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They do materialise, but very infrequently. No-one mentions feeding or tending them, so I reckon they've gone feral in the sitting-out area behind the tea room :/
@HederaVulpes@thearchers That's understandable, I guess, given the size of the audience segment that likes to watch goats on the radio and the demands of the BBC's Charter.
I like the tea-room idea. It makes more sense than ten acres, and I think we'd have heard if they'd been rewilded. As for whether they've gone feral, a trayful of cold sprout eclairs would do the trick for anyone.
@thearchers Alice had a proper broom, so credit to the SFX team for that.
But, apart from grumbles about land and the heavy-handed references to the impending return, or demise, of the suspiciously sea-faring Johnny (subject, I suspect, to the mercy of magistrates or a probation board), it's been relentlessly unexciting so far, especially for those eagerly awaiting a dramatic change to the tea-room soundscape or a distant wren or magpie.
@thearchers Not that I have anything against Christmas Trees, or harbour the slightest suspicion that the Industry is an unsustainable, greenwashing parasite of woodland creation grants, tree-planting subsidies, carbon-offsetting schemes and the suchlike. But there are some that might, I guess.
@Malwen@thearchers Those are interesting possibilities, and you clearly have a more furtive imagination than I do.
The scripties mostly shuffle characters in and out of properties like figures in a weather-house, so I was imagining Harry/Alice in the Lodge, forcing the overdue Jakob/Kate cohabitation. But if Harry wants to sport his horses...
I'm less sure Miles would drop half a mill just to be creepier. Unless Rob left gold in them thar culverts.
@wibble@thearchers I was thinking Azra would buy The lodge, but you could be right about Harry moving there.
I agree that Miles isn't likely to buy land in Ambridge unless instructed to do so by Rob. We've already seen that he is keen to carry out Rob's last wishes, however inappropriate they may be. I'll be very surprised if it turns out that there is nothing in Rob's will to cause Helen further upset.
@Malwen@thearchers That makes sense now they've made Azra a non-disposable addition, while Harry might yet turn out to be single-use.
I'm not sure Rob will have left much. He'd not inherited anything, thanks to his dear old Dad being insufficiently dead, and I doubt his offshore career in farm-interference would have paid any better than before. He might have robbed a bank, of course, but then he'd surely have outlawyered Helen.
Matt Crawford, refinanced somehow,
Vince, to build an abbatoir, a different destination for the horses,
or the forgotten love child of Nelson Gabriel in search of the Gabriel fortune. That Jack May always played him as gay and free wide only make it the more delicious.
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I'm thinking Vincent bought it to build a glue factory that was conveniently close to the stables and other horsey places.
@HarrietMonkhouse@thearchers You might have a point but, for fear of Omnibus spoilers, I couldn't possibly comment.
Besides, though I'm a comparative stranger in the fields of romantic calculus, with or without development potential, I strongly doubt she'd be quite so upset if she didn't think Julian worth well north of half a million, so it's hardly swings and roundabouts.
@wibble@thearchers D'you mean Justin? When they were going to get married, she made a big deal of drawing up a pre-nuptial agreement saying she didn't want to inherit his money. Then they didn't get married, of course, but I presume she still doesn't stand to inherit anything.
I still think this would be a much more interesting plotline if they didn't make up, but I think they're going to drag it out another week or two and then have a big reconciliation in time for Christmas. #TheArchers
@HarrietMonkhouse@thearchers That is also a good point. Though, if she intended the Stables to end up with the land it would be that business (and thus also Justin) who'd end up on the hook, unless she bought it with Amside's money, in which case I don't see how Shula would have been able to veto it.
I don't remember how the Stables is structured, but I don't think Lillian was able, or wanted, to bankroll it single-handed, so Justin's money is still very relevant, even without direct access.
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