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A million voices screamed at their telly this week "No! Rita! No!" when
she told Richard she was thinking of investing her savings with him.
While Richard's thinking "Yes! Rita! Yes!", Norris tells Rita that
Richard can't be trusted but it's Rita's accountants that make her see
that investing with Richard isn't viable just now. Richard takes the
news badly and blames Norris, of course. And then it got spooky,
honestly it did. Richard kidnaps Norris in his big red people eater and
drives him to the conversion. "You've got a narrow mind and a big
nose" says Richard: "It's a lethal combination". Norris is terrified (I
was a bit worried) that Richard is going to do a Duggie on him and push
him down the stairs of doom, but no. He calmly, too calmly, humiliates
Norris and you feel the discomfit, you really do as Richard reels off a
few numbers about the money he'll be making when he sells all the
flats. So why, Richard asks Norris, does he want to do away with little
old Emily, as Norris suspects? Richard plays his part well, it's
serenly terrifying. And then he lets Norris go but not until we assume
he's lost his temper - in a scene we don't see behind a closed door.
There's some scuffling and as the two emerge, Richard apologises. He
apologises again in the Kabin giving Norris the same sort of smile I
give to the slugs in the garden as I approach them at midnight with my
torch and salt cellar. But he didn't do that laugh I do as they curl up
and die. Hahaha!
"She's the sort of woman who isn't complete with a man to push her
onwards and upwards," says Fred of the fragrant Mrs Spencer. But Lillian
isn't sure being rewarded with the Rovers for a romance with Fred is
enough to keep her hanging around, and so she's off. After a phone call
from Marple man she's off to manage another pub with her mynah and her
horrible kids. Maureen Lipman might not have been around long on the
cobbles, but she were wonderful while she lasted, I say she were grand.
And so at the Rovers, Fred needs to put someone in charge. In the red
corner there's Geena. Lovely hair but she's a bit thick. In the green
corner there's Shelley. Much the same but she's got a cheeky way about
her that's perfect for the Rovers so Fred puts her in charge and Geena's
not best pleased.
Blanche was in tears most of this week. First off Archie dumps her, and
it's her own fault for gossiping. Then Ken and Deirdre go to stay with
Tracy. When Blanche hears the phone ring, she's upstairs in her
nighty. "Archie!" she hopes. Blanche rushes to the phone but instead
trips, falls and lays prone at the foot of the stairs. Oh dear, what
can the matter be? She lies there from Monday to Saturday and it's not
until Archie comes calling the following day and spies her through the
letter box that anyone knew she was there. Off to hospital she goes
with a swollen foot and some heavy duty make-up and when Archie visits
her, she assumes their friendship is back on. But it's not and Archie
has to make it quite plain that it's all over. "But I'm an invalid, you
can't leave me!" she says and oh yes, there's more tears.
At Chez Peacock all is not harmony now that Doreen's getting her feet
under the table and unloaded all her baggage. She wants this, she wants
that and you can't blame Ashley for getting annoyed with anyone who
wants her world "spick and span". Doreen decides the back garden needs
doing so enlists Les Battersby as help who knows he's onto a good thing,
being paid in cash - by Ashley - as he greets the mother in law with:
"Y'alright Doh love?"
Sally's fed up. She's got no money, no job, no beans. The kids are
turning against her 'cos she can't pay for one of them (the tall stroppy
one) to go on holiday with her friend. Fortune in the shape of Rita
smiles on her by offering her two weeks work in the Kabin when Norris is
off being all that he can be in the Commonwealth Games. But it's still
not enough to put a smile on Sally's face, and it's her birthday too.
When she gets home she finds Kev and the girls have decorated the house
for her with birthday greetings and even baked a birthday tea. All goes
well until Kev suggests he moves back in there, purely for financial
reasons. Sally tells him to get out, purely for emotional ones.
Elated that they're moving into one of Richard's flats, Karen drags
Steve to posh furniture store, Elevation. The prices are way beyond
Steve's means but that doesn't stop Karen. "You're a retired
knicker-stitcher," he reminds her: "We're hardly Posh 'n' Becks."
Nope, but far more entertaining, intellectual and fun to watch.
More pre-marital tension at the Platts when Gail tells Sarah she can
invite a friend to the wedding, meaning Candice. Sarah tells her mum
she's invited a friend alright, meaning Ade. More arguments, more
shouting, more tears. Everything a good wedding should be.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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