The garden stinks of rubbish from the task (I'm unsure of the timescale as to whether they had already participated and the smell was lingering or if they could smell the rubbish in the compound, being prepared for them) and the HM's are whinging about it.
JOSIE: I thought Steve blew off earlier!
SHABBY: You thought that came out of Steve's bum??
JOSIE: Yeah, I went 'Steve, have you blown off?' He went 'NO, I haven't!!' It wan't it was the rubbish!
Most of the HM's are sunbathing on the grass faker than Corin's boobs! The sun is burning Shabby's burn and they contemplate if they should go in the pool as it's a nice day for it.
JOSIE: Are they not even allowed to tell you what the weather forecast is then?
Shabby had asked last night but they refused to divulge on the grounds that it was 'information from the outside world.'
SHABBY: (Retorts) Hardly, it's the weather!
The girls are chilling like they're unwilling to earn a shilling! Even conversation seems too much of an exertion as they remain mostly silent while topping up their tans. Stevosaurus emerges from the Diary room. Josie voices her displeasure of the weather conditions 'go away, breeze!'
This doesn't exactly make for the most exciting viewing but Josie looks sweet as the Sleepy Bristolian tries to have a snooze in the sunshine. For clarification purposes, this is sunshine from the SKY not INSIDE Sunshine the human form of a storm cloud :D
John and Govan are in the bedroom. John chuckles to himself as he catches the camera zooming in on Govan sleeping. He wakes him up with a warning 'they're watching you, Gov!' Govan doesn't seem too impressed and gives the camera an almighty glower!
John wanders out to the living room to see 'what's happening?' Mario wants to give Ben a Mozart-ian hair style so Ben replies that Mario wants to style himself and Dave.
JOHN: What do you mean styling?
BEN: Doing our hair - he'll do yours as well.
JOHN: My hair doesn't need doing! (Wasn't Josie the only person he ever let style his hair in the house?)
John rolls up one of his caps to form a ball and begins to play Catch with Dave in the lounge. Govan comes in galled and appalled that the alarm had made him get up. He honks on the Diary room buzzer ready with all guns blazing to blast Big B. John puts a brotherly arm round his shoulder and gives him a gentle bald head rub.
JOHN: Are you gonna go in and have a dip at her? (He IS!)
Govan is not feeling great and still hasn't been to the toilet. John doesn't see why they won't let Govan sleep when he's unwell 'they're sleeping out there, what's the difference?' (some of the HM's are napping in the garden under the guise of sunbathing!)
Govan alleges that he wasn't even asleep - he was resting his eyes 'while comfortably lying down!'
JOHN: I love because most of.. the majority of the time I go in there raring to go and they're so nice .. they're like 'HELLO John James' .. and I'm like AAAAH, I wanted to be angry .. but they never get angry at you .. and they make a joke of it!
John wants to know what happened about his waiting chair. He'd positioned one right outside the Diary room so they could sit down while they waited.
I think sometimes John needs to have a 'go' to release any pent-up pressures or disgruntlement gnawing away inside him. I can relate to this sometimes, if I need to argue and nobody is giving me an argument but being kind instead it has 1 of 2 results. Either a) makes me more frustrated and furious, or b) cools me down and I'm able to laugh at my own expense.
So if John isn't receiving the challenge back he is seeking out - it could irritate him further or calm him down completely. Josie had the gift where she was able to soothe him completely whilst he was in her company - with snuggles, kisses and humour. He could find solace around her .. but if Josie was angry WITH him - they would go to WAR! It almost seems that when John makes his way to Twitter he has a pop and this satisfies him for some time .. until he needs another. Josie is still fulfilling that need within him .. but his loys and Mum maybe take the brunt of any anger these days. I wonder if he ever had a 'go' at Sherrie when he was with her or any girl he's been with since Josie.. and did they stand for it? (the way Josie would not!) Do they let him get it out of his system or do they fight back fiercely?
Mario twiddles with Ben's tresses (not a euphemism!) but Ben doesn't like the high hair style as he looks like a 1950's rock star! Mario mourns Ben destroying his creations but Ben barks back that he'd made him look dreadful.
John comes through the bathroom to use the toilet but asks 'what happened?'
BEN: He destroyed me!
JOHN: (enters the toilet and comes straight back out) Why does it always hum in there?
Mario then sets about turning Dave's hair into Beethoven's wild locks! (ad break)
Ben belts out his theory of reverse misogynism as he believes Shabby hates men. Mario doesn't think Caoimhe and Ife hate men as they both have boyfriends. Ben considers that the 'ringleader' Shabby does. Mario finds that her personality has a blanket effect on others. I never found Shabby to be a man-hater.. h'obviously she prefers women being a lesbian and all!! They want to bathe in the sun so scheme to nick some of Rachael's baby oil as Ben can't be bothered to find olive oil. Isn't this drastically dangerous?
Out in the garden, from what I can gather - John and Jose are chatting about her brother Harry and sign language.
JOHN: You really want them to do the things we've been saying? (I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THESE THINGS WERE!!!)
Josie thinks it's really bad that her brother's deaf and the only thing she can sign is 'I want a sambuca!' SO very Josie :D And this is other than the alphabet she taught John. I bet he still remembers how to sign all the letters!
Even by Day 9, they were the only person who could light up those smiles of sunshine for the other. A smile with a wattage that could illuminate the whole of Times Square :D
Govan comes out to the garden and John makes fun of him for nearly breaking the button (as Govan had hit it so hard in his rage!) The alarm had scared Govan, so he says it was a good job he'd just been to the toilet.. GROSS GROSS!!
The breeze blows over a strong smell of garbage and it wafts across the garden. Govan nearly gags and Josie is equally repulsed!
Steve laughs that the local tip smells worse! Govan grimaces that it smells like Leicester Market! John pre-warns Ife that she better be ready (for their part in the task later - so it hasn't happened prior to this part of the day) and Govan requests nose plugs. Josie suggests that he just puts something up his nose. Since a finger was generally lodged up one of his nostrils (and most of the HM's were fond of nose picking) you'd think he would shove one up!
The stinky scents had woken Ife from her slumber and Rachael is worried about how rank it will become after festering away. Govan is fine as he can just vomit. Mario doesn't know what the do-lally he's done with his sunglasses so searches the house high and low to find them.
Mario plonks himself onto a patch of grass when he joins the others soaking up the sun rays. John is still perched on the side of the pool close to Josie who is lounging in her deckchair. The wombat conversation from the HL's starts off (see previous blog as this part just fills in the gaps) as Josie tries to picture what one looks like.
JOSIE: What are you trying to say, John? Are you trying to embarrass me?
JOHN: Um, nah..
JOSIE: (concludes based on Ben's comment 'like a bat with woms on!') Oh, so it IS actually a bat?
JOHN: No, it's not a bat! (Mario mentions it is like a marsupial)
John tells her it is a hard animal to describe so Josie asks if it is like a rabbit. He replies that it is 'sorta like a koala but not really.' Josie wants one and SO DO I!!!! They are sooooooo cute :)
Josie then recounts her story of the vicious Shetland pony (also shown on HL's and in my previous blog) and the tale of her attack from a hermaphrodite hen/cockerel! Ben asks if the vet had to 'put it right?' but Josie tells him that can't be done.
JOSIE: I don't know how it works.. all I know is, we read up on it and it happens to one in every 10,000 or every 100,000 or what have you..
Sunshine doesn't believe her and questions whether it was not just 1 of the hens. Josie is resolute that this was NOT the case.
JOSIE: But horse poo, to me smells comforting .. it doesn't smell horrible! I love the smell of horses. (Through a sound cut she describes something her family used to do to make the manure .. I think, go rock hard)
GOVAN: What's wrong with your lot?
She also shares with her spectators how a horse had chased some friends round the garden. Govan grills 'what's wrong with your horses?'
JOSIE: It was just a randy mare! Jet, his name was.. dead now, bless him! (isn't a mare a female horse?)
John laughs as her animal tales continue to amaze and astonish her assembly of avid listeners.
Josie explains that the horse was a really clever stallion and was trained for the disabled. Govan wants Jose to teach him to horse ride when they get out but she protests.
JOSIE: I can't teach you to ride horses, I'm rubbish at it! Cos my Auntie and Mum never really taught me to ride, they just stick me on a horse and whack it as hard as they could with a stick so it would bolt off and me and they used to think it was funny.
She once fell on a jump and they thought she'd broken her back. Poor girl, really is accident-prone!! :( Govan talks about something similar happening in the movie 'Gone with the Wind' Josie explains that she too, had nearly broken her neck after an accident falling from a horse where she landed on the floor groaning 'I need a doooooctor!'
Her family had wet themselves laughing to the point where they couldn't breathe as 'Doctor's don't come on Sundays!' which made her wail.
