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While Deirdre's slaving away in her new PA job at the council, Ken cooks
lamb chops as a surprise dinner after her first day at work. Only thing is,
Deirdre's in the Rovers with a colleague knocking back the red wine and
chatting up cheeky chappy, the chippy Charlie Stubbs. Ken drags Deirdre
home to a couple of burnt chops and a bit of a talking to about asbestos
he's seen in Charlie's building yard. Deirdre says she'll have a word
wi' someone at t'council but all she does is ask Charlie to move it, which
he does, and only to keep on the sweet side of Deirdre, thinking she's got
some influence over lucrative council building contracts at work.
Charlie's chat up lines may be corny but they work on Deirdre, and so
it seems, on Bev who ogles him by the optics from behind the bar in the
Rovers. "Oooh* I could eat him in a butty" she tells Shelley, who tells
her mam to think on and not lose her head over a younger bloke. In
the Rovers, aware of Bev's stare, Charlie flexes his muscles in his tight
little t-shirt and Bev drops the glass from her hand as she stands there
in awe. Bev and Charlie set up a date but just as he's due to take
her out for the evening he gets a call on his mobile to fix a radiator leak,
which takes Bev's hot water tank right off the boil. Jason's now working
for Charlie, learning the building trade along with the Stubbs way to treat
women, which might work for Charlie but fails miserably for Jase when both
Claire and Candice knock him back this week.
Cast your mind back to last week when Nanna Brenda threatened to jump
with little Bethany from the roof of a church. It all ended well,
as is Corrie's wont, with Emily talking Brenda down from the roof and into
an institution to deal with her problems. "It's very secure, apparently"
gossips Norris in the Kabin. Gail overhears what's gone on with her
grandchild and is straight round to see Sarah who's still shaken by it all.
After a few arguments and tears, Gail and Sarah are hugging and making up
before Sarah lays another bombshell and says she and Todd are getting wed.
Gail's accepting; Eileen's furious; Nick smugly tells Sarah that Todd is still
gay, wedding or not, and Jason wants to know if he can be the best man.
Eileen finally comes round after Gail has a chat, telling Eileen to accept
the idea of the wedding rather than lose Todd for good.
In the Kabin there's problems with kids shoplifting and breaking a window
with their football. Chesney's in bad company, having teamed up with that
lad, you know, the one who's brother had a lazy eye and used to deliver papers
for Rita (but who's name escapes me now). Anyway, this lad gives Chesney
a list of sweets he wants nicked from the Kabin and with nothing better
to do, having been thrown out of the house by Cilla who wants her feet up,
telly on and her kid out of the way,
Chesney does what this lad asks. First on the list of goodies to
be nicked was a packet of Tunnocks caramel wafers * so whatever this kid
was, at least he had good taste (www.tunnocks.co.uk).
Rita catches Chesney nicking the stuff and they have a bit of a tussle. He
calls her an old cow, she calls him a little hooligan and cuffs him round
the ear. As Chesney turns to leave the shop, he bumps into shelves and knocks
himself over, getting a bump and a bruise for his trouble. Rita's beside
herself with worry and makes sure that Chesney's ok later on, which he very
clearly is. Les backs up Rita, saying she did the best thing to give
him a clip on the ear for shoplifting. But when Cilla, a nasty piece
of work, returns home she drags Chesney to hospital, gets him scanned and
x-rayed before telling Rita she's going to sue her for every penny she's
got.
Elsewhere this week, dark horse Harry lets slip he's got a daughter and
that he's also very keen to set up a charity shop with Emily. She
wants to think about it for a while but when Norris harps on that it would
cause him no end of problems and disruption to his very strict domestic
routine if she should go out to work, she tells Harry she'll do it, oh yes.
And finally this week, Dev starts to wonder what's going on in Maya's
mind when she drags him out on a shopping trip even though she's broke,
in debt and unemployed. She falls in love with a £300 vase, vacuous
tart that she is, but Dev manages to persuade her she can't afford it, he
doesn't like it and that she really needs to curb her spending obsession.
When they get back to the flat, the vase is there with them. She's
nicked it and isn't contrite, just surprised (surprised!) at Dev's reaction
to the theft. Throw her out now Dev, before Sunita comes back and then you
and she can live happily ever after, your life one long partay.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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