Episode 5

Joe has had to cancel a holiday with his girlfriend and it's Mimi's fault. So Mimi gets no back up when she wants to get the dog fixed and stop Lucy wearing latex.

Their friend Bobby (Stephen Critchlow) is fed up listening to them squabble because he has a real problem - his son Stevie is stonewalling him. Bobby even offers to help out so Joe can go to Barcelona to be with Tuberose - but Joe is enjoying the moral high ground and loves seeing Mimi up to her neck in his brownie points.

Mimi broke her arm when she went to check out Tuberose at Latex Couture of Holloway and now she can't can't type, floss or fasten her bra. When she complains of the pain, Lucy thinks it must be to do with the weight of her low hanging bosom. She is trying to soft soap her mum so she is allowed to wear the latex dress for the school Springtime Fashionista contest.

Science-loving Tom hates superstition but he is so undone by Poppy's coldness that he decides to start saying Good Morning Mr Magpie and he even steals Lucy's lucky mascot. And it turns out that Mr Hanky, the South Park Christmas Poo, saves the day. The anguish of the Millers has been healed by a cloth turd.

Writer: Marcella Evaristi
Director: Marilyn Imrie

Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4.