12.01pm, Some of the HM's are in the garden. John will never pass up food ever, ever again!! (He forfeited food that Josie would cook him outside the house as he rated it only 2/10!!) A ladybird has landed on Josie's bikini strap in the pool 'when have you ever seen a yellow ladybird?' I thought the yellow coloured ones were a common ladybird species; John comments that they get them in Australia.
JOSIE: Do you? We don't.
Shabby wants a closer look, so Josie edges towards her holding up the strap for her to get a better view.
Ben has been called to the Diary room. He's told that infront of him is a box containing his outfit for today's task, he must get changed immediately. Ben jests that he is going to feel like an 'out of work PE teacher!' and that BB really know how to make people feel good about themselves! He thinks his combat fatigues are bl**dy awful and then enters the small task room. Why the frown, chief?
Josie is talking about Bristol and how everyone there talks to everybody 'but in London it's not like that!' Scowling Shabby disagrees but says for Josie to carry on. Jose would never move to London because she doesn't want to join the rat race. (After BB she did live in 2 different apartments in London but this was because she needed to be there for work, her roots and heart was always left in Bristol) The term 'rat race' is lost on John so he seeks clarification.
Shabby really hates the way people view London and it makes her upset because she's a proud Londoner. Love is starting to fade within her for the HM's who have dared to insult her beloved hometown, so she slinks away! Caoimhe is voicing her dislike for waiting in traffic then realises that Shabby has left 'is she p*ssed off there?'
JOSIE: Yeah, probably.. knowing Shabby. I'm getting a bit sick of her tantrums to be honest.
Shabby lays on the sofa and stuffs her face into a cushion, she rattily tells Steve and Dave that's she has come in because they're slagging off London and she doesn't like it! Steve doesn't like London either :D No one will coddle the Katchadourian!
Mike
Hawke bursts into the small task room demanding that Ben gets 'on
your feet!' Ben
doesn't understand the command 'sorry?'
So is then told in no uncertain terms to 'Stand
up!' he
then obeys greeting his slave driver with a stoic 'hello.'
Combat
Ken backs up next to the wall, smiling that it's nice to see another
person.
Mr
Ben is informed that Private is the lowest rank in the army and he is
now Hawke's Private. Ben is welcomed to Hawke's HELL and briefed that
Hawke has been in the army longer than Ben's been sucking air! :D
Hawke labels Ben an oxygen thief as Ben has been stealing air. He is
here as Ben needs a little motivation appreciation, Hawke wants Ben
to stand in the position of attention when he's being addressed.
Ben seizes his hand to his head, but since Hawke hadn't asked for a salute 'that's gonna cost you!' He's made to stand in the centre of the room, face the window and start running 'double time!' Benny starts up a gentle jog on the spot, kicking his lilly legs back. He's not managing to make it look very macho but is then instructed to go faster with his knees higher! He'd rather be pecked to death by an angry bluetit, I'd expect!
HAWKE: There's only do or die! That's it. Anything else is quitting. You're just gonna have to keep going until I get tired. (Ben closes his eyes as he attempts to suck it up and prays that Hawke will be merciful)
Shabby stands on top of the sofa, to deliver her sermon about what annoys her is that you'd be crucified for slating most people's home towns! She is irked that they can be proud Bristolians and Dubliners 'but it seems like London's fair game for people!' As much as they love their f**king cities, she loves hers and if it has to be slagged off 'at least say something good!' She is now being deliberately stupid scoffing that London is not the rat race 'shut up!'
Ben is on the floor doing press ups, looking like a wriggly worm or a 'sloppy little girl!' as Hawke insults him. He stops to take an unauthorised rest break sitting against the wall saying he will do it in his own time. 'I'm not going to be bullied by you!' Hawke lowers to Ben's level, so his eyes are boring down directly in stupid idiot man's face 'do you think you can get out of Hawke's hell that easily?'
Hawke
puts the question to Ben - who do you care most about in this house?
