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- Pauline Paradise retires from her job as a lollipop lady but only teacher Peter Bachman seems to miss her. Her selfish,lazy husband Ken is as negative as ever whilst elder son Kevin,a fireman,is obsessed with his daughter's christening and his pub quiz team,roping in sister Heather and her spouse Charlie for the latter. Heather,when not preparing for her flamenco contest,is more concerned with getting pregnant whilst younger son Martin and his wife Michelle are over-run with offspring. Kevin's conceit loses his team the quiz and its prize money so he steals from the pub till to fund his son Nathan's rugby trip to France,ashamed to tell wife Sarah he is to be made redundant,though she finds out anyway. After Pauline's father Frank dies in an accident Ken's blank reaction propels Pauline,inspired by a Dylan Thomas poem in a book given her by Peter,to leave home and move in with her sister Rowan and her married lover Tommy.
- Rowan gives Pauline a make-over and persuades her to live for herself. Oafish Kevin believes that he can reconcile his parents at his son's birthday party but Pauline,aware that Ken is too selfish to make his own attempt to win her back,deliberately stays away and gets drunk with Rowan. Heather is single-minded in her desire to win the flamenco contest with partner Ashley but feels insecure when her rival Louise takes a shine to the younger Charlie and gets him to fit her smoke alarm. Heather and Ashley win the competition but she is annoyed when Charlie commiserates with Louise and has sex with Ashley.After being confronted by Nathan over the stolen money Kevin leads a delegation to ask Pauline to return home to Ken but she makes it plain that she has had enough of him and goes to the cinema with the widowed Peter,rebuffing an irate Ken when he phones her up. Going after her and spying on Rowan's house Ken meets Tommy's wife Vivienne,who tells him that infidelity is par for the course in a marriage.
- Strapped for cash to send Nathan to France Kevin steals money from a house where a woman has died but it is discovered and he is arrested. Thanks to Nathan returning the money to the pub no action is taken over the first theft but he is cautioned for the second,losing his job and the respect of Sarah and his children. Rowan's grand-daughter Scarlett,anxious to track down the mother who abandoned her as a child,is optimistic when she finds a note from her at Frank's grave whilst Heather finds she is pregnant at last. However she is unsure whether the father is the besotted Ashley or Charlie. Telling herself it is her husband she announces to Ashley that their friendship is at an end. Ken unsuccessfully feigns illness to win Pauline back but when he genuinely does his back in falling from a trampoline she is unconcerned and goes on a date with Peter,only to discover she is only one of several women he is seeing. When Heather tells her about her father's accident Pauline returns to see him - but only briefly.