- Ruth beginning to understand?
- Usha ain’t a country gal
- What did Usha expect?
- Elizabeth will be on about the pop parade next
- “He’s wonderful”
- “She brings her own mop and bucket”
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Ruth beginning to understand?
I’ve largely been on Ruth’s side while David’s been ignoring her and Brookfield- but maybe she’s right that David does need more time before he can ‘move on’ from the horrific experience of seeing Nigel fall to his death.
He’s been very quiet since the inquest. Having to relive it couldn’t have been easy.
[Ruth] “Maybe it’s too soon for him to feel that this is an ending of some sort”
Usha ain’t a country gal
I do adore Usha’s complete lack of knowledge about all things farming. Especially that she doesn’t try to pretend, or apologise, for it.
[Usha] “I saw him (David) guiding some sort of machine into one of your fields”
I live in deepest Galloway, and also don’t have a clue. Some of us are here, love where we are, are part of where we are – but not being able to tell the difference between different bits of farm equipment doesn’t make us any less rural. We have our other ways.
What did Usha expect?
Usha’s not happy about Jim’s choice of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Now there’s a surprise!
Funny thing is that she asked him in the first place.
Elizabeth will be on about the pop parade next
Making Roy blush as she heaps praise onto him for her sterling work, Elizabeth’s also on about his notion of having gigs at Lower Loxley.
[Elizabeth] “I like your rock concert idea”
Oh ra ra ra!
She made it sound like some ancient prog-rock band would be turning up, rather than a current combo.
Bless her and her posh, antiquated ways.
“He’s wonderful”
Elizabeth is pondering about offering Roy a job.
[Elizabeth] “He does what I would do, or what Nigel would have done”
Shula is utterly horrified.
Not about the comparison to Nigel (which I found to be the slightly worrying bit – it all sounds like a bit of an indecent proposal to me), but that Elizabeth would poach Roy from Caroline. When Caroline only lent him in the first place to be a good friend and neighbour. Stealing him away would be a bit of a slap in the face.
Having a chat with a (rather distracted) David later on, Shula’ s a tad annoyed to find that he doesn’t agree with her.
He reckons that Roy might actually be ready to leave Grey gables.
[David] “He can always say no”
[Shula] “So you think it would be okay … ethical?”
David then kicks off on a major rant about how ‘ethical’ it is that Nigel has died, that Elizabeth has been left alone to cope etc etc etc
Come on David! Elizabeth hasn’t now got carte blanche to do as she likes.
Shula’s easily outraged at the best of times, but I reckon she’s right.
“She brings her own mop and bucket”
Ruth still doesn’t seem to be sure about her new cleaner, Patsy.
[Ruth] “Brings her own mop and bucket … doesn’t like our vacuum … and needs special wax”
Worse still, Patsy is demanding Ruth gets Josh’s and Ben’s bedrooms a bit more tidy. She’d like to be able to get to the floor through the ‘stuff’.
Fair do.
But it does sound like Patsy’s more work for Ruth than she saving.
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