Ben's answer is 'probably
David.' He's
presented with a choice that he can either continue right now, or
quit and Hawke will get someone else to replace Ben, to suffer TWICE
as badly in his place. And that person will know that Ben is the one
who put them through it. Ben bleats that he will tell them.
HAWKE:
(Barks) Are
you going to make someone else suffer in your place? Voluntarily
choosing to put another member of this house, in here in your place
because you are refusing to do some simple exercises? (Ben
believes it would be their choice) I
do not hear you saying that you are going to do the exercises. Are
you going to continue?
BEN:
(stares back blankly, pausing) No.
1.06pm,
some of the HM's are in the garden. Dave
is directed to the Diary room where he will be drafted into the Army!
Ben foolishly tries to engage Hawke in conversation about where he's
from in America and if he can think of any American leader that has
achieved anything, without following orders. Captain America has to
suppress a smirk!
Ben
is getting his goat and swigs from his water bottle, he wouldn't last
a second on the Serengeti!
Dave
is dressed in his GI Joe doll uniform but doesn't like the look of
this, in all fairness.
DAVE:
Camo gear would suggest something military, which always involves
exercise! Look at me - I'm overweight!! I'm clinically obese, I
haven't done anything wrong it was Ben that failed miserably.
Refused to obey the tree, not me! I love trees! Every sort of tree!
BB
asks him to enter the small task room, he is met with a 'hello
buddy' from his former buddy Ben. Ben is beckoned back to the
Diary room and bids Sir a warm goodbye 'it's been a pleasure!'
This has Davo laughing before being bellowed at to start running.
Dave takes it all in good humour and steps to it.
Ben is back in the main house, Shabby summons Ben to 'pray tell us!' John yawns during Ben's story time of how he was put in the task room wearing the army gear, when an army corporal came in and started screaming at him.
JOHN: A real person?
BEN: Yeah, saying I was a poor excuse for a human being, I was pathetic, I wasn't a real man and all this sort of stuff. And I was going to have to man up!
John titters with his eyes shut tightly. Ben goes over how he ran on the spot for 5 minutes but then they wanted him to do press ups and sits up.
BEN: I said this is where I draw the line. I just sat down and said 'I'm not gonna do it!' And then I looked him in the eye and said 'I'm willing for someone else to do it!'
Josie slaps her knee cackling and John joins in guffawing; Shabby realises this is why Dave is in there now. John tells Ben he should have got him in there 'I'd have done it!' Ben's point is that everyone can decide whether they want to do it or not so he doesn't feel guilty that Dave has replaced him.
BEN: If Dave doesn't want to do it, he'll sit down and stop!
Dave banters with Hawke that he's a naughty boy! Hawke responds that Dave doesn't even know it but he gives him a little bit of hope. He's a hell of a lot more of a man than the fellow that just walked out. Hawke commends Dave for thinking about his HM's and taking a little bit for the team.
DAVE: Yeah, not too much!
Ben defends his choice of Dave, he thought in light of recent events it'd be wrong for him to choose Mario and he wasn't going to pick one of those guys. So he went with Dave knowing he's got a sense of humour, he's big and tough and if he doesn't want to do it he doesn't have to. He laughs that now Dave is doing the exercises he was meant to do.
Dave is growling and gunning for 'BEN! BEN! BEN!' as he works out on his hands and knees. He's then back to jogging, which he says he hasn't done for about 20 years and shows the camera his belly which is a combination of no exercise, takeaways and bad living.
Hawke bores, he bullies, he blahs that he doesn't like the way Dave's running; Dave is sorry about that.
HAWKE: Just bounce. You're a little bunny rabbit, just hopping along the trail.
The Welsh rabbit perseveres with his persecution, working up a stupendous sweat and looking like a grasshopper on a BBQ! Showing no signs of surrender and admirably making up for Ben's cowardice. (Ad break)
1.50pm, Dave has been exercising for 25 minutes. He is laying on the floor panting, feeling that there's really no point to life. Hawke orders for him to get his legs straight.
DAVE: They are straight. Couldn't get any straighter!
