Nearest And Dearest

An accident of birth - but does it really matter what you are? It happens in the best families...

The attic needs clearing out, but Stan is itching to retrieve some personal papers before Nellie and Eli get in there. However, they both beat Stan to it and they find a couple of letters, one of which is a personal letter from the Pledge's mum to Stan, which was sent during the war. It describes how she is expecting again, and the present young baby girl has cut her first tooth.

This rings alarm bells. Is their Dad not their Dad, and is Stan, the "Speccy Eyed Manure Man", their real Dad? They decide to confront him, but fortunately, it turns out that Stan's real wife Ada couldn't write, so the Mrs Pledge wrote the letter on their behalf! Peace reigns one again at Pledge's Purer Pickles.