- Tracey starts well
- Bridge Farm also starts well
- The Carters’ Christmas morning party
- Debbie on Panto duty
- Bridge Farm implodes
Tracey starts well
She, Brad and Chelsea have setup the Carters’ Christmas morning party while Susan and Neil were at church.
All very impressive.
Though Susan complains that they’ve set out too many crisps and peanuts, which doesn’t set the right tone.
[Susan] “What will the Aldridges think?”
Neil and Susan then seem to try and get rid of Tracey and her brood for a bit, by suggesting that they go out for a walk.
[Tracey] “A walk, on Christmas day? And miss all the fun?”
There’s a glint of mischief in Tracey’s eye …
She starts talking about the Aldridge’s and ‘Roodey’ (Ruairi). Tracey was wondering if they’d leave him with his nanny, to be told that he doesn’t have one – he’s at Boarding school.
[Tracey] “Poor mite … still I suppose it’s understandable in the circumstances …. being Brian’s love child”
Susan is horrified. She makes Tracey promise that she won’t say anything like that to Jennifer or Brian.
Bridge Farm also starts well
Henry’s first Christmas, and his favourite present (at the moment) is a train set.
Tony and Helen are also having a moment:
[Tony] “We never forget how lucky we are he’s here. Both of you are … bit different from last year, you and I barely speaking to each other”
[Helen] “Seems so silly now”
[Tony] “Well it did the moment I saw Henry, when I thought I might lose both of you”
They agree they’re both lucky, especially when they think of Elizabeth and the twins.
While they’ll be celebrating Henry’s first birthday next Monday, the other half of the Archer clan will be mourning their loss of Nigel.
Anyway – back to Christmas. Brenda, Tom, Mike, Vicky, and Kathy will be coming over to Bridge Farm later.
The Carters’ Christmas morning party
All seems to be jolly enough, but Susan is worried that Tracey had been talking to Jennifer and Brian for a long time,
[Neil] “They look quite hypnotised”
[Susan] “That’s what worrying me … I think we should go and break it up”
[Neil] “What, both of us?”
[Susan] “Well it might take two”
While they steel themselves, we eavesdrop in on Tracey’s conversation with the Aldridges.
[Tracey] “Well you know what it’s like, don’t you, well you being married 3 times, talk about a glutton for punishment!”
[Jennifer] “It’s twice, actually”
[Tracey] “Oh, yes sorry, I get confused with you having four children”
[Brian] “Five”
[Tracey] “Oh yes, counting Ruairi”
[Jennifer] “Which we do”
[Tracey] “Oh, I think that’s great, what with you not being his birth mother …”
[Brian] “Ruairi couldn’t wish for a better mother”
[Jennifer] “Oh thank you darling … I do completely think of him as my own”
[Tracey] “Pretty wonderful wife too, you’re a lucky man”
Susan would be appalled – Tracey was warned not to talk about Ruairi not being Jennifer’s by birth.
They’re all then distracted by the sight of Ruairi eating all of the canapés.
[Tracey] “Greedy?”
[Jennifer] “Sophisticated taste!”
Tracey tells Jennifer and Brian that Ruairi's only eating the canapés because Susan hid the crisps and nuts as Susan reckoned it lowered the tone … Jennifer tittered at that (Susan will be furious!). Susan then makes her interruption with Neil, he offering top ups and she apologising for the lack of canapés (Emma is on the way with more).
[Tracey] “It just shows you, people will eat anything at Christmas!”
(cheeky!)
[Tracey] “I expect he’s eating them cause he’s bored, nothing much for the children to do is there?”
Susan takes her new opportunity to get rid of Tracey, and tells her to take all of the kids upstairs to watch a DVD.
Later on, Tracey returns to say that Ruairi has been sick. Jennifer rushes off to him.
[Tracey] “It’s her son. Let her find the disinfect and the rubber gloves herself”
Tracey blames the canapés (she reckons kids shouldn’t eat them), but Susan blames the chocolate that Tracey had given him. On top of the canapés.
Debbie on Panto duty
Jennifer’s now worried about taking Ruairi and the twins, with Elizabeth, to the Panto on Monday.
I suppose she doesn’t want to have to cope with any ‘scenes’, with it being the anniversary of Nigel’s death.
So Brian suggests Debbie takes Ruairi in her place.
Sure Debbie will thank him for that (and also think twice about coming home again)
Bridge Farm implodes
Once Tom and Brenda arrive, and are talking to Helen:
[Brenda] “Tom’s determined you’re going to have a great Christmas, despite the elephant in the room”
[Tom] “That elephant’s long packed its trunk and has left our circus!”
BUT Helen now quite likes to think of John having a son.
[Helen] “A little bit of him carrying on”
Tom does not concur.
[Tom] “Dad’s right, we should be thinking about the little bit of you that’s carrying on “
Later on, as Henry is zipping about the room in his new walker (the wee toots is already trying to make it out of the door!), the while family is talking about how special Henry is. That he sat up, got his first tooth and also rolled over early. (Doesn’t every baby?)
[Helen] “Just think mum, this time last year you didn’t even have a grandson!”
To which Pat starts sobbing and runs off, much to Helen’s bemusement.
[Tom] “But she wasn’t thinking of Henry, was she dad. She was thinking of Rich!”
Tony sends Brenda off after Pat (he still doesn’t see her as being family enough to join in family discussions). Tom reckons he had smelled out that something had happened …
[Tony] “You mother and I … have seen him. Have seen Rich”
But that’s when the secret microphones are turned off. So we don’t get to hear the full implosion …
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