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00:00I've been staying with the old man.
00:02What, with Charlie?
00:03Yeah, I tracked him down to Liverpool.
00:04Said to him, it's about time you gave his son an helping hand.
00:07Yeah, well, he ain't had much practice, has he?
00:09Showed up to stick around for a while.
00:10Take the time to get sorted.
00:12Oh, imagine that, you and Charlie.
00:14How's he keeping?
00:15Good shape.
00:16He's working for a freezer firm, driving.
00:19I worked for a few weeks, saved up some cash.
00:21Now I says to him, I'm going to go and visit the old lady.
00:24We had a touching farewell.
00:25Oh, if only you brought him back with you.
00:27I mean, you should have done.
00:28This is his home.
00:30You know, I've been thinking, you know, the furniture and things.
00:32There's room for three, easy.
00:34Well, he don't want to come back, do he?
00:35He walked out on you, he's living with your sister,
00:37and he's treated you like the dirt on a bristle of a brush.
00:39Stop it!
00:41Honour thy father.
00:44And thy mother.
00:45Have it your own way.
00:46It's me nerves.
00:48Do you notice I give up smoking?
00:50How's Rosie's cooking, then?
00:52Not as good as yours.
00:53Now she's gone blonde.
00:54Oh, how common.
00:55Still, she always did have that streak, innit?
00:59Go on, Ma.
01:00Do yourself a favour, eh?
01:04Oh, just the one, then.
01:08Oh, and I moved in here.
01:11You should have seen it.
01:13Mind you, I've struggled against dirt and disorder all my life.
01:16I don't give up, no matter how hard the Lord tries me.
01:19Well, you can take it easy now, can't you?
01:21Are you staying, then?
01:22Thought I'd give it a try.
01:22Look, Ma, I know I've given you a hard time in the past, but I want to make it up
01:26to you.
01:26So give us a chance, eh?
01:28And I always stood by you.
01:30This is your home.
01:31What's mine's yours.
01:32You can go on sleeping in the bedroom.
01:34I can toss and turn on that thing just as easy as me own bed.
01:37As long as I've got somewhere to lay down.
01:40I mean, I've got to get the blood to me, Eddie.
01:41It helps control the mead grave.
01:43Here you go, Ma.
01:45Take it.
01:46Stick it in your account, eh?
01:47How do you know about my account?
01:49It's a good idea.
01:50Can't walk around with cash in your pockets these days.
01:52Mug you as soon as look at you.
01:53Oh, terrible, innit?
01:54I mean, I put a lock on the door.
01:56You ain't got no one you can count on in case of distress set Mary upstairs.
02:00I mean, you've got to have a man around these days.
02:02Well, you got me.
02:03I'll look after you.
02:04Oh.
02:05The day you was born was the happiest day of my life.
02:08When the nurse told me it was a boy, I was over the moon.
02:10Oh, for God's sake, Ma, don't start all that again, eh?
02:12All right, don't shout at me.
02:14I mean, I don't know why it all went wrong.
02:16I always tried to do the best for all of us.
02:18I mean, was it something I did?
02:20Was it?
02:21I mean, did he tell you?
02:22Because I wish he'd tell me.
02:23Don't ask me to explain it.
02:24All I know is I've got a father hardly see and a mother who loves him for it.
02:28You try explaining that, eh?
02:30Well, let's have a little celebration, eh?
02:32You know, we can use some of this and buy something nice.
02:35You know, I can invite a couple of me friends.
02:39I am enjoying this.
02:40Please yourself.
02:42Here, Nick.
02:43How'd you get this money?
02:44A mate of mine works at the Bank of England.
02:46All right?
02:47Nick?
02:48Where are you going?
02:50Now, go on.
02:51I'll hold you before you drive me there.
02:52Oh, wouldn't I have to go on?
02:53Yes, ma'am.
03:00Oh, come here.
03:01Oh!
03:01What are you?
03:02What are you?
03:03Somebody's getting up.
03:04Now, go on, you Scotch-Brown.
03:05You're good.
03:17Good morning.
03:19Nothing for you, darling.
03:20Just the same old bills.
