Part Six

Marjorie was brought round from her fainting fit, and faces her old love:

 "Oh Alistair", she breathes, "Why have you come?"

 "I have never gotten over you, Marjorie (from the old days)"
"I've not stopped searching for you."
"But what about your country surgery?"
"I've given that all up.  I'm now a GP in London!"

"Whatever for?", Majorie asks 
"Because of YOU, Marjorie.  I thought we had the Real Thing - and then you go off to Italy with that young boy!"
"Ah yes", Marjorie says dreamily, "oh I mean...I didnt' want to.."
"I urge you to marry me, Marjorie.  Leave Plastic Paul to his multi-adoptees, and come with me for a better life!  I will await your answer, my darling"

As Paul goes to leave...

"Why!  Young Lavinia!  How you've grown up!"


Lav runs to her room, in shock at confronting her childhood crush. 
"I still love him," she cries, "I still love Alistair!
Mama can't have him!  She can't!"

Meanwhile Marjorie reflects, and embarks on a plan to test her true feelings.

She devises a cunning plan to seduce Paul, and find out where her true feelings lay:

 They start with a romantic meal

She then plays him the most sensual of her recitals.
Paul sits there reflectively:  he knows where all this is going.  What was it about bloody women, why did they always want to seduce him?
And it didn't stop there either: It was "darling, I must buy this.." or "Master Paul, I fear I am with child..."
 

"Oooh, I say!"
 

Despite Paul actually getting into his own bed for the first time in months, it was not a happy occasion:

"For Gods sake, Marjorie!  Uncross your legs!"
 

"It used to be THIS big!", Paul explains

Majorie is not listening.  She fears it has to be Alistair she chooses

 Next installment, Marjorie makes her ultimate choice - or does she?  Meanwhile, Paul gets a revelation himself. 

Life with the Amanda Ann Family part Five

There is a knock, and Mary lets in a new neighbour:

 "Tell your mistress that my name is Sindy Doll, and that I'm a really competitive mother.  At once, servant!"

"Fuck off!", Mary replies

However, Mary dutifully informs her mistress (who is at home to callers) of her visitor:

"Then show her in, you dozy cow!"
(There is much friction between them)

 "Have some fucking tea", says Mary

 "By the way, I'm also a nymphomaniac, and I swing both ways."
"Oh I say!," Marjorie exclaims, thinking of the wild chandelier swinging parties of her old days.

But it did not work out that way:

 "You're not really into this, are you?", Sindy Doll ventures.
"Not anymore, it seems", said Marjorie, embarassed.  
"Why don't you, and your old man, join our PTA.
We finish the meetings by nine, then we're all in bed, if you receive my meaning!"

 Later, Marjorie reflected that life in Twickenham might not be so bad after all.  

 However, over dinner, Majorie decided not to share this with Paul, and would no longer be at home to that common Doll woman.  

However, the next day, Mary informed Marjorie once again of a visitor:

 "I told you, Mary, that I was Not At Home to that woman!"
"Oh no," Mary said darkly, almost knowingly, "It's not HER!"

The visitor walked in:
"Alistair!  After all this time!"
Marjorie swooned.

Next installment - Alistair declares his intentions, Majorie is in a turmoil, and Paul does sod-all.

Don't miss part six - same time, same channel.

Life with the Amanda Ann Family Part Four

During the past few months, Lavinia had grown up a lot.  

However, she did not know what to do with this baby thing, so she went down to Mary, to ask the young mother's advice:

"I say, Mary, what does one do with an illegitimate brat?"
"Why!  Give them cake, miss Lav!"
said the maid cheerfully.
Lavinia thought it best to go to the local baby clinic.  

 On the other hand, better just to leave it there with Mary, she'll never notice.

 Like Marjorie, Lav was in no doubt that Mary's children were her half-siblings
- or were they?  Lavinia smelt a rat!

