- How did Spearmint get bruised?
- Alice has her reasons
- The cake isn’t a team effort
- Imprisoned at Brookfield
- Hercules is a Houdini
- The Ambridge Beast is camera shy
How did Spearmint get bruised?
[Chris] “He might have seen Lynda’s beast and bolted.”
Seems Spearmint, Alice’s horse, has been bruised for a few days, but Alice hadn’t seen it.
Hurt horse, I always think of Clive …
Alice has her reasons
Chris is getting rather fed up with Alice.
As well as having to suffer Amy constantly being round their house, Amy is also all Alice talks about. And he was most unamused that Alice seemed to be hinting Amy should move in with them … she got an outright “no”.
[Chris] “She just needs to get over it. Even if he told her face to face that he had a wife, she still wouldn’t believe it.”
So, Alice decides to turn detective. She’s going to find the proof that Carl is married, so that Amy can move on (shut up and start behaving like an adult again!).
[Alice] “All this stuff about Carl, it’s taken me right back to dad … all those people just torn to pieces. I can’t help mum, but I can help Amy … if I can prove what Carl’s like, maybe she’ll walk away from it all.”
Chris thinks Alice getting so involved will just make matters worse, but Alice is on a mission.
The cake isn’t a team effort
Clarrie’s furious.
As she’s on her way to do the Church flowers, Jennifer calls to say she can’t bring her any sponges.
Clarrie bumps into Ruth. Ruth also won’t be doing any sponges.
[Clarrie] “I’m a busy woman too … I mean, how long does it take to throw a sponge together? And she’s left it til now to tell me.”
It gets worse. Joe tells Clarrie that Jean Harvey also called. She’s going away for the weekend.
[Clarrie] “What, so no sponge!?!”
Joe also tells Clarrie that Sabrina Thwaite called … but only to check if she should use saffron to make the sponge yellow.
[Joe] “Well, I’m sick of it, every time I pick up the phone it’s somebody asking about that darn cake, and every time it’s a thorn in my side …”
[Clarrie] “I wake up nights in a sweat worrying about it … all you can do is whinge on about Bob Pullen cutting it.”
Later on, Joe finds his sympathetic side, and actually offers to lay the table for Clarrie! She apologises to him for snapping.
[Joe] “Well it only comes round once every 60 years.”
Clarrie’s beyond stressed about the cake as she sees it as the centre piece of the Jubilee celebrations. If it isn’t perfect, she’ll have failed in front of the whole village. And as for Joe complaining about Bob Pullen being chosen to cut the cake because he’s older:
[Clarrie] “Well Joe, it was only an accident of birth … you be generous, eh. You let him have his moment in the sun.”
Imprisoned at Brookfield
David’s memorising the licence plate of every car that comes near Brookfield.
Josh is moody. He knows something isn’t right.
And both David and Ruth are keeping their kids on short leads.
[David] “Short of tagging them, what can we do?”
[Ruth] “They’re not prisoners; they should be free to enjoy themselves.”
But what’s the alternative?
Hercules is a Houdini
[Clarrie] “You hang onto him Joe. I don’t want no ferrets on me ironing.”
The Ambridge Beast is camera shy
[Joe] “Edward says that beardy from the Wildlife Trust … him and young Kirsty set up cameras in the woods to try and spot it … it comes on automatic when something comes by … I still reckon it’ll be a hog.”
[Clarrie] “Well it won’t be a panther.”
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