1 00:00:13,060 --> 00:00:17,340 Excuse me. I'm looking for me aunt, Mrs. Sims. The bed just there. The one with 2 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:18,340 the curtains pulled round. 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,940 What? What's the matter with her? 4 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:22,460 Silk! Oi! 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,220 Shut the curtains! She's having a wee! 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,760 Sorry. I thought something had happened. 7 00:00:28,180 --> 00:00:30,000 Something would have if you hadn't pulled me off. 8 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:34,820 What do we owe this honour? 9 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:38,860 How are you? I'm fed up. 10 00:00:39,460 --> 00:00:40,460 Oh, ta. 11 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:45,300 Oh, you lost weight? 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:46,960 No, I thought not. 13 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:50,600 I hear the Queen's been up here today. 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,580 Yeah, we never got to see her, though. She came up to Bart's when I was in 15 00:00:54,580 --> 00:00:56,380 with me. I never got to see her there, neither. 16 00:00:57,340 --> 00:01:00,740 Never mind. You can still kid on to people that she's been to visit you 17 00:01:01,260 --> 00:01:02,940 That's once more than you've managed. 18 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:04,800 I've been busy at the cafe. 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Sylvie understands. 20 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,060 You eating all right, Phil? I don't like hospital food. 21 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:13,820 Well, that's what did for your Uncle Russell. He came in on a Thursday, had 22 00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:16,160 cauliflower cheese for dinner, and the next morning he was gone. 23 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,660 Phil, he had a brain tumour. 24 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,040 Well, he'd had that for years. 25 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:24,640 Well, don't worry about it. 26 00:01:24,860 --> 00:01:27,580 You should bring her in some sandwiches, Trace. Oh, should I? 27 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:28,880 How are you sleeping? 28 00:01:28,980 --> 00:01:31,560 I can't get comfortable. I never seem to have enough of these pillars. 29 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:34,480 You want one of them special pillars what supports your neck. 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:35,760 Get her one, Trace. 31 00:01:36,310 --> 00:01:37,229 Anything else? 32 00:01:37,230 --> 00:01:38,770 Yeah, bring her in some extra blankets. 33 00:01:38,990 --> 00:01:40,230 There ain't enough here to keep her warm. 34 00:01:40,990 --> 00:01:43,530 What you really need is a man to give you a cuddle. 35 00:01:44,610 --> 00:01:46,430 I'll bring her in one of them and all, shall I? 36 00:01:47,290 --> 00:01:48,290 I'll be like that. 37 00:01:48,710 --> 00:01:51,570 Trish, get me a big pen. I think I want to go now. Oh, hold on. I'll get a 38 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:53,350 nurse, Sylvia. I've trouble getting it under you. 39 00:01:54,570 --> 00:01:57,050 Nurse, could you sort her out, please? 40 00:01:58,210 --> 00:01:59,350 I want a word with you. 41 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:05,940 Why don't you come in here winding her up? There's nothing wrong with her food, 42 00:02:05,980 --> 00:02:06,980 her pillows or her blankets. 43 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,940 She just complains for the sake of it. 44 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,420 Sylvie's never been one to complain for no reason. 45 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:12,980 Excuse me, Mrs. 46 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,720 Theodopoulosidis? No, that's me. Oh, sorry. 47 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Not as sorry as I am. 48 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,940 Then you must be Mrs. 49 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:20,220 Stubbs. That's right. 50 00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:22,660 Could I have a word with you both about Sylvie? 51 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,860 She's going to be all right, isn't she? Yes, her fracture's healing nicely. 52 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,240 It's her future that we're worried about. 53 00:02:30,269 --> 00:02:34,630 We think this latest fall proves she's just too old to live on her own anymore. 54 00:02:35,350 --> 00:02:36,390 So what does that mean? 55 00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:38,650 Well, we can get her a place in the Maybury. 56 00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:41,410 It's an old people's home near to where she lives. 57 00:02:41,730 --> 00:02:44,110 No. We don't want her to go in a home, do we, Trace? 58 00:02:44,490 --> 00:02:45,289 Well, no. 59 00:02:45,290 --> 00:02:47,110 She can come live with us. We've got plenty of room. 60 00:02:47,330 --> 00:02:48,330 Hold on! 61 00:02:48,610 --> 00:02:50,190 It's either that or she goes into a home. 62 00:02:50,870 --> 00:02:53,410 Nurse! I've tipped my bedpan up! 63 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,140 Right, Sylvie's room's all ready. 