- The BL Board meeting about the Super Dairy
- Pat and Tony have panicked the family
- Schubert week on BBC Radio 3
- Robert is not young mountain goat
- The Peregrines have eggs
- Youth cricket is a goer
- Did Brian win?
The BL Board meeting about the Super Dairy
[Annabelle] “There’s quite a glint in your eyes this afternoon”
[Brian] “Of terror”
Aye – it’s the moment we’ve been waiting for. The big BL meeting about the Super Dairy.
(hmmm)
[Brian] “This afternoon is more about company philosophy. Are we quitters or fighters”
As the debate gets going, Gerry says he’s worried about the impact the Super Dairy would have on all future BL projects.
Martin wonders whether they could scale down the Super Dairy. Though I think he’s completely missed the point …
[Gerry] “And still have the bunny huggers on our backs!”
Brian tries to reason with them that the entire point about the profitability of the Super Dairy hasn’t changed. So the reason they voted it in all those months ago hasn’t changed.
[Brian] “If we give up now we lose profit and reputation for nothing … if we cave in over this we’ll put everything we want in the future at risk … knuckles at the first sign of opposition … is that the signal of weaknesses we want to send out to our opponents”
Brian was starting to sound a bit Winston Churchill for my liking … but did it sway the board?
Pat and Tony have panicked the family
Seems when Pat called Jennifer to call them round for a family gathering, she wouldn’t say what it was about.
So now Jennifer is worried. She thinks it’s bad news about Tony.
[Brian] “Maybe the long term prognosis isn’t as good as we’d hoped”
Schubert week on BBC Radio 3
Of which Robert wants to listen to as much as possible.
Funny that he doesn’t realise he’s being broadcast live only one channel over.
Robert is not young mountain goat
So he claims.
Lynda wants the gutters cleaned.
And she wants them cleaned right now. No matter what else Robert has planned.
(why she couldn’t just do it herself, I don’t know)
[Lynda] “We don’t want them looking unsightly, do we?”
[Robert] “Lyndee, they’re flying over with a friend, not the guttering Police”
[Lynda] “We’d never forgive ourselves if there were any blemishes when our little home gets it portrait taken”
While he’s up there, Lynda also asks if he’ll clean off the moss.
[Lynda] “I know it’s picturesque but there’s s fine line between character and decrepitude”
[Robert] “Will you stop confusing me with a young mountain goat!”
But before Lynda answers, she gets a call from Jamie about the peregrines and leaves Robert up there without a watcher.
Has she forgotten about Nigel already?
The Peregrines have eggs
As spotted by Jamie.
Seems he looks up at church every time he passes it, after Lynda accosted him to look at the Peregrines last year.
They’ve got two eggs, though Lynda reckons they normally start off with four.
Lynda will be guarding them with her life … and also probably Jamie’s.
Youth cricket is a goer
So Jamie says to Lynda.
He was about to say he’d started it off to not have to spend all their time with the auld yins, but Lynda understands:
[Lynda] “Hang around with the more chronologically challenged …”
The current line-up is Jamie, Marty Josh and two of the Button cousins.
The bloke they mentioned from Westbury will be coaching them.
Nickname Nifty Ifti – actual name Iftikhar.
[Lynda] “Nifty bowler and quite as a whippet in the field!”
Sounds fun.
Did Brian win?
Course he did.
Though he was feeling a bit beaten up by the end of the meeting.
And despite his, Annabelle’s and the secret microphones attempts to make us initially think he’d lost the vote.
[Annabelle] “The more you spoke, the more trenchant Gerry’s opposition became”
Brian felt Andrew had made a good case, and even got him doubting himself!
But Martin eventually sided with Brian.
As did Barbara:
[Brian] “the wild card … After I’d sweated blood for her support!”
But Brian seems very far from his usual, boorish, jubilant self:
[Brian] “I’m glad to have squeaked through, although at what cost … I haven’t let myself anywhere to hide … if anything goes wrong, my neck’s right on the chopping block”
Uh-oh.
The Super Dairy will be an especially rough ride if even Brian himself isn’t 100% confident.
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