Wednesday 7 September 2011

The Archers Wednesday 7th September 2011: Pat won’t stand for it anymore!

  • David takes the Michael out of Spencer
  • Susan has been bending all morning …
  • Wishful thinking
  • Wales has rain
  • Peggy to save Bridge Farm?
  • Pat finally lets it out



David takes the Michael out of Spencer

David, Ruth, Pip and Spencer are at the New Smithsfield.

Spencer seems particularly hyper.

[David] “Typical arable boy, runs wild when you let him out of a tractor cab!”

Spender is getting particularly hot under the collar about an automated milking machine:

[Spencer] “Seriously cool .. the cows walks in, it’s scanned, teats rinsed, teacups on .. all robotically”

Pip pours cold water on Spencer’s fantasising – the machine is a whopping £300,000.

Spencer then gates “fascinated” by the yard scrapers.

[David] “Inside every barley baron is a cowman trying to get out … or a proper farmer, as I like to call them”

Meow!


Susan has been bending all morning …

Picking carrots.

[Neil] “Oh yes, there’s allot of that in carrot picking”

Very helpful Neil. Indeed.

Susan has the last laugh, though.

When Neil later comes in to check if his tea is ready (cheeky), Susan has done nothing. She’s been on her feet all day.

(hand on – doesn’t potting up yoghurt normally happen in a standing position?)

[Susan] “Tea is going to be ready whenever you're going to take me down The Bull and order it”


Wishful thinking

Susan wants her grandkids growing up in Ambridge, unlike Jennifer and Brian sending Ruairi to boarding school, and Hayley and Roy letting Phoebe going to South Africa for a year.

She doesn’t mean Emma’s rather random brood – she already has plans for Chris.

[Neil] “Alice and Christopher haven't got any children yet … so don’t start setting the poor little nipper’s entrance exams!”


Wales has rain

No sh*t Sherlock!

David amazes us once again with his powers of observation.

He’s seen a new farming system, at the New Smithsfield, where the cows are out all of the time.

Seems that can only work in Wales.

Where it rains.


Pat finally lets it out

Pat is bagging up carrots. In Bridge Farm bags.

Tony tries to tell her that there’s no point in that. The carrots won’t sell if they can be spotted as Bridge Farm produce.

Pat is furious.

[Pat] “How are we ever going to get our market back skulking around?”

[Tony] “Look, we have to be realistic, these just won’t sell without our name on it”

[Pat] “No! No they won’t! Not if you’re going to be so utterly defeatist.

“I won’t give up. I will not.

“I won’t be ashamed of Bridge Farm … taking our name off everything, pretending we don’t exist, I can’t stand much more if it!

“ … and now Bridge’s Farm is like a dirty secret … we have to pretend like we're someone else”

Pat’s rant ends in tears.

[Tony] “It’s alright. Get your cry out, love”

Aw.

This really isn’t fair.


Peggy to save Bridge Farm?

Pat’s calmed down a bit.

She now feels “ashamed” that she’s had to make Susan lift carrots.

And she’s starting to ponder whether she should listen to Tom about Borchester Life.

But, then she’s off again …

[Pat] “One of things that gave me strength, after John, we had to keep going for Tom and Helen … and the farm was part of that … part if the life we were making for our children that we hoped to pass on …

“ …we can’t hide from it Tony, We can’t go on like this for much longer .. .we do need to stick our heads above the parapets … we need to get back in the marketplace, at a proper price … looking at the figures, we really don’t have very long before we go out of business”

[Tony] “I’ll go and ask mum, agreed?”

Neither Tony nor Pat like to have to ask Peggy for help, but needs most definitely must.

[Tony] “I’ll go round with a begging bowl then”

Ouch.

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