- Jack is enjoying his biscuits
- “To do any other than that would feel disloyal”
- Kathy’s worried
- Caroline’s not ready to retire
- Peggy still irons Jack’s shirts
- Peggy and Elona swap sayings
- I love it when the cows are turned out
- “Even though Jill gave us strict instructions!”
- Loos or Looms?
Jack is enjoying his biscuits
Especially as he can share them with the birds.
If it wasn’t for his ever decreasing mental facilities, Jack would be living a life of riley.
“To do any other than that would feel disloyal”
I’m not sure why Elona is so hell-bent on Ted and Peggy spending time together, but she is most definitely not letting it lie.
She sounds like a nice lady, so (I reckon) just wants to see Peggy have friendship and support with Ted (and vice versa).
She manages to get Peggy to admit that she’s avoiding Ted, as she hasn’t got any time for friends. What with her family … and also that she’s not sure how much time she actually has left with Jack.
Now that’s a heady mix of guilt and responsibility.
But in amongst all that – where’s Peggy’s time to lead her own life?
Also a pity that it’s taken ‘hired help’ to spot that Peggy needs a pal.
Elona does later persuade Peggy that she’s sure Ted doesn’t want more than friendship – and that:
[Elona] “Jack is in a place where … you wouldn’t hurt him … and would be happy for you to enjoy the company of friends”
Peggy sounds like she agrees.
I tell you what – Ted and Peggy are off/on more often than your average Z list celebs!
Kathy’s worried
Again.
Though she has taken Fallon's advice to heart (that she needs to give Jamie space while he still knows she’s there for him), she’s concerned it will take as long for her and Jamie to make up as it did for Fallon and Wayne. They took 3 whole years.
[Clarrie] “Wayne’s a very different person to you Kathy”
And how!
I don’t think Kathy needs to worry too much. Jamie will be back. Fallon and Jolene will soon catch him stealing from The Bull …
And if Clarrie and Eddie’s experience with Ed is anything to go by, even those that wander off far and wide come back to home eventually.
Caroline’s not ready to retire
Oliver is not a happy man.
He handed over his herd to Ed Grundy so that he could retire, only to find his wife is not ready to enter the twice-yearly-cruise stage of life.
Caroline has decided that she won’t hire another manager – she’ll do it all.
Oliver reckons they should have made that decision together. He was enjoying spend more time with Caroline, and wanted her to step back from Grey Gables, rather than step forward (all because of that bloomin’ poaching madam Elizabeth!).
[Oliver] “You’ll be back to living to work rather than working to live”
Caroline reckons they have plenty of time to later retire and enjoy, but Oliver isn’t so sure.
[Oliver] “Well how much later? When you retire … at the time you retire, I might be in my 70s … I just don’t want us to miss out, that’s all”
(oo-er – that sounds a bit ominous. Oliver to die under a yard tractor soonish, leaving Caroline to mourn both him and her decision to choose work over retirement?)
But – Caroline is getting a “buzz” out of having Grey Gables completely under her control, and wants the challenge.
Do I also not recall that Oliver giving up his work so that he could have more time off, while also helping Caroline at Grey Gables?
Either way – they decide to give it 6 months to see if it will be fine, or too much, for Caroline.
Oliver will be marking the days …
Peggy still irons Jack’s shirts
How odd.
Could that side of the Archer clan not afford Jack an all-inclusive package?
Or does Peggy still want to take proper care of Jack, even though she can’t have him at home?
Peggy and Elona swap sayings
[Peggy] “Ne’er cast a clout till May is out …”
(though Peggy isn’t sure if that means until June, or when the Hawthorne blossoms. It’s the Hawthorne: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ne%27er_cast_a_clout_til_May_be_out)
[Elona] “A bag full of friendship is worth a wagon full of corn”
(I think Elona’s mum made that one up).
I love it when the cows are turned out
Caroline’s enjoying watching Ed’s “young stock” revealing in their first time outside.
It is a great thing to watch.
If you’ve never seen it – get yourself down to a farm. It's grand watching the newly born, but even better to watch the older ones when they first get let out after winter.
A grown cow, leaping and playing like a new born lamb.
Marvellous.
“Even though Jill gave us strict instructions!”
Clarrie’s shocked to be told by Peggy that Peggy has been baking extra cakes for the panel of Gardeners’ Question time.
But not as shocked as Peggy to find Jill at her front door, just as she's finishing her baking.
Jill is quite demanding.
To be let in.
To be made a cup of tea.
And that she is given a biscuit, out of the nearby biscuit tin.
Slightly panicking, Peggy says “no” to the biscuit. The biscuit tin is just an empty one.
[Jill, sounding suspicious] “Peggy. This feels very heavy …”
[Peggy, grumbling into admission, without really being pushed] “I couldn’t resist … your instructions on what we should and shouldn’t bake were quite draconian … and when I found out Bob Flowerdew prefers organic foods … I baked it especially for him”
I did suck in a lot of air when I heard Peggy call Jill ‘draconian’, but not to worry. Jill wasn’t at all annoyed, and they had a good giggle at Peggy trying to sneak cake into the green room.
Seemingly everyone’s been at it.
Loos or Looms?
Where did Jill say they’d especially put flowers in at the village hall for Gardeners’ Question time?
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