- What to do with Bartleby’s trap?
- Hen and Stag nights
- It’s all Sharon’s fault, really
- Roy misses Phoebe
What to do with Bartleby’s trap?
Fallon’s had an idea. Though Nic can’t use Bartley’s trap before the wedding (she’s will be getting ready at Grey Gables so will be there already), Fallon reckons Roy and Will could use it to arrive.
Seems it’s a canopied trap, bright orange, made out of an old tent.
No-one wants to upset Joe. As Fallon says, he’s such a softy:
[Will] “Yeah, under all the smoke and grumpiness”
But, it’s not practical for Nic, and it also sounds like the trap isn’t exactly a work of beauty:
[Will] “It’s dead nice of him but, yeah, it glows so much you can see it from space!”
Will also isn’t convinced about him and Roy using it.
[Will] “No one cares what me and Roy look like when we get to the wedding”
But, Nic later comes up trumps. They’re going to use Bartley and his special trap as a “lap of honour” round the village Green after they’ve been married.
Aw.
Bartleby will be pleased.
Hen and Stag nights
Fallon and Nic are planning the hen night, so Roy and Will have to go to the pub.
[Roy] “Fantastic, first no one cares what I look like and then I can’t sit down!”
Will mentions that if the girls aren’t going for a nurse theme, air hostess would do just as well …
The hen night seems to be sorted, apart from one small problem … Emma.
Nic doesn’t want Emma there, Emma won’t want to be there, but Emma will see it as a snub if she isn’t at least invited, and will hold a grudge.
Fallon to the rescue!
She called Emma. Told her about the hen night and that Nic wanted her to come. But also said that they knew it was late notice (it’s next Thursday), so would understand if she couldn’t get Ed to babysit. And right enough – Emma said she’d love to come, but that Ed was out that evening so she couldn’t go out.
[Fallon] “There you go, family honour satisfied and everyone gets what they want”
Roy’s organised for Harry, Tom, Pete, Chris, and Jono (who is a probable until his “missus gets out of her wrestling class” – some sort of new fitness routine thingy) to go to a comedy club, then onto Felpersham tandoori.
But they don’t seem to worry about not inviting Ed.
Quite right too, considering what he did at Will’s last finance’s hen night …
It’s all Sharon’s fault, really
Pat and Tony have decided not to tell Helen and Tom that Pat called Sharon, that Rich is definitely John’s son, but that Sharon won’t let them be involved with him.
Not so sure they shouldn’t tell all. Surely it’ll come out sooner or later, with Tom and Helen furious (suicidal, in Helen’s case) that they weren’t told?
Anyhoo. Now that the dust has settled since Pat spoke to Sharon, Pat’s moved on from entirely blaming herself to blaming Sharon.
[Pat] “]It’s the way Sharon … ever since I spoke to her I keep thinking about when she came here … obviously now I wish we hadn’t been so short with her … but for her to make out that it was all so one sided … always the same … she simply took advantage from the word go …”
They’re still angry about the way Sharon played cat and mouse with John (starting when he was but a lad of 14).
[Pat] “She was so cynical about it … so clever at it, time after time … when things weren’t working out, back she’d come”
Pat and Tony think they were just trying to protect John from being heartbroken time and time again, but also realise that he didn’t want protecting.
[Tony] “He thought it was a great lark living on the Green with her …Whatever we think of Sharon, we’re only torturing ourselves”
[Pat] “What really bothers me, I mean you should have heard her Tony, talking about coming here after we’d lost John, like she was the victim in a Victorian melodrama, the innocent Maiden turned away by the heartless gentry … no awareness, none at all, that she might have been at fault …
“what I can’t get out of my mind though … I think John and Hayley would have stayed together if it hadn’t been for her, there wouldn’t have been that terrible upset in his mind, he’d have been more careful, might still be with us Tony, he might not have died … and yet she can still stop us, the one thing that could help, seeing Rich
“It’s as raw as if we’d lost him yesterday. But you're absolutely right. It can’t be helped. So we’ve got to move on. Somehow”
But – they’re going round in circles, with little chance of making Sharon change her mind about them seeing Rich. So:
[Tony] “We have to try and jog on as normal for their sake”
Which means going out for an anniversary meal tomorrow (at The Bull), so that Tom and Helen think all’s well.
Roy misses Phoebe
I’d completely forgotten about her!
Roy is especially missing Phoebe in the run up to Christmas. It’s too quiet at home.
[Roy] “I mean Abby’s great … but you want your whole family there”
Abby is just about old enough to now get Christmas – but Roy wants both his girls there.
Bout time for a Skype.
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