The Archers Wednesday 31st October 2012
- Fallon’s first night at Jaxx
- The cost of dentures today
- It’s a year since Ivy died
- Joe’s not a fan of trick or treat
- Ed and Emma in, with the lights off
- Emma and George get stranded
- Fat Paul had cardboard AND a pen!
- Folks were poorer back in the day
Fallon’s first night at Jaxx
She’s got themed cocktails. She’s got themed music. (Halloween, of course). She’s got most of Ambridge in for her first night.
(Actually, could this hurt The Bull’s profits? That’d be a tad ironic)
The cost of dentures today
Is not making Joe a happy chappy.
It’s a year since Ivy died
[Emma] “Everything’s gone wrong since then.”
That’s strange.
Emma never struck me as very close to her granny.
Joe’s not a fan of trick or treat
[Joe] “That, eh, treat or trickin, it’s demanding sweets by menaces.”
I quite agree, Joe.
We used to go guising. With a turnip (not a pumpkin – you have to work a turnip for days to get it hollowed out). And with a practised party piece (not just a naff joke, or an outright demand for sweets).
Back in Joe’s day, it was also a bit more gothic.
He used to be scared to look in the mirror at Halloween in case he saw a ghost.
Ed and Emma in, with the lights off
They can’t afford sweets to give to the kids.
Though Joe thinks the lights are off for a decent reason:
[Joe] “Some things are still free, eh.”
[Ed] “You got a long memory granddad!”
Cheeky of Joe.
And a bit disturbing, considering Ed’s his grandson.
Emma and George get stranded
As Emma’s driving George home, smoke starts coming out of the car.
She has to pull over, and get George up the bank. They’re on a rather busy bypass.
Eddie came to save them, but Emma’s fuming with Ed.
She blames him for not getting the car fixed. And that’s it too old anyhoo.
[Emma] “Me and George could have died on the dual carriageway.”
(could’ve - didn’t … not need for drama)
[Ed] “You don’t half mollycoddle him you know!”
(eh?)
So the car’s knackered. They’d just put £20 of petrol in hit. And they need a new car.
Which they don’t have the ready money for, so Ed suggests a loan.
[Emma] “No more debt, we’re drowning in it.”
[Ed] “If you were better at managing …”
[Emma] “Don’t you dare out this on me.”
[Ed] “It was you who spent all the money we put aside for the water bill.”
[Emma] “You expect me to leave money in a drawer when we’ve run out of food?”
Emma reckons she’s proud she’s just about managing to cope. Ed’s angry at himself for not providing.
Such anger.
Oh. So. Grim.
Fat Paul had cardboard AND a pen!
Well done Fat Paul.
It meant that when Eddie went to his to get to tow sorted for Emma, they were proper and legal driving back.
Folks were poorer back in the day
According to Joe.
[Joe] “People ain't poor like the old days, though.”
[Eddie] “Maybe, but they’ve got bigger debts.”
The Archers: Lynda stresses ... so does Freda ... Jolene seems happy ... Kenton is helpful
- So it begins …
- Black balloons and Monster mash
- Kenton and Fallon?
- Ambridge has gone ‘little black dress’ crazy!
- Panto *snort* moments #2
- Lynda forgives easily
- Harry wins again
- “Bonfire night was always one of Sid’s big nights”
- The Panto cast (so far) #2
So it begins …
The Panto rehearsals begin in earnest, with Lynda being very earnest indeed.
[Lynda] “So any questions, comments criticisms …”
[Nigel] “That’s very brave Lynda!”
[Lynda] “ … I was just joking”
I’m not sure why Lynda outs herself through this (almost) every year, as she gets so tense.
She’s stressed about Nigel having to leave early. Josh being late. Vicky being a bit dim.
[Lynda] “Oh dear. This will be Oscar’s first theatrical experiences and the highlights of Coriander’s stay”
Phew! That’s a lot to ask of a village Panton Lynda.
Maybe slim down those expectations a wee bit?
Black balloons and Monster mash
It must be Halloween at The Bull.
Jolene seems to be well and truly ‘perking’ up.
(sorry)
She refuses the hat and cloak, but is happy to don the gloves and glittery make-up.
Is our Jolene back for good?
Kenton and Fallon?
Just a passing thought, but Kenton does seem ever so keen to help with The Bull.
I know that might be because he wants to prove himself to Jamie.
Or that he might bump into Kathy (possibly)?
But you just never know with Kenton
Ambridge has gone ‘little black dress’ crazy!
Yesterday, Nigel was trying to get Elizabeth into hers.
Today it’s Fallon encouraging Jolene.
Panto *snort* moments #2
[Nigel] “I can stick the sausages in”
[Lynda] “Puts one sausage into each other of Idle jack’s hands”
[Vicky] “Waiting for one of them to get the pie in their face”
Lynda forgives easily
After Vicky being a bit of a bad mate when she sided with Brian over the Peregrines, I’d have thought Lynda would have given her the frosty treatment for weeks to come.
But all Vicky had to do was (a) be completely oblivious to Lynda being angry at her and (b) mention ’tactics’ in relation to the Panto.
Lynda was right in there!
Harry wins again
Despite Kenton making such an effort, and Frieda being in a “Simon Cowell mood”, Harry wins the prize for best costume.