03:30Oh, Mary.
03:31Hi.
03:32Hey, I finished that copy you gave me.
03:34Oh, well done, eh?
03:35I suppose you'd like me to have a look at it, then, eh?
03:36Yeah.
03:37Well, let's see.
03:38Say, Ali, is it half past two?
03:40How does that suit you?
03:40Okay, thanks.
03:41Great.
03:42Oh, don't forget to make that appointment with Dr Legg, eh?
03:45Yeah.
03:45All right, I'll see you later.
03:46See you, Mary.
04:07Good morning, Mary.
04:10Good morning, Mary.
04:17Give it a kick, you stupid Turk.
04:19On your bike.
04:25Watch it.
04:34What's all this thing, love?
04:36Taking up gardening, are you?
04:42Hello, gorgeous.
04:45Long time no see.
04:47What are you, mate?
04:48Thanks, what you got?
04:49Time I haven't got, son.
04:51One thing, I ain't setting conversation on this stall.
04:53Oh, here, give us an apple, without any maggots in it.
04:56Hey, leave it.
04:58Leave it.
04:58Keep the change.
05:00Cheers.
05:01There's things I'm going to do with that slob that ain't been invented yet.
05:04Just leave it.
05:10Very flat.
05:19Here, well, I'll be off then, Anki.
05:21All right, sweetheart, I'll see you later.
05:22Hey, darling.
05:23Oi.
05:25This is a pub, not an undertaker's.
05:27Did you hear me, Ethel?
05:28This is a pub.
05:29This is not an undertaker's, Angie.
05:31Oh, thanks, Ethel.
05:32Must be a pub then, eh?
05:34Right, see, I shall take these upstairs to the bedroom.
05:37Be more fitting there.
05:39Bye, Ethel.
05:40Bye.
05:41Good day.
05:42Got the right time?
05:43Yeah, it's half past ten.
05:44Time we opened up.
05:46Right.
05:48Sunny side up?
05:49Yeah, come on.
05:50Yeah, get a big job this afternoon.
05:52You'll have to manage on your own.
05:53I thought you said the car was playing up.
05:54It'll be all right.
05:55Have you fixed it?
05:56Yeah.
05:57How?
05:57Gave it a kick.
06:00Do you know, it really worries me when you drive there on long journeys?
06:04I wonder these days something terrible's going to happen.
06:06Put it in the garage, Ali.
06:08Can I not talk to can we?
06:09Back to it's covered in popcorn.
06:10I'll see you later, yeah?
06:11Yeah, cheers.
06:13Hey, what's all this?
06:14Something's lovely.
06:16We're not putting the prices up to pay for flowers, you know.
06:18Ali, I want to talk to you.
06:21I suppose it'll have to wait.
06:23Oh, my.
06:23Here.
06:24Here.
06:25Put this in the machine for me, Paulie, will you?
06:28Save me, wasn't it, my hand?
06:29OK, Ethel, I'll put you in here with lofty stuff, eh?
06:31Ah.
06:32Oh, there you are, Ethel.
06:34I've been looking all over for you.
06:35Oh, tell her to go away, Paulie.
06:38You leave me alone, Dot.
06:39I'm sick of your own tins.
06:40Well, I admit I have been in a bit of a state,
06:42but I must ask you to take into consideration
06:44the fact that I'm a sick woman, sorely tried.
06:47But, Ethel, I'm ready to forgive if you are.
06:49Nick said to me, he said,
06:51Mum, he said, never look a friend in the face.
06:53Did he?
06:54Yes, and he said, why don't we have a small gathering?
06:56You know I asked for me.
06:57And I asked your friends, Ethel and Lou,
06:58even if you weren't invited to her grandson's christening.
07:01So I'd like you and Lou to come round this afternoon for IT.
07:04Filchers, I think, and maybe one of me special trifles.
07:06Nothing fancy.
07:07Just to celebrate the safe return of my boy,
07:10which you, Ethel, in a roundabout kind of a way, predicted.
07:12Oh.
07:13Yes, and now I must get to the bank,
07:15then I must do my shopping,
07:15because I don't want to keep Pauline waiting.
