29 Mar Brian tries to straighten things out with Miranda, and money problems loom for Natasha and Tom.
30 Mar Pip’s doing some gardening, and Henry’s goats are going off to Market.
31 Mar Lynda recruits for the Easter Promises Tree, and Robert interrogates Oliver.
01 Apr Azra pushes forward with her Mental Health Initiative, and Pip has a nasty shock.
02 Apr Miranda learns about Brian’s past, and Oliver wonders if he should give up riding.
03 Apr Brian tries to speak to Miranda, and Robert finally comes clean to Lynda.
05 Apr Something unexpected happens at the Easter Day service, and Robert receives a surprise birthday present
06 Apr Can Robert square his conscience, and will George go to Keira’s birthday party?
07 Apr Adam has some news for David, while George ponders his impending fatherhood
08 Apr David is full of the joys of spring, while Lynda takes her problems to Azra
09 Apr Alan rallies the troops, and Oliver takes Miranda under his wing.
10 Apr David persuades Pip to talk to Ruth, while Azra finds herself becoming fond of the new arrival.
Keira did not invite George to her party, and when Chris for some reason decided to take him there anyway, she said she didn’t want him in the house.
I want to know what he did to her on New Year’s Eve that caused her to run away from home in the middle of the night, and is clearly still worrying her more than four months later. Why has Emma or Ed apparently made no effort to find out? What the hell sort of parents are those two losers anyway, to allow their fifteen year old daughter to be put in fear by a twenty-one-year-old lout with no comeback and no comment?
Yes, I would like to know if the storywriters have a plan for George that doesn’t mean a total transformation of character. Finding out what he did to Keira would be a good way of showing he’s not completely reformed. Well, we know he isn’t in any case, I have to give the storywriters that. He is still very, very unpleasant.
They do love to put a trauma on an unpopular character and try to make us like them, so it was cancer for Ruth, abuse for Helen, prison for George and now probably a cancer scare only for Pip. Won’t work, no matter how much they suffer, I still won’t like them.
I wonder, with the exception of George, whether they realise how much the characters are disliked. Whenever I’ve become aware of an interview, the tone has always been along the lines of “ha ha she rubs some people the wrong way but she’s a Good Thing”.
The actors, some of them, take it amiss if told their character is disliked. I’m thinking of Felicity Finch and Louiza Patikas. Charles Collingwood luckily has a sense of humour about Brian.
They’d better not try to get rid of Brian as long as Charles Collingwood says he wants to continue! I hope he, Brian, soon puts his horrible progeny right about the ‘dementia’.
The Man Bentinck banned me from his social media for daring to suggest that he wouldn’t talk with his mouth full in real life and perhaps ought not to do so as David, couldn’t he clatter with cutlery instead if he was meant to be eating?