- Helen has a “fine looking meat”
- Tom’s glad Tony hasn’t started the milking
- Another launch
- Adam’s sending Ian instead
- Posh meal for Tony
- Tidy the farm!
Helen has a “fine looking meat”
So reckons Pat.
[Helen] “Isn’t it! Brookfield’s best …”
Helen’s making beef wellington as a birthday treat for Tony.
Though Pat seems a bit nervous about Helen doing the cooking. She kept offering to help, and nearly had a heart attack when Helen said she was going to pout icing on the cake.
Tom’s glad Tony hasn’t started the milking
It is Tom's turn, so he wants to be sure Tony isn’t covering again.
(aye, right then!)
Tom’s been off to Shrewsbury to finalise his ready meals. He sounds quite excited ... insufferable …
Another launch
With Tom’s ready meals (ahem) ready, he also wants Helen and Pat to step up their cheese and yoghurt production for the March launch in Felpersham.
Tom has also been thinking about making different seasonal yoghurts – that they should have a Spring line about to come out. Pat reckons rhubarb or blossom would be nice.
Tom does seem a tad overzealous about this launch. He reckons they’ll have buyers from all over the midlands coming.
Adam’s sending Ian instead
Adam and Ian are talking about the Parish Council meeting with BL.
[Adam] “In a way, I feel I should, there are such important principles at stake”
But, Adam’s worried that the anti-Super Dairy brigade will line up behind him (he is anti, but doesn’t want to be seen as one of them … odd). Plus he also feels there’s a big difference between telling Brian his objections face to face and saying it in public.
(he didn’t seem so bothered when he was being interviewed for the radio!)
[Adam] “The atmosphere at Home Farm is poisonous already, if I started sounding off in front of the whole village …”
Ian’s also worried about Adam going to the meeting.
[Ian] “It’s what the story might become … The story you want everyone to come away with is mega dairy, bad for cows bad for farming bad for the environment … the trouble is, people just love a family row, as long as it’s in someone else’s family .. .you know what the press are like … I could see them being more interested in the family split than about the issues, and then the story becomes about something else. I don’t think anyone wants that”
That’s enough for Adam to head off and call pat to tell her that he won’t be there.
She’s disappointed.
[Pat] “Given your expertise as a local farmer, your expertise will carry a lot of weight!”
But she also understands his reasoning.
[Adam] “Am I just being a wuss Ian? For all I dress it up is it really because I can’t just bear the thought of anymore unpleasantness between Brian and me, especially in public”
Ian reckons he’s done the right thing, and will change his shifts so that he can go to the meeting, and be a “spy in the camp”.
Blimey. I wouldn’t get remotely involved, if I were you Ian.
Posh meal for Tony
Or so he reckons.
Mind you, anything would look like a meal fit for a king when compared to the sad and little amount of food Tony has recently been getting. Constant reheated soup.
Brenda’s running late (something about her computer mucking up a proposal she needs to get done), so they start without her. Actually – Tom wasn’t even bothered that they set a plate aside for her.
I really don’t think those two are getting married anytime soon, if at all.
Tidy the farm!
Is what Tom wants to do, as they’ll need photos and videos for the launch.
[Tony] “Well, if you want to have a tidy up I’m not going to stop you”
Ah … but … Tom reckons he has a “hell of a lot on”, so was wondering if Tony would do it … after all, it’s probably stuff Tony has been meaning to do for ages anyhoo.
Tony is furious.
[Tony] “There’s only so many hours in the day!”
But Pat comes in and demands a “business free zone for the rest of the evening”.
Quite right.
Why did Tom felt the need to ask Tony to tidy the farm, on Tony’s birthday?
Cause he’s an ar*e. That’s why.
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