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At Underworld there’s health and safety issues to be sorted after the killing
of Kasia. The factory finally gets a clean bill of health and reopens,
much to the disgust of the workforce who are convinced that summat’s up.
They’re not wrong. The Connors try to contain the consternation of the
factory girls but it all gets ugly when Hayley and Sally are voted as being
the girls with the balls to speak to the men in suits in the office. Sally
and Hayley put their case forward that they need to know the truth, was
Kasia overworked? Was the nightshift illegal? The answer to both is yes,
but to fend off the friction Paul Connor offers Sally a secretarial job
in th’office and she changes allegiance to defend the Connors when her workmates
have still got the hump. Oh how fickle she is, but then Sally’s always thought
that she’s better than she ought.
Leanne gets chucked out of an hotel for soliciting, which is a word that
always sounds to me like something morally right instead of legally wrong.
The girl’s only trying to make a living but she’s chucked out on the street
by a sniffy concierge who tells her he knows what she’s up to, vamoosh.
She heads to the Rovers in a bad mood to be met by Liam Connor who’s of
the same mind after a bust up with brother Paul at Underworld. After two
swift halfs and a pizza in the precinct, Liam’s explaining the finer points
of ladies’ underwear to Leanne in her bedroom. Next morning, Janice wakes
to find her boss walking round her living room in his under-crackers (and
the women of the nation swooned with delight). Leanne tells Liam she
can’t see him again as her life’s too complicated to get involved, which
is probably just as well as in this celebrity age of Bradgelina I’d have
had to start renaming the happy couple Liamme.
Ken reads through the many letters of support sent to the Barlows after
Tracy got jailed. There’s one from his ex-lover Denise but Deirdre won’t
read any of them and rolls her eyes heavenward when Denise’s name’s mentioned.
After Peter and Adam leave to set up a string of betting shops in Portsmouth,
Deirdre and Ken are empty nesting and tension is high. She misquotes a bit
of Shaw at him and he flings it back at her with a pinch of Oscar Wilde.
How much more violent can it get? Clare comes calling, convinced that
she was responsible for Tracy losing her case but Ken makes it clear that
Tracy was guilty by doing a thing with his eyes that he’s never done before.
It was almost quite sexy. When Clare realises that Tracy had lied to her all
the time about Charlie, she storms off in a bad mood to give Ashley some hell.
Jerry Morton has the King of Sheds delivered to his back garden. It’s
huge and has to be hoiked in over the house by a crane. Ashley runs off to
complain to the Council but I love sheds, me, and I think it’s great. I
think the plan is for Darryl Morton to use it as his bedroom but none of the
neighbours like it.
Bill asks Audrey to marry him but she turns him down flat. She likes
to know that she can throw him out if she wanted and could have his bags
packed and him out of her house and her life if and when the mood took her.
Bill says he’s relieved when she turns his offer down but his face didn’t
seem that convinced.
Eileen’s wracked with doubts and guilt over baby Holly this week. Jason
moves out, unable to cope with his mother putting her love and energy into
a baby that’s not hers. Finally, Eileen sees sense, with the help of Gail
Platt and through tears asks Gail to call the Social Services to arrange
to give Holly back to her real mum. This storyline has run since Boxing Day
last year and I am officially Glad To See The Back Of It. Oh yes.
It’s Gail’s birthday and Audrey puts up banners outside her house and
the Rovers. “What on earth is this?” asks a stone-faced Gail. “It’s your
big five oh” says Audrey who thinks her daughter’s 50 this year. It soon turned
into a big uh-oh when Gail points out that she’s only 49, thank you very
much. They share champagne and apologies later back at Gail’s house and Bill
asks David why he didn’t say anything when he clearly knew how old his mum
was. David runs upstairs with a sly grin leaving Bill downstairs with a worried
frown.
Derek the dull drayman comes to see Liz again and the two of them smooch
across the bar at the Rovers. Deirdre picks up on what’s going on immediately
and Liz tells her mate all about her new man, says it’s only a fling and
just a bit of fun. Derek pops round again and asks Liz to spend the night
with him in the King’s Arms. That’s either a romantic pub or he’s a big
Elvis fan.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
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