07:17So what with the excitement, you know,
07:19and the extra housework and the job,
07:20how I'm going to keep on my feet, I don't know.
07:22So I'd like you to extend the invitation to Lou,
07:25and I'll expect you both at half past four
07:27if I don't hear to the country.
07:30I think you've just been invited to tea, Ethel.
07:32Oh.
07:39Hello, sweetheart.
07:41I want him to have a word with you, Angie.
07:43Well, go on then, darling, get it off your chest.
07:46Yeah, well, I found this in the bathroom.
07:51There you are.
07:52That'll get rid of the smell of flowers.
07:53She knows I'm allergic to them.
07:54All right.
07:55Dean, can I have a quick word with you?
07:56I mean, sort of private.
07:58One second, lovely.
08:03I know it's not Den's,
08:05because I asked him the time and he had his on.
08:06But it definitely ain't mine.
08:08Well, you shouldn't have picked it up then, should you, darling?
08:10Yeah, well, I didn't want Sharon to find it
08:11and start asking questions, did I?
08:13No, quite right.
08:15He knows this is, don't you?
08:18It's Andy's.
08:19He stayed here again last night, you know, one over the eight.
08:22He's on the slippery slope, that one.
08:24Must be trouble at home, eh?
08:27Well, there's nothing wrong, is it?
08:29Oh, good.
08:31Yeah, I don't see why not.
08:33Yeah, should we say on her now, then?
08:35OK, darling, I'll see you then.
08:37Look, I've got to go.
08:38Yeah, of course I want to see you.
08:41See you soon. Cheers, bye.
08:43Well, what's he?
08:44I've got to pop out later,
08:45and if anyone asks me, I'll see the accountant, OK?
08:48Lofty, that is air fresno, not nerve gas.
08:50Now, what were you saying?
08:51Well, it weren't all that important, then.
08:53Then we'll leave it.
08:53Well, Dan, what it was,
08:55I thought maybe I should tell you now
08:57rather than springing it on you later.
08:58Could we sit down for a minute?
09:00Lofty, I've got to take this stuff upstairs.
09:01Oh, yeah, right.
09:02Then what it was was...
09:03Morning!
09:04All right, now.
09:04OK, what it is, then,
09:07I mean, with us having a proper engagement and everything,
09:09it's starting me thinking about
09:10what being married really involves, you know.
09:13Lofty, you're not telling me you're thinking of crying off.
09:15No, Dan.
09:16No, I wouldn't hurt Shel.
09:17No, it's just,
09:18well, I've got to think about what's best for her and the baby.
09:22Well, Shel's pretty steady.
09:26What I'm worried about is the baby.
09:28I mean, from the moment it's born,
09:29that's going to be my baby.
09:30Well, I mean, mine and Michelle's.
09:32I've got to do right, Brian.
09:34Lofty, get on with it.
09:37Dan, can we sit down for a minute?
09:39Lofty, I have a bar full of customers down there.
09:41Yeah.
09:43You know, I really like working here.
09:45It means a lot to me,
09:46but it doesn't make all that much odds to you, does it?
09:48You could easily manage without me.
09:49It'll be a bit of a struggle, Lofty,
09:51but I think we'll manage to pull through, yeah.
09:52Yeah, well, look, I've applied for a full-time job.
09:54It's nothing definite yet,
09:56but I'm hoping I'll be getting an interview soon.
09:58Well, what's the job, then?
09:59Traffic warden.
10:01Yeah, well, if you need a reference,
10:03don't forget to give us a nod, eh?
10:06Yes, mate.
10:07Bye.
10:12Hey, look, thanks, Dave.
10:14Look, Lofty, getting married's one thing, mate,
10:16but adopting the kid's something else.
10:17Don't forget, I've already done it.
10:18Yeah, of course.
10:19I never realised we've got a lot in common, really.
10:21Yeah, a lot in common.
10:22Look, mate, that'll settle down all right in a minute.
10:24Okay?
10:24Cheers.
10:25Lofty, being a natural father doesn't mean a thing, all right?
10:28It's what you do to your kids
10:29that makes them call you dead.
10:34Ben, what?