Hawke hollers for Dave to get his hands under his buttocks (said in the exact same accent as Forrest Gump) and get his feet and knees up off the ground at a 45 degree angle 'now hold them there!'
DAVE: (takes a stand) You're horrible!
What he's got to do now is think about Ben and stay in that position, until he's told he can get out of it. Beads of perspiration wet his brow and his glasses are fogged over. He lowers his legs the instant Hawke leaves the room, praising 'glory' as he handles his funbags. BB calls for Dave to go to the Diary room, putting an end to his misery.
Steve, Ife and John James are in the living room. John is not passing judgment, but if the Tree of Temptation gave him something he didn't want to do 'I'd have to judge it at the time but I would accept punishment.' Steve certainly couldn't have picked his mate; there's no way John could have done that to a friend.
John sees the funny side to it as does Ife, but the more she gets to know Ben the more and more she sees that he's not prepared to put himself out there.
JOHN: For the good of the group.
IFE: For himself I mean! Let alone the group.
Yesterday Ben and Mario fell out. Ben walk round to Mario's bed saying sorry he hadn't meant to annoy him yesterday 'it's just one of those things!' Mario turns his back on Ben in a babyish manner.
BEN: Will you ever talk to me again? Literally?
His words will make a psychotic enemy out of Mario yet 'you did say some pretty wicked things to me and I don't mind!' Dave returns to the house and John walks over to step up and replace him.
JOHN: Send me in. I'll f**king do this sh*t! Did you choose me?
Dave looks in dire need of a burger but declares that he's done it and it was horrible! John is first in line to give the guy a high five and wrap an arm around him. Steve says he has Ben to thank for it; Dave describes how he was running on the spot for 45 minutes and doing sit ups.
He thinks he finished it and had been told that Ben was a coward for refusing to do it. 'They said who do you love most in the house, to take your place? So he picked me.' Ife, Josie, Steve and John give him a supportive round of applause, telling him how well he's done. Dave lays himself down on the sofa to revive and recuperate until he is him again.
Ben is bothering Mario about what he can do to make it up to him again. Mopey Mario is maybe ready to strangle Ben with his bed sheet 'what do you want from me Ben?' Ben doesn't want anything from him and never has but they'd had a misunderstanding in the hut yesterday.
BEN: You took something the wrong way, particularly when I had a very stressful task to do. Which I managed to do in spite of everything.
Mario doesn't dilly dally in deducing that Ben reveled in it and that's why he is there 'for your audience!' Ben returns that they both know it will do more harm to any career in that area. Crabby pants snipes that he wouldn't want to harm Ben's TV career in America. Ben is old enough and ugly enough to know better than making out it had been a joke.
The useless twit AKA Ben doesn't think he can be defined as a coward because he stood up to the army commando! Dave heads out desiring a dip in the pool, Ben follows after apologising for choosing him. He digresses that he did so, knowing Dave would stop if he got bored. Dave was bored the whole time!!
BEN: He's an arsehole, isn't he?
Dave reports back that all he'd kept reminding him was that Ben was a coward and Dave was taking one for the team. Ben believes Dave should have just refused; Dave sighs that he can't as someone has to do it.
BEN: Yeah but they'll find someone who enjoys to do it. That's the point.
2.22pm, Caoimhe and Ben are in the bathroom. The old man is ticked off that Mario is being an ultra b*tch to him today!! (This is the guy who told Mario he only said KIND things about him :S) He laughs that he'd gone in to apologise but Mario had refused it telling him 'you're only here for your career!'
CAOIMHE: He said that? Oh my God! He has issues!
For passing this week's shopping task, HM's have been given a premium shopping budget. Josie has taken charge and John is leaning on the back of her chair, almost protectively hovering. Nathan stands up stressing as the shopping list does his head in, but then sits back down just as suddenly.
Josie calls out items such as sunflower spread and Mario writes it down, doing the sums. She goes to check in the fridge what type they already have as they all like that one. But Nathan butts in saying 'no, we want spreadable butter, don't we?' Josie thought he'd got the spread previously but he insists upon butter and practically snatches the folder from underneath her fingertips, to regain control. He flips to the coffee page and Josie gets up and goes to the garden.
