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00:23There she was, lying in a hospital bed in a state of collapse,
00:26worrying about whether Michelle and me was eating properly.
00:30No sign of concern for me, I noticed.
00:32I told her I said poorly and we're old enough and ugly enough to look after ourselves.
00:36You'll be saying that to me next.
00:37Now, don't you start. I've got enough on my plate. Is your tea all right?
00:40I've got any biscuits.
00:45How is she?
00:46She'd be all right if she stopped fretting.
00:48Whoa, you do fret when you're ill.
00:51If you come to see your mum, she's gone home to see you.
00:55Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Arthur.
00:58I should have had a plate. I'm very sorry.
01:01Are we having tea?
01:02You'll have to sing for your supper, I'm afraid,
01:04and the floor needs doing since you're here,
01:06and your mother wants a nightly washing.
01:08Oh, well, if I'm expecting that.
01:10I'll do the cooking, Dad.
01:12I know you will.
01:13Better go. I hope your mum's feeling better tomorrow, all right?
01:15Are you going to stay for tea?
01:16No.
01:28Oh, there you are.
01:30What do you want, Ethel?
01:31Here.
01:31I think I got myself into trouble.
01:33Blimey, a bit old for that, isn't she, girl?
01:35Oh, well, better late than never.
01:38Here.
01:39Look, I'll chill it in.
01:41Go on gas.
01:44Blanket for Willie's basket.
01:45Oh.
01:47Here.
01:47It says, pearl robe before...
01:50Ethel. Ethel.
01:51The only pearls I know anything about
01:53are the ones that go round me neck.
01:56Here.
01:57Ask her.
01:59Here.
02:00Do they teach you knitting these days?
02:02Well, come home, Sharon.
02:03How was school?
02:04Fine, thanks, Mum.
02:05I suppose they do it on computers, don't they?
02:08Do you want to know about, Ethel?
02:08Well, I've got some problems with this.
02:12Knitting?
02:12Is that all you've got to worry about?
02:14Wish I was old.
02:15You're wishing your life away.
02:16Give it here.
02:17Well, it's not meant to be all old-y like that.
02:21Not unless it's a dishrag, no.
02:22Oh, well.
02:24You go on and tell me where I've gone wrong.
02:26Your arsehole's better than mine.
02:28I hate knitting.
02:29Oh, that's one of the problems of old age.
02:31Failing arsehole.
02:32At least you're past having my sort of problems.
02:35God, you've dropped millions of stitches here.
02:36Huh?
02:37Here.
02:38What sort of problems?
02:40I suppose you want to pick them up for you now, do you?
02:41Well, I mean, what problem could a young woman like you have that I haven't got?
02:48Put it down, Kay.
02:50Come and talk to me.
02:51I'm not in the middle of a bit of this pattern, Pete.
02:53It's becoming an obsession, that is.
02:54What's the hurry?
02:55I want to finish it while she's still in hospital.
02:58I thought I might cheer her up.
02:59Hello, love her school.
03:01Fine, thanks.
03:02Your tea's ready.
03:03Come back here when your mother's talking to you.
03:06Sorry.
03:07Something wrong, Ian?
03:09No.
03:10I'll get his tea out the oven for him, will you, Pete?
03:11Look, I'm right in the middle of doing this.
03:13Get it himself.
03:14He's not helpless.
03:15Oh, keep your hair on.
03:16What's the matter with him?
03:18Don't punch like that.
03:19See?
03:20All that coddling gets you.
03:25Now, the fare to the hospital is 55p.
03:27That makes £1.10 a day each.
03:30Oh, the tea's on its way.
03:31Good.
03:31Now, we can't expect Pete to drive us there every day, so...
03:34I don't see why not.
03:34It's all a matter of economics.
03:36No, it's not.
03:37Of course it is.
03:37It comes into everything.
03:38If your expenditure exceeds your income, misery, like what I got.
03:42Yeah, but it's only money, Dad.
03:44Only money.
03:44That's what people say when they've got enough of it.
03:47Yeah, and Pete has, hasn't he?
03:50Look, I don't see why he shouldn't give you a lift-up.
03:52I mean, we help him out enough, don't we?
03:53Man in the store and Pete and Kath want to go off somewhere.
03:56Yeah, and he pays us for it.
03:58Oh, you've got money on the brain, you have.
04:00Look, what would they do without us, eh?
04:03Pete and Kath's family.
