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Egged on by Linda and Janice, Hayley confronts Roy, asks him
what he's up to and where he's been going of an evening. Roy tells
her the truth - that he's been having dancing lessons in preparation
for the valentine disco. However, when Hayley tells Linda and
Janice the news, they think Hayley has been duped and that Roy
is lying to cover the fact he's really having an affair. Hayley
decides to follow Roy again when he goes for his lesson. As Hayley
is snooping around outside of the house, Roy looks out of the
window, surprises Hayley and she falls into the flower bed. Roy
is bitterly disappointed in Hayley for her lack of trust in him
and tells her "This is no basis for a long term relationship".
Could this be the end for Roy and Hayley? Hayley busies herself
with the decorations for the disco, helped by Alison. "I
think you're really brave." says Alison, to which Hayley
replies. "I'm nothing much without Roy." She mopes around
a bit until the night of the valentine disco - I couldn't stop
laughing all the way through the disco episode, it was a corker.
Les Battersby is kitted out a la Ziggy Stardust, spinning the
tunes in his jump-suit and makeup, and both Janice and Jacqui
Dobbs come dressed as Debbie Harry. Les announces the prize for
the winner of the best 70's costume goes to Mike Baldwin.... and
he hasn't even dressed up! but really the prize goes to Jacqui
Dobbs with her mini skirt, blonde wig and boots on. Les and Janice
end up having a huge falling out (again) when she finds Les arranging
to show Jacqui his 7" vinyl. Anyway, it looks like it's all
off now between Jacqui and Les when Les catches her trying to
steal his pride and joy - his Buddy Holly record.
In tears, Hayley confides to Alma about Roy, and Alma leaves
the disco to tell Roy he'd better get to the disco quick-sharp
or risk losing Hayley forever. Lorraine and Steve McDonald arrive
at the disco together, she assumes they're there as a couple,
so isn't best pleased when he leaves early with factory girl Linda.
Ashley, spotting his opportunity, spins his best line on Lorraine
"Would you like a dance with the love doctor?" Oddly,
it seems to work and the two of them take to the dance floor.
The lovely Spider keeps himself to himself in a corner of the
room and who can blame him as Ken and Deirdre take to the floor
and waltz a bit. And then, as Hayley sits alone at her table,
in walks Sir Royston himself. I stopped laughing and I gasped.
I don't think I've ever gasped at Coronation Street before. He's
wearing his 'Saturday Night Fever' white suit and medallion, his
hair is in a quiff and Hayley is in a quiver. Roy sits down next
to Hayley and gives her his grandmother's ring. "I love you
Hayley" he says. "And I want to marry you. However.
Wherever". I'd laughed, I'd gasped. Now it was my turn to
cry. Gail and Martin are the first to know Roy and Hayley's news
and then the factory girls find out when they spot Hayley wearing
her engagement ring. "What's the point?" snaps Linda,
a thought echoed by Martin and Audrey too (even though Roy asks
Audrey to be guest of honour at the opening of his new cafe).
Les Battersby is a lot less subtle, as you'd expect, and causes
a bit of a fuss in the Rovers when he finds out Roy and Hayley
are going to be married.
Anyway, elsewhere on the street, life goes on. Rita and Nita,
the lady shopkeepers, declare war. Nita starts to sell newspapers
in the corner shop and when Rita finds out she isn't best pleased.
She calls to see Nita, to tell her there's always been an understanding,
a friendship between the corner shop and the Kabin, an unwritten
rule that the corner shop wouldn't take business away from the
Kabin. But Nita will not be moved. She intends to make a profit,
whatever the er.. cost. Now this might seem, on the surface, quite
a trivial thing, surely shopkeepers should be allowed to sell
what they choose? Well, yes, I suppose. But, the very same thing
happened here. We had two shops about 100 yards from each other.
One was an open-all-hours grocery shop and the other was a newsagents.
The open-all-hours decided that it too was going to sell newspapers
and the newsagents objected, strongly. The open-all-hours got
itself a gang who smashed the windows of the newsagents and threw
open tins of paint inside. And there you have it - healthy competition,
Sunderland style.
Martin goes to Walter's funeral and asks Audrey once more if
she can do something to arrange an inspection of Weatherfield
Vale. Audrey blabs to Fred Eliot and wonders what she should do.
Fred knows Mr Lickley, the owner of the old folks home as he's
a fellow square dealer. "Leave it to me" says Fred.
Later, all the care staff at the home are called into a meeting
and Lickley tells them all he knows that one of his staff has
asked a councillor to inspect the home, and when he finds out
who it is, they'll be sacked. Luckily, Fred hasn't told Lickley
it was Martin but this doesn't stop Martin telling Audrey to "keep
your big mouth shut!" in future.
Ken gets a call from Tracy, sobbing on the phone. He calls
Deirdre and they have a chat about their daughter's marital problems
but really it's just an excuse for Ken to seduce his ex-wife with
a corned beef hash (some women have all the luck, eh?). Blanche
sends both Ken and Deirdre the same valentine card, hoping each
of them will think it's from the other. They're both trying to
keep away from Blanche as much as possible so that she can't interfere
in their lives, but strangely, she ends up bringing them closer
together anyway, united in their despair about her interfering.
Sally and Kev get a visit at home from the bloke from the court,
whose job it is to inspect their home environments. Both of them
tell a few white lies to make their home sound better than it
actually is. While Sharon is in bed with flu, fickle fiance Ian
is at the Rovers chatting up Natalie, in fact, not only chatting
her up, but he takes her out for dinner too. Hiss, boo, Ian's
a slapper, etc.
Maxine gets friendly with Nita as a way of getting closer to
her brother, Vikram. In the Rovers, Maxine and Steve exchange
a few words and then Lorraine and Linda end up fighting over Steve
McDonald (ladies, pur-lease!). Natalie throws Linda out and orders
Lorraine into the back room.
And that, I think is just about that for this week.
Glenda ;-)
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