Josh’s plans for product placement grow. Eddie’s plans for Lynda’s garden grow. Pat’s anxiety over Helen grows.

Radio Times: Pat is feeling outnumbered and the Grundys need to make plans.

Characters: Eddie, Emma, Jill, Joe, Josh, Pat, Tony

• Taking advantage of Lynda’s absence for the day, Eddie takes Joe along to make a start on the patio. While he is there, Eddie will scatter some ancient mushroom compost on the borders. Joe urges him to add this to the bill. Joe frets about the Stirlings’ return to Grange Farm, situated as it is in the crime capital of Borsetshire, but Eddie appears insouciant about their imminent homelessness.
• Tony does his best to help Pat make cheese, but is still told of his errors. He is worried about Tom, who is trying to do all the jobs; about Johnny who is getting behind with college work and with the fact that Henry’s time with them seems ever shorter. Still in emotional meltdown, Pat does little to help.
• Assuring his grandmother that he is way ahead with revision, Josh cuts college to help her with the bees. He laments the fact that the pastured eggs will not form part of Open Farm Sunday, as his parents have refused to lend him the trailer to take people to Hollowtree. But the TV company will certainly want to give them coverage, and might even film the bees. Jill has an idea, and takes Josh to look at an old henhouse, now hidden by weeds, but nearer the house.
• Emma begs a lift to the tearoom from Eddie. She and Fallon need to discuss the jumble trail. But when she tells Pat and Tony that the tearoom will not need any of Tom’s sausages this week as trade is so poor, she does little to calm Pat’s rising hysteria. She rants to Tony that there is no sense in keeping Helen in prison, that their situation is like a scene from a Victorian novel – and worst of all, Peggy’s calm makes her think that apart from the immediate family and Kirsty, everyone thinks Helen is getting what she deserves.