Life with the Amanda Ann (Louis Marx) Family
(Part One)

We are the Amanda-Ann(Louis Marx) Family

 We once lived in a very large house, with an estate and servants and that.

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 Unfortunately, due to father's drinking and debts, we have had to rather reduce our circumstances.  However, things could be worse.  We've found a reasonable place in a leafy part of West London.  

 But try telling my wife, Marjorie, that

She has not taken our cards-on-the-table chat very well.  

 There will be no going back to the family estate now.

 My daughter Lavinia, like all fourteen year olds, hate the world.
Luckily, we managed to get her a place at the fashionable Waldegrave girls school.  

Sadly, she has fallen in with a rough crowd

And Marjorie really tries to say the words : "State School" to herself

And fails......

This is Mary, our faithful serving wench.  Her speciality is cake.

Lavinia never eats with us.  She hasn't got an eating disorder, she's just embarassed to be seen with us.

 The (badly in need of repair) kitchen is Mary's domain.

 Among other things.  Ah, yes, I can explain......

 My wife actually hasn't noticed Mary's offspring as she has just returned from a failed tryst in Italy with a young lover.  One from the grand days.  I knew it wouldn't last.

 Marjorie sits and gazes at her ex-lover's picture constantly.  
"The stupid bastard wasn't even good in bed!"
She reflects dreamily

 "Even the fucking piano's out of tune!"

"Aw Mary!  Not more fucking cake!"

So now you know.  And if things are looking grim at the moment, they get grimmer.  
Tune in next week, same time, same channel.

 End of Part One