Bless This House s04e06 The First 25 Years Are The Worst.eng Subtitles

00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:03,You stop, mate. I'm going out.

00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:08,Now,

00:00:08,980 --> 00:00:14,bless this house, episode seven, part
one, VTR number double eight, double

00:01:27,630 --> 00:01:28,Would you like the paper?

00:01:28,910 --> 00:01:30,No, thank you. I just want a bit of it.

00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:34,There's your bit of it.

00:01:38,210 --> 00:01:39,That's not the bit I wanted.

00:01:39,670 --> 00:01:40,Of course it isn't.

00:01:40,950 --> 00:01:42,That's the situation's vacant bit.

00:01:43,550 --> 00:01:45,Oh, leave him alone, dear.

00:01:45,610 --> 00:01:46,He's doing his best.

00:01:47,290 --> 00:01:50,I wanted the bit with the stocks and
shares in. I can read about the jobs

00:01:50,890 --> 00:01:52,later. Of course you can. Much later.

00:01:53,070 --> 00:01:56,If you hang about long enough, they'll
all be gone, won't they?

00:01:58,510 --> 00:01:59,Two for you, Mike.

00:01:59,710 --> 00:02:00,One for me.

00:02:00,830 --> 00:02:02,Mummy, one for you. Oh, thank you,
darling.

00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:10,What's that?

00:02:10,270 --> 00:02:11,Invitation cards for the party.

00:02:12,350 --> 00:02:13,What party?

00:02:13,401 --> 00:02:17,In case you've forgotten, Sidney Albert,
in a month's time we'll have been

00:02:17,490 --> 00:02:18,married 25 years.

00:02:18,651 --> 00:02:22,And we're going to have our silver
wedding anniversary party.

00:02:22,030 --> 00:02:23,Oh, that party.

00:02:23,870 --> 00:02:25,Yes, that party.

00:02:25,740 --> 00:02:28,Mike's friend has been very kind and
printed the cards for us.

00:02:28,901 --> 00:02:31,You know, it's incredible, really,
Mummy.

00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,You just don't look old enough to have
been married 25 years.

00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:35,Oh, thank you, darling.

00:02:35,980 --> 00:02:37,Oh, Sally's right, Mum. You don't.

00:02:39,140 --> 00:02:40,And me?

00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,Aren't they nice cards, darling?

00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,Oh, yes. He's done a lovely job.

00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:51,He's printed a hell of a lot of them. I
ordered 200.

00:02:52,980 --> 00:02:54,200?

00:02:55,530 --> 00:02:56,Fighting 50 people, Mike.

00:02:57,150 --> 00:02:58,It's cheaper.

00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:02,How can it be cheaper? We've g***t to
chuck away 150 of the bloody things.

00:03:02,570 --> 00:03:04,Perhaps you could use them again.

00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:06,Use them again?

00:03:06,990 --> 00:03:11,This is our silver wedding anniversary
party. To use them again, we'd have to

00:03:11,730 --> 00:03:16,get divorced, remarry, and then slog
along for another 25 years.

00:03:17,070 --> 00:03:18,What do you mean, slog on?

00:03:19,850 --> 00:03:20,You know what I mean.

00:03:21,230 --> 00:03:24,No, I don't. You make it sound like some
kind of endurance test.

00:03:28,490 --> 00:03:29,You could say.

00:03:29,890 --> 00:03:32,How swiftly those years full of
happiness fled.

00:03:33,090 --> 00:03:35,It seems but a moment since first we
were wed.

00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:38,Who wrote that?

00:03:38,890 --> 00:03:40,My friend, the one who printed the
cards.

00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:42,What a load of rubbish.

00:03:44,250 --> 00:03:46,Well, I think it's very nice.

00:03:47,410 --> 00:03:48,He did it for extra money.

00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:51,You know how students are always hard
up.

00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:53,Mum, I've just had an idea.

00:03:53,870 --> 00:03:56,I've had a great thought on a way to
make some bread.

00:03:56,430 --> 00:03:57,Yeah, me too.

00:03:57,710 --> 00:03:59,Get yourself a job in a bakery.

00:03:59,261 --> 00:04:05,Let's drop in this in, Abbott. I hope it
wasn't out of your way. Oh, no. I've

00:04:05,950 --> 00:04:07,g***t to pass. You're on my way home,
anyway.

00:04:07,570 --> 00:04:11,Do you remember I told you about our
silver wedding anniversary party?

00:04:11,410 --> 00:04:12,Yes, Abbott, I remember.

