- Tom made the trailer sag
- Brian’s missing the point
- Jennifer doesn’t want kids
- What’s wrong with seeing the pigs?
- Helen knows her dad
Tom made the trailer sag
And didn’t seem very apologetic about it, or willing to put it right anytime soon.
Tony is (quite rightly) angry with him.
So Tom does the only reasonable thing – blame someone else.
He now reckons “he can’t do right for doing wrong”.
[Tom] “Maybe I should just change my name to Rich. Perhaps that might please him … I need to do the milking, I don’t want to give him any more proof of how second rate I am, do I!”
Brian’s missing the point
Actually, the whole of the BL board are missing the point.
Brian’s come back to Neil to say that the BL Board is happy to talk to the Parish Council. But only the Parish Council. They don’t want a public meeting until the Planning permission has been considered.
[Neil] “It does feel as though it might be leaving it too late … the longer you leave it, honestly Brian, people are going to think you’re just trying to hide something”
Brian reckons he has already been open, so won’t achieve anything with a public meeting at this stage.
Still don’t understand this U-turn. I think his instinct to talk to people, and hear their views, was a good one.
But then again, Brian hasn’t provide very good at the listening bit …
Jennifer doesn’t want kids
For Chris and Alice.
Or she at least didn’t sound too keen when Susan mentioned the prospect of Alice and Chris having kids (that they can’t really at the moment as they’re saving).
I suppose Jennifer is hoping they’ll split up before they have a chance to breed, leaving Alice to find her a blue blooded bull.
What’s wrong with seeing the pigs?
Susan was telling a (rather keen to escape) Jennifer that she also fancies bidding on Eddie’s water feature in the Promise Auction.
(ach – I’ll stop saying it – but Eddie only said he’d install one!).
Susan reckons it’d create a nice focal point at the end of her garden. She asked Jennifer what she thought.
[Jennifer] “Yes, I suppose, I mean providing the pigs aren’t in view … I’m sure it’d look lovely Susan”
What a witch that woman can be!
And what’s wrong with seeing pigs?
Especially when they’re weaners. Cute!
Helen knows her dad
And takes the time to actually talk to him.
Everyone else just seems to be ignoring poor Tony at the moment, while expecting him to do all the hands on graft.
Tony is upset. Especially since Rich has been abruptly back into their life because of Kylie’s letter.
[Tony] “It’s just hard … there’s nothing we can do anyway, and for you mum’s sake … you know how distressed she gets, how low … we've just got to find someway of moving on”
Tony has been brooding about Rich. He can’t get the fact that Rich likes things like cricket lout of his mind.
[Tony] “It makes him all the more John’s boy for me …There’s so much I’d like him to know Helen, about his dad … he’d barely started his life, and now that we know about Rich, it feels as if …”
Tony starts crying.
[Tony on Rich] “I just wish he knew we’d have been there for him”
Oh Tony. You poor, neglected wee man.
Tony is also careful to make sure Helen knows that his feelings for Rich (and John) doesn’t mean he loves the rest of his family any less. Especially Henry.
[Tony] “I promise you love, he brings me happiness everyday”
Helen later corners Tom.
She tells him she now realises how much Rich means to Tony.
Tom starts to tell Helen that he has a mind to write to Kylie to tell her what hassle and stress she’s created, but:
[Helen] “Please listen … I don’t think we’ve appreciated how hard it’s hit dad …He was the one that found John, and there’s this lively lad, smiling at him … he’s trying so hard to bury his feelings. Who has he got to talk to … he was so lonely … just try to go a little bit easy on him”
Tom softens, and agrees to try and not get into any more arguments.
But that’s as far as he gets. Tom is still adamant that they must get on with business (literally)
[Tom] “I’ll do my best to be there for him, but dad’s going to have to be there for us too”
Tom is such an odious little twerp! Tony deserves better (thank goodness for Helen).
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