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Hayley's in prison and having a hard time of it. Persecuted
by prisoners and beleagured by butch bullies called Spud, she's
not enjoying life in the big house at all. She puts on a brave
face when Roy visits her but he soon discovers the others know
Hayley's past and are giving her grief. Yes, they seem to know
that she was a transsexual. They even know her old name was Harold.
How on earth they've missed the fact she's 10 months pregnant,
I'll never know. Dishevelled and depressed, Roy goes round to
Wayne's house and pleads with Sheila to tell the truth but she's
too scared of Alex to speak out. When Mr Hartnell calls on Roy
for an unofficial, informal chat, Roy vents his spleen at the
man from the council, telling him that if social services had
done their job properly in the first place, Hayley would never
have ended up inside the jail.
Karen and Steve return from holiday and Eileen decides to throw
a party to celebrate the first birthday of Streetcars. Les and
Karen assume they're invited but Eileen puts her foot down, it's
only for staff who have worked there for a year. Nevertheless,
Karen tags along with Steve, Eileen and Vik and they all head
off to a casino for the evening. Karen is more than happy to spend
Steve's money and Steve, quite strangely, is more than happy to
let her spend it. Eileen's on a winning streak and cashes in her
chips for a couple of hundred pounds at the end of the night,
but not until she has a slanging match with Karen who's been trying
to needle Eileen ever since she returned from holiday. It's too
much for Eileen, she's not going to stand for it and tells Steve
to manage at Streetcars without her.
Curly's not well. He's suffering stomach aches and nausea and
can't think for the life of him what could be wrong. When he chats
to Norris in the Kabin about his strange symptoms, Norris shows
him a magazine article that diagnoses his disease. He's pregnant.
Or at least he's in sympathy with Emma and of course, being a
bloke, is complaining long and loud about every little twinge.
At the Peacocks, Maxine is in tears as she's still not with
child. Fred had already invited himself and Eve there for dinner
but Fred and Ashley are still at a meat conference when Eve turns
up on the doorstep to a tearful Mrs. P. Softening towards Fred's
daughter in law, Eve comforts Maxine and the two of them look
likely to be friends. Meanwhile, however, Eve has been made redundant
from her bar job at the Turks Head. For reasons best known to
herself, she doesn't tell Fred who assumes she's still working
and it's only when he calls in there to chat to her that the pub
landlord gives Fred the news. He feels duped and chats to Rita
in the Rovers. "There's no fool like an old fool", he
moans. "I went to t'Turks, where sh'works and I parked t'car
and lurked" before he saw Eve leave the pub and head off
in a different direction. Most odd. Audrey makes her feelings
clear to Eve this week when the two of them met in the Rovers.
Audrey assumes Eve is just after Fred's money but with a wobble
of her eyeballs and a stern word or two, Eve told Audrey to firmly
back off.
As Kev takes the girls to Florida this week, Sally is left
in her house all alone. Martin wants to take full advantage of
the situation (and her) but she's still holding back, sure that
it would upset Gail too much. Invited to dinner at the Platts
with Richard, the kids, Martin and Sally smile at each other over
the dinner table before Martin goes and spoils it all and says
a few ill chosen words to Richard, accusing him of taking over
his family. He apologises, of course, and later in the kitchen
Gail tells Sally she hopes Martin finds himself someone nice,
and soon. Sally gives her a look.
Geena's disappointed when Dev has a night in to do his tax
return after she'd had a table in a fancy restaurant booked for
months in advance. She feels she's being taken for granted so
Sunita decides to help out, mentioning to Dev at every opportunity
that if he doesn't take more notice of Geena, someone else will.
Geena tells Dev what Sunita is up to so Dev pretends to Sunita
he's finished with Geena because of his jealousy. It's all a bit
silly but to see Dev pretending to cry into his hanky was quite
(but not very) funny at least.
But what was truly funny, and moving this week was Jack and
Vera celebrating their wedding anniversary. With Doo-Wah-Diddy
and a boiled egg, Jack presents Vera with a card on their 44th
anniversary and promises her a night out that evening. She wants
to dress up but can't find the clothes she needs and when she
turns up in the Rovers, Jack's not there to meet her. Tyrone thinks
he knows where Jack is and takes Vera to the allotment where there's
a scarecrow in Vera's clothing with a pair of rubber gloves on
its hands. And then Tyrone leads Vera into the shed. And there
Jack is, all dolled up and waiting for his missus with a fish
and chip supper and a pint of cold beer. Vera tells Jack she's
a very lucky woman, unlike Rita Sullivan. "I've had trifles
last longer than some of her marriages." As the pair of them
chat over the hake and the beer, memories flood back of lust,
longing and lying on spud sacks in Vera's dad's shed many, many
years ago. A wonderful scene that ended with the two of them singing
My Old Dutch. Great stuff indeed.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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