- Emma’s having a go again
- Joe got locusts and a nice card
- Clarrie to sponge for a career?
- I’d forgotten Pip was on holiday
- Pip got David something soft and leather …
- Crushing heifers
- Since when was Alana “The vicar?”
- Harvest supper at Brookfield?
Emma’s having a go again
So reckons Nic.
Seems Emma has been complaining that Will and Nic returned George minus his book bag – so he didn’t have his reading book at school.
[Will] “Typical Emma, she was making a big deal about it … she can be so high and mighty sometimes, like she’s the perfect parent, that no-one else has any idea”
Nic also reckons that it was Emma who has lost the bag.
It’d be (hand)bags at dawn if they could find it …
Joe got locusts and a nice card
Seems that after Amy and Alice arrived at Joe’s, the rest of the young ‘uns helping out at Bridge Farm also turned up to celebrate Joe’s birthday.
[Joe] “It was like a cloud of blooming locusts”
But, Joe was actually quite pleased.
He wasn’t so pleased that Alf couldn’t make it, but seems he did send him a nice birthday card.
Clarrie to sponge for a career?
Clarrie’s not having much luck finding any positions vacant.
[Clarrie] “Ain't never no jobs in the Westbury Courier”
She’s doing her best though. She’s even been pondering one of those foot-in-the-door sales jobs.
[Eddie] “No. I’m not having you selling door to door”I’m with Eddie. I’d hate the thought of Clarrie selling door to door – the inevitable slams in the face would cripple her.
[Clarrie] “I’ve got to do summit,. The bills won’t pay themselves”
But Joe and Eddie have a plan B.
[Eddie] “We think you ought to sign on”
[Clarrie, a bit shocked] “Going on the Parish, my dad used to call it”
Clarrie later chats it all through with Nic.
[Clarrie] “I ain't used to sitting round with nothing to do … Joe and Eddie are doing my head in”
On the dole:
[Clarrie] “It’s probably hard at your age to understand … but we were taught to stand on your own two feet,. Not sponging off the state”
But Nic persuades Clarrie to at least have a look at what she’s entitled to. Which I perfectly agree with.
BUT
Is Clarrie entitled to anything right now? She left her job, so doesn’t she have to wait a while before she can claim?
And, as a rural dweller myself, I can reckon it doesn’t pay to be unemployed if you live in the countryside. It often costs more to get to the dole than you can actually claim.
I’d forgotten Pip was on holiday
In Dubrovnik.
But have remembered now that she’s back home. With her photos.
Pip got David something soft and leather …
… a bag.
How quite dull. But necessary, I suppose.
And it’s more than he got from Elizabeth for his birthday. Not even a card …
Crushing heifers
[Ruth] “I’ve got to get a couple of heifers in the crush before I get the rest of the cows in”
That’d sound painful, or something to do with a smoothie, if we didn’t know better,
Since when was Alan “The vicar?”
Pip is quite odd sometimes.
She goes through to Ruth to say that “the vicar” just called round to ask about a barn for the harvest supper.
Eh?
Whoever (ever) calls Alan “the vicar”?
Pip’s getting dull and formal. Oh dear.
Harvest supper at Brookfield?
So, after “the vicar” spoke to Pip, Ruth’s a bit perturbed to find out that Pip has volunteered one of Brookfield’s barns for the harvest supper.
Again – what’s wrong with The Bull?
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