10:35Was it difficult, you know, with Sharon?
10:37That was the best thing Ange and I ever did to go.
10:39Yeah, mate, that's what I want.
10:40And then if I have a kid of me own,
10:42I love them both the same.
10:44You go to the job, Lofty,
10:45you're doing the right thing, mate.
10:46Remember, all you ever want from your kids is their respect.
10:48Yeah, you've got to try, ain't you?
10:49Well, I didn't say it was easy, mate.
10:51No.
10:52Hey, look, then, thanks a lot, eh?
10:53It's a real load off my mind, all this.
10:56Walking around with secrets sort of makes me nervous.
10:58Do you know what I mean?
11:01Yeah.
11:07Here, you need a piece here
11:09and a big bit under the table.
11:12Lift your feet, woman.
11:14That's all right.
11:15Here, and where's Dr. Legg?
11:17I've been sat here waiting all morning and no sign.
11:20I've run out of me pills.
11:21I need a prescription.
11:22I'll go home to the surgery for you, if you like.
11:24No, no, don't bother.
11:25If you don't turn up by dinner, Tom, I'll go myself.
11:28Arthur, you're reading again.
11:32You!
11:33How did you be?
11:35Can I come in?
11:36Only if you take your feet off.
11:38I'm off out.
11:39Here.
11:40Come on, if you'll sit down, take a note.
11:42Is it in the mood?
11:43Oh, here.
11:44Dot wants to know,
11:46will you and I go round and have high tea with her this afternoon?
11:49Who on earth for?
11:50Well, I think she wants all the support she can get.
11:53Oh, I suppose she wants us to have a gang at Earth's flat.
11:58Salt and vinegar drug, do you reckon?
12:00I'm afraid it's Pilchard's.
12:02Oh.
12:05Now, see, add them.
12:06Oh, Christ, I'll stack the smithy tomatoes for fine, OK?
12:08Oh, lovely.
12:10Listen, you seen Ali?
12:11Yeah, I'll go see him nipping to the vic.
12:12He's got a cheek.
12:14Oh, give him that weight, Sue.
12:15He's been having that mode all morning.
12:16He shouldn't do long drives in that car.
12:19And drinking as well.
12:20I mean, it's not safe, but it worries me.
12:23Well, soon that mode's got anything wrong with it,
12:24except with Ernia.
12:25Have you told them you're going in for a new car?
12:27Yeah, well, she's still keen,
12:29but I'm not so sure there's got a lot of things to buy with a new car.
12:32That's what Ali keeps saying.
12:33Oh, you've got the flat, Sue.
12:34You can't have anything, mate.
12:36Can you try?
12:37Now, do us a favour,
12:38feed Nicole to the vic and tell him to get home safe and sound and early.
12:41I want to have a word with him.
12:42I've had to see him all day.
12:44All right.
12:50Hasn't anyone ever told you it's time to stay up?
12:53Yeah, 9.30.
12:54Angel Underground.
12:56Yeah, listen, I'll have to go,
12:56because I've got a lecture later.
12:58Yeah, why?
12:59Standing charges is £7.78p.
13:02Disgusting, innit?
13:03What is?
13:04Pop this in the post for me, will you, Kelvin?
13:06Some rushed off me feet.
13:07All right.
13:08Ta.
13:09Oh, and Kelvin,
13:10may I remind you that that phone is for the customer's use only,
13:13not for the general public?
13:21Hello, darling.
13:22How are you doing?
13:22Here's a pen of life, isn't it?
13:24You've got it.
13:24Do you know what?
13:25That yob was sitting in your place just now.
13:27Took all my time to keep my hands off her.
13:29Some swine never learned, do they?
13:30Look, the deal was he could come back and see his mum, right?
13:33As long as he does that and nothing else,
13:34that's what we stick to.
13:41Oh, dear, oh, dearie me.
13:43Local boy makes good, eh?
13:45Yeah.
13:45There's not only flash landlords in there that make the fast buck.
13:48Gives a pint.
13:49You step out of line once.
13:50I know people who turn you inside out so fast,
13:52you end up wearing yourself as a wig.
