Normal for Norfolk

The Wiveton café is beginning to thrive but profits are devoured by the maintenance of the house and gardens. Desmond, with the help of his loyal team, begins to promote the Edwardian wing of Wiveton Hall as a place to stay and takes a booking from an international yoga retreat.

There's one question hanging in the air, who will take over the running of Wiveton Hall after Desmond? With his son Edmund now at university, Desmond ponders the future of Wiveton.

Pigeons are attacking the rape crop, the pigs are getting ready for their final journey to the abattoir and Desmond is cajoling his 101 year old mother into buying him a new pair of binoculars for his looming 60th birthday.

As the café closes for the winter months, Desmond relies on other aspects of his business to bring in an income. He launches his holiday cottages on Airbnb and lures an interiors magazine to do a feature on his ancestral home.

Christmas is approaching at Wiveton Hall and Desmond is in a sociable mood, hosting a pheasant shooting party for his old friends. As his treasured seasonal farm workers head back to Poland, he transforms the kitchens into a jam-making factory.

Wiveton has been in hibernation for the winter months but as spring arrives the farm comes alive again. Desmond and his team make frantic preparations to re-open the café on Mother's day complete with a brand new electronic till system, a new mini Wiveton playhouse for the kids, and a new set of ...