04:04We've got to look after each other.
04:05Yeah, that's just my point.
04:07I mean, we're really lucky to have each other to fall back on.
04:10Some people haven't got proper families.
04:12But none of us, including Pete or Kath, should ever take that for granted.
04:15What are you getting at?
04:17Look, who looks after Gran?
04:19We do.
04:20And I think it's about time Pete and Kath pulled a bit more weight in that direction.
04:23What do you mean?
04:24Well, look, it'd help out if they'd take her in for a bit.
04:26Do a bit of that looking after you're always on about.
04:28Arthur! Arthur!
04:31Especially just now, eh?
04:33I mean, admit it, Dad, we have got our hands for it, haven't we?
04:36Yeah.
04:37Of course, I've had a lot of trouble down there.
04:40Especially with the you-know-what.
04:42Still, you'd have been worried if you hadn't come on, wouldn't you?
04:44Well, no. I'd have thought it was all due to a change of water, wouldn't you?
04:48Nah.
04:48Make you lose clockwork, me.
04:49Oh, well, you're lucky.
04:52Nothing to worry about then, have you?
04:54Nah.
04:56Here, that's your lot.
04:57Oh, thank you, dear.
04:59Of course, you know what they say, Sharon.
05:00If you can't be good, be careful.
05:03That's the trouble, Ethel.
05:04I think I've been good for long enough.
05:06You two still at it?
05:08I've got to be opening up in a minute.
05:11We'll have another little talk later on.
05:14Right.
05:18I'm all to be shouting for you, Arthur.
05:20I'm doing half a dozen things at once, Mum.
05:23Well, I didn't ask to be here, Arthur.
05:25I know.
05:26And I know I'm not giving you the attention you really need.
05:29Well, you'd do all right, Arthur, for a man.
05:32Yeah, but it's not good enough, though, is it, Mum?
05:34What do you mean?
05:35Well, wouldn't you be better off being looked after by, say, Peter Caffey, eh?
05:40Oh, there's no room for him here.
05:42No, I know, but there's room for you at their place.
05:46Oh, I see.
05:47Trying to get rid of me now, are you?
05:49No.
05:50I just thought you'd be happier.
05:51This is my own.
05:53I know, Mum.
05:54But Pauline won't be able to do much when she gets back.
05:58And you need to be looked after properly.
06:00I mean, I'm only a man.
06:03I told you that baby'd be too much for you.
06:07I'm not complaining, Arthur.
06:10You do your best.
06:12Just think it over, OK?
06:14Oh, by the way, Pauline wants a dressing gown for the hospital.
06:17Can't she borrow yours?
06:18Oh, taking the rags off me back now.
06:21Forget it.
06:22Anyway, you need it yourself if you do go to Pete and Caffey's.
06:29Of course, we should have expected it.
06:32I thought they had offer to pay.
06:34They backed out, didn't they?
06:35Did they?
06:36There'd be a different story if we'd crashed into their van.
06:39Why did they back out, then?
06:41I reckon they worked out how much it was going to cost.
06:43They're all the same, grubbing for every penny.
06:45You're not having a go at the ethnic minorities, are you, sir?
06:48What about your old man?
06:49What about him?
06:51He's as British as...
06:52Bill the Greek.
06:54Look, if you want the repairs done on the cheap, why don't you get on to Lofty?
06:59All right, Dad.
07:00We're closing in a minute.
07:05You had your tea?
07:06I've been home, if that's what you mean.
07:09What's wrong?
07:11That's Mum.
07:11It's enough to give you indigestion.
07:13She's a good cook.
07:14Yeah, well, maybe her bad temper's getting into a rock pot, then.
07:17Why, what's she been saying now?
07:19It's not just as bad.
07:20What's that supposed to mean?
07:21Nothing.
07:23She's been on about the money again.
07:25Woman.
07:26It's all that can think of, isn't it?
07:28Yeah, well, it's not my fault.
07:29No.
07:31Look, I'm sorry, Carol.
07:34I'm in a bit of a mode.
07:37Yeah, we are not the only one.
07:39How's the revision going?
07:41Oh, fine.
07:42When I can get down to it.
07:43But what with you and Mum?
07:44All right.
07:50Look, you know that night I asked you to leave the field clear for me?
07:53You had a woman come in, I know.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Well, it's over, that's why.
07:57Tough.
07:59Sorry, I suppose you've got a right to be a bit touchy.