13:54Lofty, serve the gentleman.
13:56All right, Nick, how's it going?
13:57Just what I was going to ask you, Loft.
14:00Wixie, tell Mrs. Watson I'm off out for a couple of hours
14:02and keep an eye on Nick Cotton in there in case Pete takes a swipe at him.
14:05Tell him we'll manage somehow, darling.
14:12We seem to be managing beautifully, don't we?
14:14Angie, we are going to get ourselves into very deep water.
14:18We're already into very deep water, up to our dear little necks.
14:22Do you know what I did this morning after you left?
14:23What was that, love?
14:24I went out and bought loads and loads of daffodils.
14:26I felt quite mad.
14:27I haven't been so happy for ages.
14:29Same for me, love.
14:30Well, his lordship's gone out and he won't be back for a couple of hours.
14:34What about Shanna?
14:35At least a couple of hours before she's on.
14:37Damn.
14:38I've got to meet nearly half past two.
14:42Mind you, haven't you lost your watch?
14:45Perhaps you'd better come upstairs and have a good old search for it, eh?
14:48Perhaps I'm better.
14:51Thanks a lot.
14:51Cheers.
14:52You're a nutcase, Lofty.
14:54Always were.
14:55People get married all the time.
14:56Yeah, mixing your blood with the Fowlers, getting a kid thrown in for free.
15:00You're going to be needing a few, Bob, ain't you?
15:01Yeah, well, I'm getting a full-time job.
15:03The Fowlers are a full-time job, mate.
15:05You'll be supporting the old pack of them before you're through.
15:07You want to watch it, mate.
15:08No, look, they're a good crowd, Nick.
15:09You could do worse than get back on the right side of them.
15:11Ah, won't be around long enough for that, mate.
15:13Just a bit of business to finish, and then I'm off.
15:15So, I'll see you around, mate.
15:19Hello, gorgeous.
15:23What was you talking to that toe rag for?
15:25He was just being friendly.
15:26I was being friendly back.
15:27Oh, so it's when are you two being such buddies, then?
15:29Look, somebody's got to be nice to him, haven't they?
15:31I mean, bring out the best.
15:33Oh, well, Leopard don't change his spots, Lofty.
15:35And I don't want to see him in here tomorrow.
15:37Yeah, well, it's more for Dot's sake, innit?
15:38I mean, well, I don't want him taking me out on her,
15:40and she does have that funny haunted look sometimes.
15:43That's because no-one would notice her if she didn't.
15:46Did his nibs tell you where he was going?
15:49Accountant.
15:50Right.
15:50I wonder if you do me a little favour.
15:52After we close, would you take Roly for a walk?
15:53Only I've got a bit of headache, and I'm going to have a lie down,
15:55and I don't want to be disturbed, all right?
15:57Yeah, but what if something comes up, Angie?
15:58Well, look, I just want a couple of hours, peace and quiet.
16:01That's all, all right?
16:02It's a lovely day outside, just the sort of day
16:03to take a doggy for a walk.
16:08Mind the wall, Lofty.
16:10It's only just been done.
16:11Oh, right.
16:12I'm surprised you didn't get no flowers, Doc.
16:14What for?
16:15Well, you know, Nick being back and that,
16:17it's an emotional time for you, isn't it?
16:18I've never bought myself flowers in me life.
16:20Always let the man do that.
16:23Oh, you've crushed the crisp.
16:25Have I?
16:25Oh, sorry.
16:26Must be nice having him back, though, eh?
16:28Yes, not easy being a woman on your own.
16:30No, he'd be able to give you a hand and that.
16:32Yes.
16:34It's a nice place you've got, Doc.
16:36I'd like to have a place in me home one day.
16:38Yes, but when I was a girl,
16:39first you found the house,
16:40then the man found his wife,
16:42and then you had the baby.
16:42You lot are doing it all the other way around.
16:44Are we?
16:45Yes.
16:46Well, I'm happy for you anyway, Doc.
16:49Yes, well, I can't ask you to stop, Lofty,
16:50because I'm still quite breathless.
16:52Thanks for the carrying.
16:53Oh, no, no, no.
