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Nat's sister, Debs, settles into the Street this week, moving
into Nat's old house across the road and taking up a hairdressing
job at the salon. When Nat goes out shopping with Debs, Vinny
is left in charge to handle a staffing crisis, there's just not
enough hands to help pull the pints, so he hires Geena from The
Feathers, a barmaid he used to know when he was still a drayman.
Anyway, Geena is great stuff, gets on with everyone and knows
her way around the optics but Natalie isn't too pleased that Vinny
has been making executive decisions and appointing staff in her
absence. "You're an employee, and don't you forget it,"
she warns him. Well, you know, it's Valentine's day and all, so
Vinny decides to put his cards on the table and show Natalie what
he truly feels for her. Flowers and balloons duly arrive at the
Rovers from him to her but all Nat can do is give him a dressing
down in the back room about embarrassing her in public. Oh dear.
(If only he'd dropped the balloons and given her what I got delivered
to me first thing this morning by a strange man in a van. That
would have put a smile on her face all day long. I know.) There's
a great line from Geena when she's having a girly chat with Leanne
and Nat in the back room about a wonderful bloke she met the night
before, to which Leanne chips in: "He obviously wasn't from
round here, then". "No" says Geena, "I think
he were from heaven".
Rita's off to her post office training and there's a great
scene where she and Norris confuse Steve McDonald who comes into
the Kabin for a biro and they offer him everything from a new
passport to a lorry load of green shield stamps. Norris also raised
a smile in my living room when he waxed lyrical to Rita about
the joys of dot.com.
Les is still working his community service
by cleaning up the
graffiti on the Street. However, as soon as he clears one bit
of spray paint, another has been sprayed in its place, but who
can the mystery graffiti artist be? Surely not? It can't be Tyrone
can it? Alas, it is. Tyrone writes out a valentine card for Toyah
but before he can hand it over to her, she tells him she'll throttle
whoever's responsible for getting Les into trouble over the graffiti,
as it means Les could get a jail term for not carrying out his
community service properly. Anyway, Les comes into the café
later and Tyrone, in a lovely scene, hands over the valentine
card so that Les can pass it on to Janice. Toyah realises what
he's done and rewards him with a peck on the cheek.
Gwen and Jim decide to give their relationship another go and
Jim spends the night at Gwen's place.
Although Gwen is happy things
are back on track with Jim, she tells him she's afraid of his
temper, so she is, and advises him to channel his aggression elsewhere.
(Oo-er.) However, when Jim goes to use the phone at Gwen's, he
discovers a dead line and asks her where the money went that he
gave her to pay the phone bill. When Gwen admits she's deep in
debt, Jim says all he wants to do is help her out.
Bob the councillor calls round to see Audrey and stays a while
longer when Alma returns home. He's obviously keen to know more
about the newly divorced Ms Halliwell and accompanies Alma to
the Rovers for a swift drink. The tension between Audrey and Alma
is just wonderful with Audrey as jealous as sin over her friend's
new romance, advising Alma to wear casual clothes for her date
at swanky Alberto's with Bob (when Marksies best is what's required,
of course). But, despite this, Bob asks Alma out on another date,
which she gladly accepts.
Leanne decides to come clean with Mike and tells him it was
she who stole the fifty quid from his flat. Mike is happy to have
his money back but Leanne doesn't go any higher in his esteem
when he learns the truth. However, Mark is happy to hear that
Leanne seems to be turning a new leaf and things get cosy at the
Rovers bar between the two of them. That is, until Claire reminds
them both she's there and would like a glass of wine, if you don't
mind, thank you very much.
Martin comes clean to Danny about his affair with Rebecca:
"I'm in love with her. I can't stop thinking about her. I
want to be with her all of the time". He shows Danny the
(unsigned) valentine card that Rebecca has given him and as the
card is still on show, Gail comes home and takes the card from
Martin's hand. "This isn't your handwriting" she says,
to which Danny replies "No, it's mine, it's for Sally".
Rebecca can't believe it when Martin tells her he's still sleeping
with Gail, and says she hates being the other woman (serves you
right for getting involved with a married man, dear).
Ashley and Max plan a cosy meal at home for their first valentine's
day together as husband and wife. However, it looks like Fred
it set to spoil things as his bad back starts acting up. They're
all in the Rovers and Fred offers to buy the drinks. He drops
some coins onto the floor, bends over and seizes up. It's left
to Maxine and Ashley to pick him up, straighten him up, and drag
him out of the Rovers, leaving their valentine meal (and passion)
simmering on the back boiler.
And that's just about that for this week. Thanks to the person
or person(s) unknown for the anonymous cyber valentines - whoever
you are - thank you. And to all of you out there who are within
close reach to the person you love, go and give them a hug right
now.
Tell them I sent you. Glenda ;-)
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