08:03No.
08:04Not really.
08:06You got your problems, I got mine.
08:10I guess we should be giving each other a bit of support,
08:13not be at each other's throats, huh?
08:15Yeah.
08:16Sorry.
08:18I'm sorry, too.
08:21Why didn't she say anything to me?
08:23Embarrassed, I suppose.
08:25She's had that old candowick thing ever since we got married.
08:27It's got more bare patches than Morford Town's football pitch.
08:30I did not think of it before, Pete.
08:32She could have my spare.
08:34Oh.
08:34Where's Ian?
08:35In his room.
08:36Anything up?
08:37Says he's got a pain.
08:38Oh, yeah, Michelle said something.
08:40Bloody kids are the pain, if you ask me these days.
08:42They're always moaning.
08:44Who's moaning?
08:44Pete said Ian's got a pain.
08:46Yes, his chest.
08:47Trouble is, he's not complaining about it, though.
08:49Won't even let me take a look.
08:51I'm going to send him and the doctors in the morning.
08:53Chest?
08:53Oh, you're a bit young for a coronary.
08:55Here, look, which one do you think she'd like, Arthur?
08:57Oh, I don't know.
08:58Here, go on, take the new one.
08:59Got something posh while you're in hospital, wouldn't you?
09:01Oh, thanks, Kath.
09:02It's very good of your time.
09:03Oh, it's all right.
09:04Anything we can do, you know that.
09:06Yeah, well, there was something else.
09:09Evita goes to a shop to buy a guitar, which is marked £15.50.
09:13The shop assistant removes it from the display stand
09:16and puts it in a box for her to take home.
09:17She gives her £15.50 in cash.
09:21But the assistant reminds her the correct price is £51.50.
09:26Evita insists she must only pay £15.50.
09:30Is she correct?
09:31Give reasons for your answer.
09:34You're turning into a great conversationalist, do you know that?
09:36Well?
09:38Well, if it's marked £15.50, I would say...
09:41The thing is, what does it mean by reminds?
09:43Did Evita know that the real price was £51.50
09:46before the assistant wrapped it?
09:47Ah, I see. A trick question.
09:50Listen to this one.
09:51Joan enters the shop of Kermit to buy a coat.
09:53She is injured when she falls because of a defective floorboard.
09:57Who, if anybody, is liable?
10:00Evita.
10:00What?
10:01Oh, don't be silly, Andy.
10:04Did you enjoy your supper?
10:06Oh, yeah, thanks.
10:07Debs, I thought we might go out for dinner tomorrow night.
10:10Mm-hmm.
10:11What's your first paper?
10:13Economics.
10:14Do you want me to take you through it after I've done the washing up?
10:17Oh, would you? Thanks.
10:18That's all right.
10:19What are friends for?
10:22She'll probably be as good as gold.
10:24She thinks the sunshine's out of peak.
10:26How long would it be for?
10:27As long as Pauline comes in hospital, I expect.
10:29No, no, no, no.
10:30I thought it'd be much better, more useful, if you had Mum after Pauline came home.
10:36Oh, I see.
10:37Well, the baby's due soon.
10:39It's up to you, Kath.
10:40You're the one who's got to put up with her.
10:42Yeah.
10:42And you don't think the sunshine's out of me?
10:45I don't know if I could cope with her for the full eight weeks, Alfa.
10:47Oh, no, no, no, no.
10:48Just for a fortnight.
10:48That's all I ask.
10:50Just to give us a break, eh?
10:52Yeah, all right, then.
10:53It's the least we can do, I suppose.
10:55You're a good girl, Kath.
10:56I take it Mum's agreed to all this?
11:00Well, let's...
11:02Tire, Andy.
11:04Oh, I'll never get to grips with this.
11:07I pity the poor blokes.
11:08What do you mean?
11:09Well, if you're better than they are...
11:10They'll get their jobs all the same.
11:13Stop, now, lovey.
11:14You're tired.
11:16I'm tired.
11:17I'm one of the earliest tomorrow.
11:18I can't, Andy.
11:20You need a break.
11:21I need a break.
11:24About tomorrow.
11:25What?
11:26What about tomorrow?
11:27Dinner, tomorrow night.
11:28Oh, let's just see how it goes, lovey.
11:37Describe the term...
11:40Oligapauly.
11:41What the hell's that?
11:46What about this one?
11:49A man and woman have a 50-50 agreement.
