- Neil’s spotted the Ambridge Beast
- Neil’s a hungry chap
- Fancy donuts from America
- Ifty goes into Susan’s bad book
- Neil’s off the cricket team
- The Barbeque doesn’t get Adam’s mojo back
- Usha shouts at Amy
Neil’s spotted the Ambridge Beast
Neil bursts in at home with earth shattering news. Though Susan makes him put his boots on newspaper first …
[Neil] “Lynda’s monster. I’ve seen it. It’s a wild boar, a proper beast. The beast of Ambridge … massive it is, body dark grey, face is speckled white and it has tusks.”
[Neil] “(he’d seen it at Nightingale Farm) right outside the house, bold as brass Looked me straight in me eye, and then ran off towards the gardens.”
[Susan] “Oh Neil, well this is a scoop … you’ve solved the mystery of the monster!”
[Neil] “Might not be so lucky for my pigs. I’ll have to make extra sure they’re penned in tonight, I don’t want to risk any cross breeding.”
Well. That’s that then? Though I wouldn’t be so quick to pen up the pigs - could be a while new business venture.
Susan is beyond herself with glee.
[Susan] “It’s a moment in history … the moment the monster was identified by you!”
Neil’s a hungry chap
He got quite irritated that his lunch wasn’t ready there and then.
And sounds like he tucked into a 3 course dinner later on.
Fancy donuts from America
Keith brought them for Brad and Chelsea, Tracey gave them to Susan as:
[Susan] “Tracey reckons the sugar makes the kids even more hyper than usual.”
Neil enjoyed them. He really didn’t stop eating today.
By-the-by - what sort of donut were they on about?
Ifty goes into Susan’s bad book
Oh dear.
First, Susan is embarrassed that Tracey has been chasing after Ifty.
[Susan] “I can do without her making a spectacle of herself.”
Then she heard Neil was off the cricket team …
Neil’s off the cricket team
Or at the very least, sounds like he’s being rested for a bit.
After making her point to Ifty the other day that Neil didn’t want to leave the team, when Alistair called to talk to Neil, Susan assumed it was because Alistair was resigning – and Neil would be captain.
[Susan] “You are the elder statesman.”
But no.
[Neil] “I’ve lost my place in the team, Susan”
Seems the Ambridge Cricket team doesn’t need Neil’s “stature and experience”. And he has too many bad habits that are now too ingrained.
[Neil] “Suppose I’ll have to face the fact that I’m not as quick as I was, not as sharp … the glory days, are in the past.”
[Susan] “I’ll be the judge of that!”
Susan asks if anyone has been dropped:
[Susan] “I bet you that Iftikhar is at the bottom of this … he wants his favourites in the side … the team was doing fine before he turned up … he barged in like a bull in a china shop … and he’s been leading our Tracey a merry dance … oh, size of one Neil … mark my words, this Ifty's bad news. I can feel it!”
Phew! The wind doesn’t change as often as Susan’s mind.
The Barbeque doesn’t get Adam’s mojo back
At the pickers’ barbeque:
[Ian] “I’ve tasted weaker absinthe”
[Adam] “Well, she does call it the devil in disguise”
Adam’s on drinks, Brian’s on cooking meat. Seems Brian was beyond excitement about using the new tongs Jennifer had bought for him.
Adam seems to be enjoying himself at first, but Ian later finds him trying to get a rest, and also feeling quite sorry for himself.
[Adam] “This is my event, I’m supposed to be in charge, and I can’t even pour drinks properly.”
Usha shouts at Amy
Amy seems to be constantly regressing into her teens.
Today, she’d left a mess. Usha found her sat on the settee in the mess.
[Usha] “Look if you don’t want to talk to me fine, but we have to share this place and I expect you to clear up after yourself.”
[Amy] “What’s the point? You only end up rearranging it … you’re a control freak, you run this house, your try and run dad, thing is, you can’t run me”
[Usha] “Well I am sick of your rudeness”
[Amy] “I don’t care.”
Later on:
[Usha] “Sulk over?”
[Amy] “I’m not interested in listening to you”
[Usha] “You’re punishing me because I didn’t know what the right thing to do was … would you have believed me … you would have twisted it some way and hated me for interfering … Look, I’m tired of being blamed when the person you should be blaming is getting off scot free … I’m not taking it anymore, I understand you’re hurting, but you’ve got to get a grip on your life.”
[Amy] “You can’t speak to me like this!”
[Usha] “But you can speak to me however you want, you can do whatever you want?”
Amy gets to leave:
[Usha] “You can’t just walk out!”
But she does.
I wouldn’t have complained about that is I was Usha. Better to be shot of Amy in her current state.
1 comment:
I assume these were Dunkin' Donuts? Do you think they are available in Borchester or Felpersham?!? They hadn't arrived in Edinburgh by the time we left! I've only seen them in London & tried one there - pretty much like any other doughnut, really. Didn't dunk, though. (What are you supposed to dunk them in, I wonder? Sounds like a horrible idea.)
We are just trying to catch up after getting nearly 4 weeks behind with the Archers podcasts, so thanks again for your insights & filling in the bits I miss when I'm preparing lunch or whatever!
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