64 00:03:02,580 --> 00:03:05,000 I'm going to be stuck in there until her leg gets better, so I'll give her 65 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,020 Garfield's portable telly. 66 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:08,740 We'll have to find somewhere else to hide his dirty books under. 67 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,760 Don't you go saying anything in front of him, embarrassing him. 68 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:13,500 Who, me? 69 00:03:15,380 --> 00:03:16,380 Scrabble? 70 00:03:16,820 --> 00:03:18,520 I suppose you didn't think I could play? 71 00:03:18,780 --> 00:03:20,120 I didn't think you could read. 72 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,280 Where did this come from? 73 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,720 I dug it out the loft for Sylvie. 74 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,820 Remember all the games we used to play when we lived with her? 75 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:29,140 No. 76 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,380 No, you was too busy playing with Daryl. 77 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,140 Me and Sylvie used to play him all the time, either that or drafts. I remember 78 00:03:36,140 --> 00:03:38,340 the drafts. That house was like an icebox. 79 00:03:38,620 --> 00:03:41,760 The only warmth I ever felt in that place was when you wet the bed we had to 80 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:42,760 share. 81 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,400 Don't look like that. 82 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:50,800 I was 12 years old and I'd just lost me mum and dad. 83 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,080 God knows what would have happened to us if Sylvie hadn't taken us in. 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,620 You know, I'm quite looking forward to living with her again. 85 00:04:00,450 --> 00:04:01,450 What? Four. 86 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:04,270 I see her every day at that hospital. You never. 87 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:07,930 Change the record, try. Because if you had, you'd know she's changed. 88 00:04:08,210 --> 00:04:11,710 I mean, how often have we seen her since we stopped living with her? An hour's 89 00:04:11,710 --> 00:04:15,170 visit, three or four times a year, a five -minute phone call every fortnight. 90 00:04:15,510 --> 00:04:17,470 She's different, Cheryl. She's got old. 91 00:04:17,769 --> 00:04:19,550 Old people can be very trying. 92 00:04:20,029 --> 00:04:21,329 Yeah, you can, can't you? 93 00:04:22,510 --> 00:04:26,540 I'm just not sure we've discussed this enough. There's no... thing to discuss. 94 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:29,200 ain't even had a chance to talk to Dale about it. Well, I shouldn't think he'll 95 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,560 worry. By the time he comes out, chances are she'll have passed on. 96 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:33,200 Yeah, but what if she hasn't? 97 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,340 We'll take her downstairs things and tip her off the pier. 98 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:38,900 Right, I'm off to college. 99 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:41,300 I hate the journey there. It's such a drag. 100 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,560 Now, if I was to buy myself a motorbike... Don't start that again. 101 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:46,839 Oh, why not? 102 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:49,320 I was thinking I could get one with part of my grant. Yeah, and what are you 103 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:50,560 going to live on for the rest of the term? 104 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:53,440 I've got my savings, and I can help out in the CAF occasionally. 105 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,160 I don't want you to get one. They're too dangerous, Gar. 106 00:04:56,620 --> 00:04:57,740 He's not a baby. 107 00:04:58,740 --> 00:04:59,960 I always wanted a bike. 108 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,240 A big Harley. 109 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,880 Yeah. Shut up, you. I'd be worried sick. 110 00:05:05,140 --> 00:05:06,200 I won't get a minute's peace. 111 00:05:06,580 --> 00:05:07,960 All right. All right. Forget it. 112 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:09,740 What time's Sylvia arriving? 113 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:11,220 Sometime this afternoon. 114 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,040 Tell me, Gar, do you have any worries about Sylvia coming to stay? 115 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:16,100 No. I always got on fine with her. 116 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,220 See? She caught me smoking one of Dad's cigarettes when I was 11 and she didn't 117 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:23,160 grasp. All in all, I'd say she was my favourite aunt. 118 00:05:25,830 --> 00:05:28,750 Tracey, did I tell you what I found under Garfield's television? 119 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:32,350 Dust. Well, it was certainly filth. Yeah. 120 00:05:33,690 --> 00:05:35,150 Garfield, here a minute. 