13/12/2023

Whilst shopping at Deck The Hall Stella notices her Dad’s watch has stopped working. Leonard offers to try and fix it for her. Later Leonard presents her with the watch newly fixed and polished. They go on to discuss Christmas Day at Brookfield. Leonard warns Stella about being on David’s team for Charades and how he takes it all very seriously. Leonard then tells her he’s been put in charge of cheese and worries about what he should buy. Stella suggests going to the Farm Shop, after all, buying from the family would probably be the best idea. Lily tells Freddie about her plans for a chilled-out Christmas with friends and he’s devastated, telling her that spending Christmas with just his mum will be sad. Whilst at the Vets getting Ena’s claws clipped, Joy and Paul discuss their Christmas plans. Joy assumes he’ll be spending it with his parents and goes on to tell him about the Christmas she’ll be having on her own, with a free-range chicken for dinner. Paul feels sorry for Joy and after work, dashes to the shop to invite her over for Christmas dinner. Later, Paul sheepishly admits to Lily that he invited both his parents and Joy for Christmas dinner. Lily is annoyed, but also admits that she has invited Freddie and Elizabeth as well. Lily goes on to tell him that Elizabeth is making her polenta-parsnips. Paul tells her that his dad is also making honey-roasted parsnips, he’ll be bringing his air-fryer and everything. Lily laughs telling him “you can never have too many parsnips, can you?"