Hope you don't mind me butting in here but I was drawn to a discussion of the Archers, representation of accents and Wimsey irresistibly, like a dove drawn to its mate, don't ya know.
I was quite impressed that Caroline immediately recognised crack when finding it under Ed's mattress - I'd certainly have to spend a bit of time with Google images before I felt confident of correctly identifying a range of illicit substances, or perhaps this was part of their fostering training?
How very true; I'd not recognise it if I met it in my soup, to be honest, and I'm not even 40 yet.
Surely it's not part of their foster training; Caroline sniffs at a heap of powder, has a little taste and says 'Yes, typical low-grade UK coke, mostly speed in fact, with an aftertaste of Vim.'
Did Caroline have a dodgy youth, enabling her to guess at what it wasn't? (small brown lumps, in my imagination)
I suppose she might have read something about it in the Sunday papers? I thought it was fairly obvious Ed was on something other than drink and dope, not that I would have been able to correctly identify the narcotic of choice from behaviour. I seem to vaguely remember that crack is white, but that isn't much help.
You do, however, need more paraphenalia to take crack than most drugs, IIRC - maybe she found something like that as well and put twoand two together?
I attended a wedding over the weekend where I discovered that I knew more about drugs than anyone else present (including a number of doctors) - entirely due to the drugs under discussion being crack and ketamine. I did eventially admit that it was because Ed took crack and Jazzer dabbled in the special-k, which lowered my street cred noticably.
I'm not sure how much time elapsed between her finding the stuff and Oliver coming in again, so perhaps she was frantically googling "dubious illicit substances", so as to make sure of what it was (since I could believe her seeing it and instantly recognising it as Bad Stuff).
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T'Archers
Date: 2006-08-09 08:39 pm (UTC)I was quite impressed that Caroline immediately recognised crack when finding it under Ed's mattress - I'd certainly have to spend a bit of time with Google images before I felt confident of correctly identifying a range of illicit substances, or perhaps this was part of their fostering training?
Re: T'Archers
Date: 2006-08-10 12:10 pm (UTC)Surely it's not part of their foster training; Caroline sniffs at a heap of powder, has a little taste and says 'Yes, typical low-grade UK coke, mostly speed in fact, with an aftertaste of Vim.'
Did Caroline have a dodgy youth, enabling her to guess at what it wasn't? (small brown lumps, in my imagination)
Re: T'Archers
Date: 2006-08-10 01:48 pm (UTC)You do, however, need more paraphenalia to take crack than most drugs, IIRC - maybe she found something like that as well and put twoand two together?
Re: T'Archers
Date: 2006-08-22 04:21 pm (UTC)Re: T'Archers
Date: 2006-08-10 01:51 pm (UTC)And hello, by the way!