121 00:05:36,870 --> 00:05:37,870 What's that for? 122 00:05:38,050 --> 00:05:39,050 Monkey. 123 00:05:40,490 --> 00:05:43,490 Well, he don't seem too bothered about her coming to live. Well, he's not the 124 00:05:43,490 --> 00:05:46,370 one who'll have to look after her. I had a cousin who took in an elderly 125 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:49,810 grandmother, and from the moment she arrived, her life wasn't her own. I'm 126 00:05:49,810 --> 00:05:50,619 telling you. 127 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:54,000 You let yourself get in the grip of an OAP and it's goodbye freedom. Hello, 128 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,120 rubber sheets. 129 00:05:56,340 --> 00:05:58,380 You horrible, artless mare. 130 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,020 I pity your old mum if she ever gets ill. 131 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,220 You'll have her in a home quicker than you can say Zimmer frame. Never. 132 00:06:05,580 --> 00:06:07,740 Really? Really. Couldn't live with the guilt. 133 00:06:08,140 --> 00:06:11,340 My mother could make the homeless feel guilty for having a cardboard box. 134 00:06:11,980 --> 00:06:14,240 No, I know exactly what I'll do with her. 135 00:06:14,660 --> 00:06:17,800 We'll build a self -contained granny flat and have her attended by 24 -hour 136 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:18,800 nursing care. 137 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:21,180 A good -looking male nurse, I suppose. 138 00:06:21,940 --> 00:06:22,940 Haven't thought of that. 139 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:25,720 You've got no compassion. 140 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:29,880 All you're worried about is Sylvie and your conscience. And why are you 141 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:30,880 yourself with Sylvie? 142 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,600 Simply because you feel you owe her for taking you in when you were orphans. 143 00:06:34,820 --> 00:06:36,000 No, it's not just that. 144 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:38,200 It's also because she's family. 145 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,980 And we love her. Well, I love my mother. 146 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,640 I just don't want to have to do it 24 hours a day. 147 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,200 She'll be her own self once she gets out of that hospital. 148 00:06:48,190 --> 00:06:51,410 Maybe no bother with two of us to look after her. Oh, you do intend to help, 149 00:06:51,450 --> 00:06:53,270 then? It goes without saying. 150 00:06:53,470 --> 00:06:55,530 Most of your promises go without doing. 151 00:06:56,570 --> 00:07:00,350 When we were little and our hamster was ill, I helped you look after him, didn't 152 00:07:00,350 --> 00:07:02,330 I? Yeah, but why was he ill, shall? 153 00:07:02,730 --> 00:07:04,090 Because you never fed him. 154 00:07:09,710 --> 00:07:14,510 Tracy! Oh, give us a chance to get through the door. Hold on, Sylve! 155 00:07:14,890 --> 00:07:15,890 How's she been? 156 00:07:15,950 --> 00:07:18,560 Moaning. I wouldn't let her spell muesli with two O's. 157 00:07:21,420 --> 00:07:23,360 Oh, she wants her elevenses. 158 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:25,820 Well, Sharon was supposed to get that before she went. 159 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,420 You wait till she gets back tonight. 160 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:30,700 You have a long wait. She rang to say she's going out straight from work. 161 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:34,760 Four days Sylvie's been here. One cup of tea she's made her. Tracy! 162 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:36,900 Oh, that voice goes right through you. 163 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,020 Mum, I've decided I am going to get a motorbike. 164 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,180 But Garth, you said you'd forget it. 165 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:45,100 I know, but I've been talking to Sylvie. 166 00:07:45,620 --> 00:07:49,160 Sylvie! What does she know about motorbikes? She don't even know what 167 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,160 talking about. 168 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,660 Yesterday she tried to tell you she met Hitler hot -picking. 169 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,560 You weren't talking about motorbikes. We were just chatting in general. 170 00:07:58,220 --> 00:08:01,320 You've got to do what you want while you can. Otherwise you end up old like her 171 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,320 and it's too late. 172 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,200 I'll be all right, Mum. 173 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,000 I'll be careful on it. I promise. 174 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,560 I've got to go. 175 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:10,180 See you later. 176 00:08:11,260 --> 00:08:12,580 Tracy! I'm coming! 177 00:08:19,090 --> 00:08:20,130 I'm here, Sylve. 178 00:08:20,430 --> 00:08:21,770 Did you go to the library? 179 00:08:25,450 --> 00:08:26,450 Read it. 180 00:08:27,770 --> 00:08:28,770 Read it. 181 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:31,210 Read it. 182 00:08:33,690 --> 00:08:35,549 Oh, well, that's no good. It's not big print. 