Now to TA, i don't believe a dress even if 'dry clean only' is not cleanable with after a little child puke. Lots of dry clean only dresses are in fact able to be carefully washed and dabbed - as I am sure many of you know too. I find that whole SL very irritating. Soosan can be a good and humorous character, but they are tending to overdo her just now. And why is the dress 'borrowed'? She must have paid before she was let out of the shop. Being a jail bird, S needs to be careful. 
Re-Grace, I clearly recollect a conversation between Elizabeth and Phil just after Shula was widowed where Elizabeth was asking her father about Grace. It went something like Phil alluding to knowing what it/sudden widowhood was like and Elizabeth asking what Grace had been like. She was quite young then but clearly already knew the story of Grace. I wonder how many in Ambridge now will remember Grace - only Joe, Bert, Peggy and Christine I think?
Can i please put on record that i don't like Lynda much either. She has some good lines but she is somethign of a cartoon character at times. Her hayfever sniff portrayal is especially annoying. I have BAD allergies (including Perennial Rhinitis aka all year round hay fever symptoms - and it is fairly well controlled with medication). It's another case of nonsense script writing IMO.