This Christmas sees Sal Vine (Sue Johnston) struggling to cope with the first anniversary of her husband's death. The only person that seems to care is Kate Bales (Rosie Cavaliero) from the local grieving group, and even then the mention of death just re-opens her own, barely healed wounds.

Meanwhile the Guild are tasked with setting up a website to compete with the rival Guild at Hole. Will the ladies finally master the required technology to get their photos from the 'stick' up onto the computer, or will it all end in disaster?

Series one introduced us to the Guild and their continuing struggle to maintain their numbers. The local practice nurse Sal lives at the centre of the community but goes out of her way to avoid being recruited by the Guild's leader, Eileen, at every step.

Things change, however, when her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. After the funeral and as the initial sympathy falls away, she begins to feel neglected and alone.

In a bid to stop rattling around her empty house and avoid the local Grieving Group counsellor, she decides it's time to stop sleeping in the dog basket, get a haircut and take stock of her new life.

And where better to start a new life than the local Women's Guild?

As well as reuniting old chums Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French, Jam and Jerusalem stars Sue Johnston as Sal, and the first series starred Joanna Lumley as the formidable and only slightly loopy Delilah Stagg.

Pauline McLynn - better known as father Ted's Mrs Doyle - plays Sal's best friend Tip, while Sally Phillips is her hippy daughter Tash, whose circus skills don't add any gravitas to her already skimpy CV.

And David Mitchell leaves Robert Webb to carry on with the game of Monopoly without him, while he plays Sal's sensible doctor son James.

The title music is 'The Village Green Preservation Society', performed by folk singer Kate Rusby, and originally written and performed by The Kinks.