183 00:08:38,230 --> 00:08:39,230 Read it. 184 00:08:40,289 --> 00:08:41,690 Well, now what am I going to do? 185 00:08:42,429 --> 00:08:45,550 Well, go downstairs and get you some magazines. Oh, I don't like your 186 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:47,770 Haven't you got a copy of The Lady? 187 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,280 In this house? 188 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,060 How about psychic news? 189 00:08:51,460 --> 00:08:53,480 No. I sensed you was going to say that. 190 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,480 I'll be glad when I get back to my own flat. 191 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,260 Syl, you can't go back to your own flat. You need looking after. 192 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,760 Oh, I'll be all right once this leg's better. 193 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,440 I'm picking up some very strange emanations from this room. 194 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,640 Has anyone died in here? Not yet. 195 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,080 of the butchers for me pigs' trotters. 196 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:21,700 Yeah, but I've got chicken today. You can have your trotters tomorrow. 197 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,720 Well, don't forget, before you cook them, you've got to shave between the 198 00:09:25,220 --> 00:09:26,480 Yeah, yeah, you said. 199 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,060 I hear you've been chatting to Garthy. Yeah. 200 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,340 I was telling him about years ago. 201 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:34,060 Things I wished I'd done when I had the chance. 202 00:09:34,460 --> 00:09:37,320 Like immigrating to Australia with our Margie. 203 00:09:37,740 --> 00:09:41,760 Her and her husband ended up with a big house overlooking Sydney Harbour. 204 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,380 I stayed in Oxford and got shingles. 205 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:47,460 Oh, time goes so... 206 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:48,589 Quick, Trace. 207 00:09:48,590 --> 00:09:53,150 One minute I'm making eyes at Americans for nylons and the next I'm asking the 208 00:09:53,150 --> 00:09:55,270 doctor for surgical support stockings. 209 00:09:56,610 --> 00:10:00,510 I told Garth, get out and enjoy yourself while you can. Yeah, and now he's going 210 00:10:00,510 --> 00:10:01,710 to get himself a motorbike. 211 00:10:02,110 --> 00:10:04,590 Oh, you don't want to let him do that. They're dangerous. 212 00:10:04,970 --> 00:10:05,970 I know. 213 00:10:06,050 --> 00:10:10,030 Well, fancy you encouraging him to get a motorbike. Oh, I didn't. Well, someone 214 00:10:10,030 --> 00:10:12,290 else. You want to find out who it is, have a go at them. 215 00:10:12,650 --> 00:10:13,810 Just forget it, Syl. 216 00:10:14,530 --> 00:10:15,469 Where are you going? 217 00:10:15,470 --> 00:10:16,710 To do your elevensies. 218 00:10:17,770 --> 00:10:18,770 Hey, Tracey? 219 00:10:19,230 --> 00:10:20,950 What? Can I have the paper? 220 00:10:21,490 --> 00:10:22,490 Okay. 221 00:10:23,050 --> 00:10:24,050 Tracey? 222 00:10:26,230 --> 00:10:29,690 What, Syl? I've changed my mind about the paper. I'll have one of your 223 00:10:29,690 --> 00:10:30,990 magazines. Okay. 224 00:10:31,250 --> 00:10:32,310 Now, is there anything else? 225 00:10:32,510 --> 00:10:33,510 No. You sure? 226 00:10:33,770 --> 00:10:34,770 I'm positive. 227 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:37,870 Hey, Tracey? 228 00:10:40,590 --> 00:10:41,770 Yes, Syl? 229 00:10:42,370 --> 00:10:44,880 Well, there's no... to talk to me like that. 230 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:47,360 I'm sorry, what is it? 231 00:10:47,780 --> 00:10:49,740 I forgot what I was going to say now. 232 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,320 Look, I'm going downstairs to get your magazine. If you remember what it is, 233 00:10:55,420 --> 00:10:56,480 wait until I get back. 234 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,680 Please, don't shout again. 235 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:05,000 Tracey! Tracey, I've remembered! 236 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,320 That's the sort of thing I'm after, Mum. I'm not interested. 237 00:11:17,230 --> 00:11:18,230 Sod off. 238 00:11:19,870 --> 00:11:23,330 We was just having a little sing -song till two o 'clock this morning. 239 00:11:23,750 --> 00:11:28,350 I spend all day running round after her. The only chance I get to rest is when 240 00:11:28,350 --> 00:11:29,149 she's asleep. 241 00:11:29,150 --> 00:11:32,630 So I don't appreciate you coming in at gone midnight and getting her brahms on 242 00:11:32,630 --> 00:11:33,569 bottles of spat. 243 00:11:33,570 --> 00:11:35,530 It was gone free before I could get back to sleep. 244 00:11:36,230 --> 00:11:37,450 I slept like a log. 245 00:11:37,690 --> 00:11:39,450 Because you was as smashed as she was. 246 00:11:49,550 --> 00:11:50,670 I'll go and see what she wants. 