The Archers: Back to school … Will takes the kids to the pub … Helen gets a visit from Environmental Health
- When Harry met Nic
- When Will met Harry
- How do the wheels on the bus go?
- “Had pictured everything perfect ... it might not be”
- Was Tom Terrified?
Harry and Nic?
Now that might too obvious a thing to say after last night, but I had been wondering what the point of Harry was.
Seemingly good lucky, very friendly and adored by all who meet him.
And we’ve also found out that he helps his sister Patsy out with her child Jasper (as she’s a single mum).
Is there no end to his good deeds?
He seemed to be getting on well with Nic when they met dropping off their respective small people at school.
And Harry did seem keen to see if Nic was working that night at The Bull.
“How lucky I am to have found Will!”
Not even the slightest, Nic.
Though I really wouldn’t like to have to tell him that to his face.
When Will met Harry
Will is becoming a bigger worry every time he speaks.
After Nic mentioned that she might do more hours at The Bull again (with the kids back at school), he (of course) has to turn up at her shift to make sure any male attention is firmly deflected.
He has her in a house isolated away from neighbours, managed to get her to drop some shifts at The Bull be claiming he was too busy to look after the kids, and now turns up with the kids to sit at the bar.
Is it just me, or is this situation heading into a classic case of domestic abuse? He hasn’t hit her (as far as we know), but he’s certainly controlling her every move.
After his attempt to stop her working at The Bull failed when the kids went back to school, Will is now telling Nic that he’s worried she “won’t have time to yourself” and that he “don’t want you to get tired”.
Hmmm. I think the lad protest too much.
So when he turns up at The Bull and sees Nic having a nice chat with Harry, he comes out with:
“Did you know Nic had kids? Lovely kids they are. Smashing. I'm very fond of them. We have a nice family unit.”
So his new tactic appears to be putting off any prospective suitors by showing them Nic isn’t available, nor baggage free.
Well, we all know that really won’t matter is push comes to shove. I just hope this doesn’t go further than Will be a bit of an annoying arse …
How do the wheels on the bus go?
“round and round”
Well done Mia.
And congratulations too to Harry’s nephew Jasper for having an “incident with the glitter glue”.
There’s real hope for the future of Ambridge.
“Had pictured everything perfect ... it might not be”
Stressing about Ambridge Organics ‘big day’ tomorrow, Helen’s slipping into control freak overdrive.
Shame on Kirsty for even suggesting that they shut up a few minutes before official closing time.
Helen later regretted they hadn’t.
Just before they were about to shut, they got a visit from environmental health.
Who find one of their chiller cabinets was 2 degrees warmer than it should be.
And will have to return tomorrow as they couldn’t find their record book.
Oh good god. This is enough to send Helen into a very dark place indeed!
All should be well (as the cabinet had been moved earlier that day, plus the office is chaos due to their event tomorrow), but it sounded like one thing too many for Helen.
Rather than Happy Helen, she’s back on form as worried/stressed/negative Helen.
It might have been Kirsty’s reaction to the triple testing yesterday, but Helen is beginning to realise that neither her pregnancy nor birth nor life thereafter is going to be formulaic.
“so many unknowns having a baby”
Which is just not a lifestyle or mindset that Helen can deal with.
Oh dear. Just when I thought Helen had finally found her calm space …
Was Tom Terrified?
That’s the only explanation I can come up with his inability to behave like a normal human being when faced with an Environmental Health office
“Hi. I’m Tom Archer … Helen's brother … I brought the cooker and stuff … they're outside”
Eh?
He sounded like a teenage boy trying to play polite with his girlfriend’s dad.
4 comments:
Will gives me the creeps. Can't wait for Nic to run off and live happily ever after with Harry (though up til this point I was rooting for a Harry-Fallon romance).
I'm with you. As much as the whole Emmagate was horrific for Will, he doesn't need to be such a psycho when Nic hasn't done anything to warrant it.
Absolutely hope Nic gets away from him before he does any real damage. Harry would be a lovely choice.
Fallon does seem to be utterly uninterested in any affairs of the heart - has been so for a wee while. Every new bloke that appears, I always used to mark down as a possible for Helen. She was due a break, so fingers crossed all's well with the baby ...
What was with Mia answering the question "What did you do at school today?" with something other than the bog-standard (for every child I know) "Nothing/Can't remember/We didn't do anything"? I know Ambridge children are horribly precocious, but really!
Absolutely! Mia's rendition of The Wheels on the Bus was a bit disconcerting. More akin to 'red rum'.
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