SHABBY: Every week we've eaten what those guys buy.
JOHN: You don't have to tell me. I'm f**king just as p*ssed off as you guys! But getting a word in there is like talking to a monkey!
Shabby wants a bottle of spicy sauce at least; Ife smiles that they should just get a load of stuff that they really want. Shabs feels that she's living under more rules here than she was at home 'this is the worst it's ever been!' Josie's never been under so many rules in her life!
SHABBY: Do you know what? It's not even Big Brother's rules that gets me. It's not. It's f**king Nathan, man!
JOSIE: He's my mate, but I've had enough of it!
JOHN: (looking pouty and sexy) I don't even bother going in the kitchen no more. You can't get in there anyway!
Shabby whines that it is their f**king kitchen! Josie doesn't even eat a lot of English food to be honest, she and Shabby share a taste for spicy cuisine. Jose wants to cook a meal for everybody; John asks 'well why don't ya?' That is what she'd wanted to do just there but Nathan's getting stressy as he hasn't had a fag! She vows to cook a meal one night that week.
JOSIE: (back to tarting herself up.. not really, just re-applying make up) He can't just rule the kitchen and think he's Gordon f**king Ramsay now!
Some of the HM's are in the kitchen. The Darth Vader of the BB house is calling off frozen peas from the shopping list. John and Josie have come back in, Ife runs in telling Josie she has an idea that they can use her white eyeliner, as they've run out of chalk. The big wig bids her to take it outside! As she and Josie continue to talk, Nate gets arsey because he's trying to concentrate and it's 'mind-f**king!'
JOSIE: (takes the task off his hands) Well do you want to let me have a go?
The sweaty and lanky lad lets her go for it but Dave deliberates that they need him! Josie justifies that all it is doing is getting Nath stressed out but the mule won't reason with her, he accounts his stress being because of the noise.
NATHAN: You don't understand how f**king bad this is Josie!
JOSIE: Well we'd all like to have a little input!
NATHAN: Well do it then!
His f**king point is 'do you know how f**king hard this is? We need to get all the basics so we can eat!' Josie does know (for she is not a numskull!) she is not wanting to inconvenience him but he is still demanding to know what kind of input she wants. Jose would like to cook a meal for everyone.
NATHAN: (a little pointed) Do it then.
JOSIE: Alright, I will.
Some of the HM's are in the garden. Boy, I tell you Ben has got nerve! He would not have minded if Dave had refused to do a punishment which meant that they all lost something. His love and respect for Dave is enough that he is willing to go without food. Dave asks what about the rest of the team and John questions 'what if they had said, 'Benny you have to do it or the rest of the house is gonna be punished?' Ben would have let the house be punished and they can nominate him on Monday.
JOHN: (flabbergastamoomoo) What? B*llshit! Are you serious, Ben?
Really Ben passed the buck, forcing Dave to take on his punishment which had he not the whole house would have been punished. Ben believes in individual liberty and the person's right to choose - he's wrong in about 100 different ways! What Nathan sees as 10 people suffering and thinks fair play to Ben's freedom of choice but it's the wrong choice!
Ben didn't think Dave would do it and yells 'I am apologising to you!' as he was told that another person would have to do it. He chose Dave thinking that as he has a sense of humour and is easy-going, he'd go in there and do as he had, do a few, get bored and 'say YOU'RE HAVIN' A LAFF! The glory wouldn't expect me to do it! And sit on your tukkas like I did!' Tukkas?
BEN: It's Latin for bum! :P
JOHN: I'm not trying to change you, Benny! I'm just asking what your opinions are.. now I know, it's all good.
NATHAN: Now we know, we just can't trust you as far as we can f**king throw ya!
Ben is aggrieved as this implies he is going to knife someone in the back and he wouldn't do that. Dave and Nathan shout that he just had!