247 00:11:53,450 --> 00:11:54,610 The door was open. 248 00:11:58,430 --> 00:11:59,430 I'm fed up. 249 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:04,870 Last night, Marcus and I were discussing your situation with Sylvie. And I just 250 00:12:04,870 --> 00:12:08,050 happened to mention my plan for Mummy if she ever became infirm. You know, the 251 00:12:08,050 --> 00:12:09,590 granny flat and the 24 -hour nursing care. 252 00:12:10,050 --> 00:12:11,050 And he refused. 253 00:12:12,090 --> 00:12:14,130 He said that he couldn't afford it. 254 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,300 And we could either put her into this Sunnyvale retirement home with his 255 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:21,040 Rachel because he'd get a discount for a group booking, or I would have to look 256 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,040 after her myself. 257 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:24,100 Morning door. 258 00:12:24,340 --> 00:12:26,160 I never knew he could be so dictatorial. 259 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:30,020 And the annoying thing is, if I wasn't so mad, I'd be turned on as hell. 260 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:36,400 I said to him, I have to surround myself with young things to keep myself young. 261 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:39,600 If I had to look after Mummy, I'd become down, trodden and dowdy. 262 00:12:39,820 --> 00:12:41,000 And what did he say to that? 263 00:12:41,550 --> 00:12:44,210 Anything that means I spend less on clothes gets his vote. 264 00:12:44,790 --> 00:12:47,270 I couldn't look after her. 265 00:12:47,590 --> 00:12:51,810 I'm not cut out to be a carer. I'm rapidly coming to the same conclusion. 266 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,890 I think it'd be better all round if she went into an home, Cheryl. 267 00:12:55,570 --> 00:12:56,930 Tracy! What does she want? 268 00:12:57,210 --> 00:12:58,830 Just making sure we could hear her bell. 269 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:01,910 She's just too much for me. 270 00:13:02,310 --> 00:13:04,230 You're exaggerating. I'm not. 271 00:13:04,930 --> 00:13:08,970 I couldn't put her in a home, Tracy. It'd break her arm. Well, having my 272 00:13:08,970 --> 00:13:11,790 to stay would severely cramp my style. She'd have to go into a home. 273 00:13:12,390 --> 00:13:15,130 I suppose if I gave her a reasoned explanation, she'd understand. 274 00:13:15,910 --> 00:13:16,910 Oh, you think so? 275 00:13:16,990 --> 00:13:17,990 Yes. 276 00:13:18,210 --> 00:13:19,210 All right. 277 00:13:19,490 --> 00:13:20,490 Imagine I'm her. 278 00:13:20,810 --> 00:13:21,810 Explain it to me. 279 00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:23,830 No. You're biased. 280 00:13:24,350 --> 00:13:25,930 And you don't think she might be? 281 00:13:26,630 --> 00:13:27,630 Come on, doll. 282 00:13:27,670 --> 00:13:29,690 If you can convince me, you can convince her. 283 00:13:31,990 --> 00:13:32,990 All right. 284 00:13:41,449 --> 00:13:43,190 Mummy. What already? 285 00:13:47,350 --> 00:13:49,250 My mother is not Maureen Lipman. 286 00:13:50,810 --> 00:13:52,550 It was a joke. Go on. 287 00:13:55,210 --> 00:13:59,170 Mummy. Now, you know I love you and that's why I want the best for you. 288 00:13:59,530 --> 00:14:06,470 At this awkward stage in your life, you need 289 00:14:06,470 --> 00:14:09,430 to be surrounded by your contemporaries and receive professional care. 290 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:12,170 From people who can give you their undivided attention. 291 00:14:12,850 --> 00:14:15,330 What you mean is you can't be bothered. That's not true. 292 00:14:17,170 --> 00:14:19,610 Your happiness has always mattered to me. 293 00:14:20,390 --> 00:14:23,750 Is that why you slept with my tennis coach when you knew full well that I was 294 00:14:23,750 --> 00:14:24,449 seeing him? 295 00:14:24,450 --> 00:14:25,450 You didn't. 296 00:14:27,890 --> 00:14:28,890 I've been drinking. 297 00:14:28,990 --> 00:14:32,110 I hated myself straight out of you cow. I told you that in strictest confidence. 298 00:14:33,590 --> 00:14:37,150 You dare speak to your mother like that. That's not fair, Sharon. 299 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,200 My mother would never be so vicious as to dredge that up. 300 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Wouldn't she? 301 00:14:42,020 --> 00:14:46,720 After she's given you life, fed you, clothed you, supported you through 302 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,540 university, paid to have your moustache removed. 303 00:14:50,580 --> 00:14:54,360 You're a dumper in a place where half the people sit at the dinner table 304 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,620 drooling, whilst the other half sit there filling their incontinence pads. 305 00:14:58,060 --> 00:15:01,820 And the only fun is watching the sponge brains hoovering the lawn in their 306 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:05,720 underwear. I reckon she'll be damn right savage. You're being totally 307 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:06,720 unreasonable, Sharon. 308 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:11,020 A home wouldn't be that bad. Of course it wouldn't. I wish you'd look after 309 00:15:11,020 --> 00:15:13,760 Sylvie just for one day, Sharon. You'd soon change her, too. 310 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,720 No, I wouldn't. Well, all right, then. Look after her today. 311 00:15:18,780 --> 00:15:20,120 I can't. I've got to be at the cafe. 312 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,100 No, you haven't. I can skip college and run it. Yeah, and I can take the chance 313 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:25,100 to go and visit Daryl. 