- Ian’s such a sweetie
- Tony calls round
- Helen’s reading too much into it?
- Is that snow?
- Alice is back
- Odd comment from Ian
- Nigel – bad, bad, bad!
- Loving the German Christmas songs
Ian’s such a sweetie
Bless.
It’s his busiest time of the year, yet he’s using every spare moment he has to help paint Helen’s nursery.
He’s even offering to give an old rocking horse the “once over with white spirit and linseed oil”.
If this was just typical lovely Ian behaviour, one would be forgiven for thinking all was not well at home with Adam …
Tony calls round
Regardless of what I think about Tony, it did take a lot of guts to call round at Helen’s.
And shows a genuine want to apologise and make amends.
But, it being Tony, he manages to just make everything worse.
He brought Helen a gift of a baby monitor. Which she’d already bought. And shown to both Pat and Tony at Bridge Farm. Months ago.
Oh dear.
Knowing Tony, he didn’t take much notice in the first place, but it’s a major faux pas which only confirms to Helen that he’s never been interested.
So Tony – what’s Plan B?
Helen’s reading too much into it?
I thought Helen just sounded sad and disappointed when Tony gave her the baby monitor, rather than the fury she let fly last time they saw each other.
Ever canny, Ian’s spotted that there’s a problem. As Helen tells him about the baby monitor:
[Ian] “He meant well …”
[Helen] “You don’t need to make excuses for him”
[Ian] “Tell me why you’re giving him such a hard time?”
[Helen – telling Ian about when Tony tried to carry some of her shopping] “Instead of just giving me a hand, he had to turn it into a moral victory. Going on about how sad it was me having to do these things all on my own…”
[Ian] “That doesn’t sound like the Tony I know”
[Helen] “I don’t recognise the dad I thought I knew either”
[Ian] “Maybe he just put his foot in it, he didn’t mean it at all”
[Helen] “He just can’t help himself, consciously or not, he just can’t accept the choices I made about having my baby …”
[Ian] “Surely the present he brought round was meant to be a peace offering?”
[Helen] “No it wasn’t. I expect mum told him to do it … if really did meant to show me he’d changed he’d have put some thought into what to buy”
(Ian suggests that maybe Tony just rushed and genuinely forgot she already had bought, and had shown him, and discussed, a baby monitor)
[Helen] “No, he’s blanked it,. He blanks everything to do with the baby”
[Ian] “You might be wrong you know. It could be much more complicated than that for Tony”
[Helen] “He can’t even bear to think about my baby … he can’t look forward to it … you’re looking more forward to it than he is … nothing will change. I’ll just have to get used to it.”
Phew again!
At least Helen is calmer, and I think she does have a very valid point about Tony’s opinion and attitudes to her.
Just as it’s taken him a long time (and a bit of a set-to) to try and meet her halfway, she’s also lost her trust in him as her dad.
Come on Uncle Ian and Aunty Pat. Sort them out!
Is that snow?
Nope.
It was just a queue for the supermarket.
No tailbacks in Ambridge due to bad weather!
Alice is back
And peeping at Jill as she drives past with Chris.
The clans are a-gathering!
Odd comment from Ian
[Ian] “It’s that of year, everyone get s bit fraught. Still, if we didn’t have the falling out, we wouldn’t have the lovely making up!”
Hmmm.
Not sure about you Ian, but that’s not the way I’d put the ‘making up’ after an argument with one of my folks.
Nigel – bad, bad, bad!
Lily is still in a sulk about Freddie being a rat in the Panto.
So, instead of telling her to stop being so selfish – Nigel seemed to basically say ‘Freddie’s a thicko, so give him this one thing’.
[Nigel] “You can turn everything you turn your mind to … I expect Freddie’s been a bit of a pain … Freddie has to put up with you succeeding all the time”
Great parenting skills there, Mr Pargetter – it’s alright Lily. You’re still superior.
He managed to get Lily to stop sulking, and actually help Freddie with his lines, but it felt like Lily was only helping Freddie because he’s dense – and that she and Nigel now have a secret knowledge that Freddie is just rubbish at most things.
Loving the German Christmas songs
Marvellous!
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