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It's just not Don's week, this week. He's so desperate for cash
to inject into his failing business that he even tries to get
his hands on Nicky's money. He tells Nicky he can follow in his
father's footsteps and become a mechanic, just like Brian used
to be. Nicky can't see that Don is using him only to get at his
money, but once Gail and Martin hear about it, Martin goes straight
over to see Don and gives him a piece of his mind. The receiver
from the bank visits Don. He takes an inventory of the stock,
inspects the books and tells Don he's so far in debt that the
business now belongs to the bank. Don, of course, has to fire
Kevin who isn't happy at all being a house husband while Sally
is out at work all day. The receiver from the bank tells Don that
he shouldn't have bought into the business without first checking
that it was viable. Don broods on this a bit, gets drunk and then
storms into the Rovers to have a go at Mike, telling Mike it was
all his fault that the business has gone bust. He hits out at
Mike and misses, and then Mike hits Don, who falls to the ground.
(There's nothing like a good old fight in the Rovers, is there?).
Jack helps Don outside and he just stands there alone feeling
sorry for himself. He goes into the cafe to see if Alma will be
civil to him, which she is at first, but then Mike walks in and
gets an ear bashing from Don: "Go on, hit the cripple again,
knock me good leg from under me this time, why don't ya, go on".
Mike just tells Don to stay away from him.
There's a new barmaid in the Rovers - Samantha. She comes revving
into the Street with her motorbike and false tan and looks set
to cause trouble (she's got that sort of face). Jack hired her,
of course, and Vera isn't very happy that yet another young thing
is behind the bar of the Rovers. Trisha asks Vera if she's seen
or heard from Terry lately, she's anxious to speak to him about
something.... (and if you read last week's update spoiler, you'll
know why!).
Audrey invites friends and neighbours to her house for Alf's big
announcement. In front of the gathered throng, Alf proudly announces
that he intends to change the name of Coronation Street to Alfred
Roberts Place. Instead of the congratulations he was expecting,
he gets a stony silence followed by Ken saying "Well, frankly
Alf, I think it stinks". No one is happy about the name change,
apart from Derek, who thinks he can get some business from stationery
orders of new letterhead paper. They all admit they knew about
the name change as Audrey had been gossiping, and Alf gives her
one of his looks.
Gary starts to unpack the conservatory which was delivered last
week, and along with help (!) from Roy Cropper he intends to install
it on the back of his and Judy's house, despite the fact it won't
fit and the back of the house doesn't get any sun. Emily isn't
happy about the conservatory going up either, and tells Gary that
the last person who did structural work on the street ran into
all sorts of problems when their house fell down (who was this?
I can't recall? [The Hewitts house - the old Nº 7 - Graham]
). Des tells Derek and Mavis he intends to buy the conservatory
from Gary and install it in his back garden. Mavis and Derek are
aghast! How dare Des invade their space with a conservatory in
his garden? "He'll only use it to grow cannabis" says
Mavis. But Des is using reverse psychology and in the end, Derek
tells Des he'll buy the conservatory instead and have it in his
garden.
Alec Gilroy wants to arrange a talent night in the Rovers but
Jack isn't keen until Alec tells him that he can do his "Vince
Sinclair" routine if he wishes. So the talent night is arranged
for this coming Friday, and Maxine intends to enter. Alec arrives
home one night to find Mrs Smedley still there, carrying her cleaning
duties a little too far by ironing his shirts for him. "I
like ironing shirts" she says (she can come round my house
any day, then). They offer each other backhanded, strange sort
of compliments, which could point to a future storyline between
them? (I'm not sure about these two as a couple though....)
Maxine tells Fiona the truth about her and Tony, and Fiona takes
it quite well (well, she doesn't tear Maxine's hair out!). Steve
continues to phone Fiona from prison and she hangs up on him,
finally.
Gail and Martin have gone away on a family holiday and Nicky,
sorry Nick, puts his foot down and declares He's old enough to
stay at home on his own. Finally, Gail agrees and asks Audrey
to pop round and make sure Nick behaves himself while they are
on holiday.
Jim receives the cheque from his mother's will and it's burning
such a big hole in his pocket that he tells Liz he wants to use
it to buy the house from her. Liz is still smarting from the fact
that's she's in her 40's and couldn't get a mortgage to buy it
herself. We know she's still smarting as she walks into the Rovers,
hisses at Jim who's minding his own business at the bar, and then
she trounces out again.
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