Mary Sutton is the culinary wonder of Bridbury. Her roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is famous throughout the county and on Saturday evening Eating Time is full down to the last table. Mary's husband,  Aaron Sutton, died two years ago of TBC, but that hasn’t prevented her from expanding her culinary skills even further. Her ambition is unequalled since Randy Sutton, Mary’s twenty eight year old son, who has spent the last ten years on a four master that voyaged to India, returned this year and promised her that he has seen enough of the world and will never go away again.

Of course there are people in Bridbury, such as Jeanet Evans of the hat shop or Jonathan and "missis" Angelina Bexley of the local bank, who look down on the local cuisine, but most people think that Eating Time is a fantastic acquisition for Bridbury. Frederick and Marian Chersey of the post office are mad about her roast lamb with mint sauce, and mayor Geoffrey Redbridge and his wife Maggie can do their seven children no greater pleasure than to treat them to honey roasted ham crisps. The smith, Christopher Lambert has such a large body, that he only feels eaten properly after he’s had a big plate of steak and ale suet pudding.

But most of all it is the puddings, served by Randy, that people enjoy in Eating Time. Even Marianne Hammersmith, the wife of the baker who makes his own fantastic pastry, licks her fingers after eating Randy's apple pie with cream, his chocolate fudge or walnut cake. But most of all the inhabitants of Bridbury enjoy a sizeable piece of wensleydale cheese and a "pint of bitter" on the restaurant’s veranda on a Sunday afternoon