BEN: No, I knifed him in the front! Because he's my friend and he had a right to refuse.
Dave wouldn't like to see what Ben does to his enemies if this is what he does to his friends. Effectively Ben was figuratively defecating on his so-called friends and his sorries rarely have a speck of sincerity. He just regrets being caught out and called up on his betrayals.
John advises for Ife to concentrate while Caoimhe calls out for her to turn faster. Her dancing background serves her well as she is able to fix her head on one object as she spins around in a way that Kylie Minogue would be proud of! Ife does not once lose her balance or fall from the circle, so when the klaxon signals the time is up the HM's clap her euphorically.
Ife hopes she has passed and Shabs voices her concern that she was going to fall off one way, after they had egged her on to go faster. It had felt a bit slow to Ife but Mario is sure she 'did awesome!'
Everyone is chuffed that Ife has passed the challenge! Shabby gloats '3 to the HM's, ZERO to the viewers!'
For passing You vs the HM's, Ife has won alcohol for the house which will be delivered later night. Ife feels like an olympic champion as she makes her round of the circle, accepting praise, congratulations and cuddles from everyone. Shabby labels today as looking rosy!
In the background, Nathan the grim-yucky-yucky-makes-me-feel-bleurgh has mounted Josie and gives her the typewriter. The main man, Mr Parton looks like his heart has taken a pounding :( We hear her yelping for him to 'GET OFF!'
Ife bets Ben couldn't be bothered, preferring instead to lay in the sun and get brown and if she asked him, she suspects he'd say 'yes!' Mario plans to make peace with him tonight, he's still upset by what Ben said but has decided he can either be upset until the end of time or he can just f**king get over it. Here's hoping this spells the end of Mr Grumpy!
IFE: Like you said, be a bit more wary of it.
SHABBY: But I bet she's a f**king animal later on! Ben?
Caoimhe wouldn't kiss Ben considering it would be hideous and slathers her tongue about in a gross fashion, to graphically demo this. She also doesn't believe that John James would have much experience so accolades herself as being probably the best kisser in there!
CAOIMHE: Damn right, I would say I'm the best kisser!
Shabby really highly doubts that as she herself is known for her f**king kissing skills. Caoimhe pumps up her own ego 'no, I'm really amazing!' cos she knows how to kiss. So does Shabby so Caoimhe concedes they can be a tie; she wants to know when the cigarettes will be there as she's getting really stressy now.
JOHN: Get those lollies out! (whispers in Mario's ear) Yeah don't give any of the smokers any!
Dave, Mario and John collect all the non-smokers snacks such as: crisps and jaffa cakes and wonder where they are going to keep them all.
JOHN: We'll stash 'em!
Shabby is straight out that Nathan had been like a different boy the past couple of days. He concurs that he was 'not a happy chappy!' Caoimhe accounts that she's seen a different side of herself as she was up the wall. Shabby knows that she gets rages but isn't usually 'that f**king snappy with people!'
The lads carry their stash into the bedroom and John calls out that he is putting his down by his bed, to hide it.
JOHN: (no cuts, no buts, no coconuts) If someone takes my sh*t, so the f**king Tree of Temptation, gives anyone a task to steal my sh*t - I'll hammer him!!
DAVE: I've gotta have a bit of this chocolate boys, before we go any further.
JOHN: (sprawls back comfortably on his bed) Yeah. I'll be sitting here, right here!
He does the math that the smokers got about £12 each to spend on cigarettes and Dave finishes the sum that they had only had about £6 - so the smokers received double! John is tucking into some of his tucker while Mario helds Steve conceal his crisps under his pillow.
9.18pm, some of the HM's are at the carousel. It's been 37 minutes since the shopping was delivered. Caoimhe imagines if there was only one smoker and how they'd be f**ked as nobody would understand. She has never had withdrawal symptoms like that before in her life!
