Episode 86

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

Christine:  Hello, Fallon, where are you off to this evening ?

Fallon:  Well, Harrison is workin and Mum said there was summat good on at The Bull tonight so I thought I’d go along.

Christine:  That’s where I’m going but I can’t imagine why Jolene would recommend a WI meeting to you.

Fallon:  Oi dunno.  She just said there was goin to be a big girls’ night in the upstairs room - over a hundred - and it would be a laugh.  She’s ordered extra sherry as there might be a run on the amontillado.

Christine:  Really ?  I am very fond of a dry fino myself.  But I can’t imagine why so many people would want to come to the WI.  There’s usually only about ten ladies on a normal evening.

Fallon:  No idea but Mum could do with the business.  Ever since Jazzer was barred, profits ‘ave been way down.  Anyway, what usually goes on at a WI meeting ?

Christine:  It depends, dear.  Sometimes there’s a speaker who talks about a cruise they went on without catching the norovirus.  And we exchange recipes.

Fallon:  Yeah, Oi’ve ‘eard that Jill Archer ‘as a great recipe for lemon drizzle cake that everyone is gaggin for.  Oi could do with it to bring more punters into the tearoom.

 Christine:  Goodness  knows where Jill gets her ideas from.  She was a career girl, you know, before she married my brother, Phil.  Used to gad about all over the country - demonstrating she called it.  We never found out exactly what she demonstrated.

Fallon:  But that must have been over 60 years ago.

Christine:  It takes a long time to be accepted in Ambridge.

Fallon:  Oi’ll bear that in mind.

Christine:  Here we are, dear.  Oh, I see lots of other people from The Laurels.  And there’s Sabrina - she looks very excited although I’m not sure that neckline is suitable for the WI.

Fallon:  And here’s a poster for the event.

Christine:  What does it say, Fallon ?  I forgot my glasses.

Fallon:  Says summat about the Beasts of Ambridge and there’s a picture of Jazzer.

Christine:  Oh, lovely, perhaps it’s a talk on our local wildlife.

Fallon:  Probably not the kind of wildlife you’re thinkin of - Jazzer is wearing a mask and not much else.

Christine:  So how do you know it’s Jazzer ?

Fallon:  Let’s just say, once seen never forgotten. And you’re not going to need your glasses...

Christine:  Pour me a large one, Jolene !

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

(Ed.  Fasten your seatbelts ...)

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