Sunday 23 January 2011

The Archers Thurs 20th Jan 2011: Lilian to sell The Bull?

  • A farmer also trying to run a stately home
  • Lilian’s on time!
  • Ian and Adam made the cut
  • “Management Consultant”
  • “I’m in a real dilemma about it”
  • David’s “to the manor born”
  • Global warming



A farmer also trying to run a stately home

David’s slept in.

It’s only 7am before he finally awakes.

Shocking!

He seriously does need to slow down, and accept that he can’t be everything to Elizabeth. No matter how guilty he feels about Nigel’s death.


Lilian’s on time!

Now that really did shake Ambridge to the Core!

Bless her. She’s early for Jill, yet the only person she finds is Adam.

And that man’s can only talk sheep at the moment.

He’s even got one that he reckons will need social services.

It’s dozy, and keeps losing its lambs.


Ian and Adam made the cut

What on earth is happening with Brenda’s 30th birthday party???

Susan and Neil are invited – as are Ian and Adam, but because they are “youthful enough” (Adam’s words) – but Lilian isn’t on the list.

Eh?

Surely Lilian and her fine gin & tonic making skills are just exactly what a party needs!


“Management Consultant”

Cripes – Adam said “management consultant” in the same way that David used to say Jude.

They somehow take a perfectly normal word/name, and make it sound like a venereal disease!
Asking Lilian and her son James, and whether he is still a consultant, Adam obviously still isn’t impressed by his cousin.

I wonder if James will ever stumble back Ambridge way?



“I’m in a real dilemma about it”

Oh dear. Oh deary, deary me.

Lilian’s talking to Adam about Amside How it’s struggling. That they haven’t managed to fill the flats that they’ve already built, and can’t find new properties to develop.

[Lilian] “There’s one possibility Matt’s talking about …keep this to yourself … Matt says Jolene wants to sell The Bull … the real problem is that Jolene’s heart really isn’t in it anymore”

So, one potential plan is to buy Jolene and Jamie’s shares, transfer Lilian’s shares to Amside, shut the place down and redevelop as a ‘gated estate’ (as The Bull has enough land to build several properties on).

[Lilian] “Of course I don’t want to do it Adam … she (Jolene) might not have any choice … at least this way, she gets out with some dignity … to be honest, I’m, in a real dilemma about it”

*sigh*

I don’t know if I have the energy for another We Love the Bull Campaign …


David’s “to the manor born”

But only in the sense that he’s a natural born NFU president.

Both Adam and Brian were very impressed by David’s smooth handling of his first night in charge, and they all also enjoyed the “very volatile” subject of soft commodities.

Ruth seemed to actually rather turned on by David’s performance, and was heard to utter a Marilyn Monroe-esque “Mr President” (yuk!)

Still, it’s all too much for David.

He’s exhausted. Stressed. Guilt-ridden. And manages to finally tune Ruth out as she’s wittering on in the car heading home:

[Ruth] “Go on then pet, you have a little sleep. I think you deserve it”

Aw.


Global warming

[David] “I think Global warming might be not all that to UK farmers”

Oh.

That’s alright then. I can stop worrying about it.

But Brian’s right that the price of oil might damn us all.

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