11:52They hold equal shares in the freehold of a house
11:55and have undertaken to convert the house also on an equal basis.
11:59Does their 50-50 agreement extend to other areas of their lives?
12:04What's that?
12:05Structure of accounting?
12:07No, to put it in banking terms, it's more of a statement, really.
12:10Think about it, Debs.
12:13Whether you go away or not, I shall not leave the room.
12:18Soit que vous restiez ou partiez, je ne quitterai ma chambre.
12:24Very good.
12:25Hello, Kelvin.
12:26You still here?
12:26Hello, Dad.
12:27Hello, Dad.
12:28What tense does Pendant Coeur take?
12:30Don't ask me.
12:31Here, ain't this iron, do you?
12:32Pass.
12:34Subdunctive mood.
12:35In talking of mood, you all seem to have perked up a bit.
12:37Yeah, I had a word with Pete and Cathy, like you suggested.
12:39Good.
12:40Yeah.
12:40Mind you, the biggest hurdle is yet to come.
12:42Look how go, shall I?
12:43I'm sorry, Kelvin, we were just talking.
12:45I hear young Ian's hurt himself.
12:46Well, he didn't exactly hurt himself, Dad.
12:49What do you mean?
12:50He got beaten up.
12:52Oh, I see.
12:53Who?
12:53Some bunch of kids.
12:55Lex.
12:55Oh.
12:57Well, it's got nothing to do with that.
12:58What was it about, then?
13:00It's cooking.
13:00They kept pushing him around, asking him if he was free.
13:03You know, I'm free.
13:04Yeah, well, they pushed a bit too hard this time.
13:05Maybe I'm off shelter.
13:06Oh.
13:07Well, don't say thank you, will you?
13:09You know, my girl, you could be biting off more than you can chew, there.
13:26Sorting pee, Loft.
13:28Right, Loft?
13:29Yeah.
13:29Cheers, mate.
13:32Ali, you're going to have to start earning.
13:37This is crazy.
13:38My minicab job subsidises this place.
13:41I thought you'd be better off with a new cooker.
13:43Oh, that's right.
13:43Go on, blame me.
13:45They're going to take that back if we don't pay the balance.
13:49I suppose I'll have to chance it.
13:50But even he's going to want money for parts.
13:52Ask your folks.
13:54Get lost, will you?
13:57Yeah.
13:58Here, Loft, are you?
13:59Shall I have a word with you?
14:04Want some help, Ethel?
14:06Oh, I wouldn't say no, dear.
14:08How are you today?
14:09All right.
14:10Feeling a bit more cheerful, are you?
14:12I couldn't sleep last night for thinking.
14:15What was you thinking about, dear?
14:17Oi, if you want something to do,
14:19go and run some errands for your mother.
14:20She gets paid to do that.
14:22Another time, dear.
14:27Man.
14:30Just don't catch a cold, that's all.
14:31Why?
14:33Not telling pneumonia, will it?
14:34No, no, of course not.
14:35You'll know why I said that if you start coughing.
14:38Or laughing.
14:42Right, you can get Jessen up.
14:44Teach me to be more careful, innit?
14:47Watch where I'm going.
14:49Who did it, Ian?
14:50Just some boys at school.
14:52They started calling me names, so I thumped one of them.
14:54Only there were more of them than there was of you, eh?
14:57Yeah.
14:58Oh, yeah.
14:59It's a case of fools rushing in where wise men fear to tread.
15:03I know it's often difficult to be wise, but sometimes, in situations like that, it's the best thing to do,
15:08until you can get the better of them.
15:10Don't worry, Doctor.
15:11It won't happen again.
15:13I don't know if she lost her whole money back.
15:15What'd she get in?
15:16Well, it's being sorted out with a manager or something.
15:19Hello, how'd it go?
15:20She hasn't got bruised ribs.
15:21Gotta go for the next one.
15:23Well, maybe I can help you sort them out.
15:25You know, them's who's feet, you fell over.
15:26Come on, I've got to catch the doctor.
15:28So are you!
15:28Oh, nothing.
15:29It's just that Dad wants him to come over and have to worry about it.
15:31I thought she was better.
15:32Oh, she is.
15:33Sometimes.
15:35That's just that Dad wants me to persuade her to sort of stay with you for a few weeks.
15:38Huh?
15:39Didn't you know?
15:40Yeah, she'll probably get your bedroom.
