“Dibley Revisited”, Episode 5 --  Summer Montage of Geraldine Taking Care of Kate, Finding out Geraldine is has a Secret, and David’s and Kate’s Growing Loving Relationship

Over the Summer months, not only do Geraldine and Harry help Kate seek more expert medical opinions, but they become better acquainted with Dina.  For convenience when Kate visits Dibley for extended periods, she and Dina stay in Harry’s unrented but furnished cottage.  Then, Kate also leaves Dina with Geraldine and Harry for extended periods as she works a little at her law firm, tying up loose ends and transitioning clients to other lawyers--and Kate has her treatments in London—so that Dina can get to know her Aunt and Uncle better and bond with them.  Kids are resilient and Dina loves spending time with her Aunt Gerry and Uncle Harry.  For her part, Gerry relishes playing Mummy full time—especially co-hosting Dina’s 4.5 year old birthday on June 25th with Kate.  And, if Alice’s surrogate pregnancy continues—and they hope it will since she is now about 7 weeks along—then Geraldine will also have a baby of her very own.  Geraldine will have two children if her sister’s treatments are not successful.  Being a Mummy is a role that Geraldine has always wanted, but not achieved until now—bittersweet though that may be.  

After Geraldine, Harry and several others in the village get tested to see if they match Kate for a bone marrow transplant, Gerry receives a call from the hospital with good news and bad news.  Harry takes the call while Geraldine is making them lunch.  He listens, smiles, frowns, and then smiles again.  Geraldine tells Harry that he looks pensive when he hangs up the phone.  Harry walks over to Geraldine, embraces her, kisses her, then he tells her the good, bad, and good news.    The good news is that there are two matches for Kate in the Village of Dibley.  And although Geraldine is one of them, the bad news is that she can’t be a donor.  Geraldine asks why?  Giving Kate her bone marrow—though a painful procedure—is what sisters do for each other.  Then Harry explains that Geraldine’s own health would be compromised by such an operation.  Because, you see, Geraldine’s lingering months long flu in the Spring was not the flu—Geraldine is pregnant with their child.  Geraldine is too stunned to speak--happy, but stunned. 

Then of course, Geraldine screams—not unlike when Harry proposed.  But this time she doesn’t run next door to ring the church bells for fear of tripping and falling.    Harry takes Geraldine in his arms [(6) right] and he kisses her tenderly for several minutes.  This is what Harry and Geraldine have been praying for--a child together, born of their love.  They won’t know exactly how far along Geraldine is until she has an ultra sound after she makes a doctor’s appointment.  But, she must be at least four months pregnant given when her symptoms started—irritability, wanting sex more often, and some flu like symptoms.  Privately, Harry thinks that Valentines’ Day might be the ‘culprit’—after giving Geraldine that heart shaped box of chocolates [(7) left] that he keeps replenishing for her.  But, they  will wait to see what the doctor says.  Kate and Dina are also overjoyed for Geraldine and Harry—since that means that Dina will have another cousin.  Kate just hopes that she can live long enough to have her transplant and then to see her niece or nephew born.

July and August are a blur of prenatal appointments for Geraldine as a pregnant lady and the pregnant Alice carrying Geraldine and Harry’s baby—as well as medical appointments for Kate, with David by her side.  It is a real Summer of bonding for Geraldine and her sister Kate, and her niece Dina.  Harry is surrounded by estrogen, but handles it well.  He looks at Hugo’s aplomb with having ten children with Alice and thinks if Hugo can do that, then he can handle all the women in his life.  Although Harry with that the children that he and Geraldine look forward to having when she and later Alice give birth, he secretly hopes—as every man does—that at least one of their children is a boy, a son.  But, Harry knows better than to tell Geraldine that.  However, having one of their children be a boy, a son, is also a secret wish of Geraldine’s—with the other child being a daughter.

To be continued with Episode 6