Is it last orders for Audrey?

lack of), choice of men – TDD is surely way down on the list.

I blame the Co-op. It’s only since it opened that she was easily able to access wine (at much cheaper prices than Dev’s, where you have to take out a second mortgage to buy a bottle of shiraz). Suddenly, Audrey was stumbling home with bags of rattling bottles, and the family went into intervention mode – something they never thought to do with psycho David, by the way.

With Gail and David admonishing her, Audrey decides to move back home – not that anyone would notice, as we haven’t seen her for weeks. Where have they been keeping her? In a cupboard under the stairs? Alas, that plan is doomed when, as she’s leaving the barber’s, she has an altercation with the motorbike and ends up motionless on the floor (a stationary bike. Never a good sign, but we’ve all been there. Haven’t we?).

There’s precious little that older people in the Street have to look forward to these days, and if alcohol is now going to be denied them, what next? I’m far more worried about Adam’s new Harpo Marx look than I am about Audrey. I mean, come on: he had to have been drunk when he asked for that, didn’t he?

At least TDD problem brings Stephen home when a worried Gail calls him, although he’s furious that no one noticed Audrey was missing all night. They haven’t even noticed she’s been missing nearly all year, mate.

The hilarious Sally/tim double act gathers pace with a sex therapy session – on the permanently office-bound Dr Gaddas’s recommendation. Now there’s a woman who could use a stiff drink.

Stephen finds Audrey in a bad way after she collides with the motorbike