- Pat talks to Kathy
- Robert tries to calm down Lynda
- Pat is primeval
- Where’s Jim’s equipment?
Pat talks to Kathy
Over lunch and a white wine spritzer.
Kathy was telling Pat that Lilian asking for list of invites for her 60th birthday.
[Pat] “I don’t know if I can face it. … maybe I’ll cancel it. I don’t feel like I have much to celebrate … I thought I could forget, if I threw myself into our family Christmas, I could forget.
“But I couldn’t … I made a complete fool of myself on Christmas afternoon … Helen said, just think this time last year you didn’t have a grandson ..,. and I though yes, now I've got two, only one I can’t see, It was too much. I broke down.
“Then we had the most terrible row, the children’s were so angry with me … there was Henry, lovely, lovely Henry who I see every day and the thought that I was never going to see Rich again”
[Kathy] “Again? What do you mean again? Pat, you didn’t?”
[Pat] “I thought it would help … it’s made things worse, for everyone. I think it was a terrible mistake”
Pat had thought that seeing Rich would help her move on, but it hasn’t. (obviously)
[Pat] “I know from the photos that he looked like John, I’d steel myself for that … but he has some of John’s mannerisms too, I hadn’t expected that. It was heart stopping”
[Kathy] “Jamie has some of Sid’s. It takes my breath away sometimes … but, he’s not John”
[Kathy] “I know. But that’s how I’d been thinking of him. A piece of John. He’s so much more. He’s his own person, even in the short time we were together, I could such a strong sense of his personality”
[Kathy] “That’s a good thing isn’t it, if you can separate him from John?”
[Pat] “No. because now I want to get to know him better. I want it so much … So, for the sake of 10 minutes with a grandson I shall never see again, I've totally alienated my own children … they were so angry, I don’t know if they’ll ever forgive me”
[Kathy] “It’s been a big shock finding a cuckoo in their nest … what does it actually mean to them. It just brings back painful memoires of losing John … at the moment they’re just jealous, Rich has been taking an awful lot of your attention and Tony’s”
Pat tells Kathy that it hasn’t changed the way she and Tony feel about Helen and Tom. Kathy tells Pat that they need to tell them that.
Robert tries to calm down Lynda
Not an easy thing to do, considering Christmas around the World is tomorrow.
[Robert] “Sit down, relax and pass me that cheese … pour us both a glass of wine and relax for half an hour”
Lynda is worried about everything – but especially Jazzer. She still doesn’t know what his song is …
Pat is primeval
Once home, Pat apologies to Helen.
[Pat] “I see now how wrong it was for me and your dad to go and see rich without telling you and Tom”
[Helen] “We’d ask you not to …”
[Pat] “I know. We’d just got swept up. I just couldn’t bear not to see him. Even if it was only once”
[Helen] “Despite what we wanted?”
[Pat] “Despite what anyone wanted., It was primeval. That’s an explanation, not an excuse”
As Helen has said to Tom, she needed time to ponder. She’s been trying to see things from pat’s point of view, and has also been looking at the pictures of Rich.
[Pat] “I was seeing Rich for the first time, but then I saw John again”
[Helen] “It seems now that he’s turned out not to be your first grandchild, Henry just doesn’t count anymore. That’s what’s really upsetting me mum”
[Pat] “If anything, this has made me love Henry even more. Because it’s made me realise how blessed I am to have my grandson in my house, where I can see him every day, watch him develop, love him as much as I want to. I can never have that with Rich … Henry has always been extra precious because we nearly lost him, now he’s even more. If this had happened and I hadn’t got henry, I don’t know what I would have done”
[Helen] “You’ve seemed lost in the past, back with John, and Tom and I felt the same, as if we didn’t count anymore”
[Pat] “Losing John made me love you more, if that’s possible”
[Helen] “That’s all I wanted to know. I hated feeling jealous. I wanted to be happy John had a son”
[Pat] “You can be. He’s a lovely boy. You know Helen, he’s called John too”
[Helen] “So, Sharon did love John after all?”
[Pat] “I think she did. I wonder if she’ll ever forgive us”
[Helen] “Or let us meet him .. he may try and find him himself”
They agree that if you love someone, you have to let them go. As they all had to do with John.
As Helen reminds herself, she also had to let go of Greg Turner. Then Annette turned up.
So – Helen now understands that you can move on, until that reminder comes back onto your life. Her mention of maybe Rich one day trying to find them sounds like she now also wants to meet him.
That just leaves Tom to convince.
Where’s Jim’s equipment?
After Robert managed to get Lynda to sit down, they’re now at the hall doing the final setup for Christmas around the World.
[Jim] “What a hive of activity!”
[Robert] “And you’ve come as an extra bee?”
No. Jim’s not a drone – he’s just come to rehearse.
But there’s a problem.
Jim was expecting Lynda to sort his equipment. But Lynda thought he had just been describing his equipment to her (oo-er!), and that he’d sort himself.
[Jim] “It is your show, Lynda!”
[Lynda] “And it’s your poem, Jim. No one else wants anything this complicated!”
Robert steps in to say that he can at least sort the computing back – and Lynda reckons she can sort the rest out from Grey Gables.
Damn that Jim!
As if Lynda needs the extra stress.
And what equipment does one need to recite a Latin poem?
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