15:42Right, never rains, but it pours, innit?
15:44Anyway, anything I can do to it?
15:45Yeah, I'll let you know, all right?
15:53All right, son?
15:59Hello, Pete.
16:00Come and have some of them sweet tomatoes if you've got them.
16:03What is it with you, young, Spencer?
16:05Oh, I've done nothing.
16:06Yeah.
16:08How's the gearbox?
16:09That's fine.
16:10Only she'd been a few inches further over when she hit you, eh?
16:13Why?
16:14She'd have missed the wheel.
16:15She'd pushed it right in.
16:17It's a bit of a mess, that, Al.
16:19How's the ceiling?
16:20Stiff.
16:20It was loose before.
16:21Yeah, I remember it was a bit dodgy.
16:27Oh, bloody hell.
16:29How's that, then?
16:31What?
16:31Well, you could need new rack and pinion.
16:34Try and look on the bright side, Lofty.
16:36The least you're going to have to do is get one or two new parts.
16:42Then there's the chassis leg, that's bent, so the engine and gearbox will need squaring up, maybe even remounting.
16:48And there's the inner wing.
16:50I have to pull this out, of course.
16:51Are these wet sprung or dry?
16:53It's not that old.
16:54No, right, right.
16:55Well, you could need new shocks, then.
16:58Great.
17:00So what do you reckon?
17:01Well, there's always a scrapyard.
17:03Do us a favour.
17:04No, no, for parts.
17:05Oh, right, yeah.
17:07Well, you could get a new wing, now.
17:09Maybe even a chassis leg.
17:10That'd save you a few quid.
17:12So what do you reckon the damage is?
17:17Going to be the best part of 100 quid, Al.
17:19Does that include your labour?
17:20Well, are you going to pay me in Reddy's, or what?
17:22What do you think?
17:23Well, bum me 30 quid, I'll see what I can do, eh?
17:25Right.
17:26You're on.
17:27I need some cash first, though.
17:28I'd buy a few parts.
17:29Oh, yeah, sure, eh?
17:31I'll get in touch with you.
17:33All right.
17:33I'll talk to you later on, then.
17:35Yeah.
17:38When you've got to go, then, this afternoon?
17:40Just give me a note.
17:41What if they're broken?
17:42I don't think so.
17:43Actually, it's still hurt, Al.
17:44Well, they would.
17:48All right.
17:50All right.
17:51Let me in on it.
17:52Who's looking after the barra?
17:53Nobody.
17:54I can't be in two places at once, Pete.
17:56Nobody's asking it.
17:57Well?
17:58Well, it's something or nothing.
17:59It's a pretty painful, something or nothing.
18:03Doc thinks I've got bruised ribs.
18:05And how did that happen, eh?
18:06Teach you a point of sense, let you two over.
18:08It won't be daft bad.
18:11Come on, son.
18:12Now, tell me the truth.
18:13You got beaten up, didn't you?
18:15Yeah.
18:16Hey, Art.
18:16I knew it.
18:17He's got beaten up.
18:18What?
18:20Go on.
18:21Tell us.
18:21Who's by?
18:22Just some kids at school, Essel.
18:25And what are you going to do with that, son?
18:28You mean to say you went downstairs on your own?
18:30Well, I wanted to watch the telly.
18:33Pete and Kathy got a portable, of course, but they won't let me have it.
18:35I'm sure they're only too keen to help.
18:37Oh, maybe.
18:39But you need a proper aerial in.
18:41Yeah, but the crazy thing is, Lou, that if you were staying with them, you wouldn't have
18:44any stairs to cope with anyway.
18:45No.
18:46Yeah.
18:47So you wouldn't need a portable telly.
18:49You wouldn't feel so isolated in your own room either.
18:52Pity, really.
18:52You'd be at the centre of the family.
18:54Here.
18:55Have you been sent here to talk me over to go in there?
18:59Me?
19:00No.
19:01Would I beat about the bush, Lou?
19:02No, you wouldn't dare.
19:04No, I'm really worried about you, you know.
19:05Yeah, why?
19:06Here.
19:07I don't think I've got something else, have you?
19:10Like that herpes.
19:11I've been reading about that in a magazine.
19:13Well, shingles is a form of herpes, Lou.
19:15Oh, yeah.
19:16Only you don't catch it in quite the same way.
19:19Now, you know, you need someone to look after you.
19:22But with Pauline in hospital, I know you.
