Episode 147

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

Freddie:  Do you know where Mum is, Lily ?  We need to talk to her about what happens next at Lower Loxsley.

Lily:  Well, we can put a chain and padlock on the roof access for a start.  It’s not really good for business to have people falling off during opening hours.  

Freddie:  I’ll speak to the maintenance guys about that.  Now, where is Mum ?

Lily:  She took Russ to the station after breakfast.  He’s going back to his wife to ‘live a normal life’ as he puts it. 

Freddie:  That’s a relief, I think he was working too hard on that limp.  It was getting on my nerves.

Lily:  Let’s not talk about Russ any more.  I’m completely over him and it’s time to move on.

Freddie:  Good to hear.  Now, I don’t know how you feel about the old place but Mum's idea of running off to somewhere warm, leaving the family millstone behind, is starting to appeal.  I mean, do we want to spend the rest of our lives propping up Lower Loxsley ?

Lily:  I must admit I had been thinking the same thing. Living here has been a nightmare since Mum went a bit mad and you went to jail.  Keeping it all together has put years on me and it would be a relief to make a new start somewhere else.

Freddie:  Okay, I’ll phone Usha tomorrow to see how the legal work to pass the estate to us is coming on.  Meanwhile, not a word to Mum.

Lily:  Oh, I can see Mum parking her car now.  There’s someone with her.  They’re getting out. They’re holding hands !

Freddie:  What !  Who is it ?

Lily:  Oh my God, it’s Roy Tucker ! What are we going to do ?

Freddie:  Don’t panic, I’ve got Usha on speed dial.

🎼  Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

(Ed.  Off with the old, on with the older ?)