Monday 10 October 2011

The Archers Monday 10th October 2011: Nic and Will place bets on Emma

  • Pat’s quite irritated by Tom
  • Clarrie didn’t get the supermarket job
  • It’s Susan’s birthday
  • Seems Susan’s mum’s standards are also slipping
  • Nic has Emma sussed
  • No pressure, but …



Pat’s quite irritated by Tom

Seems Tom felt his meeting with Underwoods went well.

Pat doesn’t seem impressed.

[Susan] “It’s good you’re talking to him again”

[Pat – not sounding very enthusiastic] “I suppose it is”

She’s obviously still furious that Tom decided to rebrand, leaving Tony and Pat to try and cope with the ever-so damaged Bridge Farm brand by themselves.

[Susan] “We’ll you can change it back I suppose, when people forget”

I hope so.

And I hope it’s at a time when Tom Archer’s Borchester Sausages is on its way back down …


Clarrie didn’t get the supermarket job

[Clarrie] “It were only stacking shelves … younger than me, better qualified, I didn’t stand a chance”

Seems the job went to a younger woman who’d been made redundant from a bank. Though Nic reckons Clarrie’s age makes her more reliable and experienced, Clarrie reckons it’s qualifications that count. But in her day, they didn’t go for qualifications:

[Clarrie]” … unless you was clever …  jobs was easy to find them … I’m 57 and on the scrapheap … I just feel useless Nic, quite useless”

[Nic] “What would your family do without you, what would I do without you? … you are a treasure Clarrie and any employer would be lucky to have you”

Indeed.

But with so many and so few jobs, Clarrie’s recent E. coli status probably does knock her out of many of the running.

Even though she is a treasure.


It’s Susan’s birthday

And she’s off to a tribute band with Neil.

They never said who, though.


Seems Susan’s mum’s standards are also slipping

(like Peggy’s had been).

Does that mean Clive will worm his way into being her carer?

Or will she die, and leave Clive everything?

[Susan] “Clive can unsettle anybody , and I don’t trust him to have tapped her for some money … the good news is that he’s gone back to his bail hospital”

Which is only in Felpersham.

Come on Ivy – rally round.

We don’t want you to give Clive an excuse to move back in.


Nic has Emma sussed

On their way over to collect George from Emma’s:

[Nic] “You can play my game if you like … I try   to guess what’s she’s going to complain about this time … he stayed the night, so it’ll be his bedtime routine … he’s looking very tired, she’ll say … I think it’s funny, I’m just waiting to see what she’ll say next”

Seems Nic places bets with herself when guessing what Emma will complain about. She reckons Emma will say George looks tired, that they’re keeping him up late AND they’re reading him the wrong bedtime story.
 Emma does ask for it, really. She does prattle on about how her Keira and George started waddling/walking before Jake and Mia.

[Emma] “She can roll right across the room”

[Will, sarcastically] “Very useful …”

Will reckons that George did move around early. He remembers George just sitting in the middle of the room  and them having to take their toys to him.

Emma does not concur!

Emma then asks what bedtime book they’re reading to George. The answer is Jack and the Beanstalk:

[Emma] “Oh, he doesn’t really like that anymore, too babyish, I suppose that was Jake’s idea?”

So 1-nil to Nic, with Emma claiming George was too polite to tell Nic and Will that he didn’t want to read that book – and he also would have said so if he was at ‘home’.

Then

[Emma] “He’s looking really tired, I expect you let him stay up last night …”

2-mil for Nic!

She and Will break out in giggles that Nic got Emma almost word for word.

Ah Emma.

Mind when brothers used to fight over you?

Now, you’re just predictable.


No pressure, but …

Susan calls Emma to warn her that Clive wants to meet his great nephew and niece, and has said so to Ivy.

So, Ivy really wants Clive to meet his great nephew and niece.

[Emma] “Why?”

[Susan] “Why does that man do anything?”

Emma, quite rightly (for once) doesn’t want George and Keira anywhere near Clive.

Susan agrees, but also tells her that Ivy has her “heart set on it”

[Susan] “All I’m saying is she’s going to be really upset if you say no”

That’s helpful, Susan.

Either Emma lets a rather bad man meets her kids – or she lets down her (very ill) grand mum.

Emma's choice indeed.

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