Becky Wright (Nic Grundy)
Kirsty’s still on the warpath and gives Jennifer a
hard time when she runs in to her, accusing Brian of hiding away. If you want
him Kirsty, he’s in his shed ‘seeking solitude’, and ‘clearing his mind’ in
preparation for writing his acceptance speech at the Borsetshire Businessperson
of the Year awards. Kirsty angered Jennifer so much apparently that she cleared
out BOTH her fridges. It’s certainly a different approach to housework; I
wonder how angry she would need to get in order to clean her cooker? Well, the
cooker might be in for a treat, because Brian gets a call to say that his
nomination for Businessperson of the Year has been withdrawn because the
sponsor (the local paper, The Echo) doesn’t want to be associated with him any
more.
Over at the Bull they’re getting ready for a quiz.
Alistair and Shula’s team is short, so they draft in Philip Moss. Philip gets
the first round in and spots Kirsty, whom he persuades to join them. No sooner
has Philip and Kirsty sat down than Alistair gets another round. Now, Peter and
I are no strangers to pub quizzes and will confess to liking a drink or 2 to
sharpen the mind, but I think lining them up before it’s even started is a
major tactical error, especially as Alistair seems so keen to win. In the end
they lose, but there’s plenty of
friendly banter between Alistair and Kirsty as they find out that they have
lots in common, and Philip asks Kirsty out for lunch.
Toby’s reading up on
how to be a father from a book given to him by Bert Fry and listening to advice
from Nic Grundy – what could possible go wrong? He goes with Pip for her scan
and while they’re waiting to see the midwife he persuades her to go to aqua-fit
classes, using free passes that Kirtsy’s been handing out. Pip tells him that
that her parents are upset that Elizabeth knew Pip was pregnant before they
did. When she gets back Roooooth seems fine and they talk it through, although
there are some crossed wires as Roooooth wants to talk about everyone’s future
roles on the farm while Pip’s talking about everyone’s roles with the baby. Later
on Roooooth catches Pip helping a cow with a breech birth and is furious,
saying that Pip’s put her baby at risk.
Roooooth takes over
and Pip goes off to her aqua-fit class, but who should also be there but Toby.
Only he couldn’t find his trunks and had to borrow Rex’s, which turn out to be Speedos.
Pip calls his ‘budgie smugglers’ indecent and Toby gets into the pool to a chorus
of wolf-whistles from the assembled ladies. After the class Pip tells Toby
about the earlier incident in the calving shed and he offers to do some night
shifts – even though he hasn’t any experience. When Pip tells Roooooth she
bursts out laughing but promises to talk to David about it anyway, who bursts
out laughing too. So that’s a ‘no’ then is it David?
We haven’t been over
to Berrow Farm for a while so it was nice to eavesdrop on Justin showing the
parish councillors how the new pig unit’s coming along. Neil Carter, who must
be feeling better now, seems to be impressed and offers some of his own advice.
Brian calls in, more to catch Neil because he wants to know if he remembers who
the contractors were who dumped the contaminated materials on his land. However
Justin has a bone to pick with him – why didn’t he tell him about his award?
Justin was at the dinner and was surprised when they announced a different
winner, not to mention having to fend off questions from the rest of the board
of Borsetshire Land. They’re embarrassed about the publicity and Justin thinks
Brian’s in danger of being voted out.
We then hear that
the Courier’s running with the story, calling Brian a ‘tainted businessman’.
Susan takes it upon herself to warn Brian and heads off to Home Farm where she
finds Jennifer and Adam. They’re already not in the best of moods because one
of Adam’s soft fruit buyers has cancelled an entire order because of worries
about being associated with them. So imagine their reaction when Susan hands over
a copy of the Courier and shows them the story, before telling them that a copy
gets delivered to every household in the Ambridge area.
Brian’s not there
because he’s gone to Borchester to get his car serviced, and we catch up with
him ordering a scotch in The Crown. He’s popped in because he heard that someone
that used to work for him drinks in there and might know something about the
chemicals that were dumped on his land. Philip happens to be at the bar and
Brian tells him that it was a wasted visit, as the man in question is now in a
nursing home suffering from dementia. Brian’s car won’t be ready until tomorrow
and Philip offers to give him a lift back to Ambridge. He talks to Brian about
Kirsty and talks about the age difference between them – 10 or 12 years.
Brian’s strangely silent on the subject. Remind me Brian, how much younger than
you was Siobhan Hathaway when you got her pregnant with Ruairi?
Following last
week’s incident with the alcohol-free mojito, there’s more trouble for Nic. Jolene
and Kenton have been organizing a Mr & Mrs event for Valentines Day, but Nic
told Emma what they were planning, and now the tea room have come up with the
same idea. Nic’s distraught, and Will comes home to find her in tears. He’s
angry that Emma copied the idea and ruined the Bull’s event and wants to give
her ‘both barrels’! He get’s the chance, metaphorically at least, in the Bull
later on when Nic’s behind the bar and Emma walks in. The three of them have a
right old slanging match that ends with Nic telling Emma that she’s jealous
because her and Ed “can’t climb out of the gutter”. The whole pub has heard
this and Jolene rushes over to break it up, sending Nic home early. I can’t
help thinking that when Kenton and Jolene compare notes about their part-time
barmaid, she’ll be out on her ear, and looking for an extra shift at the
chicken factory.
Following my comments last week about the kefir
storyline, we now have someone who is claiming they’re actually feeling a
benefit from it. Apparently Ian is drinking the stuff, even though you would
think that someone with his refined palate would run a mile from it. But wait,
the whole project could still go udders-up, as Susan’s gone kefir crazy and is
trying to boss everyone around to make sure she gets her daily goat’s milk on
time. Helen tells her to lay-off the pressure, especially on Pat who does the
milking, and Susan goes off in a huff, later telling Chris that she’s going to
tell Helen to “stuff her stupid job” – let’s hope that’s the end of it. Good luck
finding another one Susan, after all you’ve already said you’re worried about
the prospect of Neil retiring and I’m sure you don’t want to put any further
strain on the Carter family finances.
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