It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister Abba is top of the pops & in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack & his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms as once again the official School Log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine. Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero Nicholas Parsons; & Jack to his astonishment finds himself having to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas. Jack also finds himself at last having to choose between the vivacious sisters Beth & Laura Henderson.. .