The Archers Wednesday 14th September 2011: Joe has to make the tea

(only cups of, mind. Nic brought round sandwiches)

• The Police have been called in
• Mr Bennett is very proud of his cows
• Vicky confesses
• Eddie does care …
• "Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home?"

The Police have been called in

It’s the morning after, and Clarrie still isn’t home.

Eddie is frantic.

Joe’s having to make the cups of tea.

They’ve called the Police – they’ve called all their friends – they’ve called Clarrie on her mobile.

But, she’s left it at home. (typical)

Where is Clarrie?

Ed bizarrely suggests to check their field, which perplexes everyone until he clarifies:

[Ed] “If she wants to be on her own for a bit … the cider club”

And the key to the Club is missing!

Is Clarrie in the shed drinking cider?


Mr Bennett is very proud of his cows

And Brian seems quite impressed as well.

Debbie’s plan to start a Super Dairy in Ambridge starts with persuading Brian that there’s nothing to be perturbed (or ashamed?) of.

So – Mr Bennett’s shed is airy – with loads of space – and the cows (Brian reckons) look good.

[Debbie] “Stick it (the shed) on arable like we’ve got on the estate, and you’ve got joined up thinking”

Case closed, super dairy ahoy?

Mais non.

Brian seems to be softening in his old age. Especially having worked at Brookfield briefly just after the cows had been let out after winter.

[Brian] “It’s all good hytec stuff, but the fact is that people still like seeing cows out on grass … so do I come to that”

So, Debbie has to do planning and strategy type reports to see if it’s all feasible.

But, Brian tells Debbie that they can’t tell Adam. Yet.

Why?

Will Adam be against it? Will it get in the way of his berries???


Vicky confesses

Vicky turns up at the Grundy’s to see Clarrie, so is told by Joe that Clarrie hasn’t returned home.

[Vicky] “Wherever can she be?”

[Joe] “I wish I knew missus”

[Vicky] “This is difficult to say, bit it’s possible I might be partly to blame for this …”

Vicky has to fess up in front of Joe, Eddie and Ed (as Eddie and Ed have returned from the Cider shed, still without Clarrie).

She tells them that she’d only been repeating the outrageous slur (my words) that Derek Fletcher had said, and that she hadn’t realise Clarrie was in the shop.

Ed, understandably, wants to have “a word” with Derek Fletcher.

And I have to give credit to Vicky for taking responsibility for her rather large mouth.

Abut after Vicky has left:

[Ed] “Stupid woman!”

Eddie does care …

[Eddie] “Edward look, I’m not sure I can go there (the quarry) , the thought of you mum being … if anything happened to her, I don’t know what I’d do …

“… this might seem daft to you, all the years your mum and me have been together, there’s a lot of stuff I’ve still got to tell her … things it’s hard to say in a marriage …

“ … well, things like they’re the reason you still want to get up in the morning and make something of the day, they’re the reason you go on believing in yourself, even though deep down you know you’re useless”

Luckily is not too little too late for Eddie – maybe this will all help him to treat Clarrie like the lovely lady she is from now on, rather than just chief cook and bottle washer?


"Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home?"

(song by The Kinks)

I might have missed something – but at one point Eddie realised that he should try and call Rosie (Clarrie’s sister). It’s her birthday today, she lives in Yarmouth, so Clarrie could be there.

After all, that’s where Will once nipped to …

But, after initial fears that Clarrie could be ‘in’ the quarry (she wasn’t), Clarrie calls.

She’s at Rosie’s.

[Clarrie] “I’m so ashamed, whatever must you have been though … as if I ain't caused enough trouble”

So why didn’t Eddie call Rosie earlier on? Or, did he, and Rosie lied?

Anyhoo.

Clarrie is safe.

But will she return?