Wednesday 21 September 2011

The Archers Tuesday 20th September 2011: Chris and Brian’s candlesticks

  • Debbie is just outside Basingstoke
  • Peggy has a sore head
  • Chris had an odd request
  • At a new tea room near Darrington
  • Alice posing online
  • Enamel, decisions and a cloakroom



Debbie is just outside Basingstoke

Looking at more super dairies.

She’s really serious about it, then.


Peggy has a sore head

Oh dear. I hope this isn’t the start of something …

Peggy is very stressed.

Jack is out of hospital, and back at The laurels, but it hasn’t made life any easier for Peggy.

He’s very “needy”, hasn’t settled, is confused and can’t eat properly as his grip hasn’t improved.

Elona is the only other person who can calm Jack, so Peggy is having to spend most of her day at The Laurels looking after Jack.

[Jennifer] “You can’t do that every day mum,. You must make some space for yourself, or you’ll tire yourself out”

[Peggy] “Easier said than done I’m afraid … if you saw the way his face lights up when he sees me, it warms your heart, it really does”

Worried that Peggy also isn’t eating properly (she had beans on toast for breakfast … the shame!), Jennifer persuades her to partake of her beef casserole supper that evening.


Chris had an odd request

[Chris] “I’ve got a favour to ask, it might seem a bit strange …you know that candlestick you’ve got on the landing near Ruairi’s room, do you think I could have a quick look and maybe take a photo?”

Jennifer and Brian consent.

[Chris] “It’s heavy …”

[Brian] “I used to used it to prop open my office door”

Turns out Chris wants to copy the candlestick, so that he can “knock one up” in his forge (out of steel). Seems Alice has a very warm liking for it.

Aw. What a sweet (relatively) newlywed chap he is.


Alice posing online

Jennifer is aghast!

Seems Alice is selling some of her clothes online (EBay, one would imagine).

[Brian] “And there will be pictures, I suppose … Jennifer is a touch worried about that”

[Chris] “Tell her Alice isn’t going to be wearing them .. it’s a thought though. We might do much better if she did”


At a new tea room near Darrington

The new tea room is where Jennifer takes Jill on her (Elizabeth’s) first day back driving.

Jill does approve of the tea room. It has “lovely China” (which Jill thinks make all the difference) and also has lovely cakes.

Then – they play a game of Jill mentioning David, while Elizabeth ignores such mentions and then changes the subject.

Elizabeth asks about Pip’s trip away – she ignores Jill’s mention of seeing Pip when she went over for David’s birthday.

Elizabeth talks about Pip and Spencer, and Pip going to Uni – she ignores Jill’s mention of David being proud of Pip - and wanting her to be able to stay farming at Brookfield.

Elizabeth then talks about Freddie looking forward to going hunting, even though she knows Jill doesn’t approve of hunting. Jill would rather Freddie was just happy riding in the ring.


Enamel, decisions and a cloakroom

Peggy manages to make it to Jennifer and Brian for supper.

She’s still tired.

Seems Ted’s been irritating her – continually asking what enamel she’s putting into the flower and produce show. One, according to Peggy, is as she wants it to be – the other is a bit “abstract … a splodge of different colours”. Any anyway, Peggy doesn’t feel like making decisions right now,

In fact, she’s so tired and worn down that she asks Brian to drive her home before she’s had any supper.

Poor Peggy.

(but she does still call a cloakroom a cloakroom. Wonderful).

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