- Tom still has hope
- Fallon still wants Harry
- Nigel’s making Elizabeth redundant
- How long before Lily and Freddie go postal?
- “That main thing now is to have a jolly good time tonight and on Sunday”
- The cows enjoyed their footspa
- That yard tractor …
- Nigel finally unveils his brooch
- Too many couples being nice to each other
Tom still has hope … kinda
Talking to Brenda about still having hope that Helen will go to Bridge Farm for New Year, Tom isn’t going to let the idea go of his family making. But, Brenda is all doom and gloom:
[Brenda] “Helen is not going to budge … she and you’re dad are just stuck now and the rest of us are going to have to put up with it”
[Tom] “I’m not going to give up”
[Brenda] “You are lovely …”
(yuk!)
Later on, Tom suggests to Tony that he and Pat should also turn up at The Bull – while Helen is there with Tom and co.
But Tony reckons it’ll be too complicated (Pat will be making food), and tells Tom to leave it.
[Tom] “All this stuff with damn Helen has been a bit of a downer … Things have got to be better by next year”
Hmmm.
Fallon still wants Harry
[Brenda] “I wasn’t the only one who noticed …. Tristram’s review … saying something about genuine warmth between the two one leads … Vicky’s been predicting orange blossom by the end of the year”
(after looking it up, it seems Orange Blossoms are a traditional flower for a bride’s hair – ‘to gather orange blossoms’ means ‘to seek a wife’)
[Brenda] “You sure you haven’t got something to tell me?”
[Fallon] “Well, nothing you want to hear”
Later on, as Brenda and Fallon have lunch, Brenda’s bursting with curiosity. To be fair to Brenda, she can’t have a very exciting life with Tom ….
“So … you and Harry!”
Swearing Brenda to secrecy, Fallon reveals that she does really like Harry and that “there was definitely something there” when they had their first kiss, and had hoped it would be the start of her and Harry.
But after that … when we did the kiss … it was just a Panto kiss. So I started to think he just didn’t want it to be obvious to the rest of the cast. So last week, I invited him over to run our lines, just him and me … but on the nigh …t we ran our lines. And not even upstairs. He didn’t even come up to my room. He just said down here is fine, so we sat in a corner of the bar!”
Poor Fallon had even got a CD and some aromatherapy candles at the ready. But it wasn’t to be.
[Fallon] “Seems the guys I like over ever see me as a mate. Ed, and now Harry as well”
[Brenda] “Maybe he’s just shy? We don’t know what experience of women he had before he came to Ambridge …”
[Fallon] “It’s finished. I’m not doing anything more”
Oh dear.
But it is probably for the best. There’s something not quite right with Saint Harry …
Nigel’s making Elizabeth redundant
Well, not literally. He’s just been so busy sorting everything out at Lower Loxley, she doesn’t have anything to do. Hence, Elizabeth feels she is redundant.
[Nigel] “Come to Lizzie, you could never be that”
Hmmmm. Is this proof that Nigel could cope without Elizabeth if she was no longer around …
How long before Lily and Freddie go postal?
Not content with ruining their Christmas holidays with extra homework, Elizabeth is now making the twins angry again by making them sort out their schoolbags. There’s just no let up!
Even Nigel remembers how depressing it was to get ready for going back to school. He seemingly was depressed when it was time to sharpen his pencils …
“That main thing now is to have a jolly good time tonight and on Sunday”
It’s difficult to not read into everything and anything that’s said ahead of Sunday’s anniversary special, but the odds are high that the Archer gathering at Lower Loxley will end in disaster.
The cows enjoyed their footspa
Aw, that’s a nice way for them to end their 2010.
That yard tractor …
Just leave it be, Tony. Especially when it’s cold and dark.
I don’t think the family could cope with a repeat of John’s death.
Nigel finally unveils his brooch
Over which Elizabeth sounds suitably stunned. Even though it was “mummy’s”
Not sure what the whole point of this brooch is (how it was found, cleaned etc), and it could just be another red herring.
Or not.
Could it be something for Elizabeth to remember Nigel by?
Too many couples being nice to each other
Tom and Brenda – with Brenda saying: “I’m just glad I’ve got you”
Nigel and Elizabeth – with Nigel again saying “I’m a one woman man” (that’s twice he’s said that now in as many days) and “I wanted you to wear it and know how much you mean to me”, the both declaring their love for each other.
Ooooh. Ominous indeed.
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