Spot Of Bother, A

At fifty-seven; George is settling down to a comfortable retirement; building a shed in his garden; reading historical novels; listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie; his tempestuous daughter; announces that she is getting remarried; to Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes; Ray has ‘strangler’s hands’. Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray; or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob; and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned; which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband’s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover; Tony; to the dreaded nuptials.