Jazzer at least had a go (by splashing tomato sauce on his shirt … which actually could have just been because Jazzer hadn’t changed his shirt from the night before). And I actually think dressing as a Hammer Horror monster shows a great taste in horror film (hurrah to 1970s horrors, ya-booo to modern slasher ones).
After a deeply tense moment:
“If daylight doesn’t kill us, the suspense will…”
As per usual, it’s Harry who ‘wows’ the crowds. Jazzer seemingly said he looked:
“like a cross between Pete Docherty and a supply teacher he once locked in a stationery cupboard”
(Fallon “Well I think you look dreamy”. Oh for goodness sake Fallon – just ask him out for a cup of tea and an iced bun already!)
Quite surprised that Freda (the sole judge) chose Harry
“I think she’d more into knitting patterns than twilight books”,
Kenton was more concerned that Jamie hadn’t been at the party.
Ah, poor Kenton.
It’s a lesson learned very late in life, but he might have at last got the point that actions have consequences.
Especially the ones involving sex.
“Bonfire night was always one of Sid’s big nights”
Oh.
Maybe Jolene isn’t quite over Sid yet.
Are we going to remember the 5th of November?
The Panto cast (so far) #2
Jill: fairy beau bells
Vicky: Mrs Fitzwarren
Sabrina: Whittington’s cat
Nigel: Sarah the Cook (The Dame)
Harry: Idle Jack
Richard Thwaite: King Rat
Nathan Booth: Rate Henchman 1
Eddie: Rat Henchman 2
Jim: The Imperial Majesty
(but still no Dick or Alice!)
Robert and Neil constructing the sets
Daniel is helping with set and lighting
And Vicky is going to work on getting Mike to act (“It’s be great fun getting to play husband and wife”)
But still looking for two leading ladies …
Fallon? For
“A girl who can really belt out big numbers for the part of Dick”
Brenda as her lady love?
The Archers: Kenton’s not being useful … neither is Jazzer … Will isn’t Angry (what???)
- Kenton’s on the shaving horse
- “Everything’s ready for the longest peel competition”
- Phil only managed to make a chair leg
- Jazzer’s taking the scrumpy …
- Was that our Will Nic was talking about?
- Kenton now doesn’t need to be at Jaxx
- Jolene’s back to her usual self
- The Panto jesting begins
Kenton’s on the shaving horse
But doesn’t know the difference between carpentry and “green wood working”.
Must admit neither do I, but Nigel seemed quite concerned to get it correct.
As well as kicking Kenton off of the shaving horse.
“The last thing I need on apple day is for you to decapitate yourself”
“Everything’s ready for the longest peel competition”
So, it’s not all a loss.
But what was that about a crack barn?
Phil only managed to make a chair leg
Aw, bless Phil.
I agree with Kenton that it’s a shame he never got to make the whole chair.
Jazzer’s taking the scrumpy …
I’m seriously starting to think that there must be something very amiss with Harry.
How did he manage to keep his temper?
Jazzer drank the cider that he was going to use for their pork (part of the Sunday lunch he was cooking for them both);
had the TV blaring at stupid-o’clock the previous night;
then puts the oven up full blast, ruining the Sunday lunch, while Harry was out trying to buy more cider.
“It’s no ma fault ma Ma never taught me how to cook”
Jazzer is as Jazzer does – but why is Harry putting up with all of this?
At least he makes Jazzer pay … for lunch at The Bull.
But why is he being so calm in the face of such blatant misuse and abuse of his good nature?
Will the worm turn?
Was that our Will Nic was talking about?
I don’t think that could have been.
Nic and Will have seemingly had a “chat” about Emma being pregnant – with Will “happy to talk about it” and not angry anymore.
Sorry. Did Will suddenly become a decent, rationale human being?
That just can’t be right at all.
Although Nic think’s that Emma being pregnant:
“ …it’s great … it’s the best thing that could have happened to all of us”
I don’t accept that Will is anything other than seething.
Hoping I am wrong, for Nic’s sake and sanity …
Kenton now doesn’t need to be at Jaxx
*sigh*
What is wrong with that man?
One minute he must be at Jaxx every waking moment, now he can swan off to enjoy himself.
What’s changed?
Well, Jaxx is up and running for one.
And Kenton also doesn’t need to avoid Kathy anymore.
I’m not sure whether his constant checking about Kathy’s movements is either to get to see her, or to still avoid her.
[Kenton to Nigel] “How do you fancy being count Dracula to my Van Helsing?”
Oh dear.
Do we feel another Kenton and Nigel big night out (ending up in the gutter, or arrested, or in bed with a random woman)?
Or maybe it’s Jazzer we need to watch out for at The Bull’s Halloween party:
“As long as you give me lots of lassies to sink my teeth intae”
Jolene’s back to her usual self
But is still wearing a We Love The Bull t-shirt.
I thought the point of the campaign was getting Jolene to realise how much everyone needed her at The Bull?
Now, I think it feels like we’re just adding to her holiday fund …
The Panto jesting begins
[Nic] “My Jake’s going to be a little rat”
[Clarrie on Eddie auditioning] “Lord knows why … he always wants to throttle Lynda by the end of it”
[Nic to a thinking-of-auditioning Harry] “Still, you wouldn’t’ have to sit around watching people getting tortured”
[Clarrie] “Oh, she ain’t that bad”
(Nic was referring to Jazzer – Harry wants to get out of the house to avoid Jazzer’s very loud and gory horror movies).
How very droll ;-)
