Episode 112

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

Elizabeth:  Hello, Mum, this is a nice surprise.  I didn”t know you were coming.

Jill:  Neither did I.  I was just on my way to pick up something from Peggy when I saw the ‘For Sale’ sign at the end of your drive.  Is business really so bad that you’re having to sell a cottage or something ?

Elizabeth:  No, Mum, the whole lot is for sale although I will keep a cottage for Freddy and Lily - I couldn’t leave them homeless, obviously.

Jill:  I can’t believe it !  What’s brought this on ?

Elizabeth:  To be honest, Mum, I’m fed up with Ambridge and I’m fed up with this place.  Lower Loxsley is like a millstone round my neck.  It’s already nearly dragged me under so it’s time for me to go while I’m still relatively young.

Jill:  But what about the children ?  How do they feel about this ?

Elizabeth:  Well, they’re not very happy but they have had a good start in life and are well able to look after themselves.  I’m giving them the old gamekeeper’s cottage on the edge of the estate.  And they can visit me in France or wherever I end up.

Jill:  You’re going abroad ?  This just gets worse. You’ll be on your own in a strange country.

Elizabeth:  But I won’t be on my own, Russ is coming with me.

Jill:  Russ !  That smug, sneaky, sleazy, supercilious, two-timing BEEP ...

Elizabeth:  Mum, please control yourself.   There’s no need for that language.

Jill:  Oh, there is.  Can you really sell Lower Loxsley ?  Surely Nigel left it in a trust for the children ?

Elizabeth:  He did talk to me about doing that a few years ago but he never got round to it.

Jill:  Why ever not ?

Elizabeth:  He fell off the roof the next day.

Jill:  Oh no, Elizabeth, you didn’t ...

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

(Ed.  That’s the first BEEP in the history of The Archers.)