- Oliver’s elixir helps badgers
- Who let Ed’s cows out?
- Kenton wants Tom’s spicy sausages
- Damn that Shelly Brazil!
- It’s still all about Clive …
- Brenda is not happy
Oliver’s elixir helps badgers
It’s TB test time for Ed. While he is quite nervous about.
His cows are shiny and milking well. And Oliver reassures hum that they’re not in a “hot spot” area, nor one which is an official badger culling area.
In fact. Olive has been doing his bit as well.
Seems he’s been outing an “elixir” down at the badger sets to help their immunity.
Nice Oliver.
Later on, Ed wonders whether they should take part in the badger vaccination. They can do so voluntarily, though they would need a group of local farmers to also take part. So, Ed’s off to ask David (with his NFU hat on).
[Oliver] “Well you can try. But he’s no friend of the Badger!”
Who let Ed’s cows out?
Ed was called out to Waterly Cross Road to round up some of his young ‘uns that had got onto the road.
Oliver seemed quite excited about it.
[Oliver] “Right, what are we waiting for!”
But once they get there (and get the cows back in with Tom and Brenda’s help), Ed reckons they’d got out through the gate.
[Tom] “Stupid walkers. You’d think they’d know better”
[Ed] “It was deliberate though. Someone meant to let them out”
Seems the gate is hard to lift open, so it couldn’t have just been nudged by the cows or blown open by the wind.
Wonder who would have done that?
Kenton wants Tom’s spicy sausages
Brave Kenton.
Especially as talking to Tom means you get a free half hour lecture on how Tom is right and his folks are wrong.
[Tom] “We need to change the branding and move on … until Mum and da come to terms with the digital age”
Ah, shush there Tom.
Damn that Shelly Brazil!
Seems she has 8,000 Twitter followers.
(which is a surprisingly large number for a local, minor version of a celeb chief, but I shall not quibble)
And she has Tweeted out Tom’s pigs playing football.
And when he checks it later on, his video has had over 23,000 hits.
[Tom] “That’s 23 thousand my boy. Piggy football is going viral!”
Damn it!
Tom is going to be insufferable.
It’s still all about Clive …
I’m starting to wish he’d do something psychotic to stop his constant moaning.
He offers to take Bert to the pub.
Which is (I suppose) helpful.
But then:
[Clive to Susan] “Yeah well, he’s lost his cook and cleaner. Poor old boy. He won’t know where he is … Still he’s got you … you’ll be popping round with the odd stew I’m sure”
[Susan] “One of us has got to. Don't see anybody else rushing to help!”
But no – Clive reckons he would help, it’s just that he always gets elbowed out of the way.
He’s now also annoyed that no-one has asked him about the funeral.
[Clive] “Well. Let me know. I wouldn't want to miss it …And what about Kylie? Has anyone been in touch with her. She’ll need to know. She’ll want to be at her nan’s funeral”And classic Clive – he leaves it to Susan to call Kylie. He reckons he hasn’t got her number, and he can’t call as things aren’t good between him and Sharon (Kylie’s mum).
Then, once he’s been to the pub with Bert, he hardly sounds sympathetic to Bert being in shock.
[Clive] “Rambling … Remember that time we all went down to Weymouth … something about the old girl stepping on a crab … then for no reason at all he started burbling about the council putting him on half time”
Where Susan sees Bert as finally breaking down and showing his grief, Clive:
[Clive] “I wouldn’t count on it. He’s probably just missing having his meals cooked for him”
[Susan] “You don’t change, do you. You have to see the worst in everyone”
Clive calms down and says to take no notice of him. He’s just used to “ducking and diving”. Susan tells him that he can change.
Then he asks her for a bacon sarnie and a lift to Felpersham.
Which she agrees to.
Looks like Susan can’t change either.
Brenda is not happy
About not being seen as an official part of the Archer clan by Tony (as yet), and that she can’t add her valuable expertise and wisdom to the meeting about how to market Bridge Farm.
[Brenda] “The only thing that’s going to get bridge Farm out of the mire is good marketing, and who knows all about it … and what constitutes family? You can see why I feel hurt. After all the effort I made!”
And worse still – someone else has had an idea!
[Brenda] “You’ve heard Helen’s latest idea on rebranding. Everything goes under the brand name Henry’s”
[Tom] “You’re not serious!”
[Brenda] “She is. I think …”
[Tom] “No way!”
[Brenda] “It’s got a certain ring to it …”
[Tom] “I don’t care if it chimes like big ben. It’s not going to happen”
Hark him!
Feeling threatened by a baby …
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