MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 15hHave the mysterious owners of Grey Gables drafted in a professional manager yet, or are they still letting a guy from a pizza van muddle through? Are they positively hoping to run it into the ground as a money laundering scheme? #TheArchers 040
Reposted by MarkBJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question 1222021385
Reposted by MarkBParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs" 1102395752
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still don’t know why they don’t use Grundy’s Field. A nice little earner. What else is it used for other than Grundy World of Christmas? Then again, Eddie could set it up himself and cut out the middle snells. #TheArchers 040
Reposted by MarkBElizabeth Wilhide @ewilhide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You'd be surprised how many people are perfectly ok with it. #TheArchers 1101
Reposted by MarkBPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU 50617107
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Goodness. Lizbeth talking sense and taking a balanced position. Hopefully she’ll be back to her normal unreasonable self by the time she launches herself at Kenton. #TheArchers 040
Reposted by MarkBRG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City 17408129
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Martyn Gibson contacts his operative for an update on Brian Aldridge. #TheArchers 051
Reposted by MarkBOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Suspect this one will age like Surströmming, wrapped in a loaded nappy in a compost portaloo on the third day at a festival. In a gastroenteritis outbreak. In a heatwave. 96812134
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh no. There’s consternation about Wee Xander’s birthday present. #TheArchers 010
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shouldn’t Willyerm be round mangling the English language at his grandson? Have they told him about it yet or not bothered? #TheArchers 060
Reposted by MarkBParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I said they were Iranians arriving in small boats, I meant British nationals living in London. 771199297
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Where are Boycey and Marlene? Why aren’t they in flapping around the new baby? #TheArchers 060
Reposted by MarkBPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter. 1964267854
Reposted by MarkBGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When my mum gets her winter fuel allowance she assiduously saves it until Sainsbury have their 25% off wine offer then blows the lot on Xmas plonk 1518829
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hopefully the follow through will happen overnight, off mic, and we just get Susan telling someone in the shop “It’s a boy/girl called [thing]. Anyway…” #TheArchers 110
Reposted by MarkBAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has "lost confidence in the UK"... A man who is so 'patriotic' to our country that he doesn't even live here! He lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties." via Jay Church 49842389
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How about Grundy’s Field for the dog walking (but cut out the middle man and woman)? Cue Eddie. #TheArchers 000
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But Ruth. Your mother was twee and Mumsy, like a Beatrix Potter character. Anna’s mother was a cantankerous old rat bag. #TheArchers 020
Reposted by MarkBIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime. 591608422
Reposted by MarkBTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sounds like me, age 8 or 9, designing a Lego space station. "AND it's gonna have..." 36815
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 18/09/2026…and just as Lynda and Robert have decided to downsize. 🧚♂️ #TheArchers 141
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Is Jill going to show any interest at all now her BFF has actually died, or will she send Leonard again? #TheArchers 020
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Still, a house has come free for the Ambridge House Fairy to do its magic with, so that’s all good. #TheArchers 060
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 18/09/2026She’s taken a turn very much for the worse. Has the creepy vicar been poisoning her, or has David been in? #TheArchers 021
Reposted by MarkBOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history. 21477150
Reposted by MarkBMsAlliance @msalliance.me · 16/09/2026Perhaps the BBC have taken up Piddington because they think it’s quaint and funny. It is not. Racism and dumping on asylum seekers and refugees is not funny. 1212
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s all quiet on the Bert Horrobin front again, after a frantic 3 weeks following 15 years of silence. I’d rather listen to him than Carol Toboggan. What was that all about, btw? He went to live with Clive but came back for undisclosed reasons? Was that it, or did I miss something? #TheArchers 240
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think we need to hear from Lizbeth. Goodness knows what Lady Muck will make of all this. #TheArchers 280
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 13/09/2026That‘s the Jolene who has the pub because she shagged someone else‘s husband. Hypocrite. #TheArchers 1253
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Jill not taking an interest in her best friend, then? Situation normal. #TheArchers 021
Reposted by MarkBEnough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland 682127575
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is what we get for that ep earlier in the week which had lots of people in it. 🤦♂️ #TheArchers 041
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Good grief. I’m on Harrison’s side. Fallon used to be one of the good ones. #TheArchers 070
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why don’t they (including Borsestshire Plod) immediately assume that she’s been bonked on the head by a cartoon villain from Wolverhampton, like they did with the last body found (quite recently) in the village? 🤷♂️ #TheArchers 000
Reposted by MarkBParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So glad the police took my advice 😠 241175209
Reposted by MarkBOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Bet you Daniel Thomas's dear old Mum reads the Daily Mail and is having a right old attack of the Cognitive Dissonances. 956133
Reposted by MarkBBouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026'You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"' 1249
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ep summary so far: Carol Toboggan’s bats. AmIRight? #TheArchers 061
Reposted by MarkBHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026Easy to follow guide from the British press 81634506
Reposted by MarkBLBC @lbc.co.uk · 08/09/2026'By endlessly repeating that people’s anxieties are ‘legitimate’, politicians are giving credence to the far-right’s propaganda and inadvertently stoking the tensions they were designed to rile up.' ✍️ @natashadevon.bsky.social for LBC Opinionlbc.co.ukBritain does not have an immigration problem, it has a nuance problem writes Natasha Devon | LBCBy endlessly repeating that people’s anxieties are ‘legitimate’, politicians are giving credence to the far-right’s propaganda and inadvertently stoking the tensions they were designed to rile up. 1613244
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This dithering man is supposed to be a street smart copper in his 40s. He’s more like Mavis Riley than Ted Hastings. No wonder he’s hopeless. 🤦♂️ #TheArchers 061
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 07/09/2026All was going well until Q5: the second on the bounce in Russia and categorised as ‘hard’, but the subsequent write-up starts ‘In (approximately) the middle of nowhere’! Really? Even then I got quite lucky. www.maptap.gg September 7 100🎯 100🎯 97🔥 99🎯 87🎉 Final score: 952maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
MarkB @holmoak45.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don’t know who he is either. I remember Dick and Dom in da Bungalow but I sense this one’s different. 🤷♂️ #TheArchers #MindWandering 010
Reposted by MarkBParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"I once did an interview where I claimed that I had lunch and a long conversation with someone while not listening" 241846476
Reposted by MarkBSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...bbc.co.ukPort of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roadsHundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port. 1061847818
