- Cliff is the right choice
- Jill has a mocha
- Jolene’s thinking about weddings
- Elizabeth has to get her batteries changed every five years
- All this talk of puddings …
- No-one has warned Elona?
- Jamie needs space
- The Bull’s Royal Wedding
- Just tell them!
Cliff is the right choice
Brian and Annabelle have chosen the Project Manager for the Mart – some bloke called Cliff who has ‘done’ a shopping centre.
Hmmm.
The only interest I have in the mart is Lilian. She manages to liven up even the dullest of Ambridge happenings!
Jill has a mocha
And also finds the seating in Jaxx to be to her liking.
[Jill] “Oh yes, this is comfortable. I’m never sure about leather furniture”
Jolene’s thinking about weddings
[Jolene] “Hello sailor!”
[Kenton] “What you thinking about”
[Jolene] “Weddings”
Steady!
Before we (and Kenton) have a heart attack – Jolene’s talking about the forthcoming Royal nuptials.
Actually … Kenton didn’t sound too upset to hear Jolene say weddings.
And, ‘what are you thinking about’ isn’t the words of a man taking it too slow …
Elizabeth has to get her batteries changed every five years
And she doesn’t sound too perturbed by it.
Progress indeed.
However, Jill is in a ponderous mood.
[Jill] “It’s made me step back and ask some really big questions … indulge me … is the effort of running Lower Loxley worth the risk to your health … it crossed my mind, you don’t have to run the place, you could walk away”
Course – Elizabeth isn’t interested.
Jill does make some sense – Lower Loxley is in Trust, so it wouldn’t be lost to a hotel chain.
[Elizabeth] “It’s not what Nigel would have wanted.”
[Jill] “I don’t think Nigel would have wanted you to suffer”
[Elizabeth] “It’s Freddy’s future”
(my word – does that sort of thinking still really exist? That it’s automatically the boy who inherits?!? What a difference between Elizabeth and David – Pip looks like the chap for Brookfield).
[Elizabeth] “It’s not just bricks and mortar … his vision … it is Nigel”
But, where Jill loses one argument, she gains a small victory. Elizabeth is thinking of getting someone in to help cope with the office.
All this talk of puddings …
… has gained a great result.
[Jill] “I’m making a treacle pudding for the children … and Lewis”
No-one has warned Elona?
Peggy introduces Brian to Elona as he arrives to collect her from seeing Jack.
Elona’s Jack’s favourite staff member. I wonder if Brian can also see her charms …
While Brian takes a business call, Peggy settles down to find out more about Elona.
She’s from Albania.
[Elona] “I was brought up on a farm … modest, you know … there was no so much land for us both to stay there, and I not interested”
Elona then worked in a bar, where she met hubby-to-be Darren (or Terry – I heard Darren, but the BBC reckons Terry – anyone else hazard a guess?), who is from Coventry. She married him, settled in the UK and has two girls.
Her husband is a builder, who often works away from home. For weeks on end at a time.
Hmmm.
Not sure how ‘pretty’ she is (according to Brian’s standards), but high-time he was making jiggy again with someone other than Jennifer. Just for a bit of light relief … for us all.
Jamie needs space
Kenton and Jolene decide to keep giving Jamie space until he gets used to them.
After all, he is still speaking to Fallon.
Lucky, lucky Fallon!
The Bull’s Royal Wedding
So far – we have the wedding shown on a big screen and union jack bunting round the outside.
The menu is proving a bit tricky.
Kenton reckoned Coronation Chicken. And Windsor soup.
“Thin brown soup, followed by cold curry”
So that was quickly kyboshed.
Jolene had a fair few good ideas – roast beef and horseradish sandwiches – lamb – treacle sponge …
[Jolene] “I do like a nice trifle, though. Or how about queen of puddings”
[Kenton] “Ah, but she’s not the queen. As yet.”
(or ever!)
But what was Jolene on about when she mentioned Rhys’ idea of Anglesey eggs for the veggies?
Prince William being stationed there is a bit of a tenuous link for a wedding celebration, even though they sound quite nice indeed (leeks, boiled eggs, cheesy mash).
Tell you what – Ambridge knows how to celebrate a Royal Occasion! Bunting, beef and boiled eggs – oh my!
Just tell them!
Kenton had popped in to see Jolene, but had to go with Brian and Peggy to sit down as they assumed he was at a loose end.
Just tell them, for goodness sake!
Brian may have chocked on his non-alcoholic beer and korma – Peggy may have dropped her tuna sandwich – but you’re two adults who can choose to be together regardless of what anyone else thinks.
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