- Eddie and Jazzer are looking for a patsy
- How Race Night works
- Lilian clears glue from her head with wine
- Again with the Lord Netherborne
- Tony baulks at £7
- Matt doesn’t do toy town betting
- Good Heavens Mr Booth!
- “Do you trust me enough to do a real good turn?”
- I don’t like Harry being at Peggy’s
- Shires comes in bottles!
- Nathan leaves £150 lighter
Eddie and Jazzer are looking for a patsy
At the Race Night, Eddie and Jazzer realise that they need someone to bid against Nathan in the last race, to be sure he loses a hefty price.
Jazzer can’t do it:
“He knows I only flash the cash when I have a bird to impress”
Tony then walks past, but Jazzer reckons:
“We need someone who chucks money about like sweeties”
And then Lilian pops by.
Lilian would make a perfect patsy (I’ve allowed thought of her as a bit of an Ad Fab Patsy anyway!).
How Race Night works
You bet on a horse to win, then a recording of a race is shown. Only the winning horse pays out.
In the last race, you have to pick the ‘winner of winners’. Which is where the skill (and the biggest bidding) happens. And where you have to bid against everyone else to have the right to that one horse.
Lilian clears glue from her head with wine
The cloakroom seeming “reeks of glue” after the Brownies had been making ‘stuff’ in there.
[Lilian] “I’m surprised all of them aren't as high as kites”
[Jim] “Explains a lot about Molly Button”
Tee-hee!
Again with the Lord Netherborne
Caroline’s manning the bar at the Race Night. And is asked about Lord Netherborne’s health.
He’s seemingly still not back to fighting fit, but at least he has someone living in to care from him, plus his two daughters are around.
Two daughters?
That blows my idea of Caroline inheriting if Lord Netherborne doesn’t make it through winter.
So, what’s the point?
Netherborne is most definitely a Peregrine …
Tony baulks at £7
What on earth is wrong with Tony?
First he accepts all of Tom’s new spending without much fight.
Now he’s paying for drinks.
Still, he did nearly have a heart attack when he was charged £7 for two glasses of wine.
Just how long has it been since Tony was in a pub?
Maybe The Bull has reasonable prices, as it certainly seemed £7 was considered a lot (but it was for charity)
Matt doesn’t do toy town betting
And Helen’s too big for crowds.
[Tony] “I certainly don’t want to see Helen down here … It’s not just her seize . .her knee is playing up badly”
Helen was seemingly “battling on as usual” by still being at work, rather than relaxing and taking the stress of her knee.
For goodness sake. Will someone please drag that woman back home, and lock her up for at least a few days?
It will save is all a lot of bother later on …
Good Heavens Mr Booth!
Nathan really didn’t make an effort with his fellow charity gamblers.
First he turns up in
[Caroline] “A lounge suit with an orange Hawaiian shirt”
“It should be illegal”
[Tony] “He thinks he’s in that film … Ocean’s 11”
[Caroline] “A very low rent version!”
Then Caroline notices him winking at Eddie (for which he has to remove his sunglasses – which he is wearing indoors – during winter …)
Eddie did seem to cover that quite well by saying that Nathan must have been winking at Sabrina:
“He’s developed quite a crush on her ,,, she tried her cat costume on at rehearsal – he hasn’t been the same since”
But has also served to start a rumour that Nathan has a case of “unrequited love”. Just wait until Richard hears about that.
But there’s more …
[Caroline] “Oh … does he imagine that looks sophisticated, waggling his mirrored shades instead of condescending to speak”
[Jazzer] “You mean he’s no irresistible to women?”
[Caroline] “The scales fell from my eyes when he called me babe when ordering his snakebite”
Phew!
By the end of such roguish behaviour by Mr Booth, I was quite glad he won horse number 7 …
“Do you trust me enough to do a real good turn?”
Asked Eddie of Lilian, also adding “no questions”
“Eddie, Eddie … how long have we known each other … you must realise I don’t trust you an inch by now!”
Replies Lilian. But then guffawing, and saying:
“So what can I do for you, darling?”
I don’t like Harry being at Peggy’s
My, how the tide turns!
I was one of Harry’s many adoring fans, but not would trust him less than I’d trust Eddie if he also asked me a favour with “no questions”.
At Peggy’s to help out with a laptop problem (he didn’t want Peggy to have to lug it anywhere – which begs the questions why Peggy has a laptop instead of a desktop), it all just seemed a bit odd and sinister.
Harry even ingratiated himself with Bill and Ben – as if we ever needed any more evidence that the man is probably a serial killer!
Peggy was worried by the safety warnings her laptop was giving her when she tried to open attachments from Con. So Harry explains that Peggy was right to be worried about attachments, but that ones from senders you know are okay,
Harry then takes Peggy to Florida (via what sounded like Google Earth), showing Peggy how to virtually stalk Con and his family!
I’m not happy with Harry at all. I was half expecting him to either proposition Peggy (eeeek!), or to be found riffling through her underwear drawer for spare cash (double eeeek!).
Do I also sense a trip ahoy for Peggy?
Shires comes in bottles!
Thrice hurrah!
I shall try and buy some online right now, making sure that I also get the Shires Winter Special that Eddie was talking about.
Nathan leaves £150 lighter
After a bidding war between Nathan, Lilian and Tony
(seriously – why is Tony being so generous with money at the moment?),
Lilian manages to hold her nerve to push Nathan up to bidding £150 for the wrong horse (unbeknownst to him).
Of course, it’s all fixed against him, and Nathan loses.
“The horror on his face!”
Jazzer even managed to ,lighten Nathan of another £20 on a side bet!
What’s more, Nathan even has to leave without having a chance to punch Eddie.
Nathan can’t admit that Eddie’s fooled him (as he'd also have to admit that he was trying to diddle a charity event), and Eddie managed to stick to Alan and Jim until Nathan left.
All very jolly, and all in a good cause.
Well … that was until Jazzer reminded Eddie that he’d have to rehearse with Nathan on Thursday for the Panto.
And Nathan is “going to be raging”
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