- Kirsty wants purple headed broccoli
- Tom’s pushing Tony (and his luck)
- Alan bans gossip
- When did Shula forgive St Stephen’s?
- Now Jill wants Harry!
- David’s Choice … Pip, Josh or Ben?
- Kylie’s coming back
- Tony V Brian: 3-2!
- A “phalanz” of BL
- Alistair still in a grump with Shula
Kirsty wants purple headed broccoli
Tony sorts her out.
Tom’s pushing Tony (and his luck)
Tony is still running the majority of Home Farm by himself.
He reckons he’s only just about caught up with tasks from last week (when Tom was away …
Surely it should be Tom that does the catching up?).
But Tom either can’t see that, or doesn’t care. He’s still on about tidying the farm for pictures and videos ahead of the next relaunch.
[Tony] “Don’t worry, there’s going to be an army of fairies to help me! … just relax tom. There’s plenty of time before the Felpersham relaunch”
Tom was very generous in saying he’d “push paperwork” back to this afternoon if Tony would drop everything there and then to start tidying. But Tony needs to get the tractor out for doing something to the seeds bed.
Then, Tony intends to go to The Bull for a pint, after which he’ll have an afternoon snooze.
[Tony] “You can sigh all you want. I deserve one afternoon off”
Later on, after Tony has had his pint (though he didn’t get a doze – he had to look after Henry!), Tom has yet another go at him.
But Tony hasn’t got time to talk about the yard again … sounds like he won’t, rather than can’t.
[Tom] “Why are you digging your heels like this? Don’t you want it to be a success … I want to tick it off my to do list!”
[Tony] “Stop haranguing me … look Tom, I’m not the lowly farm hand and you’re not my gaffer, so just back off, alright!!!”
Tom’s to do list?!?
What an ar*e.
Alan bans gossip
It’s a rare eavesdropping in on Alan’s Sunday service.
He’s talking about what they (as a congregation) should do for lent – how “to prepare and purify selves” through making sacrifices.
He acknowledges that the giving up of Sunday lunch last year didn’t work too well (Eddie and Joe!), and that everyone is a tad tight for cash this year,
So – while the church will donate a regular sum from their weekly collection box to a debt crisis charity in Borchester, Alan also wants his parishioners to give something up:
[Alan] “but not quite in the usual way …
“So the first challenge to you is to give up gossip … those negative and snide comments about other people, ones we’d be mortified to hear turned back on ourselves. It takes two to gossip remember, one to speak and the other to relish listening.
“The second challenge is that you go out of your way to perform random acts of kindness. That’s not like making your spouse a cup of tea, cause I hope you do that occasionally. No, I mean something really special. Putting yourself out. Giving of your own time and energy to help someone else for its own sake, you may find your kindness is returned to you …”
Jill’s quite impressed.
[Jill] “What an original idea, giving up gossip!”
[Shula] “Well I don’t know how someone is going to manage without gossiping …”
[Jill] “Careful, he’ll (Neil) hear you!”
[Shula] “Sorry, Susan will need to take a vow of silence!”
When did Shula forgive St Stephen’s?
She seems to be going every Sunday.
Shula and Usha had a few chats when Nigel died, but I don’t remember Shula making amends and being formally brought back into the fold.
Now Jill wants Harry!
What on earth is happening to the women of Ambridge?
They seem to be on heat – and only for the (previously rather unnoticed, apart from Fallon) Harry.
[Jill] “But I don’t think I’ll be able to afford him … there’s been an awful lot of interest from the young women in the village, and some not so young …”
[Shula] “I know, what a hoot!”
And they’re right that interest in Harry will raise a lot of money.
David’s Choice … Pip, Josh or Ben?
Jill and Shula are talking about David and his woes.
[Jill] “He feels he’s been forced to choose between Pip and Josh, because one favours the sheep and the other the cows”
Seems David is also worrying about Ben as well as Josh and Pip.
Shula and Jill are right that David’s kids could want to do anything, live anywhere, when they grow up. So he’s worrying too early about making decisions for Brookfield based on all three of his kids wanting to stay on and farm.
[Shula] “He and Ruth need to plan on the basis of here and now, not the what if”
Yup. David AND Ruth.
[Jill] “I don’t know how Ruth will cope if they do lose the herd, it’s so much a part of who she is”
Kylie’s coming back
Neil’s picking her up next week (she has a reading week).
Seems she’s friends with Emma on Facebook, and they’re been getting on really well.
Suppose it is easy to like Emma when you’re not actually in the same room as her.
Kylie’s visit will set off Pat and Tony again …
Tony V Brian: 3-2!
As Tony is having his aforementioned pint in The Bull, Brian comes in to talk to Neil about the forthcoming Super Dairy themed Parish Council meeting.
Tony warns Neil not to get bullied by Brian, but Neil reckons he can handle Brian.
Just as Tony proves he can …
[Tony] “Come to nobble Neil have you?”
[Brian] “Now there’s a tongue twister”
[Tony] “You know what I mean”
[Brian] “I take it you’ll be there on Friday, hiding behind Pat’s dungarees!”
(0-1)
[Tony] “Oh ha ha. At least we’re untied on this, unlike your family!”
(1-1)
But Brian reveals to Tony that both Lilian and Jennifer are in favour of the Super Dairy,
[Brian] “So that leaves you the odd one out amongst your siblings”
(1-2)
[Tony] “Same as Adam then! Pat’s gonnae wipe the floor with you on Friday”
(2-2)
[Brian] “Look forward to it. You know tony, dinosaurs died out because they couldn’t adapt”
[Tony] “That’s funny. I thought it was because there heads got so big they couldn’t hold them up anymore!”
3-2 and Full Time. Spoils to Tony!
A “phalanz” of BL
During the negotiations between Brian and Neil for the Super Dairy Parish Council meeting, Debbie and Brian each wanted a turn to present. And Martin to also sit on stage with them to answer questions on finance. The rest of BL will sit in the audience.
(lots of Martin related mentions at the moment. What’s afoot?)
[Brian] “I mean we don’t want to sit up there looking like a phalanz of polic bureau chiefs!”
[Neil] “Or a PR exercise”
So Brian decides Debbie will do the presentation.
[Brian] “Debbie will probably do a slicker, I mean clearer, presentation than me”
And Neil insists that the audience can ask questions throughout.
Alistair still in a grump with Shula
Even Jill has noticed that there’s an atmosphere.
Seems Alistair is still annoyed about Shula’s executive decision to buy Topper.
Though Freddie doesn’t know she’s bought him. Seems Shula is going to keep that secret until Freddie is old enough to ride him.
[Shula] “There was no way I was letting him go mum. He belongs in the family”
Even though it’s caused a family split in keeping him.
Wonder if Tipper is Shula’s revenge for Alistair and Erin?
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