- Neil’s odour is a bit much for morning
- Nic asked Joe?
- Joe’s not a fan of a good walk spoiled …
- Christmas is coming; the Grundys’ turkeys have got fat
- Trouble ahead for the stag and hen dos?
- Ed and Emma have got some nerve!
- Carol singers
- Kathy tells Pat an emphatic ‘No’
Neil’s odour is a bit much for morning
[Tom] “You’ve got a serious garlic habit going on there”
Seems Susan has been testing out recipes for nibbles. They’re having a family drinks party on Christmas morning.
So Neil has also been having canapés for breakfast, as well as lunch and dinner.
He’s hoping the parmesan breadsticks won’t be appearing again.
[Neil] “I don't have the heart to tell her, but you’d be better off chewing firewood”
It’s almost as if Neil has just met Susan sometimes … he knows it’ll be better to tell her now than let her suffer embarrassment publically.
Anyhoo, Neil reckons she’s making a song and dance out of what should be just a simple get together. Crisps nuts and booze should be on the menu – with enough booze so that folks forget what they’re eating.
Not so sure that’s a good approach for so early on Christmas day, but I suppose when it comes to Susan, Neil just wants a path of least resistance/hassle/potential of anything going wrong.
Nic asked Joe?
Kathy’s round at the Grundys’ while Clarrie is getting bits of Nic and Will’s wedding cake ready.
Joe also proudly tells Kathy that Nic asked him and Bartley to take her and Will round the Green after they’re married.
Ah Nic. A diplomat to the point where Joe now thinks she asked him.
Kathy doesn’t seem to be too overawed by the trap Joe’s built.
[Kathy] “Oh yes, it’s very … striking”
[Joe] “Flame orange, that’s what they calls that particular shade. I reckons that will set her dress off very nicely”
Joe’s not a fan of a good walk spoiled …
… and also seems to be taking the Michael out of Kathy for working at a golf club.
[Joe] “Do you actually do any work up at the Golf Club this time of year, Kathy Perks?”
After Kathy’s left:
[Joe] “Golf, haggis and Jazzer McCreary, Scotland’s got a lot to answer for”
Aye – but he left out the Enlightenment, modern surgery, photography, whisky, Alex Ferguson and TV … actually, forget I mentioned the last one …
Christmas is coming; the Grundys’ turkeys have got fat
So are set for being killed and plucked tomorrow.
Trouble ahead for the stag and hen dos?
Not sure how, but Nic and Will have managed to clash their stag and hen dos on the same night.
Would have thought Fallon and Roy would have organised enough to have avoided that.
I still can’t get it out of mind that as Will’s last experience of a hen do was horrific (Emma slept with Ed, though Will didn’t know it at the time), any sign of trouble is bound to be more than it should.
Ed and Emma have got some nerve!
I agree with Joe.
Ed and Emma shouldn’t be asking Clarrie to mind their kids while Emma goes back to work.
Clarrie needs to have time to find work for herself, and shouldn’t be used as a service babysitter. They should at least offer to pay her.
Nic and Will seem to manage well enough …
But Clarrie doesn’t mind, She actually seems to be delighted, especially as she doesn’t have high hopes of finding a job.
[Clarrie] “If a miracle like that does happen, they’ll just have to sort summit else out … I were pleased to be asked. I’ll enjoy spending more time with little Keira. And it’s nice my family still need me”
Carol singers
[Joe] “Only four or five of them but they made a decent racket”
It’s Alan’s lot, making the rounds through Ambridge to get a bit of practise in before Christmas Around the World.
Kathy tells Pat an emphatic ‘No’
Pat’s bending Kathy’s ear while Kathy’s at work. (just so happens Joe was right – she didn’t seem to be up to much else at that point).
Kathy’s chatting about helping with the preparing and serving of the food at Christmas Around the World, when Pat interrupts:
[Pat] “Is it hard to find out where a child goes to school? … Perhaps if I knew, I could drive up one afternoon”
[Kathy] “I understand why you want to, but you mustn’t”
Good god – Pat’s going to get arrested for stalking a 13 year old!
She reckons she just wants to say hello, but Kathy is quite rightly against it. She tells Pat that she’s too mixed up in herself, and can only make the situation even worse.
[Kathy] “If you do that you’ll make Sharon furious ...and you make turn Rich against you … imagine the shock, a grandmother he never knew he had appearing from nowhere”
[Pat] “He might be pleased to see me. To find out there are other people who care about him”
[Kathy] “It’ll turn everything he knows about himself upside down. Who he is. Who his family are … You could, do real damage to who he feels about himself”
[Pat] “But else am I ever going to see him?”
[Kathy, very reluctant to have to say this] “Perhaps that won’t be possible …”
[Pat] “I can’t bear the thought, I simply can’t bear it … I know what you’re saying makes sense, you’re tight, I shouldn’t go near him … It’s impossible Kathy, the questions keep going round and round in my head, if I saw him they might stop”
[Kathy] “Or you’ll make things far worse, for him and for you”
[Pat] “It’s the only hope I’ve got. I don’t want to be like this anymore. I have to see him”
[Kathy] “It can only make a dreadful situation even worse. Please don’t do it”
Kathy is absolutely right that Pat isn’t in a state of mind to do anything at the moment. She’s obsessing about Rich to the point where she can’t think clearly.
But then again – will Pat ever be able to move on if she can’t meet him? How else can she stop herself thinking?
A mini-John is too much for Pat to cope with.
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