- Emma phones Crimestoppers
- Price or value?
- Brookfield’s in a state
- Sabrina’s in training for donuts
- The Police came for Keith
Emma phones Crimestoppers
[Emma] “Well there’s someone you need to investigate … I know he was involved, that’s all I’m saying … it’s Keith Horrobin.”
Emma didn’t give her name, so no one will have a clue who ‘shopped’ Keith.
All credit to Emma. She’s generally not one of my favourite Ambridge residents, but she’s come good this time. Couldn’t have been easy.
Price or value?
Annabelle’s obsessions about the arable tender for the Super Dairy continues. (very odd).
Brian seems to be turning from not giving a hoot, to starting to twig that Home farm might not be a shoe-in after all.
[Brian] “They’re cowboy firms, trying it on, there’s no way they’d make a profit … they see BL as fresh meat, a soft target ripe for the picking.”
[Annabelle] “You’re mixing your metaphors, Brian … So, your line is we’re quite a bit more expensive, but we’ll give you better value for your money?”
Indeed it is. Brian reckons he can go in higher because he (well, Adam) is closer by to be able to deal with anything urgent. Most of the other firms are at least 15 miles away (imagine that! They’d take a whole extra 15 minutes to get there).
So Brian needs Adam to keep a record (and look back two years) to be able to evidence when he has been able to rush out and avert disaster.
Now I’d have though Adam would use this as his opportunity to scupper part of the Super Dairy (if a lesser company did get the contract, maybe they’d screw it up). But, Adam knows Home Farm needs this contract.
So he agrees. Albeit grudgingly.
Annabelle’s amazed at Brian’s persuasion prowess.
[Brian] “Never let the grass grow under my feet.”
[Annabelle] “Or any other forage crop!”
(ha!)
Brookfield’s in a state
We didn’t get to hear from David, Ruth or their brood today – but everyone else was saying what a mess the farm is in.
[Susan] “Bit of a state, is it?”
[Emma] “There’s hardly anything left. Just a few bits of twisted steel.”
Also a patio table and George’s bike are ruined.
[Susan] “Let’s hope the Police get their act together. Personally I’d throw away the key.”
Hmmm. Susan will change her tune soon enough …
Sabrina’s in training for donuts
Susan’s harassing Neil to join a team for the sports at the Fete.
[Susan] “Keeps saying if he plays for anyone at all, it’ll be the cricket team.”
[Emma] “That’d be worth seeing. Dad racing in his sleeping bag.”
[Susan] “What about the other, the dramatic donut race, or whatever it’s called.”
Seems the donut race involved running round the track four times, while putting more clothes on, and eating donuts.
[Susan] “What about Sabrina, she’s already training for it.”
I suppose that makes sense. Burn the calories off before you pile them on (or is she training by eating donuts while she runs?)
The Police came for Keith
Tracey burst into Susan’s while Emma was there to say that the Police had taken Keith that morning.
[Tracey] “They’re trying to do him for the fire … Some snake in the grass, anonymous of course”
[Susan] “Not Keith, that ridiculous, I can’t take this in!”
[Tracey] “Some nutter with a grudge phones up and they take it seriously.”
[Susan] “Especially when his name’s Horrobin.”
(well, that’s fair enough really. It usually is a Horrobin that’s to blame)
Later on, Keith turned up, he’d been released without charge.
[Keith] “Of course they have. They haven’t got a thing on me.”
Keith tried to ask Emma about George, but she responded rather coldly.
Tracey was still ranting about whoever grassed on Keith. She reckons it’s them who want “locking up”. But Keith didn’t want a fuss.
Wonder why …
So they start trying to work out who holds a grudge against Keith.
[Tracey] “Emma, you got any idea?”
Oh ho!
I would like to be Emma when Tracey works it out …
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