- What ‘mad stuff’ is Kate leaving on Alice’s Facebook wall
- Alice throws a strop
- Jennifer was getting it from all sides
- I thought Adam and Debbie had made up
- Ruth’s in tears
What ‘mad stuff’ is Kate leaving on Alice’s Facebook wall
What a crazy gal she is …
Alice throws a strop
The ‘Old Mags crew’ are off skiing. Alice sounds a bit forlorn that she can’t join her old classmates.
But she tells Chris she didn’t really want to go anyway, as they’d only get drunk.
[Alice] “But some of us have moved on from that, haven’t we … me, disappointed? No.”
Even Chris noticed that wasn’t quite true …
Later on, as they’re out near the wood looking for catkin for Alice, she gets a leak in her welly.
She decides she now doesn’t want catkins. And:
[Alice] “I hate this time of year ice and mush and grey skies, why can’t it be spring now!”
[Chris] “It nearly is …”
[Alice] “Oh shut up, You’re not helping!”
Ooh! Touchy.
Chris pushes her to check that this isn’t all about the skiing.
Alice reckons she’s fine about that.
Chris pushes her again (obviously because he can see life won’t be worth living with Alice until she gets it out of her system),
[Alice] “Alright! Maybe it would be nice to go away and see all my old friends and go skiing but I can’t because it’s impossible, so there’s no point in even thinking about it”
And she storms off.
Later on. Alice tries to talk about it with Brian. Who really isn’t interested.
[Alice] “It’s only cause I can’t go. If I could, I wouldn’t want to”
[Brian] “Why don’t you talk about it with your mother, I’m sure she’d understand”
(Brian speak for ‘leave me alone with my whisky)
As Jennifer arrives home, so does Chris.
The wee poppet has collected catkins for her.
Alice melts, and all is right in her world again.
[Alice] “I’d much rather stay here and have a nice Easter egg with you”
Aw!
But she does get partly her own way. Chris is off to book her a skiing lesson at the place Tom had taken Brenda.
Strop, and ye shall get.
Jennifer was getting it from all sides
At the Super Dairy meeting on Friday. So she reckons.
[Jennifer] “But what about me, I had Pat standing up behind me on one side, and Ruth on the other, it felt like I was under siege!”
She’s also a bit down as Debbie’s now off home, and she didn’t get to spend any quality time. Debbie also didn’t have a chance to talk to Adam.
I thought Adam and Debbie had made up
[Brian] “He and Debbie aren’t likely to kiss and make up in the near future … maybe it’s a case of least said soonest mended”
[Jennifer] “Oh come on, that’s absurd … Well, if no one else is willing to talk to him, I …”
[Brian] “Jenny!”
[Jennifer] “Well, alright”
So Jennifer backs off again from speaking to her own son about the Super Dairy because big, bad Brian has told her not to.
When did Jennifer lose her spine? She’s always been a tad subservient to her lord and master, but not when it came to her kids.
But Jennifer is allowed to see Adam, just as long as she doesn’t mention the Super Dairy.
So off she trots to Brookfield (where he’s walking David’s plants, or something …).
When she gets there, Adam has already left, and Ruth runs away when she sees her (see below).
David tries to cover, but Ruth’s departure was very obvious.
[Jennifer, quite sniffily] “Not to worry. I shan't disturb you any longer”
Jennifer is quite upset, and thinks it’s all to do with the Super Dairy meeting.
[Jennifer] “When I saw Ruth, she pretty well cut me dead. She just walked off. She didn’t even say hello. Even David looked embarrassed”
[Brian] “Maybe she’s having a bad day”
For once, Brian is right.
Ruth’s in tears
Actually, she’s howling.
[Ruth] “It’s just too much. We can’t do it … our new payment, look at it. It must be wrong, surely. They must have made a mistake … it’s all going up and up, everything, but we’ve got no more coming in”
Blimey. She’s finally cracked.
(but I suppose many of us also have a wee weep over our electricity bills these days)
David tries to calm her down. He reckons they can make a few adjustments, move some money between accounts …
[Ruth] “It just goes on and one, one thing after another, we try out best we do everything right and it’s still no good. Why is it so hard, why isn’t it working?”
David tells her that she’s tired. And stressed. And wound up after the BL meeting.
Especially as Debbie gave Ruth a verbal b*tch slap.
[David] “She did come over just a tiny bit smug and patronising”
[Ruth] “Maybe she had a reason. We’re not such a shining example of low put dairy, are we?”
David takes her off to see the lambs.
[David] “Look at them go, full of the joys, eh, And they should make us a decent margin when they go, touch wood …maybe we are just too fixed on doing things our own way, maybe it’s time to but the bullet …”
*sigh*
You’d think he’d at least let Ruth dry her tears before he starts on at her again.
David tells Ruth that she couldn’t have tried harder, but that may it’s time to think about giving up the cows.
[Ruth] “Can’t you see, if I give up the cows, I might as well give up farming”
[David] “Alright, I understand that’s how you feel, but we’re still left with the same problem …”
But Ruth is saved from another round with David about the dairy herd by Jennifer. Who Ruth can’t cope with seeing while she’s so upset, so runs off.
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