- Was it fixed?
- Tracey lets the pig out of the bag
- Helen’s back on the booze
- Roy’s checking his list twice
Was it fixed?
Neil was trapped in the Village shop, with Susan, having to listen to Vicky’s ramblings about last night’s Christmas around the World.
[Neil] “I only popped in for some mints, not a minute by minute run down o last night’s show. I mean, we were there!”
Vicky is not only crowing about the success of Christmas around the World – she’s also elated that she won the table centrepiece decoration competition. Susan reckons it was a fix. Vicky was one of the organisers of Christmas around the World, so was also on the inside of the competition. In Susan’s opinion, Vicky shouldn’t have been allowed to enter.
[Neil] “But half the village would have been cut out!”
Tracey lets the pig out of the bag
Susan wants to call Jennifer to see if Ruairi is okay after having been sick at their Christmas morning soiree. Susan reckons Jennifer will be embarrassed:
[Neil] “Not as embarrassed as we should be if she finds out it was Tracey feeding him chocolate”
[Susan] “Maybe it would be better just to leave it”
[Neil] “Talking of leaving things and Tracey …”
[Susan] “What’s she done now?”
[Neil] “She’s still here!”
Seems Susan and Neil have different opinions about when Christmas is over. Neil reckons now – Susan reckons it’s after New Year. And she doesn’t want to ask Tracey to leave until Christmas is over.
Neil leaves it at that, but later arrives home to find chaos. His piglets are out of their pen, running amok, but Tracey is just standing around laughing.
Seems her Chelsea wanted to stroke the piglets. How that led to them all getting out isn’t explained …
[Neil] “Oh for heaven’s sake Tracey, they’re not pets!”
[Tracey] “Oh well, it’s all good exercise isn’t it, for us and the pigs”
Susan then arrives home to find her garden wrecked (piglets and gardening don’t mix well). Seems it took Neil (and Tracey, eventually) over an hour to get the piglets back where they should be.
[Neil] “It’s not on Tracey. These pigs are my livelihood … doesn’t seem like you or your kids respect that at all. This isn’t a petty zoo, and what happened wasn’t funny”
Tracey apologies and reassures that it won’t happen again. Neil is just about to tell her to pack her bags and be gone, but Susan calls time out (for a cup of tea).
[Neil] “It’s not going to work Susan. You’re not going to put me off this time!”
[Susan] “But losing your temper isn’t going to get Tracey out ... it won’t happen at all if we don’t do it properly”
Susan’s plan is to get their dad, Bert, to ask Tracey to move in – rather than for Susan and Neil to ask her to move out. A positive rather than a negative.
Either which way, Susan better get a move on before a piglet is hurt.
Helen’s back on the booze
Pink champagne, this time.
She brought it round for the wedding hairdresser rehearsal with Nic and Mia.
Slippery slope … Mike’d better stay indoors again.
Roy’s checking his list twice
Mainly because Will’s nerves are running high.
He wants to be sure Mia and Jake now how to give Nic away. That Roy had the Vangelis, Shania Twain and Handel music ready. And that Ian will be waiting on the door step with open arms for the wedding cake from Eddie.
Roy does his best to reassure Will.
But, then tells him that there is a problem with the chandelier in their function room at Grey Gables. Seems another, quite boisterous, party had been in the other night, and someone had “knocked off some of the dangly bits”.
Not sure why Roy felt the need to tell Will, as it’ll be fixed before his wedding. It sends Will into a frenzied panic. He’s worried the whole thing will now fall down (a la Phantom of the Opera style, one supposes) halfway through their wedding.
[Roy] “She’s going to ask the maintenance man to do it, not Del Boy and Rodney!”
But Will calls Caroline anyway to triple check. He does know he’s being a pain, but he also wants to be sure everything will be perfect for Nic.
[Will] “I want to give her the wedding she deserves. I love her so much”
Later on – Will is still worrying. He’s checking with Nic that Helen knows when to arrive and what to do (being Helen, she already has her own timetable written down anyway!). A bigger worry is Emma. She needs to organise George as the ring bearer. Do we sense that’s one aspect that could be a disaster …?
Nic tries to give him a sense of perspective.
[Nic] “As long as you turn up, it will be. That’s all I care about”
Sounds like that won’t be enough for Will. He needs perfection (bless ‘im).
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