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Thank you for coming.

I'd use my own minister but he

tends to be more in demand.

It is addressed to Neil.

I can see that. That's what worries me.

Remember that misunderstanding around

the payment for the coach hire?

I do.

It cast a long shadow over

the Alzheimer's picnic.

He isn't terribly good with money.

And who can forget what

Paul reminded us in Romans?

Indeed.

Owe no one anything except

to love each other.

I'm not sure that can be applied directly

to contemporary financial transactions.

I want you to steam open the envelope

and tell me what's inside it.

I don't know about that.

Well, I'm a Christadelphian

but you're Church of England.

How's that relevant?

Well, firstly, Neil is Church of England so,

spiritually speaking, he is of your flock.

And secondly, I think of

the Church of England

as having a less rigorous

moral code than my own.

What's he going to do when I'm

not here to look after him?

We can appoint trustees.

And he seems to manage.

He has his adventures and...

How much is it for?

You might want to bear in mind you're

talking to a woman with an enlarged aorta.

When was your last check-up?

800.

Oh, I should never

have let him move out!

- This is my fault.

- No, Mary!

I'm sure there's a way of

paying this by instalments.

- I'll go over and see him right now.

- No, he's not there!

He's gone up to London.

Right.

On parliamentary business, so he said.

Where are you going, mate?

House of Commons.

Figures.

Is Tony Benn in today?

Couldn't tell you that, sir.

Well, could you not find out

if he's clocked on or not?

I can't move from here, I'm afraid.

Could you leave him this note?

I'm a friend of his son, Stephen's,

from Keele University.

Thanks.

Did you really meet him?

Yes.

He was very nice to me.

Poor Tony.

Poor Tony, yes.

Did you mention our drains to him?

He was very busy.

They've not been right since next door

did that paella for their ruby wedding.

No.

They were going to go barbeque

but the forecast was for low

pressure from the east.

800! That's not right.

No, it's not right, Neil.

It's not right at all!

I buy an electric stamp, every week,

from the Post Office. 5.

Neil, that only pays off 60.

This is the electricity

you've actually used.

How do you even begin to use this much?

I pay a fiver a week.

I buy a stamp. Ask the

woman at the Post Office.

How do you use that much?

I don't.

The budgies do.

I have to keep them warm, don't I?

Please tell me you don't have that two-bar

electric fire on all day and night?

Why shouldn't I?

I pay it. I buy a stamp.

I've got it in a book somewhere.

- How are we going to find 800?

- Don't worry, Mum.

Neil, love.

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