you can’t actually go for a spin round the bypass. It goes only two-thirds of the way round Borchester, then you’d have to turn round and come back or else go through the middle of town.
And I don’t think being two miles from Hollerton is particularly special; Hollerton is about three miles from Ambridge.
Reckless, I calls it. She might have run over the chap with the flag.
Ah, but what if the ‘chap with a flag’ had been Joe? It would have been just like him to be it and, frankly, her duty to run the crumbling old pest down. And Shula is veyr fond of ‘duty’, innit.
Now we’re getting to what really happened to Matt. She obviously bribed Nic to take the rap then bumped her off when she thought she might be blackmailed.
… her over excitement as a car actually moving when you depress the accelerator was odd.
0-60mph in 5.3sec is hardly tarmac-melting
She bought herself a new car back when he was gambling but before he confessed to her, and he was very graceless about her having done so.
And then, back in April 2006, we got
"Shula tells [Caroline] about Alistair’s outburst over the car, and how Daniel caught the full force of it. She can’t take Alistair’s mood swings, but blames herself; she should have seen it coming, and now there’s nothing left between them. And even worse, she’s depriving Daniel of a father for the second time. "
in Lowfield.
In other words, it’s not as if this were a new disillusionment with him.
It is if you’re gripping with your heels…
Actually, it wasn’t so much heel-gripping as buttock-clenchingly awful
Gawds
I haven’t heard it yet
Strong Drink will get me through…
Carinthia.xx
I see that characters played the faux blame-yourself game back then, too. I wonder to whom she said that and if the person responded on cue and told her not to blame herself.
Disappointed we didn’t get to find out the colour, not convinced there is much requite for a convertible in the West of England though, also I am not sure it would have the umpfh to tow a horsebox. That said, why should Alastair care if she buys a new car? I didn’t get the feeling he was particularly stingy with money when they were together - the huntmistress conversations for instance.
Caroline, so almost certainly.
Kara, I remember he was very sour about her buying Topper. Quite the kill-joy.
Since he was going to stump up for that - because she said she couldn’t afford it - he might feel somewhat aggrieved that she suddenly has money to fritter on sublimating what would effectively be Kenton’s vicarious mid-life crisis.
I am now concerned that all the “Drive safe, son!” was just a preamble to Shula having a car accident - Alastair standing by her through her recovery, and their rekindling the marriage…
AVERT!!
Not really a lot to rekindle, is there?
People often speak of Shula and kindling in the same sentence.
Hopefully the speedwatch crew will remember their duties and prevent such a dastardly thing from happening!
Speedwatch. Another blow-in (blow-out) idea.