It's staff assessment day at Holy Saints School, and Bill Taddler's new colleague and co-Deputy Head, Lesley Parkes is putting pressure on him to deal with a narcoleptic colleague of some 20 years' standing.
On the back of accidentally running his wife's dog over and destroying his marriage, Bill Taddler undergoes an Ofsted inspection at school - although he's hardly in the mind-set to deal with it.
Bill Taddler's folk group are to give a concert but Bill has forgotten to pick up the key to the venue; the concert may be cancelled and his group are livid - unless he can come up with a cunning plan to save face?
In the library Geoff Torville needs glasses. He gets some temporary frames, much to the scorn of Sue McCardle. Their passion is obscured and nearly destroyed.