16:54Pleasure.
16:54See you.
16:55See you.
16:56See you.
16:57Oh, dear.
17:01Now he's left his washing.
17:07Hello.
17:08I'd like to speak to Ali Osman, please.
17:10It's his wife.
17:11Oh, right.
17:13Um, well, yeah, she could tell him
17:15to get home as quickly as he can.
17:17Yeah.
17:17Yeah, I know.
17:18Getwick.
17:19Tell him not to drive too fast.
17:21Right.
17:22Ta.
17:24I must think he's married to a ripe fruit in that case.
17:27Do you want another cup of tea?
17:29Uh, no, Ta.
17:31Oh, I think I'll do it out of me fridge.
17:37Oi, Luke.
17:38Give us a coat.
17:39All right.
17:40Old man's still out?
17:41Yeah.
17:43Not surprised.
17:44Lads had to give him a push start.
17:45Oh, my God.
17:47Yeah, he'd do better backing an outsider
17:48than driving that heat.
17:49If I know my alley, he'll have done both.
17:54I'll sit here for a minute.
17:56I'm waiting for someone.
17:58Yeah.
17:58Been over an hour now, innit?
18:00Hey.
18:01You're looking good.
18:02I reckon the work must really suit you.
18:04Giving you a little something extra.
18:06But you took to it like a duct of water, eh?
18:08Don't know what you're talking about.
18:09The clubs, darling.
18:10The strip.
18:12How do you know about that?
18:13It's a small world, that world.
18:15I've got a mate who works real close to the agencies.
18:17He gets to see the lists.
18:18Then you ought to know that I'm not on them anymore.
18:20Just did it for a short while to get me through a difficult patch,
18:22but I've stopped now.
18:23Am I right?
18:24I'd call that a waste.
18:25A real waste.
18:27Yeah.
18:28How are you managing, then, in the meantime, eh?
18:29I'm managing business.
18:30I don't ask you about yours, do I?
18:32Listen, Mary.
18:33I've got a real feel for you.
18:35Always have.
18:36Every time I see her, I think to myself,
18:37that girl's my meat.
18:39Some birds really have to try it in,
18:41but you, it just comes natural.
18:43So what I was wondering was,
18:44why don't you take advantage of your biggest asset, eh?
18:46What are you after?
18:48You're in debt, right?
18:49Living on credit, on the social.
18:51No prospects.
18:52Except that every year that goes by,
18:53you're going to look a bit older.
18:55It's about time you faced up to it, darling.
18:57No big Prince Charm is going to come rolling by
18:59on a white horse and bail you out.
19:01So, why don't you do yourself a favour?
19:03I could do things for you.
19:05Set us up together.
19:06Sit down, girl.
19:07Listen, set us up together.
19:10Nice flat.
19:11Nice things for your little kid.
19:12And me that look after you,
19:14see nothing nasty happens to you.
19:15You want to put me on the game?
19:17You can take a running jump, Nick.
19:19Pippin's all you're fit for.
19:21You make me sick.
19:23It's not me that's sick, girl.
19:25It's the world.
19:25And the blokes that go lusting after it.
19:27So why don't you do yourself a favour?
19:29I've got good connections.
19:30When you asked me before,
19:31I told you what you could do,
19:32and I'm telling you again.
19:33No!
19:34Pity.
19:35You don't kid yourself, darling.
19:36No-one won any prizes for rotting their lives away
19:38in a lousy bed-sitting Walford.
19:40Get out.
19:41Okay, okay.
19:43But one other thing.
19:44You and I have got secrets.
19:46I know things about you.
19:47I've done nothing I'm ashamed of.
19:52I hope you don't have to wait too much longer,
19:54for whoever it is who's stood you up.
20:01You're fine, Lou.
20:03Yeah.
20:04Of course I'm fine.
20:06Just need me pills, that's all.
20:09Of course,
20:10there's one thing.
20:12I'm poorly.
20:13I'm worried about her.
20:15In what way, Lou?
20:16Well, we have our ups and downs, you know.
20:19It's only natural since she started mothering me,
20:21but she seems to carry all the load, you know.
