- Fearless Freddie
- Adam isn’t happy to see Brian
- Shula ignores Alistair
- Adam also ignores Alistair
Fearless Freddie
I learnt what a hack is today.
It’s when one takes one horse out for a bit of light exercise.
Which is what Daniel was about to do with Freddie.
Daniel reckons Freddie has no fear when it comes to riding.
[Shula] “He gets that from your Uncle Nigel”
Seems Freddie’s Casper took fright when he saw a Chinese Lantern in a hedge (one presumes it had been floated and crashed down. They do seem to make a regular appearance in Ambridge as a menace), but Freddie handled it well. He even walked Casper back and forth in front of it a few times to show him that there was nothing to be scared of.
Adam isn’t happy to see Brian
Infact, he groans.
Brian started wittering about something to do with “spraying off the stubble”
[Adam] “For heaven’s sake!”
Adam was furious!
He ranted about how it’s only the 15th, so he couldn’t have started before (why? Honestly, I’d like to know), that it was forecast to rain, so there shouldn’t be a hurry, and that the ground isn’t warm enough to start drilling peas anyhoo.
They then get into Brian having his meeting with the Parish Council. Adam jibes Brian that he needs to get all of his ammunition ready.
[Adam] “I expect all interested parties will want to be there”
Later on, Adam doesn’t sound enthused by Jennifer’s offer of Sunday lunch fir himself, Ian, Alice, Chris and a few other.
[Adam] “I don’t think so mum. Thanks for the thought”
And he scuttles out of Jennifer’s kitchen when Brian arrives.
[Brian] “How much longer is this going to last … a cold shoulder every time I walk into the room, he barely looks me in the eye. The only time he’ll speak to me about the day to day farm business, and those conversations become almost monosyllabic, unless he’s snapping my head off”
Brian on their slight row over the stubble spraying.
[Brian] “It was just a simple question, to try a bit of rapprochement really, but he took it the long way”
(oh hark at him! Rapprochement, indeed)
While Brian thinks he and Annabelle have managed to make it through the planning department just fine, he’s not so sure about the Environment Agency. They seemingly are a lot harder to please.
While Brian decides whether he wants a mug or a cup of coffee (seriously?), he also begins worrying about what Adam said on “interested parties” attending the Parish Council.
He’s wondering if Adam means he’ll be showing up himself …
Shula ignores Alistair
The chap who owns Topper was meeting another chap who hunts in Gloucestershire today to possibly sell him Topper. But the chap from Gloucestershire didn’t buy Topper. Shula put it off.
[Shula] “In a manner of speaking. I did … once the chap had left, I made Danny a better offer”
Alistair is a bit perturbed, and sends Daniel off to wash up before lunch. He then tells Shula that she ignored his thoughts about Topper.
[Shula] “I didn’t ignore it. I thought about it”
Alistair reckons Topper is too big a horse for Shula to use with her learners. Shula reckons Daniel enjoys riding Topper, as does Shula herself.
[Alistair] “Of course I understand why you don’t want to see Topper go. He was Nigel's horse … But we can’t afford to buy and keep Topper ourselves”
Shula does not concur.
[Shula] “It’s not we, Alistair, it’s me. The Stables is my business … I don’t tell you how to run your practice”
[Alistair] “Yes you do!”
But Shula is not interested in discussing it further. Topper is staying, and she has spaghetti to get in with.
Adam also ignores Alistair
Poor Alistair. He’s having a really rubbish day.
Shula asked him to drop by Home Farm to take back a recipe book she’d borrowed from Jennifer.
He does so on his way back from Penny Hassett (after seeing a horse with a nasty, caused by barbed wire, rather than Clive Horrobin …).
Alistair bumps into Adam, who’s trying to have a proper look at a lamb with a dodgy foot. Alistair helps him catch the lamb, not that he got any thanks for a very grumpy Adam.
He then enquires about how Adam and Ian’s Valentine’s Night was. Adam can barely be bothered to answer. Seems Ian was working.
But unflappable (sometimes) Alistair took Adam’s mood on the chin, and simply told Shula later on that he reckoned Adam was “totally fed up”.
No comments:
Post a Comment