- Alice is doing Chas’ shopping
- Spencer, a nice lad indeed, part 684
- “We’re your crew”
- Chris will be his own boss
- Alice not keen to leave Chas?
- We all think it about some older folks driving …
- What does “such a Tony, sometimes” mean?
Alice is doing Chas’ shopping
I wonder if he’s ever gone out of his way to help her?
It is for Alice as well. And is mainly junk food to help them revise (I think they’ll find that a carrot or two would help more than junk … or so I’m told).
So Alice has got them crisps, chocolate, love hearts …
… love hearts?
Is Alice actually (very subtly) flirting with Chas, which means it isn’t just all in his head?
Spencer, a nice lad indeed, part 684
Spencer is fast becoming one of the nicest young men to have ever been in Ambridge.
Today, he was consoling Biff (the Brookfield sheepdog) about the new puppy soon arriving, and reassuring Biff that he’ll always be his favourite.
And then he makes (and takes) a lot of effort to get Pip to talk about him. She’s got exam stress, and a rather difficult atmosphere at home.
[Pip] “It’s not exactly been much fun around here … Dad’s doing his usual when upset, doesn’t talk and just works even longer … Mum gets snappy, she’s still furious with Aunty Elizabeth”
He does manage to get her to take a break. And get her to talk.
Spencer’s response to the woeful tale of David revealing the ‘truth’ to Elizabeth:
[Spencer] “I’m sure he didn’t mean him to fall”
Pip’s sad that David’s efforts to “put things right” has backfired so badly, and also misses Elizabeth.
[Pip] “She was so supportive, she never judged … she was more of a friend”
But now, she’s too scared to even go and see her. And she does need to see her soon, if she wants a summer job at Lower Loxley.
“We’re your crew”
(I know I should stop making such a big fuss about the street language Jamie and his mates use – but it does grate ever so. They’re a bunch of village boys, for mighty sake!)
[Marty] “Since when did you become such a swat?”
[Steve] “Jamie, stop being a div, get out here!”
They’re persuaded Jamie (yet again) to stop studying, and go out to play … sorry, ‘hang …
Chris will be his own boss
Chris calls Alice to tell her that he’s bought his van – only 24,000 on the clock – so all he has to do now is convert it for farriering.
AND, his boss has said that he will:
[Chris] “definitely get first dibs”
Alice is just as excited, but Chas is not impressed.
He sounded quite perturbed that Chris had already spent the money Chas loaned him – one can only assume that Chas was thinking of trying to get it back to pay his own ever mounting debts.
And our Alice-that-isn’t-acting-like-Alice didn’t pick up that Chas was grumpy when she told him about the van. She even failed to notice that one if his first responses was reminding her that the first payment is due Wednesday.
Would love to see Chris miss a payment, then Chas trying to bully Chris.
Chris has always seemed to be a strapping young man, and he had rather heavy tools to hand …
Alice not keen to leave Chas?
Alice didn’t seem too enthralled when Chris mentioned that she only has 2 weeks left on Uni.
It could be that she has exams to first get through.
Could be that she’ll miss the student life (although she is then off to study at Felpersham).
Could be that she’s enjoyed the freedom of living single, but being married.
Could be that she’s realising that, as Chris has sorted the next 50 years of his life (by buying the van), she’s heading home to properly be settled down,
Or, doesn’t she want to leave Chas?
We all think it about some older folks driving …
… but we don’t peep out horn and shout at them.
It’s as inevitable as taking over one slow lorry to find another one ten minutes later. Better to just relax, and make sure you leave a bit earlier in case there are slow drivers, lorries, cyclists, tractors …
But, Jamie’s ‘crew’ reckon it’s jolly good spot to harass old men.
Nice.
They also start calling Jamie a wuss again.
[Steve] “Look, Jamie, we’re you’re crew, we’ve got your back, you know that, but when you start acting all strange and that, we get nervous, we’ve got to know you’re solid”
[Jamie] “Yes, I’m solid, alright!”
So Steve and Marty decide to make him prove it.
If anyone has got a better idea of what they were actually doing at the bridge – it sounded something like having to walk under it? – let me know, as I couldn’t picture it.
But they ‘dare’ him to do it (whatever ‘it’ was), and surprisingly also do ‘it; themselves. I thought they were setting him up.
What does “such a Tony, sometimes” mean?
Alice said it to Paulie when he was taking the Michael.
What does it mean?
Tony Blair? Hancock? Benn? Bennett? Adam? Hawk? Blackburn?
Or is it Toni? Or a girl’s name?
Of something completely different???
I have no ken …
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