24th December
Roy Tucker
The Ambridge sends a sad farewell to Roy Tucker who has died at 53. He featured regularly in the Ambridge Socialist down the years, rarely in a complimentary manner, a reflection of the excellence that the late Ian Pepperell brought to the character. He brought a humanity to Ambridge too often missing in its ruling class characters. A full obituary will be published in due course
Ruling Class split over lemon drizzle cake
As Christmas approaches a serious split has taken place over Jill’s Lemon Drizzle cake. Jill’s cakes are a centralpart of the culture of ruling class Ambridge but Stella has criticised her latest bake. Its more serious than the Great British Bake Off. Stella is still determined to spend Christmas at Brookfield however.
Harry, Chris and Alice too
Chris has entered the moral maze after Harry asked him to do some horse work. Hopefully we won’t hear too much more about this, which means we probably will. Unfortunately Chris who is Deputy Village Idiot to Tom, has decided to get Martha a donkey for Christmas but without telling Alice
Gagriculture first ever Ambridge Xmas success
Opinion is split over the character of Syksey but placing him at the centre of Gagriculture was a good move. After years of dreadful pantos and the like, getting a stand up comedian in the form of Jasper Carrot do a few gags actually worked…
Sprouts
Jakob has reminded us of his aversion to sprouts
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