It's the last Christmas that Edith will have with her family before she and Phil set off for their dream retirement in the Mediterranean. Edith's son Roger enlists her scurrilous one-time flame, Bob The Burglar, to give Christmas its proper flavour. Edith's sister Joan won't watch the Queen's Speech anywhere else. Queenie locks Sandra and Wendy into a wardrobe, and Phil finds himself talking to a ghost.

Phil is worried that Edith's old flame Bob may be gaining ground, and that his own one-time stalker Desiree may put in an unwelcome appearance.

Bob gives Roger the idea of applying to be a paid carer for Edith. Trouble is, Edith is perfectly well, so who can Roger persuade to stand in for her?

As tensions grow between Roger and Wendy, a midnight break-in brings Edith face to face with a ghost from her past. How can she explain the raffish Bob to Phil?

Queenie appoints herself marriage counsellor to Roger and Wendy, and Edith and Phil decide it's the right moment to take a weekend break. While the cats are away…

Phil and Roger make rival attempts to impress Edith on her 70th birthday. Roger's bright idea is to dig up Queenie, Edith's chaotic former cleaner, but Edith is far from pleased.

Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture the happiness of his boyhood.