- All go at Brookfield
- Martin Gibson is quite odd
- Darrell is nice to Peggy
- Kamikaze sheep
- Brian harasses Martin
All go at Brookfield
Seems it’s going to cost twice as much for the Brookfield new silage tank than they’d first thought.
David’s despondent (again), Ruth’s being positive (of course). She reckons the repayments won’t be so bad over 5 years. Though it will be tight times.
And they also have to get planning permission.
But, in a rare fit of positivity himself, David calls the planning department. They say they can’t see any problems with getting permission, as the tank is away from housing and not on the skyline.
[David] “I think, let’s go for it Ruth … we’ve been dealing in theories for so long, let’s just crack on and do something”
Thank goodness for that! Only been 4 months since the badgers did the deed …
Martin Gibson is quite odd
When Brian telephones him, Martin reckons he is “peachy”. Though his PA wants to resign. He can’t get the car he wants for 3 months. And his wife reckons she is fat.
[Brian] “Good lord. A young do is trying to kick a hare”
[Martin] “What sort of pub are you calling from?”
Hmmm.
Not much of a sense of humour, then.
Darrell is nice to Peggy
And Bill and Ben.
Which I’m very glad about, as I was worried Darrell and Elona were going to try and rip her off.
He’s changing over Peggy’s bathroom taps (they were that old, they had no purchase yet).
Ben keeps coming in and out, Peggy keeps chasing him away, but Darrell likes his interruptions.
A cat man, then.
He was saying that he, Elona and the girls love living at number 3.
[Darrell] “One of the things I like best, and I didn’t think I would, is the bell ringing”
So Peggy encourages him to join up. He’d be Ambridge through and through then.
When he’s finished the work, he’ll also only take money for the cost of the taps. Peggy is a bit horrified that he won’t let her pay him, but he wants to do it as thanks for all her help.
[Darrell] “I enjoyed the company anyway. You can the cats. I’d rather keep busy than kicking my heels at home”
(though he has got work with Lilian and Matt at Amside, and his daughter Rosa has work with Mike at his dairy)
Ah. People being nice to other people. Lovely.
Kamikaze sheep
At Brookfield.
When David and Ruth lugged her back out of whatever she’d got herself embroiled in, she kicked David’s shin “really hard”.
[Ruth] “It means she hasn’t hurt herself!”
And she hadn’t. She was fine, and able to get back to her lambs.
Brian harasses Martin
[Brian] “If we stick to our guns, we can win the argument at every level!”
Martin reckons not so. The cows not being outside on grass has a lot of “traction”.
But Brian reckons he can tell the protestors quite a few proper horror stories.
[Brian] “There’s a couple of brothers in North Borchestershire. Cows on grass, how lovely. Except most of them have foot rot because neither of the old boys know how to use a paring knife properly”
But Martin reckons it doesn’t matter about the substance of the arguments in favour of the Super Dairy. It’s the negative perceptions that count.
[Martin] “Withdraw gracefully, before BLs’ reputation takes too much of a beating … How much bigger do the protests have to get?”
Brian asserts that they just have to hold their nerve and hang on … there will be “kudos” to have once the profits start rolling in.
[Brian] “You watch. There will be one or two red faces on the board then!”
Martins sound unconvinced, so Brian brings out the big guns. That he’ll have to step down if the vote doesn’t go his way.
Not sure what Brian was expecting, but Martin seemed fairly nonplussed about that …
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