Kmflett's Blog

The Ambridge Socialist

Reporting on the class struggle in Borsetshire

13^th October

Farewell, Joe Grundy, Proletarian Hero

The actor who played Joe Grundy in the Archers, lifelong trade unionist Edward Kelsey , died in April. On Thursday night Joe Grundy himself took his final departure from Ambridge. After watching the start of the pressing of apples for the 2019 Grundy cider vintage he retired to bed early and slipped peacefully away in his sleep.

Joe Grundy was a true proletarian hero of Ambridge and wisely the BBC have decided he is irreplaceable. That said the number of traditional characters in Ambridge now looks to be down to Bert Fry and when Bert goes a whole way of rural life will have gone

The cider press: missing part

Grundy’s 2019 cider was only possible thanks to Elizabeth relenting and letting Eddie and Will have crucial piece from a Lower Loxley exhibition that replaced a broken part of the Grundy’s cider press. She mentioned that she would do this reluctantly on one condition. What was the condition. Unfortunately it does not appear to have been that Eddie Grundy should ride naked strapped backwards on a donkey through the village but that cider making should be filmed

Extinction Rebellion in Ambridge

Extinction Rebellion protesters have been in central London this week and Ambridge Socialist reporters have been on the spot to see if we could find Ambridge ER. We couldn’t but we are sure they are there somewhere..

Call for a Public Subscription to Erect a Statue of Joe Grundy outside The Bull

Forget the Archers. The real family of Ambridge are the Grundys. With Joe Grundy now passed away at 98 it is time to raise funds to erect a statue of him outside The Bull as a reminder to future generations of what the real centre of rural life is.