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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 391161" data-attributes="member: 673">I’ve one episode left to go of series one. Again, you can really see the glamour stakes rising with each episode. Unless you’re at the boatyard, it’s evening dress essential in most of the other scenes. Also, the place is now soaked in champagne. The show has been quite boozy since the start but now a G&T at home or pint down the pub has been replaced by champers. It’s champagne breakfast meetings, champagne dates on yachts, champagne boutique openings. Also, we’ve moved out of the middle class domesticity of Laura Ashley living rooms and into boardrooms, yachts and 200 acre estates. If this is where the show is heading, I can’t wait for series two.As mentioned, both Howards are taking the collapse of their marriage in their stride. Tom and Avril are now a thing (although I’m not sure where he’s living. Possibly on the Flying Fish). Jan is off to Cannes to meet some fashion folk with Claude. The show signals she’s gone continental with a jaunty version of the theme and a shot of Jan sitting poolside as two women walk past topless (at 8pm on a Sunday night on BBC1!). Crafty Ken has conveniently shown up in Cannes (for a break) and wastes no time in wooing Jan, which leads to a semi raunchy scene where she eats some sort of fruit out of Ken’s mouth. There’s also a great scene in episode 12 where a tuxedoed Ken dances with himself in the mirror to Sade while waiting for Jan.Over at the Urquharts, Polly has intercepted some of Abby’s post from Switzerland and discovers that someone called with the wonderfully posh name of  Orrin Hudson Eubanks (or something similarly double barrel) is keen to make contact with her. Polly is quite excited by this for two reasons - one, someone is actually interested in her plain Jane daughter and two (more importantly to Polly) his family are loaded. However, a trip to Southampton to alert Abby to Orrin’s letters ends in disaster when in standard soap fashion, a row on the stairs ends with heavily pregnant Abby falling down said stairs.They’ve actually given this guy quite a bit of back story. At 16, he ran away from home and when his father died, they’d searched high and low for him (the inheritance was split between him and Jack’s late wife Eileen). He was presumed dead and Eileen got everything. Turns out, he’d been living in Papua New Guinea, where he had some sort of live in arrangement with a local girl (“like a geisha?” asks Polly). Due to some stipulation in the will, his claim is not just for half the boatyard, it is for everything - the boatyard, Jack’s house, Avril’s share, Tom’s share and all earnings from the yard since Jack took over. He later hires an escort from an agency in the newspaper called Pussy Cats and explains to her that he ran away at 16 because he was attracted to Eileen, his own sister!So it’s all coming to a head as I go into the series one finale. Tom, Avril and Jack are on the verge of losing everything, Jack’s long lost brother in law is unraveling rapidly, Jan is unsure what to do about her blossoming romance with Ken, Kate looks like she’s about to lose her knickers on some ill advised horse bet, Lynne is being strung along by Charles and Abby is unconscious at the bottom of the stairs!As a random aside, this shot is from an earlier episode where Jan and Polly go to an art exhibition and there’s something very The Colbys about it to me.[ATTACH=full]51482[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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