Ben and Mario are in the bedroom. Mario cuts to the chase that he doesn't want to fall out with Ben and does think of him as his friend, as does Ben. Mario has been thinking about it and doesn't know why he got so high and righteous about it, because it is Ben's career when he gets out. If it is Ben's goal, he shouldn't be upset with him about it but if it is he doesn't want to impede his opportunity, by affiliating Ben with any of those kind of things.
JOHN: Once I made a cheese sandwich! (chuckles) Other than what Nathan cooks.. I thought that was the deal! I thought that's what everyone had to do.
JOSIE: No. Is it f**k! (in between thumb sucks)
JOHN: (evaluates in his usual calm, cool, collected manner) So people have seriously just been making food whenever they f**king feel like?
JOSIE: I have, yeah!
JOHN: Have ya?
JOSIE: Yeeeeah! (brushes her hair)
JOHN: Oh. Well f**k that sh*t then!
Back to Ben and Mario - Mario makes plain that when someone upsets him he needs to be away from them. Ben feels Mario deserves an explanation that what he'd said was ill-timed and ill-judged but it was a throwaway comment and it wasn't meant seriously. As Mario rightly pointed out 'in a slightly cruel fashion' Ben doesn't even have a career in that medium over here, let alone in America.
As a lot of people who know Ben know, he says a lot of things tongue-in-cheek with a small hint of truth in them. He doesn't deny that he'd love to do something in America and there are areas of the arts he'd love to be involved in but he's not. Ben feels he's been upfront with Mario about that from the start but whatever he is he's not a deluded person. He has no delusions that he has some sort of career that he doesn't or that being on BB will help it.
This could do a lot of harm to what he's already doing, so he's taking a huge risk by doing this in many ways. In regards to the comment he made, he meant that purely in jest to what Mario had just said and realises it was probably insensitive. He hadn't meant it offensively.
JOSIE: We know when we're not wanted.
Mario goes on that if he feels someone is personally attacking him, he responds with a venomous comment and it's something he has to work on. Ben's point is that he likes Mario for the way he is and wouldn't want him to be different. Mario is not going to be different, so Ben believes that Mario should like him for the way he is.
BEN: When you run round with your testicles showing and things like that, you do that for fun and because that's a part of your character! And I like that because it's a part of your character.
However, neither he or his friends would ever do that because it's not them. What he's trying to say is that everyone is different and has different boundaries of what's acceptable and what is not and different notions of what should be public and what shouldn't. Mario wouldn't be speaking to him if he didn't still want to be his friend, Ben understands all that.
MARIO: Just remember, if people get p*ssed off with you.. you've always got my shield to hide behind.
Ben thanks him very much indeed and they hug it out. (ad break)
In the bedroom, Nathan and co. needle Ben for leaving his crap around the bedroom. Dave jibes that he was probably waiting for somebody else to tidy it away! BB announces that as Dave was so courageous taking Ben's place in the task today, he has won back all remaining suitcases. The store room is open for HM's to collect them and they run faster than the wind!
John clutches and almost dances with the hero of the hour in gratitude of his efforts. Shabby has to break the news to Ben that his is empty as she starts wheeling them out. Ben oh well's as he can live with that, Nathan derides him as he deserves that! John woooooos giddily like a little laddie as he whizzes through the kitchen to fetch his case.
He's even even happier than a clam to detect that his suitcase feels heavier than before! Corin asks Dave if he'd known he would win back their cases; all they'd said to him is if he didn't do it the house would be punished. Corin and Mario sing 'for he's a jolly good fellow' to Dave (dismally) - what is this High School musical? :D Shabby spots the note left in Ben's empty trunk 'this wrath was brought to you courtesy of the Tree of Temptation!'
Seahorse refutes this entirely as he knows a lot of very, very intelligent people who would be more than happy to get 'a seat on thingy' and to live a comfortable life off of 60 grand. Nate, he's a scrapper and if the intelligence of those he knows, matches his own they'll never get a seat in the HOUSE OF COMMONS!
JOHN: Why do you always have to show me up on TV like that?
