# Days are getting shorter, but even so **URL:** \ **Category:** The Archers\ **Created:** [5 November 2017 19:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740 "2017-11-05T19:50:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 19:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/1 "2017-11-05T19:50:35Z")
There seemed to be some confusion in the scripting mind\* as to whether the meal the hooty horror was departing from was lunch (ok, well she said it was, and delicious to boot) or supper, what with her declining a cuppa and saying that the peckitty fratchety lovebirds needed ‘a quiet night’. Sloppy writing. \*ha! I know… ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 20:09 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/2 "2017-11-05T20:09:46Z")
I wondered about that. I don’t think even the most determined “dinner is in the middle of the day” person calls the evening meal “lunch” in order to replace it, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 20:14 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/3 "2017-11-05T20:14:33Z")
Not in my experience, no. But no doubt it will turn out to be A Thing, if queried sufficiently. ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:22 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/4 "2017-11-05T22:22:56Z")
Not here, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Marjorie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/marjorie/32/8_2.png) [@Marjorie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Marjorie)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/5 "2017-11-05T22:23:34Z")
And anyone who didn’t know that is a vile lackey of the privileged classes who hates and despises those who lunch in the evening and longs to grind their handmade heel into the snivelling and starving lunchers. ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:24 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/6 "2017-11-05T22:24:29Z")
That too… ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:29 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/7 "2017-11-05T22:29:23Z")
Have we actually _met_, Marjorie? only you seem to know me so well ;- ) ---
**Author:** ![Marjorie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/marjorie/32/8_2.png) [@Marjorie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Marjorie)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:37 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/8 "2017-11-05T22:37:34Z")
I’ve been to see a few spooky things over the Halloween period and my brain’s gone a bit suggestible. Kind of slightly blotting paperish. I fear you may be influencing me. Oh, got it!!! Last week we saw The Turn of the Screw in the cemetery opposite us - Arnos Vale - and that’s all about suggestibility. I’ll just think of you as Miles&Flora 😋 ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2017 22:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/days-are-getting-shorter-but-even-so/740/9 "2017-11-05T22:50:59Z")
I’ll take that as a compliment, Marjorie dere, and thank you kindly. One has not actually lived, Eng. Lit.-wise, until one has heard The Wife of Bath’s Tale referenced, in the thickest of Belfast tones, as ‘The Turn of the Screwed’.