Nearest And Dearest

Storm the delivery horse is ill and Eli decides to get rid of it - along with Stan, his keeper. Lily tells him to give Stan a send off party, so they invite the Lord Mayor to present his gold watch. Eli takes Stan for a drink but doesn't know how to break the news to him.

Storm the cart horse is ill, and not one pickle or gherkin has been delivered for ages, so Eli has got his eye on a lorry as a replacement.

Storm, along with Stan, look set to be sent off to the knackers yard. There's only one problem - no-one has told Stan!

Having been convinced that a grand send-off is the best medicine, Eli arranges a 'do' in the Spread Eagle with the mayor to present Stan with a lovely gold watch (which Eli buys on the cheap from the pub!).

As always, there's a spanner in the works. The watch turns out to be one pinched from the mayor a year ago at the License Fiddlers Ball!

And what of Storm, you ask? Well, it turns out Storm is a her, not a he, and she wasn't ill, she was pregnant! Pledge's Purer Pickles rings out to the sound of tiny little hooves.