314 00:15:25,860 --> 00:15:27,000 But he's not expecting you. 315 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,160 So? He's hardly going to be out, is he? 316 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:32,700 Go on, Sharon. 317 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:33,920 Off you go. 318 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Thank you. 319 00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:19,100 Doreen's not back from the chemist yet! 320 00:16:19,820 --> 00:16:21,300 Give me strength. 321 00:16:22,020 --> 00:16:24,160 It's only half past eleven, I'm already knackered. 322 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,080 There you are. 323 00:16:30,460 --> 00:16:31,460 Thanks. 324 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:32,819 How's it going? 325 00:16:32,820 --> 00:16:34,920 Fine. Don't know what Tracey's making us talk about. 326 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,500 Quasimodo's ringing her bell. Can you hear her? 327 00:17:01,940 --> 00:17:03,240 You're not going to believe this, Dor. 328 00:17:03,780 --> 00:17:05,119 That was Garfield on the phone. 329 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:07,300 There's some sort of crisis at the cafe. 330 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,640 What sort of crisis? 331 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,200 I don't know. He just mumbled something about a chip pain. 332 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:12,440 I've got to go down there. 333 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:13,640 What about Sylvie? 334 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:15,420 You can keep an eye on her for us, can't you? No! 335 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,240 Oh, she wants her bed sore cream. 336 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,800 the chemist yet? 337 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:33,780 Yes, I am, actually. 338 00:17:35,940 --> 00:17:36,940 Oh, it's you. 339 00:17:37,340 --> 00:17:39,440 I thought I sensed a strange aura. 340 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:41,120 Where's Sharon? 341 00:17:41,140 --> 00:17:43,860 She had to go to the cafe. Some sort of crisis. 342 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:45,820 It's burning down, I hope. 343 00:17:46,740 --> 00:17:47,940 Did you get the cream? 344 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:49,500 Yes. 345 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:52,619 There you are. 346 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:56,200 It's no good giving it to me. I can't reach to put it on. You were able to do 347 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,200 for me. 348 00:18:45,710 --> 00:18:46,710 It was quieter. 349 00:18:47,790 --> 00:18:49,050 Who took her bell? 350 00:18:49,270 --> 00:18:50,630 It was either that or her life. 351 00:18:51,610 --> 00:18:53,930 I can't believe you just walked out and left her. 352 00:18:54,130 --> 00:18:55,570 I had to get away, Trace. 353 00:18:55,790 --> 00:18:57,610 Now you know I wasn't exaggerating. 354 00:18:58,670 --> 00:19:00,210 You know what really got to me? 355 00:19:01,010 --> 00:19:03,010 It was remembering the way she used to be. 356 00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:05,930 I mean, she used to be so active and such a laugh. 357 00:19:06,990 --> 00:19:10,250 She was, weren't she, Trace? That ain't just me imagining it. No, she was. 358 00:19:10,490 --> 00:19:13,730 At weddings, she was always the first one to flash her bloomers during the 359 00:19:13,730 --> 00:19:14,730 -kokie. 360 00:19:15,389 --> 00:19:17,250 Remember when I sat on that electric fire? 361 00:19:17,550 --> 00:19:20,690 She had me over her shoulder and up that hospital for me, Navy blue, stop 362 00:19:20,690 --> 00:19:21,690 smoking. 363 00:19:22,210 --> 00:19:25,150 I've come to the conclusion that old age can be very sad. 364 00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:28,310 Did she give you a lot of trouble, Dor? 365 00:19:29,550 --> 00:19:31,530 I had to touch parts of her body. 366 00:19:32,010 --> 00:19:34,630 I swore I would never touch on another woman. 367 00:19:36,270 --> 00:19:43,170 Not only that, I had to empty her bedpan, listen to endless tales of 368 00:19:43,170 --> 00:19:44,170 her youth. 369 00:19:44,970 --> 00:19:48,270 And then shaved between the toes of a pig's trotter. 370 00:19:53,010 --> 00:19:54,010 Sorry, doll. 371 00:19:54,430 --> 00:19:57,750 It just confirmed my worst fears of old age and infirmity. 372 00:19:58,130 --> 00:20:01,050 Just the thought of having to spend 24 hours a day in bed. 373 00:20:01,250 --> 00:20:02,690 I thought that would be your idea of paradise. 374 00:20:03,790 --> 00:20:05,690 Well, not when the highlights are bed bath. 375 00:20:06,450 --> 00:20:11,130 And you can call me weak and selfish, but no amount of guilt is worth watching 376 00:20:11,130 --> 00:20:14,150 my mother suffer such indignities. No, I've made up my mind. 377 00:20:14,730 --> 00:20:18,450 If it comes to it, she's off to join Granny Rachel at Sunnyvale. 