The Archers: Emma can’t hide from Clarrie … Ian and Adam have a busman’s Sunday
- Simply ooooooooooooozing
- “Grey Gables gourmets are going to have to wait”
- You can’t fool Clarrie
- “Get rid of Freda and change the menu” – oh my!
- Clarrie keeps the secret for less time than it takes …
Simply ooooooooooooozing
Joe’s decided he wants Clarrie to bake him a cake for his birthday.
It needs to be a plain Victoria sponge “oooozing with jam and butter cream”.
And he’s timed it well (or at least his mum did!). Clarrie’s on cooking overdrive ahead of the flower and produce show.
“Grey Gables gourmets are going to have to wait”
How nice to hear from Adam and Ian again.
Off on a trip to have a look at a fruit producer for Adam, Ian also managed to get Adam to go to lunch at a pub famed for its great food.
In telling Ian that he can’t have certain food produce for his restaurant until it actually grows (“delayed gratification), Adam already foresees that Ian will
“be taking half of my cherries”
Terribly uncouth of me – but didn’t that happen years ago?!?
You can’t fool Clarrie
After years of sniffing out Eddie and Joe’s cunning plans, Clarrie spots that Emma’s pregnant (after she keeps throwing up).
Swearing Clarrie to secrecy, Emma’s a bit worried that her pregnancy is already difficult compared to when she was pregnant with George.
Clarrie reckons that means it could be a girl this time.
Hmmm. She’ll be cracking out the needle and thread next to see which way it spins.
“Get rid of Freda and change the menu” – oh my!
As they’re having their lunch in this wonderful pub with wonderful food, Ian reckons that The Bull needs to shape up its own food if it’s to survive.
Seemingly Freda’s habit of serving tomato ketchup sachets on the side of everything just isn’t good enough, and
“it’s not the most tactful thing to say considering the circumstances … but the atmosphere is like a morgue”
I can see what Ian’s driving at, but surely it’s Jolene that should go rather than Freda? Even if the food was stunning, how would one be able to enjoy their bruschetta with Jolene’s vacant stare haunting your every move?
Still, I hadn’t thought that Caroline and Oliver might be interested in The Bull again, and at least Ian later had a chat with Lilian to finally put to bed the idea that she’ll save The Bull single handed.
“people seem to think I have some sort of obligation”
Lilian doesn’t have the money, nor does it seem like she has the implication.
And worse still, she even sounds like she’ll also pull out of the pub if Jolene leaves. Quite simply, it was the “chemistry” between Jolene and Sid that made The Bull a success
“if Jolene can’t pull through with this, we might have to call time on the bull”
Yikes!
Clarrie keeps the secret for less time than it takes …
… to soft boil an egg.
She told Eddie the first chance she had!
“I was starting to think Edwards was firing blanks”
says Eddie, when he learns that he’s about to become a grandad again.
But ever canny, Clarrie knows that it’s our old psychotic friend Will who’s going to be the tricky one.
Whereas Eddie thinks Will “won’t be bothered”, Clarrie knows that he’s not exactly going to crack open the champagne.
Well, maybe he will. If it’s over Ed’s head.
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