JOSIE: And then I must have passed out and woke up in the front living room!
GOVAN: (Giggles gregariously) No wonder, you don't want to re-live your childhood!!
On another occasion, 2 Jehovah's witnesses had knocked on their door and so her Mum had invited them to their BBQ. Her Mum had then stuck them on the horse and thought it would be funny to whack it on the ass. The horse bolted (as it didn't like being hit by sticks) 'and this Jehovah's witness, poor bugger.. went straight into a tree!'
That is all the E4 footage I could find, but the marvellous Millie on DM has provided this clip from the afternoon too. John eavesdrops on a short chat between Mario and Josie.
Mario is going to start batting for the other team (being women) if BB don't sort him out with someone. Josie thinks he should keep working at Ben but Mario believes THAT is really his impossible task and the mole thing was 'a walk in the park' in comparison.
JOSIE: But you've got 3 months. Try and make someone fall in love with you in 3 months! Easy!(Josie didn't even need to try .. it just happened and there was nothing either could do to stop that! They were powerless to the power the other had over them!)
RACHAEL: Apparently, you've gotta treat them mean!
JOSIE: Oh, is it?
JOHN: (Rubbishes R's remark) I doubt that would work either, sorry.
John and Josie still got together after treating each other unkindly, as they had fought like cat and dog many times in the house. They KNEW how the other could be in an argument but they still wanted and CHOSE to give their relationship a shot. Eventually, they always made up after an argument and seemed to become even closer as a couple. On the outside, the more frequent the arguing became - the effect could have been more adverse and pulled them further apart .. they treated each other more meanly and DIDN'T care about making up.. or felt like they couldn't :(
Josie is giving Mario a manicure and spills some polish on her dress, she hopes it won't stain. Mario compliments her dress 'pretty dress for a pretty girl.'
JOSIE: How do you make.. I don't know.. I've never had anybody love me, I don't think before in my life..
At this point in John's life, he hadn't BEEN in love before but had probably broken a few girl's hearts who had been in love with him. And at this point in Josie's life, she HAD loved with all her heart and had hers smashed by a man who hadn't loved her and cheated on her regularly. They went on, to love and be loved by each other (against all odds) and BOTH came out of the relationship with a heart shattered, scarred and damaged terribly by the one person they thought never would .. and hoped never could :'(
This sad statement surprises Mario as he knew she'd had a boyfriend for many years.
JOSIE: But I don't think he loved me.. how can you..(which she now believes to be the case with John too. Mario asks if she'd loved her ex) Yeah.. (SC) You can't ever love somebody and treat 'em like that, can you? If you love somebody you want to be nice to them, don't you? You treat 'em nice .. and yeah, if you love someone you want the best for 'em, don't you? And want them to be happy..
MARIO: Even if it means sacrificing your own happiness..
JOSIE: Yeah..
Their intentions were always to treat one another with love.. but when their partner didn't return that love and affection, then neither did they.. I'm not sure if they want the best for each other now or even care if the other is happy.. but I believe they didn't think they were making each other happy .. or had stopped doing so (that might have only been temporary, after a break things could have been far happier for them!) and were sacrificing their own happiness.. and felt like they weren't getting anything/very little back in return.
Mario made the decision that year was about making himself happy.
JOSIE: Do you know what? I've had so much bad luck with blokes.. I'd be quite happy to be on my own.. and I'm not just saying this, for the REST of my life!
Mario advises her to have a few indiscretions now and again :D
JOSIE: Thing is, I think I am too nice to 'em .. and then they walk all over me..
John was listening very intently throughout this conversation.
Josie really has had some bad luck in her life, in general .. not just in relationships. It makes me sad that both she and John made similar comments about not caring if they were alone for the rest of their lives.. and I would hate that to ever become a reality. So while Luke, may not be the person people would like to see Josie with - at least she has found someone who makes her happy.. even if it is only for NOW and not destined to be a happy-FORever-after.. And hopefully, John has found some nice Australian girl who can make him happy too.
Josie and John definitely didn't treat each other 'too' nicely towards the end.. or else it wouldn't have ended. They may have thought that the other was walking all over them and kicked themselves for allowing them to.. so when the time came.. they walked away.. from each other and into the arms of others who would be nice and lovely to them.. and would make them feel good about themselves.. which is what they had originally :( I'll always be glad they tried.. and hope one day, they can be too.
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