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The Street's gone to the forest as our band of happy campers
settle in the countryside this week. Ah, the trilling of the meadowlark,
the gurgling of the stream, the dulcet tones of the Nokia mobile.
After her ordeal last week, Sarah heads off with the campers along
with Todd but Candice's mum won't let her go and there's a bit
of a scene on the Platt's doorstep. Mrs Candice tells Gail she
won't have her daughter mixing with a gymslip mum, not her innocent
Candice. Oooh, it looks like she's never heard Candice answer
her mobile phone: "HELLO?! YEAH?!? I'M ON THE PILL!!"
. So there's Roy, Hayley and Wayne, Sally and the girls, Martin
with David and Sarah and then Todd tagging along. Roy's nervous
in case Alex Swinton has followed them to carry out his threat
of telling Wayne the truth about Hayley. Wayne's nervous in case
Alex has followed them to snatch him away from the Croppers. Sarah's
nervous in case Gary has followed them to abduct her. And David's
nervous 'cos he thinks the Derbyshire Beast is hiding in the woods.
Not so happy campers after all. Hayley's (real life) pregnancy
does its best not to get its very own storyline and is upstaged
at every opportunity by all manner of props; sleeping bag, book,
salad box and cardigan. Roy devises his a game of Bird Bingo but
it soon loses its thrill when everyone's waiting for two little
ducks.
With Sally away, Janice is looking after the hardware shop
which leaves Vera needing help in the cafe. Looking pretty in
a pinny, Jack does his best to help out but there's some confusion
over an order for four frothy coffees at five. "Where do
I get the froth from?" he pleads. Looks like the Duckies
could be in for a(nother) windfall when Jimmy Kelly from the Legion,
a small fella with a squinty eye, leaves Jack something in his
will. It's a key, so Vera is thinking posh houses and property
while Jack is more realistic, thinking pigeons and crees.
Toyah goes for her HIV test at the clinic and celebrates with
Sam when she gets the all clear. He's being patient, tells her
he'll wait forever but she wants to do it, you know, stuff, but
is still unable to get further than pecky kisses.
Audrey's looking after big blonde baby Bethany while Sarah's
away but feeling out of sorts when Gail forgets her birthday.
Well, Gail's got other things on her mind in the shape of new
man Richard who takes Gail and her cleavage for an outing to a
cosy country pub for lunch. However, when they get back to the
house, there are messages on the ansaphone from Audrey reminding
Gail she's forgotten her birthday and so the two of them go round
to see her instead of doing, you know, stuff. Blanche has also
been round to pay birthday respects and Audrey offers her a drink.
"What do you want? Tea? Coffee?". "Vodka"
she replies, but when Blanche starts hinting at Audrey's spare
room, it's Audrey who downs it, quick sharp like.
Matt the too tall doctor has moved out after he and Charlie
can't agree about having children. He's broody, she's moody. It
turns out that he'd always wanted them and assumed she did too.
Whereas, you see, she hadn't wanted them when she married Matt
but assumed, one day, sometime in the future, she would. But she
doesn't. In despair as she spies the end of her marriage, she
hits the bottle and tries to explain her feelings to Matt. "It's
not you that has to have them. It's not you that has to change
your life, give up your job, give up your freedom". And give
up the booze. Matt sleeps in his office and this causes some delay
next day in the surgery, giving Blanche the magic line: "Do
you know, I've been here 43 minutes. I could've whipped up a Victoria
Sponge in that time".
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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