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@jonreed.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:16 AM

Miss Babs: “Mrs O, Miss Amber’s too busy to do the socials this week. Can you step in as our #AmbridgeAntiques influencer?”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers

Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a mug of tea on a tray. She speaks into an iPhone filming her, positioned inside a ring light. She is creating content that will influence the whole of Manchesterford!

@jonreed.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:42 AM

Eddie: “I’m running a book for the name of the next #TheArchers character. Any suggestions?”
Harrison: “Mrs Overall?”
Mrs: Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques

@jonreed.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:04 AM

Continuity: “Before this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques, there’s just time to reveal the winner of our ‘name the baby’ competition. It’s me, with ‘Winthrop Tuesday’.” #TheArchers

Susie Blake reads out the winning entry from a card.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:16 AM

Miss Babs: “Mrs O – it’s a boy!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers

Mrs Overall holds Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, but in mauve. She’s as pleased as punch.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:33 AM

Stella: “I rang Natasha on the way to the studio.”
Pip: “What did she say?”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:24 AM

Tracy: “How was the driving lesson?”
Brad: “It was great! I didn’t break any antiques!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques

Miss Babs clambers out of the Acorn Antiques van clutching a valuable antique chamber pot.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:02 AM

Continuity: “Before we head to #AmbridgeAntiques, we’ve had a poem from a Miss Fallon of South Borsetshire:

There was a policeman called Burns,
Who took up some tango lessurns,
He bumped into Lily,
And showed her his truncheon,
Which raised some legitimate concerns.”

#TheArchers

Susie Blake has received a troubling limerick from a concerned listener.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 11:15 AM

Miss Babs: “72 baps, Mrs O – you slice, I'll spread.”
Mrs Overall: “Ooh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #VictoriaWood #TheArchers

Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tray piled high with white bread rolls. “72 baps, Connie – you slice, I'll spread,” is a classic Victoria Wood line that sums up the British response to death and funerals.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 11:10 AM

Alan: “Can I get you anything, Carol? How about one of Mrs Overall’s delicious macaroons?”
Carol: “I just wanted to say, if I should choke on this macaroon, how much I’ve enjoyed being in #AmbridgeAntiques.” #TheArchers

Mrs Overall gives a lengthy speech to a bored Miss Babs and Miss Berta, about how much she’s enjoyed being in Acorn Antiques, before choking to death on one of her own macaroons.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 10:02 AM

Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with mending Miss Jean’s umbrella stand.” #TheArchers

Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 11:14 AM

Miss Babs: “Mrs O, I’m going to have to cut your sick pay if you’re going to moonlight as a hairdresser in #EducatingRita.”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers

Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual and, unusually, a mauve wig, carries a tea tray laden with hairdressing equipment. She looks very pleased.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 10:29 AM

Justin: “I want to look like that.” *shows picture of Princess Diana*
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers #EducatingRita #AmbridgeAntiques

The scene from the film Educating Rita (1983) where hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) has a client (a middle-aged woman) who says “I want to look like that”, and shows her a picture of Princess Diana. Julie Walters would, of course, later go on to play the starrier role of Mrs Overall.

@jonreed.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 10:03 AM

Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if Mr Martyn’s any further on with ordering that foot spa.” #TheArchers