un homage.
Or something of the sort, anyhow.
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un homard? Oooooh, you said 'ommidge. Couldnât work out where the lobster came in.
That is alarmingly âtrueâ, that homage. Like it.
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There are also https://laager.firedrake.org/archive/20110130.html and https://laager.firedrake.org/archive/20110206.html
Te Seaood Knot would be just the thing for Yodelpip. She could teoo peopoo aoo about the Civoo War battoo fjordâŚ
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And possibly get a ramrod through the brain. Not that anyone would notice.
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The owner of the ramrod might object, though. Imagine having to clean bits of Pip-brain off it. Urgle.
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Whatâs to clean? You canât clean off what never existed. 
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Was she the unsuccessful applicant for the milk round?
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Close, joe. Bar tender at The Bull. They hired either Harry or Rhys instead, forget which.
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Harry - thatâs why I thought it was the milk round. Wasnât there an equally âunconventionalâ applicant for that, to whom Vicki objected?
Rhys was brought in later in the desperate hope that Harry might seem interesting in comparison.
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That rings a bell, I should know, I used to write Vickyâs diary!
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Ah yesâŚVickyâs diary, thatâs what got me started listening to TA !!
Shall I ever forgive you ? Not sure LordSusan ever will as he gets shushed every time he tries to speak when Iâm listening to it 
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As far as I remember, Vicky wanted the milk round to employ a gurl, and Mike for once did as he preferred and hired the person he thought was more enthusiastic and with whom he would be happier working. This seemed only fair since Vicky was nothing whatever to do with the milk round even if she did manage to buy Edâs soul for twenty-five cows.
The girl was called Veronica, and Vicky thought that she was more approachable and had more small-talk, those essentials for a milk retail sales rounds-person.
(How did I know? Just been writing up Edâs Whoâs Who entry, innI.)
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I see, so itâs my fault, is it? Never mind, if ever you want LordSusan out from under your feet, just start playing the Omnibus. 
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Thanks for that, Fanta, I had totally forgotten it. Nice that Mike got his own way for once, it didnât happen very often, Vicky saw to that.
I wonder if Mike and Vicky and Bethany will return. I would like that. Distinctive characters and an update on Bethany. They could do the latter properly in my view.
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The trouble is that the house has been sold, so there is nowhere in Ambridge for them to move back to. Otherwise, I would find them preferable to any of the characters SOâC introduced instead of them - and I didnât even like Mike and Vicky, or find them particularly interesting.
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Perhaps they could buy Blossom Hill Cottage from Usha and Anisha could find somewhere else to live. What happened to the flat over the shop? Hazel still owns the shop and flat, doesnât she? Did she do it up as she did with Keeperâs Cottage? I know, get rid of Pip and Anisha can rent Rickyard. No chance of that, sadly!
I do miss Mike and Vicky. I also didnât find either likeable but they added something to the village and besides, I had got used to them!
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There must be other, hitherto unnamed, houses in the village which they would be able to afford. At least five or six on the village green are not occupied by people we have ever heard of, and there are seven on the road out past Grey Gables before you get to the Lodge and the Blossom Hill Cottage turnoff. Green Farm and Overton Farm are free, and so is Bull Farm these days. Also there is a wodge of housing up by Bank Farm, on the way to Hillside from Bluebell CottageâŚ
It could be done if there were a will to do it. Kathy might move out, even!
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Glasgow would be favourite
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