Episode 30

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum ...

Brian:  You’ve got a lot of explaining to do, Adam !

Adam:  That makes a change, it’s usually you who has to explain themselves. What’s happened now ?

Brian:  It’s your mother.  I think she is having a bit of a breakdown.

Adam:  What again ?  The last time she had a ‘breakdown’, as you call it, was when she discovered you had fathered an illegitimate child by your latest mistress.

Brian:  Hang on, that’s a bit rich coming from you.  Remember Charlie Thomas ?  Remember how it nearly destroyed you and Ian ?

(Ed.  Ah yes, another of our improbable storylines.)

Adam:  You can talk after all your misdemeanours.  At least I don’t have a criminal record. Anyway, what’s wrong with Mum?

Brian:  She seems to have got involved with some woman she found on that dating site you haven’t told Ian you still use.

Adam:  Really ?  How fascinating.  I have often wondered about Mum.  She’s always loved Dusty Springfield songs and Radclyffe Hall novels and wearing rather smart tweed waistcoats with a monocle.  She said it was country wear but I always had my suspicions.    And then there was the pipe ...

Brian:  Look this may be a joke to you but you aren’t about to have your life turned upside down !

Adam:  No, but Mum might enjoy that bit.

Brian:  Well she’s now gone off to Grey Gables for lunch with this woman for all the world to see.

Adam: If you want to keep her then I suggest you start working on a plan to get Mum out of that shoebox and back into Home Farm.

Brian:  And how am I supposed to do that ?

Adam:  Well, you’re the great businessman, always giving me advice on how to run the farm.  So work it out for yourself !

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum ...

(Ed. Oh dear, I fear another improbable story line coming on.)


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