Teapots

Life is peaceful and serene at Rosehill Retirement Home until a dashing 73- year-old gentleman checks in after being turned out of his ancestral home. The home's oldest and most long-standing resident takes an instant liking to 'the handsome one,' and sets her sights on making him her fifth husband. Unbeknown to her, another lady has a prior claim and the two long-lost lovers are dragged into a dangerous game.

Life is serene and peaceful in Rosehill Retirement Home until a handsome 73-year-old gentleman checks in and triggers a raging competition for his affections. Joan, the self-styled boss of the Home sets her sights on making him her fifth husband but is unaware of another who has a prior claim. Pranks are amusing to start with until the 'boss' lady realises she is losing, and decides to up the ante and let no stone unturned to get her man.

Rosehill Home for the Elderly is run by the almost evil Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe. The same crowd is in residence, but nothing is quite what it seems. With an eye on the income revenue, Joan decides to turn the clock back after a devastating fire, and redecorates the whole home in retro style, with furniture and music from the sixties, and one extra ingredient grown in the garden. The new brownies served at supper and the porridge at breakfast liven up the inmates, sending them into mild ecstasy. There is always someone keen to make such a misdemeanor very public and this threatens to upset Joan's plans. Does she really hope to make her residents happier by pretending they are still young, or does she have an ulterior motive? She plans to keep them fit with water aerobics and yoga exercise; plans which will reinvent them and get their pheromones pumping. The old friends who take numerous cups of tea daily, the Teapots, Dee, Dottie, Dulcie, and now Frank, are enthusiastic about the changes but is this due to the little extra added to their food? Turning Back the Clock is set in the northeast of Australia and contains some wonderful scenes of the landscape. Set in a retirement home, it would appeal to all ages as the residents are not sitting placidly in God's waiting room, but are full of energy and spirit proving that 'life begins at 70'. Packed with humorous quips, the friends do not take Joan too seriously. The Teapots are busy with their knitting, listening to classical music, or revelling in a long lost and found love. Enter Jean-Michel, a dashing Frenchman with a delightful accent who performs a couple of minor miracles, then add a team determined to expose the truth behind Joan's machinations, and the stage is set for a cozy mystery that is sure to make you smile.

When Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe sees a program about ageing and how it can be reversed she decides to turn Rosehill Retirement Home for Gentlefolk into a 1960's luxury hotel. Everyone will benefit from the new '60's decor, the sumptuous food, the posters about music festivals, everything that happened in the 1960s including assassinations and moon landings. The residents are mostly happy to go along with Joan's plan - they don't really have a choice, she is the major shareholder and what she says goes. But she knows nothing of the journalist who is sneakily photographing them all and planning to publish his scoop ... there are things being done to the residents that they know nothing about. What will happen when the article comes out? Will the police be called and who will take the blame?

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the kitchen, a fatal accident leads five survivors to the doors of the newly appointment Aged Care Facility, Hideaway House, where Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones rules the roost much to the irritation of some of the residents. When a Category 5 Cyclone compounds the problem, all hands are called to prepare the Home for the blast. But cyclones are not predictable and all the preparation in the world could not prepare them for the worst. Survivors now of two catastrophes must make decisions. Back to Rosehill where Joan, Teri and Dave had left under a cloud? What else can they do? The newcomers accompany them to the also-cyclone-battered Rosehill where Frank is left alone to the mercy of Joan's attention. How will he get out of it this time?

The residents of Hideaway House, as led by the amazon Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones, are well into the swing of things, Naked parties rule the day until a bedraggled bunch of road accident survivors turn up at their door. Hard on their heels is a category 5 cyclone which all but destroys their Home and forces them to decamp to Rosehill Retirement Home for Gentlefolk in Cairns. But Joan is not quite well. Has she had a stroke? Her behaviour is peculiar and her mind appears demented. How will this play out in Rosehill when she finds out that Frank Chambers' wife Dulcie was injured in the cyclone and now lies in a coma in hospital. Will Joan make yet another play for Frank? And what will happen if Dulcie dies?