Nuts in May Page #2

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Yes.

And eating great bowls of fruit

and luscious grapes

and drinking wine out of golden goblets.

Must have been lovely.

KEITH:
Look at this view.

Brownsea Island, Round Island,

the Lakeland of Dorset.

Pity about the power station

in the background, never mind.

There are the heaths, Newton Heath,

Rempstone Heath, Wych Heath,

disused railway line going up

to Wareham, and the great nimbocumulus

rising above it all

like great puffs of cotton wool.

-Look at all this rubbish, Keith.

-What?

-Isn't it awful? Look at those tin cans.

-Yes.

Just imagine, Keith, if all the people

who lived here could come back

and see all these crisp bags

and sweet papers.

-Yes.

-They'd be horrified, wouldn't they?

They'd find it difficult to comprehend

all the changes that have

taken place in the world.

-Do you think they do come back, Keith?

-What?

-Their ghosts.

-No.

There's a car going up the B3351 .

CANDICE MARIE:
Lovely, aren't they?

KEITH:
Yes. Very nice.

Go on ahead, get up, go.

(HUMMING)

Good morning.

-Morning.

-KEITH:
I wonder if you could help me.

I'm trying to get hold

of some untreated milk.

-Oh, yeah?

-Do you have any?

About 400 gallons.

Well, could you sell me some?

-No chance.

-Oh, why not?

-It's illegal, isn't it?

-KEITH:
Sorry?

It's illegal.

Against the law, not allowed.

Well, we can buy untreated milk

in our health shop at home.

Ah, yeah, well that would be

because it'd be from an accredited herd.

They've got a licence, I haven't.

What's wrong with your herd?

Nothing's wrong with my herd,

or with the milk, drink it myself.

So does the wife, all the kids,

everybody on this farm.

Well, why can't we drink it?

It's all sent off for pasteurisation,

you see.

We sell through

the milk marketing board.

-That's not very good for it, is it?

-What, pasteurisation?

I was under the impression

it reduced the nutritive value.

That's all bollocks, that.

No, it doesn't affect

the protein content at all.

No, it just kills a few bugs,

stops a few diseases, you know,

TB, brucellosis, salmonella.

Well, surely it would be better to have

an accredited herd in the first place

instead of a herd that's full of

all those dreadful diseases.

Well, I trust my cows

aren't full of dreadful diseases,

at least I hope not.

None of us dropped dead yet.

You know,

if people like you want to spend

a bloody fortune on untreated milk,

well, I'd go accredited.

Just a question of economics.

Yes, well, economics are at the root

of quite a few of the world's problems.

Society gets what society wants.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

FARMER:
You people like to pay me

a fortune for it, I'd go accredited.

-Keith.

-Hmm?

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