378 00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:22,050 I hope I won't be getting any more argument from you about Sylvie going 379 00:20:22,050 --> 00:20:22,989 home. 380 00:20:22,990 --> 00:20:26,610 You sure it's not us, Trace? You sure we're not letting her down in some way? 381 00:20:26,930 --> 00:20:29,370 I mean, she'll be all right once her leg gets better. She'll be a bit more 382 00:20:29,370 --> 00:20:33,230 mobile. No, she won't. You heard what they said at the hospital. She's too old 383 00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:34,230 to look after herself. 384 00:20:34,690 --> 00:20:40,050 She's going to need constant attention right up until... she dies, to put it 385 00:20:40,050 --> 00:20:41,050 bluntly. 386 00:20:41,610 --> 00:20:44,050 She'll be better off in a home show, you know it. 387 00:20:45,810 --> 00:20:46,810 All right. 388 00:20:47,430 --> 00:20:48,870 Break it to her gently, won't you? 389 00:20:49,130 --> 00:20:51,390 Me? You're closest to her. 390 00:20:51,610 --> 00:20:54,390 You're the one chucking her out. I ain't chucking her out, we just agreed. 391 00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:55,870 Then why don't you do it together? 392 00:21:14,669 --> 00:21:15,669 Sylve. 393 00:21:16,950 --> 00:21:17,950 Sylvie. 394 00:21:18,690 --> 00:21:19,890 Oh, she's asleep. 395 00:21:20,970 --> 00:21:22,030 Doesn't she look peaceful? 396 00:21:24,590 --> 00:21:26,190 She is just asleep, isn't she? 397 00:21:27,910 --> 00:21:28,910 Shut up, you. 398 00:21:29,170 --> 00:21:32,230 Sylve, stop it. If she is just asleep and you wake her with a start, you could 399 00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:33,230 give her a heart attack. 400 00:21:34,990 --> 00:21:36,530 I can't see her chest moving. 401 00:21:37,350 --> 00:21:38,610 I'll see if I can find a mirror. 402 00:21:38,890 --> 00:21:39,809 What for? 403 00:21:39,810 --> 00:21:41,230 I want a check for blackheads. 404 00:21:43,950 --> 00:21:45,270 I'm going to see if she's still breathing. 405 00:21:46,570 --> 00:21:49,090 Oh, I wish you'd keep them in a glass. 406 00:21:55,330 --> 00:21:56,309 She's all right. 407 00:21:56,310 --> 00:21:57,530 Oh, what a relief. 408 00:21:58,330 --> 00:22:01,610 It would have been terrible if we'd been downstairs discussing about putting her 409 00:22:01,610 --> 00:22:02,910 in a home and she'd been up here dying. 410 00:22:04,810 --> 00:22:08,530 We are doing the right thing, aren't we, Trace? Look, we've decided now, Sharon. 411 00:22:09,050 --> 00:22:10,050 Decided what? 412 00:22:10,690 --> 00:22:12,860 Sylvie. You frightened the life out of me. 413 00:22:13,220 --> 00:22:15,940 Oh, you shouldn't be so nervy. Sign of a guilty conscience. 414 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:19,080 What do you want? I was sound, though. 415 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,420 We came to have a chat. 416 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,740 Look, Sylve, you know the doctors at the hospital have said you can't live on 417 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:27,740 your own anymore. 418 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,360 I'll take no notice of them. Once me leg's better, I'll be all right back in 419 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:36,660 flat. You can't, Sylve. I'm not a kid, you know. I can look after meself. You 420 00:22:36,660 --> 00:22:38,940 can't. You're too old. You need looking after. 421 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,820 Oh, I'm sorry, Sylvia. I didn't mean to shout. 422 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,080 Oh, it's all right. 423 00:22:45,420 --> 00:22:46,620 I know you're right. 424 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,680 I know the doctors are right. 425 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,820 I'm just a silly old woman. 426 00:22:52,220 --> 00:22:54,420 I suppose this means I've got to stay here. 427 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,760 Well... Of course you can stay here, Sylvia. As long as you like. 428 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,060 Yeah. They wanted to put you in a home, but we said no. 429 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320 What home? 430 00:23:08,780 --> 00:23:10,560 The one near you, the Mabry or Samick. 431 00:23:12,460 --> 00:23:15,400 Don't you think it would have been nice to have asked me what I thought before 432 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,580 you go making decisions about my life? 433 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,480 Well, we just assumed that you'd... Well, you shouldn't have done. 434 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,080 I've been angling for months to get into the Mayberry. 435 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:29,200 Look, is it too late? Have I missed my chance? 436 00:23:29,620 --> 00:23:32,660 No, I don't think so. The hospital said they'd keep your place open. 437 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,340 Well, get on the phone. Tell them yes. 438 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,600 Well, wouldn't you rather live here with us? 439 00:23:36,820 --> 00:23:43,080 No, or me mate... are in the Maybury. They know how to enjoy themselves there. 440 00:23:43,140 --> 00:23:48,080 They have outings, sing songs every night, bingo twice a week. I could 441 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,200 my own seances. 442 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,440 I'd be in me element. 443 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,500 I don't want to be rude, girls, but it's bloody boring here. 444 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:02,940 I've never thought about me growing old before. 