22/10/2018

At the karate class Lee offers to help Helen position herself correctly. Lee is entirely professional about it, but Johnny notices that Helen doesn’t like being touched. He urges her to tell Lee that she doesn’t like it. She insists that she’s fine – it was just the shock of being touched by a man again.

Josh takes Jill to a hen breeder. Jill has a good time looking at all the different breeds, but she’s still considering giving up her hens. Josh reminds her how much she enjoys it. He hints that it would be nice for Rosie to grow up with hens in the farmyard. At Brookfield, Rex is determined to surprise Bert by cracking on with some of the easy work on the hen house. He ropes Toby in to help with the roof, in exchange for some babysitting. When she sees the hen house, Jill is delighted. She resolves to buy more hens.

Pip rings Toby in a panic – why aren’t he and Rosie at Rickyard? Toby explains about helping with the henhouse. They’re on their way. He cooks dinner while she has a bath. Toby offers to stay over occasionally to look after Rosie at night. They agree that the sofa isn’t comfortable, and Pip offers to share her bed – platonically of course. After all, they’ll both be too knackered to do anything except sleep.