20:25Home, working, new baby, old mother.
20:28Is Arthur helping her?
20:29Oh, well, he does his best, you know,
20:31but he's down in the dumps, not having a job.
20:33And Michelle's getting nervous,
20:34because she's about to drop
20:35and she's taking her exam.
20:37And the only one who's left to go chunneling on
20:40is my poorly.
20:41Yeah, it's always a wife's lot, Lou.
20:42You know that.
20:43There's always going on about the blokes
20:45being under strain, unemployed.
20:48But who takes the brunt of it, eh?
20:50Mum.
20:53Oi.
20:54Hey, Sammy, Peter, all you two.
20:58Hi, my boys.
21:07No trifle, Ethel.
21:09Oh, well.
21:09Pass the trifle, dear.
21:11Oh, it is lovely trifle, Todd.
21:14Very nice.
21:15If I'm staying from your ma,
21:17you've been staying with your dad.
21:18Yeah, it's got a nice place.
21:19Well set up.
21:20I had a good time.
21:21Quite sorry to leave.
21:22Yes, but home is where the art is.
21:24Yeah?
21:26Well, it's been very nice,
21:28but I have to be on me way.
21:29You see, they're having a meeting at my house
21:31and I want to be there.
21:31I don't like things going on behind me back.
21:33Well, if you must, Lou.
21:34Yes, but I'll see you tomorrow, Lou.
21:36Doc, you're coming to the bingo, aren't you?
21:37Well, pick me up about seven.
21:39Waste of time, all that bingo, ma.
21:40Oh, I only go for the company.
21:42Mrs. Hag won £50 a few weeks back,
21:44so hope springs eternal.
21:46Oh.
21:46Now, you stay, Ethel,
21:48because I want to ask you to read Nick's leaves.
21:50Oh, I couldn't.
21:51Oh, yeah, I'd like that.
21:54Not expecting anyone, are you?
21:57You see, I told him how you did it for me.
22:00Here, you come in or stay.
22:02Of course he's staying.
22:03Pity to break up the party.
22:05Well, well, well, Lofty, what a surprise.
22:07Well, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?
22:09Oh, come in, Lofty.
22:10Well, I only come to get me washing.
22:12Yeah, I didn't know you took in washing, Doc.
22:14I don't.
22:14Lofty left his washing here.
22:16Yeah, well, I'd better make a move, really.
22:18Oh, well, then you can walk me back home, then.
22:20All right.
22:20Now, can't we ask Mary to come down?
22:22That'd be nice.
22:23Then we could have a real party.
22:24I don't want a real party, thank you very much.
22:27Go on, read Nick's leaves.
22:28Yeah.
22:29Well, it's not quite the right atmosphere.
22:32Draw the curtains, Nick.
22:34Oh, well, I'll try to give a general impression.
22:38Now, put your hands on the glove.
22:41That's right.
22:43And close your eyes.
22:45Now think.
22:46Think very hard.
22:48Go on, Nick.
22:50Oh, yes, it's warm.
22:52Very warm.
22:53Sort of like the sun shining.
22:57It's golden.
23:00Golden.
23:01What does that mean, Ethel?
23:03Well, I don't quite know, but it could be money.
23:08Lots and lots of money.
23:16We're earning 150 more than we're spending.
23:20That doesn't include a drink.
23:21I'll go into the pictures.
23:22When was the last time we went to the pictures?
23:25Kelvin's given me two quid a week for me bike.
23:28You could get rid of the telly.
23:29Over my dead body at 16p a day.
23:32Where's Kelvin getting two quid a week from?
23:34In the old days, we'd have gone to the telly man, you know.
23:37Yeah, they're doing it nowadays and all, Mum.
23:38And once you get into that, you're in it for life.
23:41Yeah.
23:41You could put your new ring in, Ock.
23:43I could sell my bike.
23:44No, we're not going to sell anything.
23:46I've been thinking and, er...
23:48I'm going to get a part-time job in the evenings.
23:52And in three months or so, Michelle can do the same.
23:55Yeah, Michelle's getting married.
23:56You leave the sinking ship while you can, love.
23:59Oh, shut up, all of you.
