Sat, Mar 15, 2008
Alice meets Mitch, an old school friend who is now a university lecturer and they go on a date. However she notices that one of his students is stalking him - which leads to some romantic role-playing. Milly and Cleo also have an encounter with the police following an ill-advised foray into speed dancing. Alice meets a man through a lonely hearts column but when he fails to show she tears up his photo.
Sat, Apr 12, 2008
Tired of commuting to work from Brighton Alice rents out her flat and sleeps on Milly's sofa whilst looking for a place of her own. Through Lloyd Drewitt she meets an actor Jake Randall, who is rather too attentive, an actress Fae Madison and a writer, Douglas McVitie, who knew the late Gil Raymond and with whom she gets on rather well.
Sat, Apr 5, 2008
Following Alice's split with Matthew Milly and Cleo decide to help her out and find her a suitable boyfriend - by looking at the confidential prescription recommendations for male customers at the pharmacy though it fails to bear fruit. Alice herself is more concerned by the strange behaviour of new colleague Antonia, who seems unable to distinguish between fiction and reality.
Tue, Aug 1, 2006
Alice finds that putting her flat on the market is fraught with more problems than she imagined ... and when she gets the locks changed on her door, events take a very unexpected turn. Meanwhile, American writer Gil, cannot believe the chaos he has caused with a stray remark to his neighbours ... will his promising relationship with an attractive TV producer go any smoother?
Tue, Aug 15, 2006
Alice is "quaking in her boots" at the prospect of addressing a hall full of delegates at her company's sales conference, while Gil finds himself with the dubious honour of officiating at the opening of a neighbour's friend's new heated swimming pool. It's bad enough that Alice has to share a hotel room with the gorgeous Rochelle - a junior account manager and part-time model with "the personality of a pencil and a body you would kill for". But then there's the added horror of a sexual encounter from 10 years earlier coming back to haunt her in a very unusual way. Back at home, Gil is dragged off by Irene to investigate the activities of a suburban prostitute. There's an even bigger surprise in store when he discovers the hard way the repercussions of inviting a former Hell's Angel out to dinner. As events continue to spiral off in unexpected directions, both Gil and Alice find themselves facing serious ethical dilemmas.
Tue, Aug 22, 2006
Alice's search for a new flat prompts her to reflect that properties are like people: just when you seem to have found the ideal candidate, there's always one fatal flaw you know you could never live with. And so it proves when a chance meeting with an old colleague leads to an unfortunate evening with an avant garde artist, and her forced complicity in some 'extra-marital semi-incestuous hanky panky'. Meanwhile, she's unsure what to make of the strangely unnerving 'aura' surrounding Milly's new boyfriend. Gil, meanwhile, has also been set up with a dream date - the dangerously erotic actress Pascal Peters, who he naturally fears is 'probably into cocaine and rough sex and game-show hosts'. The two have arranged to meet at a local production of Waiting For Godot. But, as Gil's evening suddenly takes a nihilistic turn, will life end up imitating art? To compound matters, he has barely recovered from a highly embarrassing encounter in the pub, when he's forced to confront a major sexual fantasy from his youth.
Tue, Aug 29, 2006
A young medical student has developed an infatuation with Alice. His partner is determined to nip his 'schoolboy crush' in the bud. She believes it's up to Alice to sort the matter out by demonstrating that she's not the 'mythic sex goddess' of his dreams. Unfortunately for Alice, this is just one of many problems vying for her attention. Also on her mind are some serious ethical issues raised by Cleo's love life, a highly damaging article in the store's in-house magazine and a truly bizarre revelation in her local cemetery. Meanwhile, for Gil, the road to a disastrously ill-judged sexual encounter begins when he attends a court case involving a man who died laughing while watching 'Lollipop Men' - the sitcom he very wisely quit two years previously. He quickly falls under the spell of the beautiful Vanessa. But their plans to spend a romantic evening together come unstuck in an unexpected way.
Tue, Oct 4, 2005
It's Alice's birthday and her star chart, she is reliably informed, means the time is right to meet her perfect partner. So when her colleagues arrange a sure-fire date for her, what can possibly go wrong? Elsewhere, Gil is struggling to write the script for Love Soup and his efforts are hampered by several distractions, including his naked neighbour Irene at her bathroom window, a nightmare dinner party, and the amorous intentions of a beautiful narcoleptic. If that wasn't bad enough, he also has the wrath of God to contend with. Meanwhile, Alice receives an obscene text from a 13-year-old boy. However, all is revealed when he turns up one day at her flat with a very interesting drawing...
Sat, Mar 8, 2008
Cleo tries to set Alice up on a blind date with one of the department's sales reps but it falls flat because Alice only has eyes for the young man she met at the cash dispensing machine. Meanwhile Milly starts to doubt her boyfriend's fidelity and recruits Cleo to set a honey trap to test him. Needless to say it does not end well.
Sat, Mar 1, 2008
Ever the neurotic Alice is worried when regional boss Catherine Sumpter, who is allegedly a lesbian, asks to meet her in a hotel though she escapes unscathed. She is also concerned that driving instructor Ted may be asking for too much relationship advice but the lesson ends up getting car-jacked whilst Cleo is annoyed to read in her boyfriend's journal that she is not good in bed and Milly falls for the romantic shadow of a man who lurks outside her flat.