Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

Waggoners Roll (2000)

Tom Owen: Tom

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mrs Avery : You want to know the future. You want me to be psychic.

  Tom : There's good money in psychic.

  Mrs Avery : So here's a forecast. That billy-goat you bought: it's pregnant.

• [last lines] 

  Tom : She wants to stop, but what do you do 'round here?

  Clegg : I don't know, but the days soon go.

  Truly : I bet they go as well here as anywhere.

  Clegg : We're not always so quiet. You'll see come buttercup milking.

  Clegg : Come what?

  Truly : It's all go then, dawn 'til dusk.

  Clegg : It's not all work, mind you. There's dancing, and singing in the fields.

  Truly : Crowning the Buttercup Queen.

  Clegg : These hills are alive to the sound of music.

  Truly : And leather trousers.

  Clegg : Course, you'll need a set of bells.

  Tom : For what?

  Clegg : For your trousers. We all wear bells that week.

  Tom : Pulling me chain.

  Clegg : You'll see.

  Truly : For that week only, bells are compulsory. No male is allowed to move unless he tinkles.

  Clegg : It goes all the way back to the Dark Ages, when they were desperate to find some way to stop bumping into each other.

  Tom : I can see I'm going to have to watch meself 'round here.