The water under the bridge is fair raging. Must have been rain, don't you think Anne Arthur with the Tarrant rain bonnet?

Sorry to disappear - had a callback from Morrisons about my Delivery Pass (after hanging on the line for 20mins this morning). Great timing...

Hi MsVirn!

Is it the fact that it can control it that ORAC doesn't like about the robot, I wonder? He likes being the one in charge.

Sorry to disappear - had a callback from Morrisons about my Delivery Pass (after hanging on the line for 20mins this morning). Great timing...

Hi MsVirn!

I love it when a meme I've started keeps on giving. Buddleia are fantastic things. As are Prawn Cocktail Pringles. Anyway.... have all the 'magnetic' bombs fallen off yet?

Am I right in thinking some people actually LIKE this episode?

I love it when a meme I've started keeps on giving. Buddleia are fantastic things. As are Prawn Cocktail Pringles. Anyway.... have all the 'magnetic' bombs fallen off yet?

Well, compared with Animals...

Am I right in thinking some people actually LIKE this episode?

I love Buddleia - we had such a gorgeous one in our front garden for years. Dark purple, scent like warm honey, full of bees and butterflies. Passersby would stop to take pictures (and, I suspect, cuttings). But alas, it's dead now, nowt left but a dried out stump.

Prawn Cocktail Pringles??? Why bother. Just eat prawn crackers from the local chop-me-out Chinese restaurant.

Poor Avon being fried and all along the others are plotting to get rid of the android.

"Scabby little rebel"

The nearest is 3 miles away, for a start. And they don't have the same...tanginess.

Dayna and Tarrant are plotting to get rid of the android, and according to ORAC, they are right.

Not one of my favourite episodes - mostly because the android looks so clumsy and awkward. But it has some good moments, and I like the last line (even though I think that ORAC has carefully chosen Avon over the android because he knows that he can outwit him),

Very sad. We had three, all different colours. Only that dark purple remains and it is going great guns.

Aren't all rebels scabby?

Great ending. Well, tbh, any ending would get my vote...

Not one of my favourite episodes - mostly because the android looks so clumsy and awkward. But it has some good moments, and I like the last line (even though I think that ORAC has carefully chosen Avon over the android because he knows that he can outwit him),

You could be right! When the PGP era comes round, we need an episode where Orac is properly in charge. No doubt it would have to end in tears because of all the superstitious half-wits...

ORAC is Hardy to Avon's Laurel. No doubt PD would be cheered to hear me say that.

I have two, a pale purple one and a dark one, with a much better scent, both grown from seedlings that took root in my garden. They don't seem to attract the butterflies much as yet, but they are still quite small. I think of Blake's 7 every time I see them now!

I suppose I think of Laurel as the funny one and Hardy as the straight man - and my memory is that Hardy thought he was the brains of the outift, but wasn't really. I'm not sure that that is how I see the ORAC/Avon relationship - rather, I think that they are both using each other, both know it, and both are happy with that,

There's an absolute honey of a middle colour, more magenta than purple or mauve, but I couldn't get mine to last. We were going through a drought then, however, so maybe I could try again. Mollycoddle those babes. Well worth it. And take cuttings so that ther's someone there to take over if you lose one.

You could be right! When the PGP era comes round, we need an episode where Orac is properly in charge. No doubt it would have to end in tears because of all the superstitious half-wits...

Buddleia - you can buy dwarf varieties now. And there's a white one. Ours are just bog-standard and rampant.
OK, time to do something useful, I suppose. Thanks for having me, even tho I was tied up (figuratively) for most of it. Good to hear from you all. Bye!

I would like to see that very much! Perhaps I should write it?

Avon sure makes a dick of himself at the end there. But, yes, they have a perfect relationship. Avon has legs to begin with...

And on that final note of Buddleia care - great to see everyone, for an ep with many daft moments and several good ones! I'll set up the thread for next week - hopefully getting the timings right!

Go for it! I'm crying over getting no time to write anything B7 related. Just rotten abstracts...

Thanks for the great rewatch. See you next time!