Friday 12 November 2010

The Archers Tues 9th Nov 2010: Harry (finally) properly loses his temper

The Archers: Kenton and Jolene go shopping … Jazzer burns the porridge … Tom’s an irritant

  • Ruth and Pip tackle a right cow
  • Kenton and Jolene have it large
  • I Love The Bull has had an impact, but …
  • The Blues Brothers is like pulling on an old jumper
  • Pip plays in tribute
  • Will a Harry/Jazzer combo be better than Jim?
  • Tom’s sparky ideas
  • All because of a tuna bake …



Ruth and Pip tackle a right cow

[Pip] “I’m fine with it, and she’s not very big”

[Ruth] “I want to trim round the buds, don’t want the iron clogging up”

While the poor cow gets seen to, Ruth has yet another go at Pip about College.

Maybe it’s just me, but Pip does seem to have settled down. So surely Ruth can trust her to make her decision.

And hasn’t Ruth learned that nagging Pip makes her do the exact opposite?


Kenton and Jolene have it large

Well, not quite, but Kenton seemed to be in fine feckle as he was driving himself and Jolene to the bar supplier.

“It’s 12 miles to weighbridge, tank full of gas and a packet of cheese and onion”

That’s Kenton’s version of The Blues Brothers.

“Sorry, I’ll shut up”

That’s Kenton apologising to Jolene for playing the fool.

“If I can find the right novelty cocktail shakers, the hordes will start flooding in”

That’s Kenton jesting.

After their relatively fruitful supplier shopping – it involved red leather banquettes, serviettes, colouring sheers (for the kiddies) and a dancing penguin, Kenton and Jolene sit down for a pub lunch.

Which was served with a side of guilt for Jolene.

She felt she shouldn’t be enjoying herself when she should’ve been at work.

But, since Bonfire night, Jolene has been a bit down again.

“Two steps forward, one step back with me at the moment”

And while it’s been good for Jolene to have a day out, it’s also been a day full of Sid reminders.

First The Blues Brothers. Then the fact that she hasn’t gone shopping for the pub since she went to New Zealand with Sid.

Still – Kenton seemed to be doing a grand old job of cheering Jolene up.

What with his wind up dancing penguin and polar bear shaped ice cubes, Kenton had Jolene laughing and gwaffing.

Good. That’s a dramatic improvement on the shadow of a woman that has been Jolene.

And do we think these two could become more than just bar supply shopping buddies???


We Love The Bull has had an impact, but …

Jolene says that Christmas bookings in the restaurant are down.

What more can we do?

513 supporters on Facebook

580 on Twitter

What else could we be doing???



The Blues Brothers is like pulling on an old jumper

According to Jolene.

She was talking about how she and Sid used to love watching The Blues Brothers. Sid even used to sing along.

Now why didn’t we get to eavesdrop to such golden moments?

As Kenton put it:

“That must be the hardest part – losing those sort of moments”

Maybe it’s better Jolene does have some memories that are just her own.


Pip plays in tribute

Valda is teaching Pip how to play ‘Waiting for Wonder’ for the Advent service.

As it’s the first time Pip’s granddad (Phil) isn’t there to play at the service.

“If I can manage, it would feel like a real tribute”

Aw! It’s as if Jude had never happened.



Will a Harry/Jazzer combo be better than Jim?

Hmmm.

While Jim was a bit too academic in his questions, I have grave doubts about Harry and Jazzer’s ability to be joint Quiz Master.

Especially considering the hoo-ha later on today.


Tom’s sparky ideas

As well as thoroughly irritating Tony, Tom’s also doing Jazzer’s “head in”.

And when Tom annoys Tony, everyone suffers:

[Jazzer] “He’s going about like a boar with an itchy backside who’s just seen his favourite scratching post burst into flames”


All because of a tuna bake …

Harry offer to make tuna bake for Jazzer.

Jazzer doesn’t seem to really fancy it, so decides to make porridge instead.

“Only time to eat porridge is for a sesh … it lines the stomach”

Harry later arrives home to find Jazzer was cooking his porridge, but forgot about it when chatting on the phone with one of his lady friends.

Forgotten porridge still cooking = one ruined pan.

And one very … VERY … annoyed Harry.

[Harry] “you’ve wrecked my new cast iron pond and bent one of my chefs knives”

[Harry] “DON’T INTERRUPT” (followed by a very loud bang as he slammed, what I assume, was the aforementioned pan)

[Jazzer] “Mooth shutting up noo …”

And I have to give Jazzer credit for so quickly realising that the best tactic was to be humble rather than argumentative.

Harry then let rip about all of Jazzer’s faults.

That he is a “dustbin … blasts music … helps self to food … don’t cook clean or shop” and now has

“Just destroyed best two bits of cookware I ever had!”

Oh, the humanity!

[Jazzer] “Aye, that was unfortunate”

[Harry] “Take take take, never a thought for anyone else”

[Jazzer] “How did you no drop some kind of hint … I thought you were just mithering on like ma ma – you should have just came straight out with it”

[Jazzer] “Don’t worry about your wee pot and knife”

But Jazzer soon changed his tune when he realised that it would take £100 to replace the pot and knife.

“A hundred quid for 2 bits of tin … phew, that’s a lot of beer”

However, Jazzer was also aware that he’d finally pushed his luck with Harry:

[Jazzer] “I can do thoughtful and helping”

[Harry] “If you really want to prove it … there’s something you can do for someone else … and it’s simply not negotiable”

Oo-er! Could that be related to a Panto, per chance?

I am glad that Harry has shown he’s human, but, when he finally stood up for himself, he was a tad scary.

I’ll say it again – who really is this Harry bloke???

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