Roger and Cynthia Muffett remarried in a delightfully opulent yet romantic ceremony at the Salle des Mariages in Menton. They live together in the big house in Streatham (previously owned by ‘The Bitch’). Roger is having a pool installed in the garden, where Cynthia will teach her husband how to swim. While their new brasserie, renamed Folie à Deux, is being decorated and expanded, they commute to Nice for business meetings. They hope to open to the public very soon, in time for the summer rush. They are seeking out a flat to buy near to the restaurant. While Neil is still at school, they plan to spend all their holidays on the Côte d’Azur. They have offered William and Benjamin the job of the hands-on management of the restaurant on a permanent basis; the two are considering the offer.

For the next school play, Frances, the drama teacher, has chosen The Way of the World. Mervin, the tech guy, is providing state-of-the-art lighting and a musical score.

After their Côte d’Azur adventures, Chloe and Neil are both happy to be back together at school in London. They will be starring as Millament and Mirabell in The Way of the World. Recently the kind father of a mutual school-friend invited them to join the family for a weekend on his white motor cruiser moored on the River Thames near Maidenhead. They politely declined.

Lola and Cressida were proud and excited bridesmaids at the Muffetts’ wedding. Three weeks later they were both given detentions and suspended after having been found responsible for painting huge psychedelic eyes on the inside walls of all the school lavatories. The sisters later explained to their mother/headmistress that it was only what the famous French painter called John Cockatoo would have done. He hated a blank wall.

Despite their ever-increasing ages, Phoebe Taylor and Edgar Markham continue to delight British audiences. They are currently rehearsing a new TV sitcom, written especially for them. They play a married couple divided on how they treat their ditzy housekeeper. The role of housekeeper was offered to Sally.

She turned it down.

They have no idea why she didn’t want the part.

Carol has promised Sally that she will no longer be judge and jury on married men who have the audacity to flirt with her.

William and Benjamin have opened a small antique shop in the town. They hope that if they take up the job at Folie à Deux, they can manage to do both things at once.

Zoe is in two minds about her favourite Swiss plastic-surgery clinic, now that it has just opened a branch in nearby Nice. The week’s ‘holiday’ in Switzerland provided her a far better excuse to cover for her escapades with Botox and fillers.