Memory's a funny thing.
May. 25th, 2008 10:42 amI was wakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a poster falling off the wall, and leapt out of bed to rescue it before it fell all the way and overbalanced the large metal platter on the dresser below. When I lay down again, I found myself actively remembering ...
that the landlord of the pub in Ambridge is Sid, and his first wife (who I think was already dead when I started listening to The Archers in the early 80's) was Polly. A little tugging at that thread revealed that he had a daughter, Lucy, and a second wife, Kathy, who was originally Lucy's teacher, and that the pub was the Bull.
(In the morning, I was able to confirm all this, and my hunch that the marriage to Kathy didn't work out, by two minutes with Google.)
The thing is, I've barely listened to the show since some time in the 1990s, though it was probably brought to my attention most recently by a discussion on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
papersky's journal, and I wasn't consciously thinking about it at all -- but there all that trivia was, when I thought most of the inessential information from that period of my life had been purged to make room for American stuff I need day to day.
that the landlord of the pub in Ambridge is Sid, and his first wife (who I think was already dead when I started listening to The Archers in the early 80's) was Polly. A little tugging at that thread revealed that he had a daughter, Lucy, and a second wife, Kathy, who was originally Lucy's teacher, and that the pub was the Bull.
(In the morning, I was able to confirm all this, and my hunch that the marriage to Kathy didn't work out, by two minutes with Google.)
The thing is, I've barely listened to the show since some time in the 1990s, though it was probably brought to my attention most recently by a discussion on
papersky's journal, and I wasn't consciously thinking about it at all -- but there all that trivia was, when I thought most of the inessential information from that period of my life had been purged to make room for American stuff I need day to day.
