- Tony wants Helen back home
- David’s already breaking his promise
- The Reichstag … wonderful???
- General is now in a good place
- Wasnae me – it was the coroner!
Tony wants Helen back home
Still in quite an unnervingly Buddha-calm like temper – Helen seems to be coping quite well on her own with Henry.
Helen even joked with Tony about him taking Henry to The Bull the other night:
[Helen] “ … even when Eddie was showing him how to play darts”
[Tony] “That was only for a moment”
However – Helen doesn’t seem to have had an utter personality transplant overnight.
Pat later sounded very exasperated that Helen won’t even let her change henry’s nappy (being over controlling again, trying to prove a point or just a new mum wanting to do everything for her bairn?).
While Tony’s seems to have accepted that Helen has had her baby solo – he sounds to not be entirely convinced that Henry should actually be brought up just with Helen.
[Tony] “Better for Henry to have lots of people … and we are his only grandparents. That makes us doubly important.”
[Pat] “Tony, I agree”
[Tony] “Oh! Right!!!”
(the shock in Tony’s voice that Pat agreed with him was palpable).
However, both agree that it won’t be an easy task to persuade Helen that she should move back to Bridge Farm.
Good luck with that one, folks!
David’s already breaking his promise
Taking time to properly (and genuinely) thank Ruth for everything she’s having to do alone while he is at Lower Loxley, David makes his first slip in telling Ruth that Elizabeth is also aware of the fact that Ruth is having to work her wee socks off.
While is either a lie (Elizabeth has no awareness of anything beyond the doors of Lower Loxley), or is David lying to himself.
Ruth has another go at David about him finally (and firmly) telling Elizabeth to hire a professional manager, which David agrees to do.
However …
Wasnae me – it was the coroner!
… as David tentatively tries to start telling Elizabeth that he and Ruth can no longer cope with the extra workload – and that she must get a professional manager – Elizabeth interrupts David to tell him that she got a letter from the coroner.
The coroner wants to know what dates Elizabeth is free – and has also probably written to David.
[Elizabeth] “it came as a shock – seeing Nigel’s name in cold, hard print”
Oh dear.
So Elizabeth is very upset again, and David can’t tell her that he needs to step back from being of direct support.
What a dilemma.
Keep your wife happy (or at least avoid her dying from exhaustion), and let your very recently bereaved sister down – or chance divorce out of guilt and familial love.
Hmmm. Don’t think that’s once that can be answered anytime soon.
The Reichstag … wonderful???
Tony gets a text from Tom – who has just arrived in Berlin for his joint 30th birthday treat with Brenda.
[Tony] “(They’re) apparently in a taxi driving past the Reichstag”
[Pat] “Really? That’s wonderful!”
It might just have been me, but Pat’s enthusiasm for the Reichstag felt a bit odd.
Something we don’t know about???
General is now in a good place
Reported David to Elizabeth.
I am glad.
Any bull that lets a child ride his back deserves all nice things to happen.
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