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Ashley takes on a nanny this week to look after baby Josh and Fred's in
on the interviews, making his preference well known. "The ideal nanny
should be like a good side of beef" he says. A fatty, bleeding piece
of cow? Madonna Grimes from the dry-cleaners is interviewed and dismissed
but gives everyone a chuckle. Sensible Claire is not to Fred's liking although
Ashley takes a shine and it's the one with the NNEAB from B&Q, the BTEC
from the TUC and a handful of NVQs from HMV on her CV that Fred wants to
give the job to. But it's Ashley's decision and he chooses caring Claire
Casey who gets along with little Josh-wah fine.
Much marital discomfit for the McDonald's this week with more slanging
matches between the tears for Karen and Steve. These two are wonderful
together, this storyline is bringing out the best in them both. Karen
stays with Janice then moves back to the flat, has the locks changed and
throws Steve's stuff out on to the street. Steve stays with Mrs Grimshaw
who is much used to looking after feckless blokes. When Steve returns to
pick up his things, Karen gives him three minutes - on the egg timer.
"But that was a wedding present" he says "so one and a half minutes are mine
and one and a half minutes are yours". Great stuff. He naffs off with the
telly and she follows him out onto the street screaming and yelling for its
return. But revenge is exacted when she keeps the remote.
Emily's distracted and worried this week, concerned about losing her house
when Richard's creditors need paying off. Rita and Norris flutter around
suitably caring.
Jack wins £50 from the local paper crossword competition and this
spurs him on to even bigger and better things. Vera's overjoyed when Jack
tells her he's won £100 to spend in the local travel agent, but he
has to break it to her gently that it's not a prize, it's a voucher to be
redeeemd against an £800 holiday if the holder of the voucher is a
family of four who have two children who's first names begin with the letter
B. When Vera's seen beating Jack round the head with said voucher,
the regulars in the Rovers assume he's given her the bad news.
Blanche invites Tracy for tea at the Barlows, telling her that Deirdre
and Ken won't be there. Then she cooks up a storm in the kitchen and has
Deirdre wondering just what's going on. When Tracy walks in, Deirdre
and Ken get all uppity and when Dev waltzes in drunk with a bottle in his
hand they get uppityer still. Dev and Tracy leave after eating half
their meal with no pretence at politeness. Not one of Blanche's best plans.
And finally this week, a cracker of a storyline. Katy Nelson goes
into Manchester to meet her Sheffield mates at a gig. What she doesn't
know is that she's followed home by the brother of the guy who Angela grassed
up in Sheffield - the very reason they're under the WPP. Anyway, and
this gets really gripping (well it did on the telly, I can't vouch for the
update), the guy later returns with his other brother - they're a couple
of pantomime thugs. All that was missing was a couple of neon signs
on their heads flashing "Yob, Hoodlum and General Ne'er Do Well" just in case
any viewer didn't pick up on the otherwise subtle clues as to the unsavouriness
of them both. Katy's home alone as Craig's done a runner after pretending
for weeks he's been rehearsing for the school play when all he wanted was
some time on his own away from his mum and dad. When Craig's found
and taken in by the Croppers for chips, Angela and Tommy chat to their
son in the cafe. Meanwhile back at their house the Morgan brothers are in
the house with Katy, who's increasingly weak because she hasn't had her insulin.
Somewhere between the beans and the washing up, Sally tells Kevin she's seen
two blokes asking for Tommy and Kevin tells Sally to phone the police.
The cop cars draw up at the same time that the Nelson clan come out
of the cafe, people are running around, Claire's walking past with Joshua,
Karen and Steve are chasing each other down the street yelling obscenties
at each other and the police tell Tommy to stand well back, they're dealing
with it all. Katy screams and it's too much for Tommy, he bursts into the
house and a couple of shots ring out. Angela screams and the credits
rolled, oh yes.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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