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Sun, Oct 28, 2001
The Wedding:- In the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, Ned, a middle-class schoolboy, whose parents are working abroad, spends his Summer holiday in the Bedfordshire countryside with his great-uncle Silas, who is sixty but very hearty and attractive to women still. He does odd jobs and poaches on the sly, to the horror of his long-suffering housekeeper Mrs. Betts. His son Abel is getting married and, at the wedding reception, Silas recalls his own happy times with his late wife and duets her favourite song with his daughter-in-law. Queenie White:- Silas takes Ned to decorate the Railway Hotel and is appalled to find that the landlord, once a jolly man, has become a dour, strict tee-totaller, refusing to serve alcohol to his guests. Queenie, his put-upon wife, takes her share of the profits from the hotel safe, using them to have a happy, platonic day at the sea-side with Silas. On her return she vows that changes will be made, starting with the sale of alcohol.
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Sun, Nov 4, 2001
The Widder:- On his way to see his solicitor to make a will, Silas makes a detour to visit Mrs. Gadsby--a feisty, attractive middle-aged widow. Whilst Ned is sent into the garden to pick fruit, she and Silas share some afternoon delight but she gives him good advice as to changing his will to Ned's benefit. The Blue Feather:- Whilst digging a grave in the local churchyard Silas meets the aristocratic Lady Sylvia, who, unknown to herself, is terminally ill. She is outraged to see Silas drinking in the graveyard but, when he tells her it is herbal tea and she takes some herself, she becomes more friendly. Indeed, she ultimately demands a very saucy favour from Silas to stop her from pressing charges when he is caught poaching on her land.
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Sun, Nov 11, 2001
Silas and Goliath:-Silas agrees to fight a much younger and fitter boxer known as the Gorilla, in a fairground side-show and plans to weaken his opponent by giving him a diet which will debilitate him. However it fails to work and Mrs. Betts is forced to take drastic action to save Silas from a good hiding. The Revelation:- All is revealed when Silas takes a bath and tells Ned how years earlier, when he was a teenager, he was swimming nude in the river and a girl stole his clothes. He had to bare everything in order to chase her and regain his trousers and says that, to this day, he has no idea who she was. Mrs. Betts does though.