TOAST

George, Lynne, 'Mantha and Sammy are having dinner with some other people. Lynne tells 'Mantha that she loves a wedding and she agrees. Sammy also agrees because there are always so many people to toast.

Someone has got married and have invited George, Lynne, 'Mantha and Sammy. They have been put together because they probably don't know that many other people at the weding. However it seems that they have all been put on a table with the lesser known relatives of the bride and groom. The man with the comb-over and the glasses is most likely the uncle of the bride or groom because he has a Morning suit on.

Dinner has been served and the speeches are now happening, however Sammy is already drunk. He has over done it on the champagne. Add that to a lack of canopes and the fizz has gone straight to his head. 'Mantha looks forlorn again, but he doesn't seem to be out of hand at the moment. That will come later when he passes out in the cake.

FAMOUS PIRATE

George is running with a unnamed friend. The friend tells George that they say a distant relative of his wife was a famous pirate. George wants confirmation that the pirate had an eye patch, peg leg and a parrot on the shoulder. The friend wants to know if George has met his wife.

George and his friend appear to be taking part in some sort of local fun run. Not only is it those two, but a woman is also running behind them. That said, none of them are wearing numbers and the lady in the brown is more interested in the shrubbery than the run, so it is more likely to be a jogging club.

George's friend's wife looks like a pirate. Unless the friend is trying to be funny by saying his wife is a bit ugly, and by the looks of George's face this isn't the case, his wife really does have an eye patch, a peg leg and a parrot on her shoulder. She really must be a sight and if George hasn't actually seen her, then he must have heard about her. There's no way a woman with that appearance would have got past Lynne's radar. It's likely that she isn't actually related to a pirate, but in fact this is a cruel joke played by the local residents because they think she looks like a pirate. The truth is she lost her eye and leg in a car accident and it is only the companionship of the parrot that has stopped her sinking into a deep depression.

DOUBLE

George is offering drinks to Sammy at a party. Sammy graciously accepts and then decides to take two giving the reason that he'll know that he's not seeing double.

This must be George and Lynne's party. However George could be one of those people who offers to help at someone else's party and then gets lumbered with a job for the rest of the evening. In this case, making sure everyone has a drink. He is doing a bang up job and with a smile on his face to boot.

He has remembered the first rule of Sammy at a party and that is never let him out of your sight. He has however forgotten the second rule which is never offer him a drink. The moment Sammy takes the second drink, 'Mantha's sixth sense kicks in and she looks towards Sammy in shock.

When Sammy gives the reasons for taking the second drink the faces of his friends tells the full story. 'Mantha is not so much upset but disappointed in Sammy. She realises there is nothing she can do for him and will no doubt be resigned to leaving him. Lynne looks at George with an inkling of blame, but just to get his attention to what is happening to their friends. George looks at Lynne with apology. He knows he has done something wrong, but in some ways they all knew it would happen.

EVEREST

Lynne and 'Mantha are playing snooker. Lynne tells 'Mantha that Stew attempted Everest with sexy Sara. 'Mantha asks if he got very far. Lynne replies that he didn't even get to first base.

Lynne and 'Mantha don't really know how to play snooker. They understand that you have to hit the white ball first to try and hit the other balls, but after that they are lost. Here, they have potted seven of the 15 red balls, but they have also potted the green, brown, pink and black balls without replacing them. This is going to severely affect the scoring of the game. It may be that they are just practising, in which case there will be no score.

One reason why they won't be playing a proper game of snooker is that this particular table has no pockets on it. It begs the question of where those other balls have gone. The women are so bad that the balls have been flying off the table. Some are under the sofa, others are behind the curtains. One even went out the French windows.

This ridiculous table must be the work of Sammy. Sammy is a highly skilled carpenter – just look at the craftmanship on those legs, but he is so drunk all the time that he forgets the most simple of things, in this case pockets on a snooker table. It can be ranked alongside his wardrobe with no doors and his coffee table with no top.

FIREWORKS

George and Lynne are on their way to a fireworks display in the park. George reminds Lynne that it starts in half an hour. Outside a house, he then tells Lynne that they promised to pick up Ed and Annie. Lynne says she thinks she can hear them. As they look through the curtains they see Ed and Annie fighting and George says it looks like the fireworks have already started.

Lynne's mind is going. George has to remind her first where they are going and then why they have stopped. However it is George who needs reminding as the fireworks in the park have already started. If Ed and Annie live that close to the park, then it is a wonder why they need to be driven there. They should really give it a miss. They can clearly see the fireworks from Ed and Annie's garden and that bonfire looks out of control.

Ed and Annie are having an argument. We don't know what it's about but it has escalated so far that Annie has felt the need to throw a book at Ed. This may just be a trivial argument about a novel they have both read. Ed enjoyed it but Annie didn't. If George and Lynne stick around, they would find that out. They don't. They leave hastily because not only do they not want a rowing couple in their car, but also they realise their car has no back seats.

Ed and Annie wait three hours for George and Lynne to come. They watch the fireworks display from their window and decide they don't need friends like George and Lynne. Just see, you'll never see them again.

HOUR GLASS

Lynne is standing in front of the mirror. She says that she read somewhere that an hour glass figure is going out of fashion. George, who has been watching, says it isn't with him. He kisses Lynne and says that her figure is perfect in our glass.

Lynne's mind is going. She knows she read about an hour glass going out of fashion somewhere, but she can't remember where. She has been standing in front of that mirror for an hour trying to remember. During that time, George has been standing in the shadows, waiting for his moment to reveal himself.

Due to the pronunciation of the word 'hour', George has misunderstood Lynne's statement. When he is spotted he tries to redeem himself and does well initially until his final comment which doesn't really make sense to Lynne who thinks he means hour glass.

What George actually means is that in their mirror, Lynne's figure looks good. What he doesn't mention is that in real life her figure isn't that good and that he had bought Lynne's mirror from the hall of mirrors at the local fair. He is lucky he didn't buy the massive head mirror. That would have really freaked Lynne out.

NOT FINISHED

Lynne is taking a shower. She thinks to herself that it was a shock to find her hotel not finished. She is willing to let it go because the hotel staff are doing their best. We see a Spanish man, called Carlos, pouring water on Lynne from a watering can. He says 'De nada, Senora' after Lynne thanks him.

After a sticky flight and arriving in sweltering temperatures, Lynne needs to freshen up with a cool shower. Even though she was undoubtedly shocked to find that that the hotel was not finished, even she cannot have thought that she would have to take a shower like this. When the concierge said at reception that the hotel was not finished, what he should have said was that they have no plumbing.

Finding your hotel unfinished was a classic horror story from 1980's holidays. Of course what usually happened was that tourists were thrown in to sub-standard accommodation. In this case, they are helping out to make sure all the advertised amenities are available to patrons. Carlos, who is more than happy to muck in, has drawn what is far from the short straw of climbing around the rooftops and pouring water onto guests in the place of showers. But where is he getting this water from? If the hotel has no plumbing, where exactly is he getting the water from? It is either from the sea or a nearby drain. Either way, it certainly won't help Lynne freshen up. You have to feel sorry for the poor chap who's having to clear the toilets.