Helen makes Rob happy. Pip makes a hit. Jazzer makes a cross.

Radio Times: Rob gets a result, and Toby rolls the fleeces.

Characters: Ed, Helen, Jazzer, Pip, Rex, Rob, Toby

• Rob and Helen breakfast together. Helen was not at the landowners’ dinner because Henry was ill, so she wants to hear all about it. Rob sat next to Nic; they have little in common, he says. Helen comments that the nursery mums have been speaking to PC Burns about the bunting theft. Rob quickly asks whether Helen finds him attractive. She denies this, and turns the conversation to her meeting with Tom, Tony and Pat about closing the shop.
• Pip has managed to bump her YF friend off the catching rota so that she can help with shearing, since Toby will be there rolling fleeces. She engages in some giggly flirtation with him and they get started. It’s hard work, and when Rex turns up they take a break. Pip wants to go and vote, and patronising Toby says she has a social conscience as well as good looks.
• Helen rings Rob to tell him the family outvoted Pat, and Ambridge Organics will close. Helen will manage the sale of the lease. Rob insincerely hopes it will not be too much for fragile Helen. But if she is happy with the arrangement, so is he. Helen has only to ask for help if she needs it.
• Ed tells Toby that parts of the land he and Rex hope to lease are poached. Toby offers to help Ed with any paper work in return for helping them find the land. They all go for a drink to celebrate the first day’s shearing, but first they must stop at the polling station, where Pip makes Jazzer exercise his democratic right, after instruction from Helen. Just wait till my ma hears about it, Jazzer crows; she won’t believe it.