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I know you were all expecting Glenda back again and I'm sorry to
disappoint you all but she's a bit tied up with the halls of academe
this week so you're stuck with me. It's been a while since I did one
of these, I hope it's ok. So without further ado and the Clash on the
stereo here's this week's update on what's been going on down those
hallowed cobbles.
After frollicking around the pool with Wally, Tracey decides to stay
the night, separate bedrooms of course, and the next morning is
lounging by the pool again when her mam rings. With the noiseof the
pool and Wally's voice in the background, Deirdre quickly figures out
where her wayward daughter is and calls Archie to help her track her
and Wally down. With a cry of 'brazen little hussy' a scuffle breaks
out and mother and daughter end up in the pool just as Mrs Bannister
arrives on the scene. It turns out the house isn't Wally's, he's the
gardener and he's just making himself at home while the owners are on
holiday in Zambia, which earns him a swift knee in the privates from
Tracey.
Wally's not the only gardener making an appearence this week. After
being warned about the state of his allotment by the committee, Jack
enlists Tyrone, Kirk and Fiz to tidy the place up a bit. While Fiz
supervises from a deck chair, our two hapless heroes are rather taken
with a young woman working the allotment next door and introduce
themselves. 'Kirk by name, Kirk by nature' doesn't seem to be in with
much of a chance but Maz seems to take a liking to Tyrone. She's a bit
like a female Spider but with a far prettier nose and she eats meat
too. Tyrone starts brushing up on mulches, ' I think it's some kind of
vegetable' and can't get enough of the allotment. Despite it pouring
with rain he's hanging about the shed keeping an eye out for Maz who
turns up with some nastertiums to attract the caterpillars away from
her cabbages. She's clearly far more into gardening than Tyrone but
accepts his invitation to breakfast at the cafe where she meets Jack
who offers her the use of his greenhouse for some of her more delicate
vegetables in exchange for some of her produce.
At the factory, the 'burglary' is discovered and pretty soon Dev's
cousin Naveen, who Joe and Steve ripped off last year, comes under
suspicion. Mike and Joe go to the Artrec office, which is of course
empty, and Mike's suspicions are further raised when a security guard
tells them that the place was rented by an Asian bloke. Dev defends
his cousin and points the finger at Joe and Harry tries vainly to
convince Mike that he reset the alarm. When will the penny finally
drop? With no material to work with the factory workers are laid off
until more can be found but word is getting around about the trouble
at Underworld and customers and creditors are starting to get worried.
It's all getting to Mike who doesn't seem to have the fight for it
anymore. Instead of looking forward to a relaxing retirement playing
golf he's looking at trying to rescue his business again.
David has overheard Sarah-Lou's plan to move to Oxford with Todd. He
isn't best pleased, I mean who would be, that would leave him at home
with only his mother and a rabbit for company. Todd's new mate sows
further seeds of doubt in Sarah-Lou's mind and so she decides that
she'd rather stay at home in Weatherfield and finishes with Todd.
While this might please Eileen, Todd's in bits and he figures that the
best way to ensure that he stays near the girl he loves is to doodle
on his exam paper and walk out. His proud mother has been busy all day
making him a special tea to celebrate the end of his first exam but
when she finds out what he's done, the trifle ends up on the kitchen
floor after the ungrateful oik tells her that he's felt pressurised
all his life to succeed for her and now he wants to do something for
himself. Sarah-Lou isn't best pleased about what he's done either, not
wanting him to throw his future away because of her but that doesn't
stop Eileen from blaming her for the situation.
After he showed up at Ashley's, Claire has had words with her
boyfriend Gary and she's clearly upset. Ashley sits her down on the
sofa and they have a heart to heart where Ashley tells her about his
past failures in love and that if someone makes you unhappy you
shouldn't stay with them. The next day, having dumped Gary despite him
buying her a 12 inch triple topping with anchovies, she turns up in
tears on Ashley's doorstep and in front of the street's biggest
gossip, Norris, he comforts her. Later on in the shop there's a
request on the radio for 'Unchained Melody' by Will Gates from Claire
to Ashley and that really sets the tongues wagging. Ashley confronts
his nanny later on who insists that she prefers the Robson and Jerome
version (has the woman no taste? what's wrong with the Jimmy Young
version?) and so it couldn't have been her that requested it.
Dev hasn't been put off by the knock-back from Sunita. He shaves his
beard off, sends her flowers and arranges a weekend for two in
Barcelona. What will it take for him to get it? She's not like one of
his other floozies, she can't be bought like that.
So much for the theory, it's now time for Roy to get into then
practice. Hayley arranges for him to go for a ride with an experienced
driver, Steve, and Roy turns up with a driving manual full of post-it
notes and tells Steve what he's doing wrong. Later Hayley takes him
for his first lesson but they get no further than the forecourt of the
garage as Roy bottles out and Hayley gets annoyed.
Elsewhere Emma's being a bitch about giving Curly access to the son
that he's brought up, only allowing him to see him for one hour a day,
arranged in advance.
Normal service may be resumed next week.
Bye
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Barry Smith
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