- Jim shares his shed secret with Lynda
- If it was a choice between Mike or the baby …
- Elizabeth walks in on David
- Ambridge got a Bronze
- Squirrel!
Jim shares his shed secret with Lynda
The village is still agog with tales of odd happenings in Jim’s shed.
[David] “Smoke pouring out of the door, and Jim rushing in with a bucket of water”
Later, Jim reveals that he’s been building a … drum roll … Greek/Roman oven
Clever Jim.
That’s what he’s been building in his shed. Though it’s only Lynda who gets to know his secret (so mind and not tell anyone else).
If it was a choice between Mike or the baby …
Neil’s a good mate
Neil makes sure he bumps into Mike, the makes sure Mike meets him later on for a chat.
Which is exactly what Mike needs. Someone to talk to.
[Mike] “Keep thinking I’m going to wake up … find out it’s all going to be a bad dream … never realised how happy I was, until this happened.”
Mike talks to Neil about how he and Vicky can’t talk.
[Mike] “Nothing seems to come natural. It’s like we’re both trying to fill the silence, somehow … all I can think about is how can we possibly manage, it’s like a dark cloud over me all the time … is it fair on the child … bringing it into the world.”
[Neil] “And you can’t say that to her?”
[Mike] “She can’t even think about it. She wants the baby Neil. I just wish I could turn the clock back.”
[Neil] “I know it’s not what either of you would have chosen, but it’s happened … and maybe there’s one thing you need to remember in all this … Vicky; made you so happy these last few years … she changed everything, didn’t she … so if you try to insist that she has a termination, won’t you risk losing her.”
[Mike] “I know. I just can’t imagine life without her.”
[Neil] “If she wants to have this baby, nothing’s going to stop her.”
[Mike] “That’s what scares me.”
Indeed.
Mike or the baby – it’d be the baby for Vicky, every time.
Elizabeth walks in on David
David sneaks in to see Freddie while Elizabeth is out, and has a grand time cheering him up by being so bad at playing a football computer game.
Elizabeth must have come home early, and it must have been a shock to see David there, but she didn’t throw him out. She insisted he stay.
Freddie squarely beats David at the computer game, to which Elizabeth remarks that David is a better loser these days. She remembers what he was like when the family played board games at Christmas.
[Elizabeth] “You’d get really annoyed if I beat you then.”
[David] “What? It was you! If you didn’t get Park lane or Mayfair, you’d tip the board over.”
[Freddie] “I just can’t believe how you managed without computer games”
As David gets to go, Elizabeth walks him out, and thanks him.
[Elizabeth] “Freddie seems so much brighter for seeing you.”
[David] “I can’t tell you what it’s meant to be here again Elizabeth. I’ve missed you.”
[Elizabeth] “Me too.”
Phew!
Thank goodness that’s over.
Now the Archer clan (Phil/Jill branch) can be a proper clan again.
Lucky thing that, what with Christmas approaching.
Ambridge got a Bronze
In Britain in Bloom. Which Lynda is delighted with, and sees as “credible”.
They even got a certificate!
[Lynda] “We thought it should take pride of place in the village hall so everyone could share in its glory.”
Quite right,
Well done Ambridge.
Squirrel!
(seriously, if you haven’t seen the film Up – please do so soon. Especially recommended for dog owners. And you’ll also understand why I get so excited when anyone mentions squirrel!)
Scruff runs of barking while Jim and Lynda are chatting. Which is what he did when they thought they’d spotted the Ambridge Beast.
They then hear and see bushes rustling. Which is what they saw and heard when they thought they’d spotted the Ambridge Beast.
[Lynda] “You don’t think … surely …”
[Jim] “I don’t know Lynda, but shall we keep it to ourselves this time … and whatever it was, I should say it was considerably larger than a squirrel, wouldn’t you?”
Oho! Eddie better get to making more of his statues.
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