9 - Merry Xmas Everybody

Nellie opens the cards that have arrived, clucking over them like a mother hen.

"Aww, to the family, from Joyce up the street"

"Love to you Nell-THANK YOU!" Nellie shrilly reads, without realising that it doesn't in fact make sense what she has just read. All of a fluster, she opens the next card, in a brightly coloured envelope.

"Merry Xmas Everybody. Freddie and SHE IS A TART!" Nellie is off on a rant, in too much of a flap to think. "Xmas! Xmas!" She crosses herself everytime she says it. "It is Christmas, after our Lord Jesus Christ!" She looks upwards. "How dare he let that TART send a card with such blasphemy on?"

Joey wanders in to find his Mam in a right old state. He grabs the cards from her and makes her a cup of tea, before removing them from sight. He rolls his eyes. Everything is the same as usual, then.