Like this: Like Loading Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Sal is often exasperated by her daughter but loves her family dearly and when her husband, Mike, dies she finds it is other people who don't know how to deal with the grief, although she is coping fine - after all, Mike was thinking of retiring anyway!
Tip is Sal's best friend, her partner in crime and, as the surgery's bossy receptionist with a unique filing system, she knows everyone's ailments and intimate details. Flirty and fun, Tip is a good person to invite to a party. Eileen is the leader of the Women's Guild and proud to wear her chains of office at every meeting. She likes to keep things very constitutional but she is adamant it's not all 'jam and Jerusalem' at the Guild. The ever flustered Eileen is always trying to recruit new members - well, when she's not organising craft mornings or new and interesting Guild outings.
She takes her role very seriously indeed. Tash is Sal's hippy daughter. She is concerned with things like the lack of recycling in the town. Tash is never able to hold a job down. With her young son Raph in tow, Tash is always trying out some new way to save the planet, or trying to get on a course to study circus skills - anything not to join the rat race!
In the latest series, Tash tells her mother that she and Spike will live off the land as 'urban foragers', by finding free food - but they have the problem that it's now spring and therefore nothing is growing yet.
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Miriam Margolyes. The Magic Numbers. Kate Rusby and her band. Tim Vine. Alex Roe. Charles Dance. James announces that his wife will be the new practice nurse, putting his mother Sal out of a job. She then struggles to occupy her time, so joins the local Women's Guild, as does Kate Bales, a bereavement counsellor. The women decide they want a coffee room at the local church so they have somewhere to meet up after the morning's service.
To pay for the health and safety standards, they decide to put together a bring and buy sale to raise money. Sal finally gets rid of her deceased husband's clothes, donating them to the fundraiser; as her children are unwilling to help, the Guild decide they will. After discovering Eileen was adopted, Sal convinces Tip to use Genes Reunited to search for her birth family. The women are shocked to immediately find the contact details of a blood relative. Although initially angry, Eileen is happy when she discovers she has a brother.
Tash asks Sal to take care of Raph for six months, and Sal refuses. Rosie forgets to order the pasties for a village picnic so they have to make them themselves. Delilah gets her car seat stuck. Sal and Tash have a major argument about Tash wanting to do a Circus Skills course, and refusing to get a job.
However, they later make up. At the surgery, Tip devises a successful plan to get Sal her old job back, by having James' ex-headmistress Joyce Midge Miriam Margolyes come in for a smear. Rosie, Eileen and Queenie help the Vicar prepare for the harvest festival. When Rosie sees the face of Jesus in a potato , her alter-ego Margaret comes to the surface after the Vicar tells her the face is not there. Meanwhile, the Vicar tries to get some peace and Caroline injuries herself at the pony trials.
During Kate "Silver Surfers" group, Eileen comes in and reads a letter saying that Guild inspector Lady Anne Crump Marcia Warren will be at their meeting that evening, which makes Eileen panic thinking they will be closed. Meanwhile, the Guild help an old man called Elijah whose wife recently died and Rosie goes on a celebrity diet. The Guild are organising Cinderella , the village pantomime , and Tash wants to play the lead role as she always does.
However, Eileen thinks that, at 36, Tash is too old. On the night, Tip goes to the pub rather than perform as the Wicked Stepmother, while Tash gets on well with Prince Charming. Meanwhile, Sal gets help when she decides how to scatter Mike's ashes. As the first anniversary of Mike's death approaches, Sal tells James how much she misses him. Sal teaches James how to be compassionate with his patients and Tash gets a job in tele-sales. Meanwhile, the Guild launch a website and hold a Victorian tea so they can put the some photos on the website.
However, Kate and Eileen argue over who will make the website. Delilah flies off her bike and is rushed to hospital. Tash and Spike plan to go to Glastonbury , but a ticketless Tash hopes to get past security by pretending to be a security guard. Caroline is also at Glastonbury to see her son perform. Meanwhile, Sal wants a quiet weekend to herself, but Susie comes round saying she thinks she is pregnant after having an affair. However, after looking at the medical records Tip soon tells Susie she can not be pregnant as the man she had the affair has had a vasectomy.
Sal's quiet weekend is then ruined further when Tash and Spike come back from Glastonbury early after Tash failed to get past security. Sal organises the Guild's ramble , which to Eileen's dismay has no plan or theme, instead Sal says they should spend the time talking and bonding.
During the ramble, they by accident meet the Vicar, who is having a picnic with a woman called Veronica Jan Hartley. The Guild then get stranded in fog. Also, Sal encourages Spike to ask Tash out, but he gets confused and asks her out instead. Tash meanwhile is protesting with her fellow druids about the Army practising on nearby land. The annual re-enactment of the Clatterford Skirmish is cancelled by the Council citing health and safety concerns.
The Guild then decide to organise it themselves, and plan many events including a minor battle reenactment, in which James plays Charles I. Meanwhile, after an incident at the factory, Rosie steals from the SPAR and has problems with Margaret, her alter-ego. She is then seen at home by James, who suggests a higher dose of medication, which Sal does not allow.
Sal then talks to Margaret and appears to solve the problem, although it is some days before Rosie will leave her house. Yasmeen tries to teach the Guild how to successfully play netball ready for a game against the Guild of a neighbouring village, Hole. However, the Guild lose.
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