 Meanwhile, Marjorie was taking being a grandma very badly indeed

By sheer chance, Lav popped down to the kitchen once again.  Only to be met with an unwelcome encounter...

 "'ere Mary, give us twenty.... oh hello Posh Piece!"
"Melvin!  You bastard!" , Lav cried.

 Melvin (over a few beers), puts heartbroken Lavinia in the picture.
"Look, it was good and all that.  And your plummy voice really got me going, but Mary's me bird and mother to me kids!"

Lav runs back to the kitchen.  
"Mary!  You little mare!  I knew they weren't Daddy's children!"

Mary goes pale

Lavinia runs to her father in the drawing-room 

 "Papa!  I have something very significant to tell you!"

"Can't it wait, my pet?  The Inbetweeners are nearly on."

She finally captures her father's attention, and tells him of her discovery in the kitchen.
"Don't you see, Papa?  Those awful brats are not yours.  You don't have to include them in your will and everything"

Paul sighed: "Look, Lavinia, I knew full well they were not mine.  Especially as Mary gave birth to them only six months after our - erm - union"

"And the real truth is, my sweet, that I have grown rather fond of the little blighters.  So I'm having Melvin arrested, and the children adopted into the family."

"And as far as the will is concerned, my pet, there is sod-all to leave anyone.  Except this house, and the plastic furniture.  Which, quite frankly, is far more comfortable than that draughty shit-hole country estate you were raised on."

"Now, if you'll excuse me, Deal or No Deal is about to start!"

"Ratscocks!"

Lavinia wakes up with a heavy heart, and goes to talk to her mother (still in bed)

"Oh?", Marjorie says scathingly, "Still going for those drinks of water, is he?"

Marjorie had not been so self-absorbed as Paul presumed, she had seen Mary's brats for herself.  She knew who their father was ...

"But Mama!  Daddy says you had lots of drinks of waters in Italy!  Was it very hot there then?"

"Umm yes, darling.  You could say that.  Now, before I go back to bed, are you home for dinner?  Or are you hanging round McDonalds again, throwing chips at pensioners?"

"Oh, Fuck knows!", Lav replied.  
She was so unhappy and confused - and lonely.

 She confides in her new friend, Gillian.
"Oh, I've done it lots of times!", her new pal boasts.
"Done what?", Lav asks
"You're a scream, you are!  I'll get you together with my mate Melvin, off the estate, he loves posh birds!"

"Oh, an estate. Super! We had one of those once!"

So, at a wild party on this estate place, Lavinia met Melvin across a crowded room (almost)

 And for the doe-eyed Lavinia, it was true love

Melvin's ardour was hard and demanding.
"So this is what a snog is", Lav thought

 "Oof!  Ahh!  This must be what true love is!", Lav thinks "Oh!  Is that it?"

"How wonderful...... I think.."

Several months later:

 "Ratscocks!"


Next week:  Lavinia grows up fast, Marjorie gets out of bed, and Paul receives a revelation

Part Four: same time, same channel

Life with The Amanda Ann Family Part Two

 Since Marjorie's return from Italy, she has taken over the marital bed, and I sleep on the chaise lounge.  Which is pretty grim.

So it's little wonder I turn to Mary for comfort.  
(Once she's put the kids to bed)

But one night as I make my way down to the kitchen (where Mary sleeps):

"Oh Papa!  Where are you going?"

Lavinia was standing there.  
"Just to get a drink of water, Petal-Pie", I tell her

"But Papa!  You make such a noise down there.  And why do Mary's bedsprings creak so?"

Her painted blue eyes full of uncertainty and doubt.

 
"She has bad dreams, my pet.  I have to comfort her"
Despite it being the other way round, it was true in a sense.

Lav eventually went to bed, but with great misgivings.  
And I went too - to Mary's bed, that is.

I'm sure I could almost love Mary - if only she put down that fucking cake!

Next installment, Lavinia finds out about love for herself, and Marjorie is a bitch

Part Three, same time, same channel