JOSIE: (naturally vivacious) I've just come in the Diary room to tell you, that I've changed this man! (fondles his jacket) He's turned over a new leaf! He's no longer the argumentative Austraaaaalian bugger he once was! (John giggles his heart is light) He's now a fully fledged Bristolian! (he bashfully buries his head into her breasts) This guy has got through two (John holds up 2 fingers to emphasise his achievement) whooooole days without having one argument.We're so proud of him! (with pride she places a hand on John's heart)
JOHN: (brags) Yep. Two!
JOSIE: And this is why he's a fully fledged Bristolian!
JOSIE: What do we say?
Combine harvester was a song I detested and when they I realised what the song was I was willing them 'DON'T SING IT! DON'T SING IT!' but they made it into magic.. John surrenders to the music and starts up with gusto 'I've got a Combine 'Arvester.. wait!' He turns to Josie for a prompting of the lyrics and then he goes all out.
(sung in a West Country lilt) "I've got a brand new combine 'arvester and I'll give you the keys! Bom bom bom bom. You've got 40 acres and I've got 43.. bom bom bom bom! I've got a brand new combine 'arvester and I'll give you the keys. Bom bom bom bom!"
Wooooooooo that little Peanut head can sing :)
JOHN: (says it with the cute boy dimples) It took me a long time to do that!
JOSIE: Yeah, but you didn't put enough (gruffly) uuurr! (sings) I've got a brand new combine 'arvester! You gotta do it like that.
John copies her intonation and dictation as he re-sings the chorus. Josie joins in to inspire more oooomph on the 'I've!' which makes up a darling dulcet duet :) John's big toothy grin and Josie's gleaming smile is so squeefully sweet - they both radiate elation and glow from within. They really are beautiful together and it was special to see such a lovely connection between them.
Now whenever it is played a smile plasters over my mouth and I sigh wistfully.. for those days gone by of snuggles, sexiness, silliness and soppiness :'(
NATHAN: You're so far removed!
Ben can understand why Nathan says that and why he disagrees but he knows a little about politics and some MP's from all sides. And what he will say is 'ordinary people .. and I hate to have to use that term' aren't necessarily aware of how hard MP's have to work. Nathan's heart bleeds (!) but Ben isn't asking for his heart to bleed just wants to hammer it home that MP's have to work round the clock.
Seahorse puts forward a very convincing argument about the nurses who have to work 40 hour shifts for 22 grand a year 'saving lives!' Ben agrees with that as Nathan won't allow him to interfere as he rants about them living off black coffee and returning to their council flats. Ben is the first person to think that the nursing profession needs more funding. Nathan and Corin add soldiers, firemen and the police to the list. Ben again agrees.
Nathan locks horns with Ben for pleading the case that his pities and sympathy lies with people from privilege, with jobs that see themselves as hard done by. And that is WHICKETY WHACK!! Ben is simply making the point that with most jobs, with the exception of the armed forces people clock on at one time and clock off at another. This conversation makes me want to throw myself under a train!
JOHN: It says Brizzle is the shizzle!
JOSIE: Hellloooooooo!!
JOHN: She wants me to wear it on my eviction next Friday! (giggles making Josie chuckle too)
JOSIE: (Gingerly) Please don't take Johnny boy away from me! The house wouldn't be right without him. He makes my days go faster!
John awws, nestles his peanut against her pumpkin head and rubs her back. John starts off their 'I love you' signing which Josie does back to him and then they get all bashful. Josie repeats hers to make an addition and says it aloud this time 'I love you too!' John awws again before the HL's come to the cutest closing everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr as they steal all gooey glances at each other. <3
Josie had a real calming effect on John during those days, her harmonal pep talks did the trick with him. John was willing to do anything for his bestie back then and for a long time after the BB house too. This was something he was constantly whispering to her as they embraced in bed - that he would do anything for her. It was crystal clear that he meant it too as his love for her became his entire world!
Did her days seem endless when he first left? Even though it has been near enough 2 years and from what we can tell they are content and happy (or else SURELY they'd do something to change their circumstances if they wanted to be together?) DO their days go slower? All I know is "it's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember." ;)
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