24:01We're not talking about a tenner or 50 quid.
24:04We're talking about the way we're going to spend the rest of our lives,
24:06the way I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
24:08Do you understand?
24:09And it doesn't mean sitting in here watching daytime television,
24:12even if it was for free.
24:14Arthur, look, you've got to face up to things.
24:17I know we're thinking of things in bits and pieces,
24:19but it's not going to be easy to get another job.
24:22It could take months.
24:23Years, Pauline.
24:24It could take years.
24:25I've faced up to that one already.
24:28Do you know, I've sat in this chair
24:29and waited for you to come home from work for your dinner,
24:31and I felt like being sick.
24:34One day I cried.
24:35I did, I started to cry.
24:37And when I first got that cleaning job,
24:38that first morning, my stomach was eaving,
24:42like it was my first day at school when I was a kid.
24:45I couldn't go, I was afraid to go through the gates.
24:47But?
24:48But I survived.
24:49I faced up to it and survived it.
24:51You mean then you want us to leave it all to you?
24:54Got it in one.
24:56And if I ever find out that you've hopped that ring without telling me,
24:59I'll never forgive you.
25:01Dutch, I was only thinking about the money.
25:03But can't you get it into your heads that some things are priceless?
25:06You can't put a value on everything.
25:09God knows I know how funds are like the moment, I know that,
25:11but I haven't failed anything.
25:14And I'd like this family to share in my confidence
25:16that I can still manage to earn a living.
25:22I've got to look after myself, for my own sake,
25:26just for myself.
25:31He needs feeding.
25:34I'll go and get him up.
25:37Try explaining self-respect to a crying baby.
25:46I thought I'd find you in here.
25:47Hello, love.
25:49You know, I was thinking
25:51we could have some chickens in the corner there,
25:53a goat,
25:54some raspberry canes down the side here,
25:57a couple of apple trees,
25:59onions, potatoes, spring greens.
26:01What more could you want?
26:02A winter coat.
26:03Oh, right then.
26:04Two goats.
26:05All you need out of one acre of land.
26:08If only you knew how to do it.
26:10And then along comes an April frost
26:11and you're back to zilch.
26:13Must have been awful being a farmer.
26:15Like before it all got organised, you know.
26:17Yeah, it's as dangerous to put your faith in nature
26:19as it is to put your money into stocks and shares.
26:23How's your mum, all right?
26:28I'm sorry about the shame.
26:30That's all right.
26:31Are you okay?
26:42Oi, calm down, will ya?
26:45What are you still doing here?
26:46Don't you want to go home?
26:46No, I've been worried sick.
26:48Why?
26:48I've been out on jobs longer than this before.
26:50You thought I was waiting, that's why.
26:51Well, I didn't know that, did I?
26:53Well, you should have.
26:54I've been trying to talk to you all day
26:55and then you do go off
26:56and you don't come back for five hours.
26:58I've been driving for five hours, Sue.
27:00I stall at every traffic light.
27:01The exhaust system falls off at Croydon High Street
27:03and the geezer refuses to pay the office the full fare.
27:05Where does that leave me?
27:06£10, you.
27:07And I come home to find my wife ready to bore me out.
27:10I'm sorry.
27:11What do you think the office's for, anyway?
27:12I know, I'm sorry.
27:13I've just been feeling so emotional all day.
27:15I suddenly started to think
27:16something dreadful might have happened to you.
27:18Why?
27:19I don't know.
27:20It was a feeling, I'm telling you.
27:21Well, nothing has happened, all right?
27:23Ali, how about going for a drink, eh?
27:25How about getting drunk?
27:27Because I want to tell you something.
27:29I've been trying to tell you all day.
27:31I can't keep it to myself no longer.
27:32Just so long as it's nothing bad.
27:34It isn't.
27:36Ali, I don't want to jump the gun or nothing,
27:38but you know how you can sometimes get a feeling?
27:42What kind of a feeling?
27:43To do with your body.
27:44Sue, you...
27:45How you kind of know?
27:47I'm over a week late, Ali.
27:49I'm pregnant.
27:52Sue...
27:53Aw, Sue!