I think she meant that he's a grumpy old sod who spends 80% of his time sleeping in reality! But then she and he got off to a bad start as he wasn't best pleased when she arrived so she's not likely to be his number one fan.
Stacey's doing well, and so too are Dom and Jenny. The spy thing has been entertaining. They appear to have edited Gillian out of things, unless it was something un-missable like the blow-up with Shaun, so I'm predicting she'll go out soon unless something else compulsive awful happens.