Starting the day with a plan. Being pragmatic: German vs Italian approach. War plans abandoned after first shot. Burning Man goes all wrong. Dangers of crowding out the unpredictable stuff in life. Changing plans. Keeping things flexible. Heaven and hell. Purgatory until your plans are clear. Day of Judgement. Sarah does a check-in against her original plan. Having a whole life plan. Deadline thrills. Tax returns. Anxiety and risk tolerance. Being unpredictable in relationships. How much control do you want. The habit of bad decisions. 5year plans under communism and the mystery of bread distribution. Hoping for the best. Devil may care. To hell with the consequences. Sarah can’t cope with the angst of not knowing. Learning to live with doubt. Chaps go home and surprise the other person in your life and so much more.

Sarah screws up and has to do three takes to introduce the show. Sarah steals wall plugs from the closing down Wilko store. Daniel steals a huge mug from a motorway service station and three children books from Foyles after a bomb threat. “Five finger discounts”. Weighing technology to stop cheating at self check outs. May as we’ll be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Sarah the opportunist sellotape thief. Dangers of oestrogen in salmon. Daniel gets annoyed by a Spanish customer glued to his phone, Rules for a Citizen’s arrest. Sarah prevents a massive theft from ASDA. Turning a blind eye to those in need. Connection between shoplifting clothes and avoiding baggage charges travelling with Ryanair etc. insurance losses and the police. Difference between stealing and losing virginity. Stolen kisses and much more.

Daniel and Sarah pop the champagne cork. Daniel gets all religious about how to pour, cradling the bottle and pressing the thumb into the dimple. Daniel builds a fold-out table that disappears and discovers a carpenter bee copying his work. No love lost among boring types. Bird songs and identifying birds. Ice cream making and experimenting with flavours. Sarah goes hunting the perfect ice cream in Seville, Rituals when away. Making pancakes (crepes) in France. Daniel discusses ceviche recipes with a Peruvian. Never more than 3 minutes in the lime juice. Morning mercy dash to the boulangerie. Backing off tensions when two cars cannot pass. Sarah goes into rapture about Togo delicacies from roadside BBQ to sweet dumplings to nut brittle. Memories are situational. Monopolistic behaviour by chain coffee shops. Lighting candles in cathedrals. Finding safety in McDonalds or an Irish pub when away from home. Having a sense of adventure in life, travel and with food. Wowing the French neighbours with inverted Maqluba from Iraq. Cold soups. Vichyssoise. Gazpacho. Salmorejo. Big Enders vs Little Enders. Eat French, think French. Daniel discuses giving Sarah a fireman’s lift and throwing her out and so much more.

Jayne joins the show and helps make this excruciatingly painful for Daniel and funny for everyone else. First day at school. Getting organised. Stationery fetish. Pleasure from sharpening pencils. Attractions of school vs home life. School friends and lifelong relationships. The “best days of my life”. Newly scrubbed floors and painted walls. Dinner ladies. Going back home to.visit old school friends. Being linked to your siblings reputation. Dr Beckmann carpet cleaner vs Shake ‘N’ Vac. Checking school uniforms for skirt length and heels. Daniel feeling left out and forced to goal hang. Daniel remembers a toilet accident on first day of school. Daniel wears dark glasses at school and is called “Roy” after Roy Orbison. Bullying at school. Daniel bites his oppressor but make up in later life. New exercise books. Covering text books with Tackyback. Greeks often made the butt of jokes. EMOs explained to Daniel. Macaroni cheese in the oven…girls exhibiting food anxiety. Daniel gets bullied by the girls reviving childhood anxieties. Jayne was an art whizz. Table set for lunch. Churros snipping and male trauma. Sewing name tapes. Phone policy. First day advice. Take a photo. Give them bunging op food to avoid a toilet accident….oh and never let Sarah sign off.

Daniel and Sarah do some catch up after weeks apart. Daniel is still in France. Daniel has been to Sicily by car and ferry with a dog. Sarah has been to Bulgaria to shoot a commercial for electric car charging. Sarah also been to Wilderness festival and confuses Seville with Sicily. Going away for weddings, hen and stag parties. Elaborate vs simple plans. Disastrous stag parties. Scouring the world for cheap beer. Disappointing male strippers. Remake of Snow White trashed. Is romance dead? Feeling lonely in relationships. Need for intimacy. Getting on with the wider friendship and family group. Showing vulnerability by showing pieces of you. Wedding vows going freestyle. Weather disrupting the best laid plans. When the weather is hotter than body temperature of 37.5C. Creating rain in movie shoots. Sarah gets drenched for several shoots over 10 hours with no change of clothes. Bulgarian food. Chopping up lunch to disguise it when served up for dinner. Wedding structure. Wedding breakfast confusion. Champagne more expensive in France than UK. Cakes and tiers. Festival style food at weddings. Poisoning the entire wedding party. Sarah wants Matt Monroe to perform at her wedding. We get a snippet. AI recreating dead performers. ABBA voyage. Sarah steals a Hannukiah. Sarah gets 3 piece suit confused with a 3 piece suite. Dress codes and not making a fuss. People falling out at weddings. Not attracting attention away from the happy couple. Who to invite/not invite. No shows. Is it all worth it? Wedding ceremonies. Indian weddings: Henna days, Turmeric days. Cancelling at the last minute. Memorable food. Beetroot dumplings. A long sign off and so much more.

