Thursday 30 September 2010

The Archers Wed 29th September 2010: Nigel's anniversary surprise

The Archers: Kenton tries to fool Elizabeth ... Pip's planning for the Barn Dance ... Nigel is such a sweetheart!

  • The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Kenton ...
  • “who the hell are you?”
  • The Harvester is on its way!
  • Why the keen interest in driving lessons?
  • Josh will have to be locked up
  • Ruth signs cards for David
  • Jamie’s picking on his nearest and dearest



The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Kenton ...

... this time nearly went aft agley.

It never really struck me anyway that Kenton had devised a good scheme for getting Elizabeth out of the way so that Nigel could setup her anniversary surprise … but I do have to give him credit for trying.

Especially as he blames Elizabeth for telling Kathy about his shenanigans with Holly.

Kenton being part of Nigel’s master plan did:

"just seems a bit perverse"

(which was Elizabeth’s reaction to having to meet a client interested in hiring Lower Loxley anywhere other than Lower Loxley)

Kenton's plan of setting up a meeting with a potential lucrative client for Elizabeth didn't make sense from the off.

That a client would want to meet at a place other than Lower Loxley was decidedly odd. That Kenton also chose his mate Barry to play the client also seemed to be a critical mistake (as Kirsty had said it would be).

As Kenton's plan progressed (or actually began to fray and unravel), Kenton’s only saving grace was Elizabeth being incredibly slow to realise that all was not necessarily legitimate.

[Kenton on how this new client made his fortune] "selling ... stuff"

[Kenton trying to rescue Barry from giving Elizabeth an idea of how many delegates he’d have at his conference] “Barry can’t talk numbers”

[Kenton] “Duncan Bannatyne told Barry not to hide his light under a bushel”

[Barry] “I better ... um ... grasp the nettle”

(eh?)

Not even able to get their story straight about how they’d even met, Kenton and Barry stumble their way through the charade.

Just as Elizabeth is about to slap one of them for being such obvious idiots, Nigel calls Kenton to ask that he keeps Elizabeth busy for at least another hour.

[Nigel] “I got the measurements a bit wrong [for] the platform for the harpist”

(oh I do love you Nigel!)

[Kenton] “I’ve only given Barry material for another hour! And he’s hopeless!”

So Barry got drunk, Elizabeth was starting to smell a rat … and then Kenton had to drive home (very very slowly) with an increasingly irate Elizabeth.

[Elizabeth] “I think it’s revenge for telling Kathy about your nocturnal adventures”

Which meant all led up to:


“who the hell are you?”

Poor chap. He was only trying to be a butler!

Kenton had managed to wind Elizabeth up to the point that she initially spat abuse to the strange chap who opened her front door to let her in.

All the poor man said was:

“Good evening madam”

Nigel had to explain that he was “Fielding the Butler”. Then Elizabeth realised why Kenton had been even more of a pillock than usual, and also why she could hear harpist music in the background (Nigel seemingly sorted the platform out!).

[Elizabeth] “Does this mean you’ve forgiven me?”

I’ll repeat that:

[Elizabeth] “Does this mean you’ve forgiven me?”

Elizabeth. Asking for forgiveness for breaking Nigel’s’ confidence about Kenton and Holly.

Elizabeth. Realising she was wrong, while at the same time realising that Nigel is a gent and a saint for still pressing on with such a special surprise when she wasn’t exactly be best wife material.

[Nigel] “You know I can’t stay mad at you for more than 5 minutes … I love you far too much for that”

Aw!

We could all do with a Nigel in our lives.


The Harvester is on its way!

Huzzah and Hooray!

David also seems to have had a good harvest.

Good.


Why the keen interest in driving lessons?

David seems to be abnormally interested and keen that Pip does her driving lessons.

I know full well that young 'uns living in rural areas are desperate to get driving, but I haven’t ever heard of a parent so keen to get his child onto the road.

Where’s this all going?


Josh will have to be locked up

Pip’s plan for the Young Farmer’s Barn Dance seem to be going well.

She even managed to persuade Tom to do the catering, and make a donation (much to David’s surprise).

Pip’s only problem so far is Josh.

He’s been plotting with his mates to try and gatecrash the Dance, so Pip wants him under lock and key to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Seriously Pip. There are worse folk who could be gate crashing – maybe it’d be an idea to invite Josh to avoid any confrontations.

We’ve all heard what can happen when a party ends up as a ‘free for all’ invite on Facebook …


Ruth signs cards for David

David has heard about Kenton and Kathy splitting up, so calls Lower Loxley to speak to Elizabeth.

Nigel answers (Elizabeth is meeting ‘Barry’), and explains he’s a bit busy as it’s their anniversary.

David says he didn’t realise, which Nigel replies with:

“You sent us a card”

Which means Ruth doesn’t even make David sit down and sign his own name to a card for his own sister’s anniversary.

Come on David! I thought family meant more to you than that.

David also confirmed that Kathy and Jamie wouldn’t be going to Jill’s 80th.

Phew, but won’t that ruin Elizabeth’s seating plans?!?



Jamie’s picking on his nearest and dearest


Having already picked on Daniel for not being ‘one of the gang’ at their highly exciting and rebellious (!) time at the Bird Hide, Jamie’s now picking on Josh.

Jamie seemingly made fun of Josh in front of his makes.

And as we all know, school ground etiquette dictates that one should, not take the rip out of one’s friends in public.

It’s just not cricket.

It doesn’t bode well for Jamie calming down anytime soon (as naught as Josh can be, he really isn’t a stereotypical hoodie – he’s more of a Tom Brown’s Schooldays lad).

Josh would at least hold Jamie back from doing something completely idiotic. Now, who’s there to stop him?

2 comments:

AnnieM said...

Nigel is completely wasted on Elizabeth. I agree with you that he is a real sweetie. He was still so eager to go ahead with his special evening even though she broke his confidence . If they ever (sadly unlikely) do a Kathy and Kenton , I'll be second in the queue for him after you !

And it's just my opinion but someone should really contact Roget to add Kenton as a synonym to "twit" in his thesaurus.

Inga McVicar said...

Hello Annie!

Some folks on Twitter were saying they found Nigel's attentions a bit sickening.

Ach! I think that's just jealousy ... he got her a harpist for goodness sake. A Harpist!!!

Anyway, happy to share Nigel out on a rota. Twitter's Lilian's mad at me for saying my favourites where Nigel 1st, then Lilian, then Helen (I know. It's odd of me to like Helen), so I need to spent some quality time with her as well.

Absolutely agree with you about Kenton. I think he's going to get far worse before he gets better ...