Thursday 8 July 2010

7th July 2010

The Archers: Elizabeth puts Pip’s problems into context … Brian strikes a deal

  • Has the penny dropped for Pip?
  • The battle of Hastings part 2
  • Blast from Elizabeth’s past
  • Matt Crawford: the social housing lord



Has the penny dropped for Pip?

We’re all expecting Pip’s moping over Jude to last for months, but maybe (just maybe) she might come out of this sooner than expected.

While she was at first checking her phone in case he called (as if he ever did when they were going out), and then rambling out about they could’ve sorted everything out if they’d talked, she later seemed to finally get it.
“He wasn’t going to ring me … he was going to America without saying anything … he didn’t love me at all, not like I loved him”

And all it took was Elizabeth asking Pip the right questions.

“How did he sound?”

“Is that the impression he gave you?”

Enough to make Pip have a proper look at what Jude was like, and realise that this wasn’t about Jude feeling not trusted – it was simply that he didn’t care.


In saying all of that – will a remarkably quick recovery from Pip be a red herring? Will the peace be broken by a return from Jude?


The battle of Hastings part 2

Brian just never takes no for an answer. Though, that’s probably why he’s got so many pennies in the bank …

So Farmer Hastings doesn’t want to sell his land, yet all it took was Brian talking to him about his baler.

Quick chat later about farm succession, and Brian had Hastings believing that selling his land is the best move for all and every.

Still waiting for Matt to scupper it all …


Blast from Elizabeth’s past

Elizabeth’s run-in with Cameron Fraser was before my time, but I have read about it. How wonderful to hear it first-hand!

Of course, Jude is no Cameron (Jude hasn’t got the intelligence or class). Whereas Cameron was:

“Charming, attractive, well off mature”

Jude was … well … a manboy.

Whereas Cameron made Elizabeth feel

“Valued, important, special”

and he told Elizabeth that he’d

“Finally found a woman share thoughts with”

All Jude had to say about Pip was that she was

“fun and clever”

In the face of being told Elizabeth’s experiences (pregnant, dumped at a service station, abortion), Pip’s quite right to “feel so pathetic”


Matt Crawford: the social housing lord


Was it just me, or did Brian miss the point about Matt’s alleged conversion to understanding the “urgent need for affordable accommodation”?

From what I’ve gathered about such matters, isn’t it within a developer’s interest to include social housing elements in a new project, so that it becomes more palatable for planning permission?

Isn’t that what Tesco does? Build a huge shopping centre, but offset it by knocking up a few cheap flats?

1 comment:

Luce Gilmore said...

I wonder what would happen if Pip were to send Jude a text claiming falsely (I guess!) to be pregnant, just to see how he reacted?