- “You always look so sinister in a face shield”
- Brian’s not for turning
- Maurice isn’t happy
- Tony and Pat look happy
- The Snells are back!
- The first green burial went well
- Ambridge fly over
- Clarrie on flowering plants
“You always look so sinister in a face shield”
So says Jennifer to Brian.
We’ll take her word for it.
Brian’s not for turning
Debbie isn’t amused with Brian.
[Brian] “She thinks it’s my fault Annabelle isn’t turning cartwheels over her pig idea … I’m with Labelle, changing tact now will make BL, and me, look hopelessly indeed. So I’m staking everything on pushing through the original dairy plan … though the slimmer the chances seem”
The BL Board meeting to make a decision about the Super Dairy is this Thursday.
[Brian] “Not a prospect to gladden the heart …”
[Jennifer] “So it’s all in the lap of the gods?”
[Brian] “No it isn’t, I’m not just going to sit back and do nothing!”
Brian is going to do some “serious lobbying” between now and Thursday.
He has no other choice but to try and persuade more of the other board ,members to be on his side.
[Brian] “I’ve nailed my colours to the mast for this project. If the damn thing goes own, I’m not sure my position as chairman remains tenable”
Wonder if Brian is going to truly throw all of his toys out of the pram and resign if he doesn’t get his way?
(actually, I can’t really claim to care that much., The BL sessions are always a bit dull … though the prospect of the Super Dairy going ahead in Ambridge is a tad more interesting)
Maurice isn’t happy
But he’s still working overtime for Tom.
Needs must.
Tony and Pat look happy
In fact, they’re all aglow since Rich’s visit yesterday.
[Pat] “It was a wonderful thing for you and Helen to do”
When Brian pops by to see if they want him to pick them up anything from the Farm Supplies shop:
(he’s getting a long list, including ram crayons – Pat just wants twist ties)
[Brian] “I haven’t seen your mother so happy in ages!”
And Tom told him that Tony was also chirpy this morning.
Tom puts it down to the sun shining.
Wonder how long before they start telling everyone else about Rich.
The Snells are back!
Great.
I do miss them when they go a bit quiet.
They’re setting up their breakfast outside.
[Lynda] “It would be criminal not to have breakfast en plein air when the sun is out”
And as Robert said – it’s a marvellous feeling to get ones garden furniture out again.
[Lynda] “Everything is starting up again, after all the dark and grey”
Indeed.
The first green burial went well
Lynda tells us.
Her and Robert also seemed quite dewy eyed about their own plots in the site … wistfully morbid.
Ambridge fly over
Quite literally. Not roadworks.
Seems James’ friend Christina has his own helicopter (as you do), and is happy to fly James and Leonie over Ambridge to get some photographs.
That starts Lynda and Robert trying to work out what could be happening that would be worthy of an arial shot.
Not the Lower Loxley fair. Nor the boules at The Bull. Or the Easter Egg hunt.
[Lynda] “Not visually compelling … (then she has it!) … the Brownies Easter bonnet parade!”
[Robert] “That will come as quite a surprise to Brown Owl”
[Lynda] “Rather a lot of things are a surprise to jenny Throphall!”
But the might have to ask the parents’ permission first. And it might be more trouble than it’s worth with kids like Jinny Button involved.
[Robert] “She’d set fire to the village hall to get on camera!”
But Lynda has another cunning plan.
Cricket.
Which Robert will have to stage.
At which point Robert starts pointing Lynda away from specifics:
[Robert] “Perhaps Leonie and James will be better to use broader brushstrokes …”
Like the building, the backbones and such, of the village.
Lynda concurs.
Especially if it means she can get a picture of her beloved Ambridge Hall.
Clarrie on flowering plants
Jennifer had successfully bidded for Clarrie’s advice on flowering plants at the promise auction.
[Brian] “Are you holding her to that?”
[Jennifer] “It would be very disrespectful if I didn’t”
Actually, Jennifer is quite looking forward to a “fresh” pair of eyes on her garden.
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