Wednesday October 5, 1983
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Dudley receives a 'Merry Monk' dressing-gown as an early birthday present from Muriel in Australia, which promotes the religious virtues of poverty, chastity and obedience, and wonders whether she is trying to tell him something. Jacqui and Susan blame their father for the loss of Duncan's possessions at Brighton the previous day; he couldn't go to his new flat because it was empty, and had to spend the night in a hotel. Duncan telephones whilst Dudley is in bed to ask if he can move in with the Rushes and live with them until he sorts himself out. The girls suggest he could live up in the studio, but their father is dead set against having his boss living under the same roof. Dudley then receives an advertisement in the post from the Baghdad and Oriental Wine Company, offering new customers unbelievable bargains from their North African selection of real wines at £7.50p for six bottles, and telephones through an order. In the meantime, Duncan makes an alphabetical inventory of his stolen possessions with the aid of Wilma, for his insurance claim. Jacqui and Susan decide that if their father won't have Duncan up in the studio, they'll have him down in their flat; despite Dudley's protests, they telephone Duncan, who says he'll be round later. Wilma's sister and her husband have a drapers shop which has caught fire, and they are selling off the salvaged stock - half-priced and slightly singed; Duncan asks her to buy him some bed linen and blankets, which she arranges to bring into the office the next day. Dudley fits a padlock to the front door in an effort to keep Duncan out, and promptly mislays the key; it proves to be a futile exercise, since Duncan gets in through the girls' back window. When Susan talks of pushing the beds together Dudley is panic-stricken and relents, allowing him to stay in the loft. Duncan telephones his office and asks Wilma to bring his bed linen and stuff round to the Rush house. Having located the key to the padlock, Dudley receives his order of wines, and finds they need an acquired taste. Duncan pops out for some hamburgers just as a storm breaks, and Wilma arrives with his bedclothes stuffed under her raincoat. She complains of being soaked and Dudley takes her upstairs to the loft, hanging her wet clothes up in the bathroom and providing a couple of Muriel's dresses; these prove too small for her, and he promises to try and borrow something from Jacqui. Then the doorknob comes off in his hand, trapping them inside as Muriel telephones from Australia.
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