After eight weeks, I just have to accept that ‘Ambridge Being Rocked to the Core’ actually meant a small wobble when Nigel fell off the roof. Yes, I’m sorry that Nigel died, and in such pantomime fashion (although admittedly we didn’t hear David shouting ‘it’s behind you’), and I’m sure we’ll miss his bumbling upperclass buffoonery. However being ‘rocked to the core…? I don’t think so.
So, we’ve been waiting with abated breath for the real story to appear.
I have been certain that the trustees were going to throw in something a tad more interesting – such as evicting Lizzee from the house, saying that Nigel had written into the trust fact that the children had to go to boarding school and that Lizzie would have to decide to stay in the house and the children go away or for them to have to leave, leaving the house to Freddie (which although doesn’t help now, gives plenty of scope for problems later when he drops out and wants to give the house to a passing band of travelers), the appointment of an evil trustee – oh, need I go on…
Failing that, perhaps David to be wracked with guilt and ends up a gibbering wreck – however he seems to have forgotten the whole reason why there were up there in the first place ie David didn’t want to come back the next day to take the banner down.
Or we find out that Nigel was the real father of Daniel (Nigel and Shula had a past) and he leaves a share of the house to Daniel.
Or distant members of Julia’s family would turn up or a guilty secret from her colorful past.
But no, it appears that, ignoring Camilla’s cringeworthy appearance, the highlight of this rocked-to-the-core Ambridge is in fact David falling asleep before he could open a bottle of wine.
I feel so let down!