Val arrives home to find that Roger has had yet another run in with Phil - his boss at the Winter Gardens.

Roger's father is also critically ill in hospital. Plus there's the job of re-hanging the freshly laundered dining room curtains - courtesy of Year 9 - in the newly painted dining room. Top of the agenda, however, is putting on the kettle and unwinding with a cup of tea and a snack.

In typical fashion, one scotch pancake leads to another and, with the pressing need to generally put the world to rights, will either of them have the energy for household chores?