Pirate Ship

The pirate ship is a children's hut located in the garden of Mulberry Cottage.

As Ashley Thomas had dementia and wanted to spend more time with his son, he decided to order the pirate ship so he could in it. When the flat pack item arrived, Ashley and his dad Sandy decided to build it, but not before Sandy ripped the instructions up. Arthur arrived home shortly after skipping school to help. They struggle to build it without instructions and work was slow. Ashley later allowed Arthur to use a saw if he didn't tell his mother. Arthur ends up cutting his hand and takes him to hospital, leaving Sandy at home.

While at hospital, Ashley leaves Arthur in the waiting room to look for a nurse. Ashley becomes disorientated and a nurse asks him if he is alright, just as Laurel comes in, assuming he has arrived for their baby's ultrasound scan. Arthur wanders out to the car park to look for his dad and is later taken home by the police, much to Ashley's horror that he forgot his own son.

The work on the ship is later completed and Arthur enjoys playing in it with Ashley and step-sister April. Because of the incident of Ashley losing Arthur, a social worker advises that Ashley should not be left alone with Arthur. Ashley friends and family find this hard without Ashley noticing but manage. After Laurel's dad Doug asks busy Nicola to watch over Ashley, she volunteers her husband Jimmy instead. Jimmy brings kids Angelica, Elliot and Carl to play with Arthur so that he can supervise Ashley in the pirate ship. After Nicola rewards Jimmy for his efforts, Jimmy offers to help more, under the pretence of needing marital advice from Ashley.

Jimmy desperately wants to see the cricket one day and asks Ashley to join him so that he can still look after him, but Ashley says Arthur wouldn't enjoy it. Jimmy secretly tells Dan Spencer of his predicament, and Dan offers to revise at Ashley's house so that Jimmy can go to the cricket and Dan can quietly revise while still keeping an eye on Ashley. Dan even brings daughter Amelia to play as he continues to revise.

Dan and Jimmy both enjoying being away from their partners and argue who gets the next babysitting session and race to the pirate ship to find Ashley playing the guitar. Ashley is in favour of watching Jimmy's horror film and they watch it in the ship. Arthur goes to the garden but is convinced that the screams from the film are ghosts from the pirate ship and runs back inside, terrified.

Arthur stops playing in the pirate ship, but when April is insistent they play in it, he tells her about the 'pirate ghosts'. April's shouts wake Sandy up, who then tells them ghost stories, making them more scared. As Dan and Jimmy continue to enjoy the pirate ship, they organise a poker night with Ashley, Jimmy's father-in-law Rodney Blackstock and after overhearing, Rishi Sharma manages to persuade them to let him join, insisting he needs a break. Arriving at the ship, Rishi brings cigars, rum and raunchy playing cards, joking that he broke the 'no women' rule. Hearing the men's laughs from the ship, Arthur once again runs inside and searches for ghostbusters on the internet.