All Creatures Great and Small1978

James Herriot:
Hello, Mrs. Hall. Sounds like a very full surgery.

Helen:
Oh, just the Dimmock family.

James Herriot:
Oh, not again. How many of them this time?

Helen:
The entire brood, and Mr. Dimmock.

James Herriot:
They aren't a family they're more like a nation.

Mrs. Hall:
Aye, and from the look of Mrs. Dimmock from the side they're about to increase and multiply even further.

James Herriot:
Oh, this is the third time they've been back this month.

Helen:
They've adopted you.

James Herriot:
Yes, obviously.

Helen:
Well, they wouldn't come quite so often if you if you ever got around to charging them anything.

James Herriot:
Well, he always asks me to send him the bill.

Helen:
But you never do.

James Herriot:
Well, they haven't got any money, love. And if I do, well; they might stop coming.

Mrs. Hall:
He's never done a days work in his life, hasn't that Mr. Dimmock.

James Herriot:
He has learnt the art of gracious living, Mrs. Hall.

Mrs. Hall:
At our expense.

James Herriot:
He's got a bad back.

Mrs. Hall:
Huh! All I can say is; he never got it to work! How he gets his time over, I don't know.

Helen:
Oh, he always manages to make it look as if he's on his way to somewhere important.

Mrs. Hall:
Mostly, the vault of the Dog & Duck for a game of dominoes.

James Herriot:
Well, I like him Mrs. Hall.

Mrs. Hall:
Oh, yes, everybody likes him. You have to like him. That doesn't mean I have to approve of him, does it?