Caroline’s kept awake all night by bikers, but turns it to her advantage … Bikers had a ‘barney’ … Brian wins round 1 with Matt
- Bales to separate a fight?!?
- Who’d expect Caroline to be so canny?
- Why fruit pickers can’t have relationships
- “Alright matt – struck any good deals lately?”
Bales to separate a fight?!?
Hmmm. Not sure that’d work all that well. Surely they’d just set fire to it and hurl bit at each other?
Anyway, Eddie and Joe may be taking their money-spinning too far.
Rival bikers, in one field, with temporary membership of the cider club was only ever going to end one way.
That’s a massive stereotype, but the proof was definitely in the fighting!
So Caroline and Oliver were kept awake all night when the ‘Borchester Burners’ met their rivals, and Eddie’s can’t understand where they’re all coming from considering Fat Paul only has 8 Facebook friends.
*snort*
Who’d expect Caroline to be so canny?
Much to Eddie’s detriment, Caroline pulls a blinder and steals some of his customers away to Grey Cables.
Easy to forget that she’s not as drab as she might seem.
Why fruit pickers can’t have relationships
Because they fall for each other, then leave the job.
And, because Brian Aldridge has said so.
“Alright matt – struck any good deals lately?”
Oo-er Brian. That’s fighting talk, that is.
“could be quite interesting with Matt on the loose again”
Indeed. But aren’t you forgetting that Matt also has Lilian well and truly revved up for action?
That’s not a lady I’d like to mess with.
And is it just me, or is Matt warming Lilian up for a suggestion that Brenda should be working with them?
Jill’s veal and ham pie … Ambridge finds itself host to bikers …Tom behaves ‘dishonourably’ to Vicky over the aforementioned veal and ham pie … The Village Shop gets a tad mixed up
- Jill finds Tom a recipe, then drops him right in it
- Tyre marks on the grass
- A Guardian instead of a Telegraph
- Brenda gets it tight from Vicky …
- …then Tom’s a ‘little traitor’
Jill finds Tom a recipe, then drops him right in it
After being so helpful to Tom, will Jill rue the day that she got involved in the great Veal and Ham pie shenanigans?
It wasn’t her fault that she unwittingly let Vicky know what Tom was up to. But, with Tom’s demands for a pie to feed 20-25 people – will Jill, and her range, cope?
Better off out of it, methinks.
Tyre marks on the grass
Vicky’s a right one to talk. She’s not quite whiter than white when it comes to judging people by their appearances.
Mike and Jill are right that it can be hard to challenge someone about their behaviour these days (I hate saying it was ‘better in the old days’, but it’s absolutely true that you could stop someone doing something naughty, without being scared that you’ll end up six feet under).
But these bikers don’t exactly sound like Hell’s Angels.
Dropping crisp packets and making marks on the grass – isn’t that like your average group of school kids?!?
A Guardian instead of a Telegraph
Susan won’t be happy that Oliver got the wrong paper.
But just who gets the Guardian? I’d have pegged most Ambridge folks as either Telegraph and Times for broadsheets – The Sun for tabloid – and local for a gentle read.
But then again, the odd liberal attitude does sometimes find its way into the village.
More importantly – where’s all these shift swaps going to end?
Susan in a right shouty mood, I reckon.
Brenda gets it tight from Vicky …
Which she doesn’t need, especially when she has to get her own cappuccino.
Still, it’s a good strategy on Vicky’s part to go to the one person who Tom actually has to listen to!
…then Tom’s a ‘little traitor’
But does Tom actually give a hoot?
Despite all of Vicky’s please and administrations:
“Very disappointed”
“all my hard earned research”
“what a fool I’ve been”
“ dishonourable”
“shabby”
“industrial espionage”
“How am I going to tell the bull calves?”
Tom just came back with:
“things change”
“It’s a different product – mine will be organic”
Tom is right that this can just be the way business is done, but he’s an idiot for thinking he’ll get away with it.
In the first place, it isn’t good local business practise (local folks are fast to take sides), and he is also forgetting that Vicky could be his mother-in-law one day.
As much as Brenda dislikes Vicky, she’ll surely take the side of her dad – who will be right behind Vicky.
And just wait until Ed kills the bull calves for not being profitable.
Tom will wake up to find “bull cow murderer” sprayed on his burger van.
“It’s all gone horribly wrong”
It’ll get far, far worse before it’ll get better.