19:25You'll be looking after Arthur and Michelle instead.
19:30Just not fair on you, Lou.
19:33No, it's not.
19:34You're quite right, Doctor.
19:49Dear Andy, I missed you this morning, so I'm writing this note instead.
19:54We need mince, carrots, muesli, brillo pads.
20:02Here we are, OK.
20:05A hundred and thirty?
20:06You've got to be joking.
20:08I dare you to laugh.
20:09Oh, we'll have to raise it somehow.
20:12How about your day?
20:13Him?
20:14Ha.
20:16Haven't we got anything we can pawn?
20:18Like what?
20:19You could go on the street.
20:20Get off.
20:23What about my wedding ring?
20:24No way.
20:29Oh, Ali.
20:32I do love you.
20:38How's the message?
20:39Oh, I'm going up to Salt-de-Neurd.
20:40Your turn to do the shopping, is it?
20:42Yeah.
20:42Dad is working for exams.
20:44I admire your lady.
20:45Do you know that?
20:46Yeah, so do I.
20:47So at least Pauline's babies get something to do with you.
20:50I hope so, mate.
20:51Yeah, well, it's that what keeps you warm in bed at night.
20:53Yeah.
20:53Which is more than I can see for the Institute of Bankers.
20:56I think I better get on.
20:57Yeah.
20:57Give my best of luck, OK?
20:59Will do.
20:59Cheers.
21:00Hello.
21:03Hello, God.
21:04Hello.
21:04See you.
21:07Hey, Pete, I think Mum's coming round.
21:09Oh, great.
21:10She didn't say she will mind, but there's a slight indication that she might be softening.
21:14I was wondering if your ear could put his ear in.
21:17You know, to say how much he'd like his grand to come and live with you.
21:19I don't see why not.
21:20He's good at lying.
21:22Yeah, sorry about that trouble at school.
21:24Michelle told me.
21:25Did you say who it was?
21:26Some black kid.
21:27Thought he had no guts because of the cooking.
21:30He won't wait to sort out this sort of thing.
21:32You can lead a horse to water, Pete.
21:35Wait to see what he comes up with.
21:41All right, Arthur, how you going?
21:43Still wearing the old apron, eh?
21:44Thank you, James.
21:46Thank you, James.
21:46Thank you, James.
21:50Oh, Arthur, look.
21:52I finished it.
21:55Oh, Kev, that's really nice.
21:58Do you think she liked it?
21:59She'd be daft if she didn't.
22:01Hey, listen, Arthur, I thought I'd get Pete to put me round the horse this afternoon.
22:04I'll embarrass it, eh?
22:05That'd be great.
22:06Do you reckon he would?
22:07I'll make sure he does.
22:09I'm using far more wool than they say.
22:12Oh, you can't go by patterns these days.
22:14No.
22:16I used to be able to follow a pattern easily.
22:19Nothing but mistakes today.
22:21You've got an awful lot of stitches there, Arthur.
22:23Yes, well, I know, but I keep dropping them, you see.
22:27And then I keep getting all these old.
22:29Here, give it to me.
22:30I'll pick them up for you.
22:32Take me mind off me aches and pains.
22:35What is it?
22:37Guess.
22:40Fled skirt?
22:43Bell-bottom jeans.
22:44Oh.
22:46Car seat cover.
22:49I'll give up.
22:50I'm not going to tell you now.
22:52Anyway, it's a secret.
22:54Here.
22:56Here.
23:09I've been thinking what you can say to your mum.
23:13I mean, she doesn't have to be so precise, does she?
23:16Expecting the exact amount on the dot.
23:19She knows I don't get paid by the week.
23:22Look, she wants it for the rent.
23:24Yeah, but she can wait, can't she?
23:28I thought a verbal agreement would have been more flexible.
23:31Look, I wish you'd two sort yourselves out.
23:33What about her own earnings?
23:35I don't know.
23:36Why don't you ask her?
23:39Yeah, well, you'd be seeing her later.
23:45Look, just tell her she'll get her money when I've been paid for the shop conversion, okay?
23:51Okay.
23:53Well, I hope she doesn't go on at me, because I am sick of being pig in the middle.
24:01Fancy helping me and Lord of Honor?
24:04Load it yourself.
24:09Come on, love, finish it.
24:10Peter will be here in a minute.
24:11I'll go out in a minute, Dad.
24:12Another date, Kelvin, is it?
