It’s only a small step from ‘beating the bounds’ to full-on Wicker Man – and Clarrie and Susan certainly have the skills required
George Grundy – 17, full of ambition and lacking any kind of moral compass – is well on his way to becoming king of the world, aided and abetted by arch-capitalist Martyn Gibson. That’s despite being put to rights at Berrow Farm by the implacable Hannah, who’s had him cleaning out the pig pens (he certainly knows how to make a broom sound like it’s being wielded with maximum passive aggression).
Tracy Horrobin is no one’s fool and sees straight through George. So it was that things nearly got messy between her and George’s boastful mum, Emma, at the former’s hen do. I had visions of Tracy employing her Azerbaijani wrestling skills, developed but alas not used for the Ambridge Eurovision talent competition, to take out her niece once and for all. I wouldn’t put it past Tracy – after all, she used her considerable strength to fling Jazzer violently against the dresser during their rehearsals. After which he stormed off, had a few drinks, and rather bizarrely got himself run over by a person driving an electric car. Ambridge really is a road-traffic-accident hotspot when you think about it – Blake run over by Chelsea, Matt Crawford mown down by the late Nic Grundy, John Archer slain back in the day by an overturned tractor.
