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[PseudoBadger]

Do you know that I was 3 months pregnant when the first thread started - DD was 2 yesterday

That must also mean that Poppy Grundy's 2nd birthday has passed by unremarked upon...

I felt a bit choked there! Not at the delivery, just the actual poem..

YAY!!!!!

Phew! Go Phoebe!

Yeah Pip.Thing is, you're meant to sound amateur doing readings at funerals unless you're a)a natural or b) an actor.

And what's with the 'grannyheather?' Who else was it??

Go Roy! Go Phoebe!
Is Kate even aware of the Oxford application? She's giving no indication of it.

Will someone give Ruth a slap.

I'm sure I was meant to be moved, but I found myself wondering, during the reading of the poem, just how many Atlantic breakers there are crashing on the shores of Prudhoe?

And yes, Yay Feebs!

sorry for the liberally-sprinkled commas

The Granny Heather thing drives me bananas. The only people I know who refer to their grandparents that way are the under-5s, or people who were tiny when that grandparent died so never grew into calling them an adult name. You know, like "granny" or "gran" or "Heather" or "H Dawg".

Are we seeing the rehabilitation of Roy?
Well said Roy - BOOP points there - never thought I'd say that!

Am I alone in thinking (snobbily) that the poem choice was a little too erudite for salt of the earth Heatherpet?

Pip far too actORly. Grandchildren's grief implausible- they hardly ever saw her.

And to betray recently de-lurked status- what is BOOP?

I thought it sounded like a poem they had chosen to showcase daisy badgers drama school credentials

Stupid name, Daisy Badger. Though I imagine any first name with Badger as a surname would sound a bit silly.

Am I alone in thinking (snobbily) that the poem choice was a little too erudite for salt of the earth Heatherpet?

Actually ... She's of a generation that had a decent education - and didn't she and Solly go on the odd cruise, which would make it slightly less incongruous?

Pip's reading however ...

selsig ...

Well my working class Mum and Aunt could both receit reams of poetry, and my Aunt didn't even pass her 11+. They also both had elocution lessons at their state school.

Oh come on, you all think it! I'm not all bad, honest, I would smile and say "oh, how lovely!" if presented with a baby Daisy Badger.

I've been confusing Rex and Alex. I thought Phoebe was having it off with one of the Fairbrother brothers which is why they didn't want her to go away. Her interrupted sex scene seemed to happen whn the Fairbrothers were chatting up and single women in Ambridge Who is Alex and why is he staying in Ambridge and not doing something more aspirational?
Agree granny Heather is cringy, granny's are usually referred to by their surname if they both want to be granny rather than 1 gran and 1 granny or nanna. It's not granny Jill just gran so why not just granny?

Agree re Granny Heather. It has its merits occasionally - "I'm seeing Granny this week" "which one?" "Granny Heather" - but 95% of the time, just Granny would suffice. Granny'so funeral would definitely come under the latter category

I think Heatherpet would have gone for the Blaydon Races or Cushie Butterfields rather than a poem but my family have NE England roots and I suspect the scriptwriters haven't.
Or she could have really wound them up and made Pip recite Wor nanny's a mazer!

I tried googling "schools in Ambridge"; unfortunately there appears to be an Ambridge in Pennsylvania ...

Where is the local high school for Ambridge? I'd assumed it wasn't actually in the village and that Alex is from her school but lives in Borchester or another local village.

And I find it wholly unbelievable that Phoebe would, at this stage of her life, be having a relationship with someone who didn't share her aspirations and wasn't also looking forward to undergrad life. Not necessarily Oxbridge but somewhere. They'd have very little in common otherwise.

I think that's partly why I thought it was a Fairbrother because then he'd be an older wage earning business man. A spotty faced teenager with no ambitions isn't the same

My boyfriend when I was 18 was a fish farmer and I was reading English at university. It happens. What we had in common was lust! Actually thinking about it only one significant relationship was with a university educated bloke. Dh is a blacksmith. Am I Alice?!

Love Roy!

Lowfield is good today re Ruth!!

I can totally understand occupational differences between grown adults; you've got the whole world to share - but if your teenage life revolves around school (and particularly in a small place) it's hard to see how you'd ever come into contact with anyone not following a pretty similar timetable.