- Helen can spell but might run out of cake
- Helen is “tired” again
- To the Panto
- Memories of Nigel
- Elizabeth Vs Debbie continues
- Good lord … Tom to procreate?
- Tom doesn’t rate Emma
- Henry walks!
Helen can spell but might run out of cake
It’s Henry’s first birthday, and his ever delighted mum has made him a cake. It doesn’t sound perfect, but Helen’s not bothered.
[Helen] “This one maybe a bit cockeyed, but by the time he’s about 15 I’ll have got the hang of it”
She certainly wouldn’t have had anything but perfection before this time last year …
When they later come to blowing out the candles, Tom helps Henry do it. Seems he’s already taught Henry how to blow raspberries, so they use that technique on the candles.
Tom and Henry’s spit on the birthday cake.
Nice.
Helen is “tired” again
After Nic and Will’s wedding.
To the Panto
Jill and Elizabeth are at the Panto with Freddie and Lily.
I thought it was odd that Elizabeth was so keen on taking the twins to the panto, but she explains that it was a way of getting them out of the house and to something completely different.
Lily is remembering that Nigel once played a dame. He was Nigella to Nelson Gabriel’s Gabrielle.
When Debbie arrives with Ruairi, she remembers playing Robin Hood in a village panto, with her (now ex) husband playing the Sheriff of Nottingham. She thought that was very apt for Simon Gerrard, in hindsight …
[Debbie] “I always got cast as the man in the village panto”
Which Jill reckons was a result of Debbie being tall.
Anyhoo, seems the kids enjoyed the panto, though:
[Lily] “I thought Prince Charming was a bit soppy”
Memories of Nigel
The Pargetters seem to be coping quite well on the anniversary of Nigel’s death.
Elizabeth tells Jill that the Twins were a bit tearful this morning, especially Freddie. She seems to be a bit tearful herself:
[Elizabeth] “Just sometimes .. I get ambushed by memories … The harder you try not to think about something …”
But she does seem very calm, considering. Her kids are making sure that she keeps on an even keel.
[Jill] “She always seems to know when her mum needs looking after …It might be better if she gave into her feelings a bit more”
Elizabeth Vs Debbie continues
Elizabeth was not at all pleased when Debbie come to the panto with Ruairi.
When Elizabeth later blurts out that she thinks Ruairi looks so like his mother …
[Debbie] “When you said his mother, I though you meant my mother. She’s the one he calls mum. She’s the one he turns to when he’s sad or hurt. I don’t suppose he even remembers … her …”
Debbie spat out that “her”.
If we recall back, Elizabeth was Siobhan’s friend. Looks like Debbie still hasn’t forgiven her for that.
Good lord … Tom to procreate?
Henry’s opening his presents.
[Helen] “You don’t care, do you? You just like playing with the pretty shiny paper”
Henry doesn’t even shown an interest in a wooden truck with red wheels, full of coloured bricks. So Tom starts playing with it to show Henry how marvellous it is.
[Tom] “Being an uncle’s the best fun in the world, you can stop pretending to be a grown up all the time!”
[Helen] “What about being a dad … have you and Brenda thought about having one of your own?”
Tom says he has been thinking about it.
Oh the horror!
Tom doesn’t rate Emma
Helen was talking about herself and Emma going back to work tomorrow.
[Tom] “Work? What work?”
Seems Tom doesn’t think cleaning at Brookfield is proper work.
[Tom] “Not quite as challenging as a full day in Ambridge Organics!”
Henry walks!
And on his first birthday.
Perfectly timed. That boy will go far (especially now he’s mobile!)
2 comments:
Strangely little about Nigel, don't you think - or is it a calm before another storm ?
I agree - very little about Nigel indeed. I think that's that. Elizabeth is a bit sad, Freddie and Lily will need therapy, but Ambridge has moved on. Blimey (as Nigel would say)!
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