30 April 1998

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  • Kate is inventing her own ground rules, closing the shop with a “back later” note. So Peggy is denied her copy of the Echo and Usha cannot post the documents on which she has spent so much time, the application for her Higher Court Advocacy Exams.
  • It is good that Daniel is beginning to feel better but Jill enlists Richard’s help to persuade Shula to take more time off. Jill could stay overnight with Daniel allowing Shula a night in her own bed.
  • On their way home from collecting some weaners, Tommy and Tony exchange concerns about Pat. She was very upset at the tree planting ceremony yesterday, on a par with the funeral, and she seems to have lost interest in everything. Normally she would have taken Tommy to task for putting so little effort recently into his college work. Tommy suggests they stop at his gran’s, so that he can come clean about Eric’s escape while Tony is on hand to keep the temperature down.
  • Actually Tommy has underestimated his gran. Peggy has known for days about Eric, you can’t keep an escaped pig quiet in a village like Ambridge, but she regarded the matter as Tommy and Hayley’s responsibility and kept a low profile. Phew! Tommy was relieved that she did not react as strongly as Neil had done but he explains the other reason for Neil’s mood. Perhaps Neil would be interested in helping Peggy reach the top of her pear tree to eradicate a pest.
  • Sean has at last announced the cricket team for the next match and once again Tommy is disappointed.
  • Shula rejects Richard’s suggestion of a night away. She is adamant that she will not leave her child. However, reason prevails and later, with Jill installed at the hospital, she calls on Richard to apologise. He treats Shula to a demonstration of his culinary skills but Usha is less than delighted to find, when she returns home, that there is none left for her!

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