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After receiving a telephone bill loaded with calls to Canada
and not receiving any rent from Leanne, Ashley puts his foot down
good and proper with Leanne, who puts her feet down, one in front
of t'other and walks right out of his house, across the road and
moves back in with the Battersby clan. Leanne's being a bit irresponsible
lately, asking Natalie for a £50 sub on her wages which
she gambles away at the casino with Vikram. Fred is pleased Leanne
has moved out but Ashley feels he's lost a good friend. In the
Rovers, Leanne bitches about Ashley behind his back but Maxine
and Fred defend him and Leanne gets a telling off from Natalie
No-Sleeves.
Gary's out cleaning windows when he spies a burgler going through
a woman's drawers in the bedroom of a house he's cleaning. Quick
as you like, he's jumped through the window and chased the burgler
outside, just as the woman who lives there arrives back home.
She sees Gary, assumes he's a burgler and screams the place down.
And I mean -screams- the place down. Gary sits and waits in the
house, rings Judy and eats his sandwiches, and sure enough, the
police arrive to hear Gary's story. Finally they believe him and
before you know it, there's a reporter round to see Gary who puts
a photo of the hero of the hour on the front page, being kissed
by the lady of the house, Mrs. Hardy. When Mrs. Hardy's husband
sees the picture he goes round to the Malletts, thumps Gary and
tells him to stay away from his missus. How sweet.
Now then, over at the factory there's intrigue and mystery.
Well, no there's not really. There's a sad old git and a randy
factory girl who's no better than she ought to be. Linda finds
out where Mike's flat is and calls round to see him with a bottle
of whisky, saying the girls have bought it for him to cheer him
up over the business with Alma. The two of them have a couple
of drinks and then Linda leaves, after telling Mike the girls
didn't buy the whisky at all, she bought it for him. The next
night, Mike sits at home in his dressing gown, waiting for Linda
to call again but is disappointed when his only caller is a pizza
delivery man at the wrong address. Fred offers to take Mike out
the next evening but when Linda turns up at the flat, Mike rings
Fred to cancel the arrangement and instead, has a night in. Linda
promises Mike she'll be discrete, "discretion's my middle
name" she says. (No it's not... it's 'slapper', surely?).
Over at the Rovers, Mike tells Alma there's still a chance for
their marriage but when she says she doesn't feel she could trust
him again, he calls her 'pathetic' and storms off. Alma and Curly
enjoy a drink together in the Rovers and he invites her for dinner
at his house, where there is the most heart wrenching scene at
Curly's dinner table. Talking about trust and the ingredients
needed for a happy marriage, Alma gave such an incredible speech,
I was in tears. Me mam was in tears. The dog was in tears. Even
me dad sniffled a bit, wiped his eyes and said "It's crap,
this, innit?".
The lovely Spider has been on hand this week to offer support
to Toyah in coping with her exams at school. She confided in him
about Welsh Owen, and he advised her to forget him.
Meanwhile, in the Rovers, Steve McDonald spies the lovely Spider
buying what he assumes is dope from a guy in the pub. When Spider
tells him it's tobacco brought from abroad which he buys for ethical
reasons (like not giving the Government any tax), Steve thinks
he could be on to a winner on a 'baccy run from Europe too. He
asks Jim to loan him the money and at first Jim isn't so sure,
after all, it is illegal, but in the end he offers to help out.
Steve's hoping he'll make enough money to cover the tax bill he's
received after fiddling his tax returns.
Sally gets a call on her mobile phone from the headmistress
at Rosie's school to say she needs to speak to Sally asap. Now,
before I go any further, I just want to rant, thanks. I hate mobile
phones. I mean, you're out with someone, having lunch, looking
round the shops, having a drink, whatever and off goes their bloody
phone. Am I the only person left in the world, the universe, who
refuses to have one of these pits of hell instruments? Anyway,
she goes to the school only to be told that Rosie has turned into
an evil Devil child (spookily enough, Kevin now sports an evil
Devil beard..mmm. curious!!). Rosie is bullying other kids and
her pictures and stories are revealing she's not coping at all
well with the trauma of the recent seige. Sally tells Kevin, who
blames it all on Sally for not giving Rosie enough love and attention.
Bloody men. I almost hate Kevin Webster as much as I hate Sally's
mobile phone. Almost.
Anyway, that's about it for this week.
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