Picking up where you left off, at .
By Eliza Hartley
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When we left Iris last time, Tom had just moved into her spare room. Two cups on the draining board. A domestic life, quietly beginning. Tonight she steps out of the cottage entirely: she's walking Mr Pritchard to his surgery appointment on a sharp November morning, escaping — gratefully — a debate between Tom and Dave about the correct philosophy of nails.
Along the way, there's a goodbye kiss so casual it barely registers. A robin on a gatepost. A toddler in the waiting room who has very strong opinions about his toy car. And then a bakery, a sausage roll, and thirty years of Wednesday routines that say far more about quiet loneliness and love than Mr Pritchard would ever put into words.
Episode 10 is gentle and unhurried — exactly the kind of Wednesday morning worth settling in for.
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