- Let Brian eat cake!
- Andrew is a “silly man”
- The bees need sugar syrup
- Bert’s sorting Susan’s garden
- Jim accosts Christine (again)
- Alice is going to get an Easter egg
- Brian and cricket
- The village shop aggressively sells to kids
- Brookfield back on an even keel in 3 years
Let Brian eat cake!
As there’s no biscuits.
Andrew is a “silly man”
According to Jennifer.
Andrew Eagleton is on the BL board. Seems he’s panicking about all of the bad publicity about the Super Dairy, and wants to table a resolution for it to be withdrawn as a project.
[Jennifer] “Oh the silly man. He’s just panicking unnecessarily, surely”
Brian reckons not. Andrew has also got Martin Gibson concerned.
But there’s more.
[Brian] “Even some of our loyal customers are fed up of driving past the protestors, and are thinking of going somewhere else”
Brian’s panicking, so calls Debbie.
[Debbie] “I won’t let that happen … Leave it with me dad”
[Brian] “If we’re going to save this project, we need to do some sharp thinking”
(I still find it odd that Debbie calls Brian dad, by the way)
The bees need sugar syrup
Oh I do (genuinely) love Jill and her bees.
She was checking their food stocks today, and reckoned.
[Jill] “A couple of the hives do feel a bit light”
So she left them some sugar syrup on the brood box.
Ah.
Lucky bees.
(though I have no idea what a brood box is)
Bert’s sorting Susan’s garden
Doe the promise auction Susan won.
Though Ruth’s not so sure that it’s a good idea:
[Ruth] “Susan’s quite proud of her garden, Isn’t she?”
[Jill] “Yes, I hope she doesn’t take his suggestions the wrong way!”
But turns out it wasn’t Susan offended by Bert telling her what to do. It was the other way round.
[Ruth] “He came back most disgruntled, instead of helping her to design and create a fantastic garden for Ambridge View, he was up to his elbows in weeds and a bit of old pram at number 6 The Green”
Crafty.
That’s one way of getting Bert, Gary and Tracey’s garden sorted without Neil having to do it.
Jim accosts Christine (again)
[Jill on Christine] “Between you and me Ruth, she’s a bit worried at the moment … well, it’s Jim. He was a bit effusive in complimenting her last week … that her perfume smelt alluring”
[Ruth] “Alluring, you’re joking! Does that mean there’s a December romance in the offing?”
And they both have a good laugh at Christine and Jim’s expense … which wasn’t very nice of them.
Later on:
[Jennifer] “Oh, here comes Jim!”
[Christine] “Oh dear …”
[Jim] “Christine, just the woman I need. I have something quite important to ask you … it’s about a phone call of some consequence I need to make this afternoon, and I need you to be present, if you don’t mind … it’d make a chap very happy”
So Christine, very uncomfortably, agrees.
Later on:
[Jim] “As it was such a nice afternoon, I thought it’d be nice to do this out of doors … are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin”
So, he calls someone to pay them a compliment.
[Jim, on the phone] “It was a very rewarding retail experience … of course I am, perfectly serious … unexpectedly knowledgeable on the subject of ties”
It sounded like the person on the other end of the phone hung up, but Jim just reckoned it was a bad connection due to them being in the garden.
Christine is perplexed.
[Christine] “I’m sorry Jim, you called me over to listen to a phone call to a tie shop?”
[Jim] “Gentleman’s outfitter, if you please”
Jim then records the compliment he has just given, and asks Christine to sign his book as a witness.
As she does so, she notices her name, and his compliment about her perfume, on the opposite page.
Ah. The penny drops. And Christine now gladly accepts lemonade from Jim.
Later on:
[Christine] “You’ll never guess what Jim had me doing this afternoon …”
[Jill] “That sounds intriguing!”
[Christine] “Not in the way you or me were thinking!”
Christine’s relieved, and quite tickled about Jim’s antics.
[Christine] “The poor boy in the tie shop this afternoon clearly thought he was bonkers”
Ach well. There’s nothing like a good old British farce to help us into Spring.
Alice is going to get an Easter egg
Jennifer is going to buy her one to cheer her up while she’s studying so hard.
Oh, and she also mentions she might get one for Ruairi.
Wee mite that he is.
Brian and cricket
I didn’t think that Brian was that interested in Ambridge Cricket club. But Jennifer seems to think the start of the season will help him relax.
She also mentioned that Jamie had asked Adam to help coach the youth team, but seems he’s too busy. Adam is going to ask a friend (in Yorkshire of all places, Christine was very surprised to hear … how odd of her).
The village shop aggressively sells to kids
Even Jill is in on the act.
She wants to get the Easter eggs out on display specifically before the school bus gets back in.
[Jill] “A suggestion from Lynda, she’s a great believer in pester power … not that that’d come to a surprise to anyone who knows her”
Brookfield back on an even keel in 3 years
So reckons the consultant.
2 comments:
Yes, when did Debbie start calling Brian 'Dad'? Surely she wasn't at the time she found out about the affir with Siobhan?
I assumed it's surprising Adam would ask a friend in Yorkshire to help with the cricket as it's not very near by - but reading your ponderings, I don't think I can have been listening to this one properly! So thank you for filling me in (as always)!!
I'm not sure about Debbie - it's only just really stuck out recently. But very bizarre!
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