24th June 2010

Fallon’s back … Hurrah to more ‘learning about bees with Jill and Josh’ … Brenda is not match for Matt when it comes to negotiating

• A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
• Fallon returns, so Harry finds his voice
• Tiger stalks and lands his first prey since prison
• But can he get away with it?

A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.

Seriously – I didn’t start listening to The Archers for the drama of it – I started because of these lovely wee moments.

I learn something (tonight, about queen substance), while listening to a lovely warm, summer scene.

Hurrah for the bees!


Fallon returns, so Harry finds his voice

Good to hear Fallon back and not entirely in pieces.

Though she didn’t sound sure about whether she and Jolene would carry on running The Bull.

Ominous.

But, never fear, as where Fallon treads, Harry will appear


Tiger stalks and lands his first prey since prison

I don’t suppose any of us would have put money on Brenda managing to get more out of Matt than he’d be happy to give.

Bless her for giving it a go – and an extra £1,000 is nothing to be sniffed at – but she did fall for all the usual pressure techniques.

It’s as if Matt simply threatened to take his ball home if she didn’t play nice.

And it worked.

Despite all her good reasoning – that her current job brings better links, could take her over the world and has a formal career path – she was obviously not going to turn Matt down.

Matt had a point that she’d be saving more by not having to travel plus rent a room, and that a ‘career’ with a large company could mean:

“Five more years, you’ll be on teaspoons”

So Brenda gets £19,000, and Matt gets … Brenda.

Actually – I think Brenda might have won that battle after all!


But can he get away with it?

So Matt’s told Brenda she’s an essential part of the business, but told Lilian that she’s nothing more than an office girl.

But Lilian was then rightly horrified that £19,000 is a lot for Brenda’s wages.

Just what is Matt up to?

According to Matt, Brenda is:

“Loyal .. [has a] little bit of nous and drive”

And that the

“whole essence is [of the business is ]teamwork”

Hmmm. Something doesn’t quite add up there.