- Adam can park perfectly … with help from mum
- The Aldridge’s need to borrow the Snell’s chairs
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Jazzer’s in fine form
- Live weight gains and finishing
- Ian’s worried about Ruairi
- Harry’s impressed by Adam’s whites
- “Two hours of doom and gloom …”
- Jennifer said ‘LOL’
- Actually, Brian’s a bit doom and gloom
- No. 3 isn’t a good ‘un?
- Jennifer doesn’t need to read Mistress of the Paddocks …
Adam can park perfectly … with help from mum
Well, it was a combine.
The Aldridge’s need to borrow the Snell’s chairs!
Did we think we’d ever see such a day?
Open Farm Sunday is really mixing up the hierarchy.
Upstairs, Downstairs
I couldn’t help thinking of Zofia as a Victorian servant when she thanked Adam and Jennifer for taking her and her fellow pickers to see Shakespeare.
It sounds like she was thanking them for getting the scraps after the banquet. Or being allowed to go see the doctor with her severed arm, right during the croquet refreshments.
But, she did then reassert herself by outright refusing Jennifer’s request for her to help out with the strawberries at Open Farm Sunday as it was her day off.
Jazzer’s in fine form
[Jazzer] “The fly in your eyes when you’re whizzing through the skies … see what I did there?”
(no – I didn’t get it either, but it sounded witty)
[Jazzer] “Shakespeare? Do me a favour. If the good lord had intended men to wear tights he’d have given us the legs to go with them”
[Harry] “That’s rich, coming from a man who wears skirts”
(steady on Harry!)
[Jazzer, on Harry wearing tie to a theme park] “You can take the man out of the building society …”
[Jazzer] “It’ll be me who she’ll be cuddling up to when the rides get scary, no the apprentice”
[Jazzer] “Roond and roond Harry Boy, she’ll be that dizzy she’ll fall into my arms”
Live weight gains and finishing
Adam is a bit worried about ‘the general public’s’ reaction to learning about what really happens to lambs.
I’m with Jennifer that folks shouldn’t be squeamish about the reality of what goes onto their dinner plate But they also missed the point that the lamb on your plate isn’t the wee cut toot leaping about the field. The ‘lamb’ is a bit more of a sheep when it heads off to slaughter …
[Adam] “I just hope some bunny hugger doesn’t jump over the gates to liberate them”
Ian’s worried about Ruairi
So says Adam.
Ian also lost his mum when he was young, and worries that boarding school won’t be the best thing for Ruairi.
But it seems it’s a done deal. Jennifer reckons Bridget wants it, and Ruairi wants, “so there we are”.
Harry’s impressed by Adam’s whites
Isn’t it nice to have a chap in Ambridge who cares about appearance, health and cleanliness, and isn’t gay?
That’s out Harry. He ain’t no stereotype!
Congratulating Adam about his part in Ambridge’s recent cricket win (yet another! This must be shaping up to be quite a good season), Harry also compliments Adam on his whites, and asks him about how he gets them so.
[Adam] “Ian does something mysterious with them before they go into the washing machine”
Harry then invites Adam and Ian over for dinner, sometime.
That’ll be a fun one.
How many times will Jazzer natter on about how many women he’s pulled, just to make sure no-one has any doubts?
“Two hours of doom and gloom …”
[Jazzer] “…when I was expecting thrills and spills”
Ah, that was a mean trick to play on a man.
Jazzer had thought the pickers outing was to a funfair.
Neither Adam, nor Harry, thought it fit to tell him that it was Macbeth. They did the exact opposite.
[Jazzer] “It’s been me who’s been kippered!”
But it wasn’t a complete disaster.
Jazzer might be a bit annoyed, but he reckoned one of the witches was a looker – and he also got to sit with Zofia on the way back.
Jennifer said ‘LOL’
Which sounded very odd indeed.
Actually, Brian’s a bit doom and gloom
[Brian, on Phoebe’s forthcoming 13th] “Well, her best years are behind her now … life only gets more complicated when you grow up”
[Brian, on Phoebe’s birthday party at the hall] “Hope that all the ducks in the village pond get their earplugs ready”
He also reckoned the catering for her party could just be as simple as opening the front door, and throwing junk food at them.
It must be him worrying about the mart.
No. 3 isn’t a good ‘un?
There was a mention that Tom’s new neighbour has a dog that never stops barking.
Oh dear.
Either Jonti Waters isn’t going to be a very well behaved Ambridge resident – or he’s already died and the dog is just trying to tell everyone!
Jennifer doesn’t need to read Mistress of the Paddocks …
… because it must be one if hers.
Surely?
[Adam] “You’re going to have to read it eventually mum to find out who the Mistress of the Paddocks really is”
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