Julie Walters credited as playing...
Annie
- Annie: You baked that?
- Chris: I'm not a total dead loss as a woman. I can't knit or make plum jam but I can bake a bloody Victoria sponge.
- Annie: Ok, thank you.
- Chris: Course, I didn't actually bake this one - I got it at Marks and Spencer - but the point is...
- Annie: You can't enter a cake you bought in a shop!
- Chris: Get off! It doesn't matter where it comes from, does it? This is about putting up a united front against Highgyll. This isn't bakery. It's Zulu.
- Ruth: Well, I think it's a great idea.
- Cora: You weren't concentrating, were you Ruth?
- Ruth: I was. We're going to raise money to buy a sofa for the hospital in John's name.
- Celia: By posing for a nude calendar!
- Ruth: Oh no!
- Chris: Oh sit down. I'm not asking you to straddle an 'Arley Davidson.
- Celia: It's still a bit of a leap from Burnsall church, love.
- Chris: That's the 'ole point. It's an alternative calendar, it's...
- Annie: It's what John suggested.
- Chris: Did he?
- Annie: The last stage of the flower is the most glorious. So what this calendar would be saying is "actually, yes John, we agree".
- Ruth: With respect, I didn't hear him use the phrase "whip your bras off"
- Marie: I do know how you must be feeling.
- Annie: Do you? Oh dear.
- Marie: Are you sure John would have approved?
- Annie: You said yourself, you didn't know him.
- Marie: I know he was a decent man...
- Annie: If your concern is for the reputation of Knapely WI...
- Marie: It's not.
- Annie: I think it is. The WI is about doing good. And what does more good? Knowing slightly more about broccoli one week than we did the last or providing some comfort for someone in the worst hours of their life because that's what it's like sweetheart. And no. I don't think you do know how I feel.
- [talking to Chris about her dead husband, John]
- Annie: I'd rob every penny from this calendar if it would buy me just one more hour with him.
- Marie: Victoria Sponge. Annie's on Victoria sponge.
- [Marie leaves. Chris dives under the table and brings out a cake tin]
- Ruth: What's that?
- Chris: Well, Annie won't have had time running Yul Brynner in and out of Skipton General, so ta da!
- Annie: Sorry I'm late. It just took a bit longer than... Oh my God, the cake!
- Chris: Told you.
- Cora: I'm surprised they printed it.
- Jessie: It's probably all over the internet by now.
- Annie: By the sound of it, most people have seen it already.
- Chris: Lots of people have photos taken with their tops off on holiday in Ibiza don't they?
- Ruth: It probably just came as a slight shock Chris, what with the previous fifteen photos being of flower arrangements.
- Chris Harper: [about John's cancer] So, what kind is it he's got?
- Annie Clarke: He says he's going to call it Saddam Hussein.