- Jamie and Natalie are back
- Youth Cricket
- Joe’s a cheeky gossip
- Helen’s sacking Brian
- Tony is brooding
- Amy has a boyfriend
- Tom does a u-turn
Jamie and Natalie are back
Still together, and shopping for tops for Natalie.
Credit to Jamie – he is very patient while she chooses between plain or stripy.
Youth Cricket
Jamie’s telling Natalie that Alistair has asked him again to play cricket for Ambridge.
[Jamie] “Do I really want to spent all my evening and weekends in the summer with a ,load of old blokes, when I could be with you?”
Natalie points out that he does like cricket, and that Sid would have been proud of him to do so.
(Natalie seems like a good ‘un again!)
Later, Jamie has a plan. He’s going to see if Ambridge can put on youth nights, so that the younger chaps can practice together away from the auld yins.
He’s especially thinking of his mate Marty.
Seems Marty is depressed. He’s having to repeat a year at school, and hasn’t made any pals.
[Natalie] “This all Steve’s fault. If Marty hadn’t looked up to that stupid dork in the first place!”
Joe’s a cheeky gossip
But hasn’t agreed to give it up for lent.
He told Chris about Jim and Vicky
[Chris] “Mike said he’d been ogling Vicky … and that he said she was fat”
Naughty Joe! That fall out should have finished when Joe made Jim and Mike shake.
Helen’s sacking Brian
Well, more ‘laying off’ than sacking. She reckons Pat will have more time next week to help her with the veg boxes, so Brian is surplus to requirements.
Tony is brooding
Having more time to sit and think, Tony tells Tom what he’s been pondering:
[Tony] “I sit here Tom, and I wonder what he’s doing, Rich. What’s he up to? … I knew I had to make it happen, and when we saw him in Leeds, John’s grin, John’s eyes, just that look about it … all she wanted, all I wanted to do, was hug him. Hug him tight and say I’m your granddad … I knew I had to be strong for her, to get her through it … I had to keep going, keep mum going … and now that’s it. We’ve had it. Had our contact. We might never see him again”
Amy has a boyfriend
Which knackers Alice’s (very odd) plan to match her up with a male model.
Seems Amy is seeing someone called Karl, who is a few years older, works in Felpersham and she doesn’t want to introduce him to anyone else as yet.
[Alice] “She doesn’t want to tempt fate …”
Or interfering mates like Alice!
Tom does a u-turn
After speaking to Tony, Tom sits down with Helen:
[Tom] “He suddenly, out of nowhere, started talking about Rich”
[Helen] “Where did that come from?”
(Tom just said. Nowhere)
The penny has finally dropped for Tom. He now understands that after Tony had seen Rich, he so desperately wanted to tell Rich that he and Pat are his grandparents. But, part of Tony’s stress after was trying to stay strong and realistic for Pat.
[Helen] “Mum does realise he did that for her”
[Tom] “It made me wonder. If, maybe, we could do something about it”
So he wants Helen to talk to Kylie. Helen made friends with her when she was last down (though that’s a poor excuse for not doing it himself, I reckon)
[Tom] “I think what dad wasn’t saying is that … he could have died Helen, and he’d have never got to know Rich and Rich would have never known who he was … so, will you give her a call, kylie … explain what’s happened to dad and ask Kylie to try and make Sharon to see how important it is”
[Helen] “Suppose it’s worth a try”
[Tom] “Helen, we’re lucky to still have dad, I think it’s worth doing. For him”
Odds-on for Rich being at the Bridge Farm Christmas 2012 table.
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