With Edith and Phil's sunset retirement waiting on the sale of the house, Phil begins to despair of it ever selling.

Queenie talks him into holding an Open Day - but she has ulterior motives.

Edith is heartened to find that her son Roger is earning some sort of a living - even if it's only busking with her old flame Bob the Burglar and performing a ventriloquist act with his toy crocodile Methuselah.

Edith is finding her irritating sister Joan very difficult, and Roger, impatient to help Phil sell his house, decides to help by checking his roof for dry rot.