- Cricket for Women: the campaign gathers speed
- Clive was always bad
- The unhappy father of the bride
- The Brookfield clan to be split
- Ed’s not going anywhere
Cricket for Women: the campaign gathers speed
[Natalie] “The thing I can’t understand is why no one has made a fuss about it up til now … we can’t be the only girls in the county wanting to play cricket … it is the 21st century and it must be possible to find someone to play us, what morons runs this league anyway?!?”
Natalie’s having a right good rant, to a rather fed up Jamie. Alistair has tried to arrange a game for the female cricket players of Ambridge, but there is no other women’s ream in the county.
[Natalie] “Do they think that every woman in Ambridge just makes jam and has babies … we weren’t all born to make sponges … Jamie, are you even listening to me … don’t you think they should all be dragged into the 21st century?”
[Jamie] “Don’t you think we could forget about cricket, just for tonight and think about us?”
[Natalie] “It just makes me so mad!”
[Jamie] “Maybe you’re fighting a losing battle … you’ve got your hockey, that’s competitive enough for anyone.”
But – Jamie then unwittingly suggests a solutions. He mentions girls schools.
[Jamie] “So, can we forget about cricket and concentrate on us now?”
Mais non! His suggestion has Natalie scurrying back to Alistair to suggest he finds a girls school who plays cricket, to then play against the Ambridge Women’s Cricket team.
But it’s all for nowt. Alistair now thinks that Ambridge doesn’t have enough girls to make up a decent numbered team.
[Natalie] “It would be rubbish if the St Mags girls walked all over us.”
Jamie again unwittingly finds the solution. He suggests they make Natalie’s hickey mates “honorary” cricketers.
So again, instead of spending time with him. Natalie’s off to arrange.
Worse still, Natalie’s taken Jamie’s idea and twisted it:
[Natalie] “We’re actually doing it the other way round … we’re not giving honorary cricket status to some hockey girls … we’re giving honorary female status to some of you!”
Women get cricket by making the boys play with them.
That should be fun. And at least Jamie will get to spend more time with Natalie!
Clive was always bad
Talking to Emma, Keith reminisces about living at the family home as a kid.
He minds on when Gary broke his arm.
[Keith] “Clive’s fault, kept making him go higher … none of us used to stand up to Clive.”
Wonder if Clive will put in an unwelcome cameo appearance at Keith’s daughter’s wedding?
The unhappy father of the bride
[Keith] “I keep trying to escape the wedding of the year but the chaos keeps following me around.”
Seems Keith hankers for the good old days, when all you did was turn up and be married. Now it’s all butterflies and doves.
[Keith] “I’ve learnt to ask how much,. Not what for.”
But for all his grumbling, Keith sounds like a good dad, trying to make his daughter’s special day a very special one indeed.
He’s even bought a tiara for Emma’s Keira, which Emma was overjoyed to receive.
The Brookfield clan to be split
Ben and Josh to Heather’s (with Ruth dropping them off, and staying a few days).
Ruth off to Spencer’s.
So it’ll be David by himself for a bit.
Odd.
Does no one care about David?
Ed’s not going anywhere
Ed was also due to be away, at the same time that Ben, Josh, Pip and Ruth are away.
He’s booked into his badger vaccination course. Which is arranged and paid for, and which will pay Ed a nice wee wage once he’s up and running.
But he can see problems having to leave Emma and Keira. It’ll only be David nearby.
[Emma] “It’s all turning into something off the telly. It’s mad … Why didn’t they tell us sooner. It’s not very responsible of them.”
Ed tries to reason with Emma (brave chap!) that the gang are after David and his family. Not them and theirs.
But Emma doesn’t want Ed to go away.
[Emma] “Please … I really mean it, I’ll never be able to sleep.”
[Ed, hearing Emma very upset] “Okay.”
[Emma] “It’s either you stay here, or I go. That’s the long and short of it. If it’s not safe for Ruth and David’s kids, it’s not safe for ours either. Not without you in the house.”
This might just be me – but couldn’t Emma just go to Susan’s?
Or even move into Brookfield with the also solo David?
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