
Shelley, now in work, looks for somewhere to live with wife-to-be Fran and their impending child.
A visit to the local Bank leads them nowhere to getting a mortgage as they don't have a bank account.

Shelley has to come up with a sales campaign for a new range of Instant Paella.
The stuff proves hard to market as it is virtually tasteless.

Shelley is working on an ad campaign for striped pyjamas when a crisis interrupts his train of thought.
A fellow lodger, Miss Landis, is so lonely and depressed in the big city she takes an overdose of sleeping pills.

Shelley and Fran are in their bed-sit as usual.
She is engrossed in a dog-eared copy of George Orwell's 'Keep The Aspidistra Flying' while he tries to strike up a conversation with her.