Margaret and Alan leave the Fareham flat for a three-bedroom house in Havant, taking on a mortgage and room to expand.

Michael is born in Portsmouth, and Margaret adjusts to caring for a second child alongside three-year-old Claire.

Margaret returns to paid employment as a part-time clerical assistant at Eastbrook Junior School.

Margaret learns the difference between official school procedures and the working knowledge Pauline has built over seven years.

A visit to see a litter of kittens ends with the family bringing home a tabby named Mabel.

Margaret becomes Eastbrook’s school secretary and takes responsibility for the records, money and correspondence that keep the office running.

Margaret’s recurring pain is diagnosed as gallstones, leading to surgery and an unwanted demonstration that home and work can continue without her.

The family’s first home computer takes over one end of the dining room and creates new uses, instructions and arguments about whose turn it is.