There is a single photograph in Melvyn Mole's living room, given pride of place on the windowsill.
It shows him and his brother Brian standing on a far-flung beach, arms around each other's shoulders, both pleased as punch at reaching this particular destination – in the world, and in life.
Millions of TV viewers witnessed that photograph being taken, by a passing beach photographer, and heard Melyvn's heartbreaking admission that he didn't really do family photos; indeed, he confessed he didn't have a single one on display in his house.
'Well, you take this one and put it up,' said his little brother. And he has.
There was some jesting about whether Melvyn – a self-confessed cheapskate – would make do with a frame from his beloved Poundland, or splash out on the sort of posh one his flashier brother would buy.
