Joyce and Alan have financial concerns and are considering downsizing; Joyce is desperate to make sure her friends don't find out yet, which would be easy enough if they weren't in the house while the estate agent looked around.

Maureen has finally bitten the bullet and decided to move her mum Joan into a residential home. Everyone thinks it's a good idea except Maureen's sister Pauline - three times married, 60 going on 16 - who thinks it's cruel.

John has a tricky problem of his own. The boys have convinced him that Pauline's 'touchy-feeliness', which John has put up with for 40-odd years, is actually a form of sexual harassment, and he's going to have to stop being the victim and speak up...

It's Christmas Eve, and disaster strikes at the end of a long weekend at the festive markets in Cologne.

Marooned in France, John and Alan have their preconceptions about Germans challenged, Trevor gets grilled by security, and Joyce and Maureen have to rescue Carol, who's taken one too many travel pills.