- Kathy’s on about Rosa again
- Brian and Adam shake on it
- The exam results ‘rave’
- Jamie’s not going to Uni
- Rosa finally gets her man …
Kathy’s on about Rosa again
Quite bizarre.
But at least this time she’s calling Rosa “cool” to her face.
Rosa’s new scooter really has turned Kathy’s head.
Anyhoo.
Kathy happens to mention that Natalie is having the exam results party.
At that, Rosa’s speeding off on her 50cc, at 30 miles an hour.
Brian and Adam shake on it
Brian tells Adam that he’s stopped the Farm Manager recruitment advert from going in again next week.
[Adam] “Okay, so …”
[Brian] “For now. And I’m really hoping I don’t have to again, but I'm still waiting for that commitment from you.”
And Brian wants that commitment before the pickers party at Home Farm.
[Brian] “Your mother’s putting so much love and care into the celebrations … it’s a family celebration to … this time a week ago, she was terrified you’d be leaving the farm going to goodness knows where … she’d be very upset if it unravel again.”
[Adam] “What more do you want of me, exactly … how about this, I'll stay on, and I’ll be fully committed to running the whole of the arable business, including supplying the dairy.”
It’s exactly what Brian needed to hear. And Adam sounds like he’s also convinced himself as well. He’s going all into this, as there’s no point being half hearted, and he’s promised not to moan.
[Adam] “I’ll do all I can to make to work for us, and that’s a promise.”
[Brian] “Thanks Adam, I know that can’t have been easy for you.”
And they shake on it. Adam keeps his job (at the price of his ethics), Brian gets his preferred Farm manager (at no extra cost at all!).
[Brian] “This may not always seem obvious to you, but keeping the family together means just as much to me as it does to your mother.”
Well, none of us really believe that one, Brian.
The exam results ‘rave’
(well, it was a party. Just that. A normal party. No rave intended …)
Natalie sounds tiddly from the off. She’s on the vodka. Well, she needs to celebrate. She got four As!
[Rosa] “She’s really going for it tonight isn’t she, I didn’t know she was such a party girl.”
Jamie’s not going to Uni
Jamie didn’t phone Kathy to tell her what he’d got. She had to leave a begging message.
He’d earlier told Rosa that he got one A, couple of B, and a C. Which he was worried about telling Kathy about. Those grades sounded fine to me.
But when Jamie gets home, he tells Kathy the truth. He got two Cs, a D and an E.
[Jamie] “They're rubbish grades, I totally mucked it.”
Kathy’s shocked, but manages to pull it together to say that at least he still has his A2s to do (whatever they are). He can still get to Uni.
[Jamie] “Uni? And end up with a 40 grand overdraft. Why?”
[Kathy] “You know why. To give yourself a decent start in life.”
But Jamie doesn’t agree. He’s not going to sit anymore exams. He’s not going back to College. And he’s most definitely not going to Uni.
Well, Mike is looking for a milkman …
Rosa finally gets her man …
Rosa crashes Natalie’s party, and makes a beeline for Jamie. She even gives him a go on her new scooter.
[Rosa] “If you’re really good, maybe I’ll give you another ride sometime.”
Rosa’s an odd one. She fancies Jamie, so she starts talking to him about his girlfriend:
[Rosa] “She’s got so much going for her. She’s cool, and she’s clever and she’s attractive. And she’s got you.”
Rosa than makes Jamie come up close to her so that she can ‘sort his hair’. It sounds like Rosa is just about to kiss him when Natalie catches sight …
[Natalie] “I saw you Jamie … shut up you tramp, what are you doing here anyway. It’s my party! … Don’t touch me, there’s nothing you can say to me now. I just want you to go away. Hear me, go on, now … we’re finished Jamie. It’s over.”
Oops.
If that’s what Rosa wanted to happen, job done!
1 comment:
Kathy being the pushy mother again. "you have to go to university because that's what everyone does" is what she meant. How about letting Jamie decide what is right for him? Kathy needs to look around and see that a degree isn't the passport to a better job that it used to be.
Sorry, but I do have a bit of a high horse here. We shouldn't be forcing children down the conveyor belt of school-college-university, come what may. To put it bluntly, if Jamie isn't academically able to get good grades at A-level, is he destined for university education? He'll come out with low-level degree from a low-level university, and a huge loan to pay off.
He would be far better finding a job that he enjoys doing, and then working on the qualifications he needs for that job.
My advice to Kathy is to encourage him to learn a trade. We'll always need plumbers, electricians, joiners, etc. We won't always need people with degrees.
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