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Des manages to convince Derek and Mavis to buy the conservatory
from Judy and Gary Mallett. Judy and Gary fix the conservatory
up, Judy acting as Gary's labourer (these two ARE the new Laurel
and Hardy). As befits a new house extension, Mavis has a conservatory
party and invites the Mallets, Des and Rita to drink a toast to
the new green house, er... sorry - conservatory.
Behind the bar of the Rovers, new barmaid Samantha is playing
it cool, trying to work out who is the boss, Jack or Vera. She
asks Judy, who tells her, without a shadow of the doubt, and as
we all know, it's Vera. Curly (who is missing Raquel as she's
away on her aromatherapy course) and Gary Mallett sit at the bar
with their tongues hanging out watching while Samantha pull pints.
Andy is broke. He can't afford to pay his car tax at the end of
this month and asks Liz if she will get him a job in the wine
bar. He asks Jack for extra hours at the Rovers, he asks Curly
if there's anything going at Bettabuys, and meanwhile Kevin asks
Tony if there's any work going at the garage place he's now working
at.
Liz asks Fiona if she wants to visit Steve in prison, and Fiona
says she no longer wants anything to do with Steve. When Liz and
Jim arrive at the prison, they visit Steve in the prison hospital.
He's been beaten up and is lying on his hospital bed feeling even
more sorry for himself than usual. Liz is convinced the beating
was a set-up in order to get Fiona to feel sorry for Steve and
go to visit him, but even when she hears about this, Fiona still
refuses to go to visit him.
Poor old Trish. She's found out that she's pregnant with baby
Duckworth and goes to see Des, hoping that he knows where she
can find Terry. She believes that if she tells Terry what's happened,
he'll come charging through Baldwin's factory on his white horse
and whisk her off her sewing machine. Des does have an old address
for Terry in Sheffield and drives Trisha to an awful high rise
block of flats. The address she finds is answered by another of
Terry's girlfriends who hasn't seen him for months. "If you
see him" she tells Trisha "tell him I want me £1,800
pounds". Trish confides in Sally about the pregnancy, and
Sally tells her to ask Vera once more for Terry's address.
It's the night of the Rovers talent competition. The acts that
Alec has lined up for the evening's entertainment are so utterly,
totally bad, they're brilliant! What a scream! Even Percy gets
up playing his ukulele. Jack gets more than half way through his
turn before someone pulls the plug on him, and then Maxine gets
up and sings the old hit "Shout". And this is where
it turns into a classic Coronation Street episode. As Maxine is
singing "Everybody shout now, come on and shout now...",
Liz and Jim McDonald are screaming at each other, having a humdinger
of an argument in one corner of the Rovers over who gets to buy
the house. "Shout!" Vera can't believe her ears when
Trisha tells her the news about the baby and tears a strip off
her, telling Trish she's a liar, that her Terry wouldn't have
anything to do with a slag like her. And all this is going on,
all this screaming, while Maxine is belting out "Shout, Shout,
Shout" Great stuff. Jack doesn't know why Trisha snubs him
in the Street the next day, and thinks that Trisha is still looking
for Terry because she fancies him. Trisha tells him the truth,
and Jack storms in to see Vera, demanding to know why she had
kept the news from him. Joyce Smedley has the hots for Alec, it's
official! She offers to do his shopping for him and then decides
to prepare his evening meal before he comes in from work. Alec
invites her to stay for dinner with him and they chat about this
and that. I don't think I'd get married again" he says, "no
one would have me". To this, Joyce raised her eyes in a "I
wouldn't be too sure about that, mate" kind of way.
All they want is five minutes on their own but Des and Claire
have a problem and her name is Becky. Des wants to go on holiday
with Claire but Claire is wary of upsetting her in-laws whom she
normally goes on holiday with each year. So, they ask Becky if
she wants to stay with her grandparents this year while Des and
Claire go off on their own on a barge (strange choice for Des,
considering....). She says no, she wants to come with them, and
has every intention of spoiling the whole holiday for them both
because she's an insecure and immature teenager filled with angst
and that's the kind of thing teenagers do.
Another troubled teenager is Nick Platt who has ran away from
home this week. Audrey goes round to check on him, to make sure
he's eating his greens and not having late night raves in the
front room and seems quite disappointed when she finds that everything
looks normal in Gail and Martin's absence. Unfortunately, Nick
and Audrey argue when she pops in to see him, she's interrupted
him packing his bags (which he hides away when Audrey comes in)
so she doesn't know he was already planning to run away before
their argument. So now, she blames herself (and Alf, of course)
for the fact that Nick is missing. At this point my husband exclaimed
"I know where he's gone - Chessington Zoo!" and I gave
him one of my looks. If you want to know where Nick will end up,
read on..
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