It"s 1983 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his seventh year as headmaster. A new teacher arrives and tongues start to wag! Five-year-old Madonna Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the Caretaker and, in the village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. It"s the time of the new CD player, Microsoft"s Word software, the McDonald"s McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners" strike and a final farewell to the halfpence piece. Meanwhile Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy.