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Ken spots
Jon buying a bottle of Brandy in Firman's, brandy which he later
presents to Deirdre, telling her that he bought it in the duty
free shop in between flights. Something strange is going on with
this bloke. Ken tells Deirdre he saw Jon in the store and Deirdre
asks Jon about the brandy, but Jon changes his story, saying that
he bought the brandy in Firmans as he didn't have enough time
to buy it in the airport. All is not as it seems then, but who
cares when he's making Deirdre happy?
Alma is made "Employee of the month" at Firmans which
is a bit of a surprise as she's only been there wielding her scanner
for a few days. Eric Firman puts a huge poster of Alma on the
wall in the store. He's keen to get Alma into advertising for
his store and gets Curly involved in his plot too. Alma is a little
bemused by it all, but she's probably secretly flattered, I know
I would!
Fred eventually gets off the golf course after falling in pain
at the end of the golf game. Maureen is less than amused with
Fred's disappearance, she assumes he's gone off on a drinking
binge and thinks the worst of him. Meanwhile, back at Fred's house,
Ashley and Maxine are making the most of their privacy when Maxine
promises to 'dance' for Ashley as soon as he comes back with a
bottle of (red) wine (what else?) from the shop. However, while
Ashley is out, Fred returns on crutches in an ambulance, and is
somewhat astounded to enter his house to find Maxine prancing
around in her birthday suit. Maureen calls to see Fred and finds
out what happened to him, thoughts of impending doom and his own
mortality are foremost in his head and he tells Maureen he'll
change his will so that he'll leave everything to her, I say,
everything to her. Unfortunately, Ashley hears everything as he's
accidently eavesdropping at the door and gets a bit miffed, so
Fred agrees to change his will so that Ashley inherits the shop
but everything else goes to Maureen. After rolling his eyes at
her in the Rovers, Steve McDonald calls at the salon to see Maxine
again. They end up with a bottle of (less passionate) white wine
and the two of them go upstairs to Fiona's flat where they end
up playing tonsil hockey. Maxine pulls away, feeling guilty about
Ashley but Steve lays a vague threat about telling all to Ashley
and calling her a tease before storming out of the flat.
After last week's gripping Kevin/Sally/Natalie update, this
week was a bit flat. Kevin leaves Sally's mum's house in Scarborough
after Sally tells him she doesn't want him around, and as he's
leaving, little Sophie runs after his van. She ends up getting
lost, and Sally assumes Kevin has taken her with him, but he's
as distraught as Sally when he finds out that his daughter is
missing. They call the police to help find her, but she's on the
beach with a coastguard when Sally and Kev finally find her. It
looked as if the missing child might just bring Sally and Kev
back together again, but Sally is sticking to her guns and tells
Kevin to leave. Natalie's still sniffing around Kevin but he tells
her it's over and she actually sprouted water from her eyes. Meanwhile,
Rita calls round to see Kevin, giving him a blasting for having
the affair with Natalie (and this was a great scene that got a
big cheer at the ratucs special screening!) and then she blasts
Natalie when she goes into the Kabin. Kevin pleads with Bill to
see Sally on his behalf, to beg her for Kevin's forgiveness and
ask her to return home. However, when Bill goes to Scarborough
to see Sally, she tells him that she's never going back to Kevin.
"Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
never, never" (yes, she really said that).
Ken wears heavy cardigans as he worries what his future will
hold when he's made redundant from the school this summer.
There's a tender moment between Des and Mavis when Des calls
into the Kabin and they end up talking, in a round about way,
about Derek before both changing the subject and pretending to
be jolly.
And last, and by every means, least, the "family from
hell" arrived on the street this week. I normally write new
and exciting things first in the updates, but these 'Parks-ensteins'
monsters deserve to come last. Mum is Janice Battersby, who works
for Mike Baldwin, dad Les is a scheming layabout who steals Bill
Webster's cordless power drill and then sells it on to Roy in
the cafe. Daughters Toyah and Leanne are brain dead and loud mothed,
ex-pupils of Ken Barlow. They go shop-lifting at Firmans and draw
a moustache on Alma's poster with the words "I'm a sad old
bag" alongside her face, and they pull a book from Percy's
hand and throw it into the street when he asks them to turn down
their boom-box. These are not nice characters, I don't want them
on my favourite show. We're used to "common"... Jack
and Vera were common, Judy and Gary were common, but these people
are thieves and scum. The only place on the street they belong
is in the toilet-pan at the Rovers. Let's hope they do something
to change my mind before next week's update - I'm waiting to be
entertained.
Glenda
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