 Although Ivy rejected his advances, her lumbering, coarse husband Sid (John Comer) doesn't try to stop him as he knows Compo doesn't mean anything by it.Whenever he tries to make advances to Ivy, the result is that he and his companions are thrown out of the café or hit on the head with Ivy's metal tray.Said Compo in one episode " I'm just goin' to get me 'ead bashed with a tray"

Ivy sometimes appreciates Compo's advances and, when he is not in the room, smiling superiorly.