445 00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:05,140 Well, you don't think about it, do you? 446 00:24:07,660 --> 00:24:09,740 Does it worry you, old age? 447 00:24:10,420 --> 00:24:11,880 There's a point in worrying about it. 448 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:13,500 True. 449 00:24:13,940 --> 00:24:16,200 It's like getting a cold sore just before a big date. 450 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:18,700 No matter what you do, it's bound to happen. 451 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:20,120 I'm eating a biscuit. 452 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,740 Garfield's right about making the most of your youth, though. 453 00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:25,340 I mean, look at Dorian. 454 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,580 She enjoys a different one every week. 455 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:31,180 I'm quite looking forward to old age. 456 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:32,640 Daryl and the grandchildren. 457 00:24:33,540 --> 00:24:34,700 Yeah, but it's different for you. 458 00:24:35,420 --> 00:24:37,100 You've got family to grow old with. 459 00:24:37,610 --> 00:24:38,569 You've got Chris. 460 00:24:38,570 --> 00:24:39,970 That's it. Depressed me even more. 461 00:24:41,810 --> 00:24:43,830 I can just imagine what he'll be like when he's old. 462 00:24:44,330 --> 00:24:47,490 Yeah, dirty old man over the park watching the girls play netball. 463 00:24:48,010 --> 00:24:49,010 He'd do that now. 464 00:24:50,850 --> 00:24:54,390 No, he'll be up the front of one of them strip clubs fiddling under his mac. 465 00:24:56,450 --> 00:25:00,310 You're only 32, Shell. There's plenty of time for you to meet someone else. 466 00:25:00,570 --> 00:25:03,670 By the time you're drawing your pension, you could be married to a millionaire 467 00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:05,430 or be Prince Andrew's fourth wife. 468 00:25:05,820 --> 00:25:07,860 I've got more chance of being Prince Edward's first. 469 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 No. 470 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,700 I'll probably end up on my own. 471 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,940 Oh, you'll never be on your own. You'll always have me. 472 00:25:16,220 --> 00:25:18,440 Does that mean I can come and live with you and Daryl? Certainly not. 473 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,140 But I'll ring you regular. 474 00:25:21,340 --> 00:25:22,340 Is that you, Garth? 475 00:25:22,620 --> 00:25:23,620 Yeah, all right. 476 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:24,920 You're late. 477 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:26,320 I had something to do. 478 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:28,319 Want a cup of tea? 479 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,480 Please. Good, make me another one while you're out there. 480 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,740 Aunt Sylvie's leaving. She's going into her home. 481 00:25:34,260 --> 00:25:35,260 How's she taking it? 482 00:25:35,710 --> 00:25:39,010 Well, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks 483 00:25:39,290 --> 00:25:40,290 It was her idea. 484 00:25:40,850 --> 00:25:42,170 After all we've done for her. 485 00:25:44,570 --> 00:25:45,870 After all you've done for her. 486 00:25:47,590 --> 00:25:48,690 Oh, you got your bike then? 487 00:25:49,190 --> 00:25:50,610 Yeah. He got his bike trace. 488 00:25:51,570 --> 00:25:53,550 Yippee. Going to take me out for a spin? 489 00:25:53,890 --> 00:25:55,830 I can't. I've only got a provisional licence. 490 00:25:56,270 --> 00:25:57,770 Oh. Well, let's have a look at it then. 491 00:25:58,350 --> 00:25:59,350 It'll upset Mum. 492 00:25:59,610 --> 00:26:00,610 She's got to see it sometime. 493 00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:02,810 I've put it in the garage now. 494 00:26:03,130 --> 00:26:04,350 Well, have a look at it in there. 495 00:26:07,610 --> 00:26:08,610 Vroom! 496 00:26:08,930 --> 00:26:10,470 Vroom, vroom, vroom! 497 00:26:11,730 --> 00:26:13,050 Oh, yes, Garthy. 498 00:26:13,490 --> 00:26:14,930 Very leader of the pack. 499 00:26:16,010 --> 00:26:17,610 Sold out of C5s, were they? 500 00:26:18,330 --> 00:26:20,030 I couldn't afford anything bigger. 501 00:26:20,350 --> 00:26:22,210 Well, it still looks very dangerous to me. 502 00:26:22,850 --> 00:26:25,250 Trace, you'd get up more speed on a skateboard. 503 00:26:26,430 --> 00:26:27,430 That's it. 504 00:26:27,510 --> 00:26:29,130 Where are you going? I'm taking it back. 505 00:26:30,790 --> 00:26:33,190 Well, don't take no notice of me. No, you're right. 506 00:26:33,390 --> 00:26:34,390 It's not what I want. 507 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,540 And if I get this much stick from you, they'll slaughter me at college. 508 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,900 I'll wait till I can get something more powerful. 509 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,880 Like an egg whisk. 510 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:49,540 Here, Garthy. 511 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,120 No burn -ups with them electric wheelchairs. Do you hear? 512 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,320 I don't remember that hand signal from the highway code.