24:14Yes.
24:15You know, love, you could be starting out yourself up a lot of trouble there, going up with him.
24:18What do you mean, trouble?
24:20Well, I've got nothing against the boy.
24:21Yeah, apart from his colour.
24:23You can't ignore it, love, you can't.
24:25I mean, there's enough problems with relationships without looking for more.
24:28What do you think is going to happen?
24:29I'm going to get beaten up or something.
24:31There's bound to be differences.
24:33Yeah, in here, mate.
24:33I'll be with you in a tick.
24:34Here, brought some grapes.
24:35Snatched me, ain't they?
24:36Yeah, yeah.
24:37Look, all I'm saying is, don't get too serious.
24:40Think about it.
24:48Here, trouble?
24:49When isn't there?
24:55Hello?
24:56Yes, can I have a table, please, for tonight?
24:58For two?
25:00Yeah.
25:01O'Brien.
25:03Yeah, but eight o'clock-ish.
25:06Is that okay?
25:07Yeah.
25:08Right, great.
25:11Give me the mum line, give me the girl, and leave the rest to me.
25:25Watch out.
25:26All right?
25:28Here, half fed up, you know.
25:30Great.
25:31When I thought my dad was really open, you know, unprejudiced,
25:34now all of a sudden he's starting to give me lectures about not getting too serious about you.
25:37Well, that's his problem, Shel.
25:39Yeah, well, I think you should realise I'm old enough to make up my own mind.
25:42Look, if you want the Samaritans, phone them.
25:44Hey.
25:45And that goes for Sharon's lonely heart, Ian's bruised ribs, my mum's rent, my dad's sex life.
25:50Oh, I'm having some trouble with this.
25:53And Ethel's knitting.
25:54Here, can you, elf?
25:55Phone the Samaritans, Ethel.
25:56And if they're engaged, it'll be me on the line.
26:00Well, it's nothing broken anyway.
26:01Oh, sticks and stones may bruise me bones.
26:05Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do if that happens again, though, Gran.
26:07Oh, you'll think of something.
26:09Are you going to come and stay with us?
26:11Do you think I should?
26:12Yeah, well, it'd take their minds off me for a bit, wouldn't it?
26:15Do you know, that's the best argument I've heard so far.
26:19At least it's honest.
26:20So will you?
26:23Why didn't you ask me first?
26:25By the time you got back, it'd be too late.
26:27It's Saturday.
26:28All the restaurants get booked out.
26:30Well, I can't go.
26:31Oh, hang on a minute, Debs.
26:33You said that...
26:33I said I'd have to see how my revision went.
26:36Look, Andy, these exams are important to me.
26:39It means promotion.
26:40But I thought you said all the blokes got the jobs anyway.
26:42Well, I won't get the promotion if I don't pass the exams.
26:45And if you do, what then?
26:48Suppose that you get passed over at your branch.
26:50Well, I'll just ask for a transfer.
26:52Way to, eh?
26:53I mean, have you really thought about it, what it might do to us?
26:55Well, it might not necessarily be far away.
26:57Where?
26:58Wimbledon?
26:59Dover?
27:00Why not the international division?
27:02Then we can meet her, but for odd days in Brussels or somewhere.
27:05You're meeting trouble halfway, Andy.
27:07I'm not Debs.
27:08It's you.
27:09You've got yourself so wrapped up in your exams, you can't think of anything else.
27:13Well, frankly, I'm getting sick of it.
27:15As far as I'm concerned, I'm rapidly turning into some sort of a flatmate.
27:21I thought she looked a lot better off.
27:23She's worried about Mum now.
27:25Yeah, well, if it wasn't that, it'd be something else.
27:27Yeah.
27:27Thanks for the lift, Pete.
27:28That's no problem.
27:29Anyway, picked Ian up from X-Ray.
27:31I've found her definitely making the best of the whole National Health Service these days.
27:35Remember to thank Cappy for the dressing gown.
27:38Yeah, will do.
27:40Here, have you told Sis that Mum may be coming to stay with us?
27:43No, not yet.
27:44She hasn't agreed to it yet.
27:47Well, son, what'd she say?
27:49I'm sorry, Uncle Arthur.
27:50I'm afraid she said yes.
27:54Oh, great.
28:42I'm sorry, Uncle Arthur.
28:44I'm sorry, Uncle Arthur.
29:32I'm sorry, Uncle Arthur.