Alf uses his neighbours' phone to ring his daughter Rita, in Liverpool. It's so much easier now 'you don't have to bother with the operator no more' - but Rita's not on the phone and Else is still next door but after all: what are neighbours for!

Unable to qualify for a powered wheelchair and fed up with pushing Else and the shopping home, Alf asks the local mechanic to modify an old lawn-mower engine for her chair. While demonstrating its safety to an unconvinced Else, Alf realises he forgot to ask for a brake.