00:04:13,350 --> 00:04:14,I brought the invitation, sir.

00:04:15,970 --> 00:04:20,How swiftly those years full of
happiness fled.

00:04:20,649 --> 00:04:23,It seems but a moment since first we
were wed.

00:04:24,250 --> 00:04:25,Isn't that pretty?

00:04:27,020 --> 00:04:28,I did.

00:04:28,071 --> 00:04:32,Well, I only hope we'll be able to come,
but you see, our old pair's away and

00:04:32,740 --> 00:04:35,we're having an awful job getting
babysitter.

00:04:35,141 --> 00:04:38,How? We were going out tonight, but it
doesn't look as if we'll make it.

00:04:38,660 --> 00:04:41,Well, I hope you can come to the party,
because you'll have a very good time.

00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:42,Definitely.

00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:56,Lee?

00:04:56,831 --> 00:05:00,Hello, darling. Hello, darling. The
phone's gone.

00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:01,Oh, no, it hasn't.

00:05:01,421 --> 00:05:04,Yes, it has. You come out there and have
a look. It's not there.

00:05:04,070 --> 00:05:05,No, Mike and Sally have borrowed it.

00:05:06,930 --> 00:05:08,How can you borrow a telephone?

00:05:08,690 --> 00:05:10,They've g***t it upstairs in the office.

00:05:11,330 --> 00:05:12,What office?

00:05:12,810 --> 00:05:16,Well, it's Mike's bedroom, really, but
now it's an office as well.

00:05:16,121 --> 00:05:19,And what do they do in this office,
apart from sitting around with a

00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:21,disconnected telephone?

00:05:21,590 --> 00:05:24,Oh, it's connected up. One of their
clients did it for them.

00:05:25,690 --> 00:05:27,I can't keep up with this house.

00:05:27,191 --> 00:05:30,When I left for work this morning, there
were these two unemployable layabouts

00:05:30,850 --> 00:05:35,still in bed. Now they've g***t an office
with clients who move telephones about.

00:05:35,031 --> 00:05:39,Well, that's not all they do. They do
lots of things. That's the whole idea of

00:05:39,590 --> 00:05:40,it. Whole idea of what?

00:05:40,930 --> 00:05:41,Their agency.

00:05:42,990 --> 00:05:44,Agency?

00:05:44,630 --> 00:05:45,Employment agency.

00:05:46,110 --> 00:05:47,What employment agency?

00:05:48,210 --> 00:05:52,Well, they suddenly have this marvellous
idea that students are always looking

00:05:52,350 --> 00:05:54,for different ways to make extra money.

00:05:54,790 --> 00:05:56,So they'd find them spare -time jobs.

00:05:57,580 --> 00:06:01,They can't find jobs for other people.
They can't find bloody jobs for

00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:02,themselves.

00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,Hello? Calling living room. Calling
living room.

00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,What the hell is that?

00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,It's the intercom. It says running up
and down stairs.

00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,Yes, Miss Abbott.

00:06:14,020 --> 00:06:15,Is that you, Mrs. Forsythe?

00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:17,Mrs. Forsythe?

00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,Who the hell is Mrs.

00:06:20,660 --> 00:06:22,Forsythe? I **.

00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,When I left here this morning, you were
Mrs. Abbott.

00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:30,What are you talking about?

00:06:30,001 --> 00:06:33,Well, it makes it look as though they've
g***t a large staff.

00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,I think I'm going potty.

00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,Mrs. Forsyth, could we please have some
tea up here?

00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,No, you can't. Come and get your own
bloody tea.

00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,Thank you.

00:06:46,140 --> 00:06:48,Well, I'm sure the tea will be out
shortly, Linda.

00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:50,Doesn't sound like it.

00:06:50,220 --> 00:06:51,Now, where were we?

00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:55,You'd like a part -time job? Why not two
nights a week and Saturday?

00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,Yes, what have you g***t?

00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,Nothing at the moment.

00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,I mean, nothing suitable.

00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,But you said you had hundreds of
attractive, well -paid jobs.

00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,And so we will have.

00:07:05,701 --> 00:07:06,I mean, we have.

00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:08,Only they're not suitable.

00:07:08,540 --> 00:07:09,Why? Why?

00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,Because they're specialised jobs like...
Oh, computer programming, bookbinding.

00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,Well, I can do that. Do what?

00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,Bookbinding.

00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:27,I suppose it's gone.

00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:28,I'm afraid it has.

00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:29,I thought it might have.

00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:32,Won't you stay for tea?

00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:33,No,...