When building work puts Maddy and Jim's bedroom off limits, everyone has to shuffle round to make room and the lack of personal space leads to some uncomfortable discoveries.

Maddy decides the time has come to get back into paid employment, but juggling her office job and her domestic responsibilities turns out to be harder work than she had expected.

Robbie get a new trendy young girlfriend but Maddy isn't bothered until she finds out that her son, Ted, thinks she's the best thing on two legs.

Maddy is determined to get her son Ted into the best school in their area. She finds out that passing the entrance exam is the easy bit compared to other things.

Maddy finds out that Danny is seeing a counsellor at the school. When Maddy tries to help she just ends up making things worse