Does Hootenanny have another previously unmentioned top QC godchild who wants to waste a few months pandering to this disfunctional family?
Perhaps there’s someone with a brain ( even a legal one) from the distant Fairbrother clan who’ll represent Dopey in his highly lucrative action against Joe Grundy.
Dopey Dave vs Man of Straw - with Farmer’s Lung, 2017
Perhaps he just reckoned that he wanted to shut Joe up rather than list all the things that have been wrong with Joe’s farming over the years. After all, he probably wanted to get home within a couple of days.
Snork! Back to that warm and happy home Brokefield and into the arms of his admin dodgy farmer wife Roof, Lemon Drivel brained mum, and super yodeller and hopeless liar Plop.
Get out the model farm and whip up some custard, it’s going to be a long summer.
There were always FFS moments in TA, but they used to be spaced out a bit more, I think. They seem to follow with the relentlesness of waves in an Atlantic storm these days. Or is this an effect of the way time perception changes as I get older?
It’s all to do with global warming I think. You don’t get much decent acting or scriptwriting these days (Line of Duty did well last night, mind). Mostly, it’s thud and blunder. Ah, coffee, thank you.