I fell a little behind with the episodes and therefore this thread, and I just wanted to say when I last popped in I read a comment that Alf just did not need someone as silly as Minnie in his life given all he has to deal with. While I have no particular affinity to the coupling, I think she is exactly what he neeRAB, at least for the now. His whole life is responsibility and obligation. He bares it well, but he has given up his youth and freedom in order to care for his family and he does so gladly. Minnie with her naivete and sense of childlike wonder at the world takes him out of his problems and when he is with her, he is just Alfie, he regains some of the boy that was him at the start of LRTC.
She gives him that very precious gift and I think that is why he has fallen for her and why she is good for him.
Whether it works out who knows? But for now, she gives him a little release from his very adult life.
She gives him that very precious gift and I think that is why he has fallen for her and why she is good for him.
Whether it works out who knows? But for now, she gives him a little release from his very adult life.