Daniel wafer slices a Mars bar for Sarah. Stuffing your face and greed. Greed and burying treasure. Hoarding vs greed. Anger management and overload. Snapping when you reach your limit. Quick to anger if you feel life is unfair. Cain and Abel discussed. Anger on social media fuelled by anonymity. Vanity and pride compared. Biblical reference to “all is vanity and chasing after wind” (Eccl). Daniel goes off on gender stuff. Can you combine the Deadly Sins. Dirty little secrets vs public displays of sins. Does Deliveroo spare you from public gluttony. Sin and the soul. Daniel gives his theory of evolution to be proved right by his great granddaughter. Film Seven discussed. Daniel goes all Ray Winstone and much more.

Daniel was a bit of a “looker”. Importance of good legs and calf definition. The natural perfect body shape. The Seven Deadly Sins don’t help keeping in shape. Daniel’s granddaughter thinks she can flatten Daniel’s stomach by prodding to let the air out. Gluttony discussed. Midnight feasts. Guilty scoffing. Eating ice cream in bed. Eating on your own vs the constraint of eating in company. Feasting and fasting. Daniel has self-restraint issues. Table manners. Delicate eating vs wolfing it down. Sloth. Being lazy, doing nothing. What is the natural state: joyful or grudging work. Tell tale signs of “sofalis” and too much TV. Lust. Daniel fancies a cocktail waitress. Envy of things you don’t have. Cain and Abel discussed. The lazy person envies the success of the hard worker. Sarah loses her picnic rug and her rag. Daniel indulges himself with a pancake stack at Bill’s. Food envy when looking furtively at other people’s order. Looking through the window of restaurants. Daniel wafer slices a Mars Bar. Sarah tried to control people taking too much chocolate at breaks on set and much more.

Sarah tempts Daniel with some broken curved Easter egg pieces. Daniel goes off on curvature and how he extrapolates the female form. Over confidence met by disaster. Pride goes before a fall. Sarah suffers a dog pooh incident. ABBA “Winner Takes it All” discussed. “Does it feel the same when she calls your name” arguably the most meaningful line in all of pop history. Complaints need to be matched by compliments or the complainers will get their way. The climate emergency debunked and discussed as a cover story for more control over our lives. Interest rates and Bank of England madness. Risk taking and “asking for it” and much more…

Daniel had a Forest Road beer and rants about sachets. Olive oil in mini doses makes you feel small and controlled and unloved. Just put a bottle on the table. Spanish potato tortillas soaking up the oil. Fried eggs cooked in a vat of boiling oil. Eggs from the fridge or room temperature. Dippy eggs and timing. Personal preferences around eggs. Runny yolks. The radiant yellow spilling out. How to decapitate a boiled egg. Loli at the Parador falls in love with Daniel. Vueling can’t distinguish between people and bags. Beauty contests and the objectification of women discussed. Lessons of Jonah and the whale. Zeitgeist the spirit of the age discussed. Daniel destroys mathematics. Tempura asparagus in Spain. A bar joke about eggs and much more

Daniel impersonates the Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion growling to exercise his jaw. Daniel causes Kit Kat chaos in a random Spanish bar. Elvis Costello having to decide if we need a licence to play his songs. Sarah’s trousers get a detailed inspection. Doing first things first. Sexual tension between Daniel and Sarah. Being first to arrive and getting warmed up. Taking advantage of the of the longer days. Bud Lite gets in a marketing muddle. Sarah comes begging for poached pears and smoked nuts. New meaning of “rude”. Daniel gets into an argument about Concierge services in a 5 star hotel. Shower positioning. Dynamic and static envelope. How Spain bought trains that don’t fit the tunnels. Having a To Do list. Managing priorities and easy wins. Low hanging fruit or the difficult job first? Procrastination. The joy of ticking things off. Saving the best till last. Is that correlated with tackling the tough jobs first? Twitter vs YouTube. Dev the panel beater in a marriage made in heaven with John who sprays paint. Vueling found wanting in the court of passenger opinion and much more….