- But what about Ruairi’s sports kit?
- Pat had to wear lady shoes
- Are archaeologists really that busy?
- Jennifer gets excited about old bones
But what about Ruairi’s sports kit?
Brian gets a call from Cliff Alladay (The Mart’s Project Manager), and heads straight off to deal with a problem.
Jennifer’s not happy about that. It means he can’t go with her and Ruairi to buy Ruairi’s school kit.
Would seem it’s a seminal moment in any young (public school) boy’s life.
Pat had to wear lady shoes
To her and Tony’s interview at Environmental Health.
Blimey!
Pat’s also worried about the interview. It could lead to a prosecution..
[Tony] “This is environmental health, not Scotland Yard … try to not let the situation intimidate you”
Easier said than done, but quite nice to hear Tony being the positive one in the know.
It sounded like most of the interview went well. Pat only sounded unsure (and a bit panicked) about the last time she’d put her staff through a refresher course – including 48 hour rule and such.
After their interview, Pat and Tony find that the village shop in Penny Hasset and the whole food shop in Darrington have cancelled their orders – AND the wee girl ill in hospital now has kidney problems.
So what’s Tom’s solution?
Take Bridge Farm’s confidence in their product further afield – places like Birmingham and Bristol (where, one assumes, they haven’t heard of the E. coli outbreak).
Hmmm. Wonder if German salad folks found that they managed to survive by finding new markets …
Are archaeologists really that busy?
Cliff has been trying to get one out to the Mart site to have a look at the bones one of the workers discovered.
But seems they’re all out on calls.
Surely not? I’d have thought their work could wait … after all, it’ll have been there for a fair while already.
Anyway – first signs are that the bones are cattle (they found a cattle skull).
But, finding the bones, having to report them, trying to find an archaeologist who doesn’t have another archaeological emergency, all means delays. Which can’t happen if the Mart project is going to hit the Council deadlines.
[Brian] “We’ve been knocked sideways by something entirely unpredictable”
Brian is angry, but one also assumes slightly pleased to be able to tell Annabelle ‘I told you so’.
Jennifer gets excited about old bones
After getting back in from the Mart site, all Brian wants is a large whisky (though he should get it himself rather than telling Jennifer to get him one. Lazy so and so. And I do hope it is whisky rather than whiskey …).
What he also gets with his whisky is a side order of rather inappropriate excitement from Jennifer.
[Jennifer] “Was anything else found, I mean pottery or jewellery … how interesting!”
Brian hopes it isn’t anything ‘interesting’:
[Brian] “Then it’d be littered with people in dungarees with teaspoons”
With her old local historian hat on, Jennifer reckons that the Mart site was part of a major roman road and that the Earl of Essex’s army billeted nearby in 1642.
[Jennifer] “There could very well be ancient remains, it could be a very important find”
Brian is most decidedly not excited nor amused. He’s only worried about delays, and what it could cost him.
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