Moeran wrote to Edward Clark in January, inviting him to lunch in London for a discussion about the Second Rhapsody for Orchestra. Moeran was planning to make some amendments to the score but wanted to hear the present version before doing so. It is not known whether the lunch invitation was accepted, but in any event, the broadcast of the Second Rhapsody did not materialise until some eighteen months later. There is little other evidence to account for Moeran's movements and activities during most of the year. There were a few performances of his music around the country, including In the Mountain Country played by the Halle orchestra in Manchester and Leeds in March. Apart from occasional travels and visits to Eynsford, Moeran probably spent much of 1928 at his parents’ home in Ipswich. There is also no evidence that Moeran had yet resumed any composing. Earlier in the year, he had submitted some of his pre-1926 compositions to publishing houses, and the piano pieces Bank Holiday and Summer Valley and the choral piece Christmas Day in the Morning soon appeared in print. However, no new works can be dated to 1928, although there is no means of knowing if he composed material that he later destroyed. As he later admitted, once he had let the impetus go, it was difficult to recover it. While he was living with his parents, he was able to restrict his drinking. Moeran's father was a strict abstainer, and so there would have been little opportunity for alcohol consumption. Nonetheless, drinking elsewhere was possible, and even if he was not spending extended periods in Eynsford, Moeran visited the cottage, and he ventured on folksong collecting expeditions across East Anglia.

In October, the Eynsford ménage finally came to an end, largely because the perpetually impecunious Heseltine was no longer able to pay the rent. The lease on the cottage was terminated, Heseltine had returned to his mother's home in Wales, and Moeran had apparently been left to sort out the disarray. Heseltine wrote, displaying a somewhat casual attitude: