqad.s social.

1:12:19Hands up anyone who would have smacked the watch on the nearest hard surface and said, well, it's not going now. And the gold medal goes to Undersea World of Linda Octopus, at lindaoctopus.bsqad.s social. Oh, Charlie, I'm having terrible money trebles. Maybe I can help it, I was governor of the Bank of England for a bit back in the day. And on that monetary note, that fit for this week. I hope to see you all on hashtag the archers on Twitter, Threads or Blue Sky next week. Thank you for that fear and well done to all who were mentioning this week's round of, especially Don't You Made the Podium. They pickled me particularly. Now we've heard from caller in her as email in her as Facebook contributors and tweeters. We have the cancel mentioned this issue that were mentioned by caller as all round rupers.

1:13:21Do you know what have we missed? I think we've covered pretty much everything in those nine calls. The one thing that we've had a couple of brief mentions of that nothing in any detail is Amber and her dramatic rush to the hospital to the birthing center when her water is apparently broken and it turns out they didn't. And her recording video as they were going into the hospital. And I'm just hoping for her sake that she didn't publish that video before she discovered what had actually been going on. I suspect that it would take a little bit of time to do the editing and putting on any additional music and stuff like that. So she's probably okay but it was a bit of comic relief to offset against the tragic death of Carol. Yeah, I quite like to handle it because it did make my role my eyes bit because it's a bit of a cliche that you see in soap and so on and some water's breaking and then going into hospital. It didn't actually normally happen that kind of that way around but obviously it does sometimes but not. I think I was a bit of an answer to see that she'd got her video out ready to record it all. I suspecting that that's not going to happen in reality because from my experience and many

1:14:25for the mothers that I know most people's first plans are not worth the paper that they're written on or the the technological item that they're written on and way babies come into this world is very rarely the way you expect it to happen. Yeah, I think it's a bit sugar coated the way that ambities things happenings. They might be in for a dose of reality there but we've had a fair share of kind of dramatic entrances with glass debris with it. Glass debris. It was last year when cake gave birth to Phoebe. And then Alice in the in Jim's car. Yeah, it's not beyond the realms of responsibility that we might have a dramatic side of Shedbur. I wish them well and it will as much as I'd definitely like joy to have nothing against Amber. Yeah, hope all goes well for them and not look forward to having a new baby in our bridge. Could be by this time next week. Yeah, next week Steve will be joined by Lakey Hill Liminal. Cording will be at the usual time of early on Saturday morning so please get your calls and emails in by midnight on Friday. And until to the end of this episode we say bravo to all our wonderful contributors and to the team of

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