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Not knowing quite what to do with herself, Sharon tells Rita
she's going to leave the Street and move away. Rita, desperate
for Sharon to stay, comes up with a cunning plan. She calls Alec
Gilroy in Southampton and asks him if he's willing to rent his
flat to Sharon, which of course he's happy to do. (I'm pleased
Sharon is going to stick around a bit longer, she's a smashing
character, I like her a lot. Where Annie Walker could say a million
words with a raised eyebrow, Sharon does it all with a gurn).
Life in the Rovers is far from happy with Natalie and Lorraine
at each other's throats. Lorraine calls the Rovers "a dump"
and Natalie sacks her. "You can't sack me" she says
"I'm the best barmaid you've got." And with a look to
Betty, she says "At least I've got all me own teeth!"
Betty: "Ooooh!" Natalie confides in Betty that she feels
everyone is against her - well, she's hardly ingratiated herself
with the (female) neighbours has she? Anyway, the Rovers needs
a new barmaid and Judy needs a new job now that Gary has been
made redundant, so she's back working behind the bar while Gary
coos over the twins with Jim and the pair of them discuss them
mitten things you put on babies hands to stop them scratching
themselves. (My youngest brother had these when he was a baby,
I used to steal them off him, they made tremendous hats for Cindy).
Anyway, I don't think leaking breasts have ever been referred
to before on national television, never mind Coronation Street,
but there was Judy in the Rovers earlier this week discussing
the very topic with both Betty, and Jim.
Tom, the new hairdresser in the salon has a not-so-secret admirer
in the shape of Toyah, who goes into the salon on any excuse just
to see Tom-me-laddo. Tyrone gets to hear about Toyah's crush on
Tom, and storms into the salon to confront Tom and tells him to
leave Toyah alone. When Toyah finds out what's going on, she's
not best pleased.
Sally and the girls have moved back into No13, and Kevin rings
Alison at work to tell her he's in Germany with Bill. Not much
else going on with that storyline (a welcome change, too).
Leanne takes the pregnancy test and passes with flying colours.
Nick suggests abortion as an option but Leanne is totally against
it. They tell Toyah she's going to be an aunty but Nick is against
telling anyone else just yet. While Leanne gets used to the idea
of having the baby "It's the best thing that could happen
to us", Nick is much less sure.
Curly and the lovely Spider figure out a way to get Curly his
house back from the clutches of Cruella de Dobbs. Curly takes
legal advice, to no avail, so they both creep into the house and
steal the TV while Tyrone sleeps away on the sofa. Curly gets
his old job back at Freshco after sorting out things over the
Anne Malone thing, and Alma is demoted back to working on the
shop floor, much to Mike's delight. "We can get back to normal
now, having me dinner ready for me on the table" he says.
Mike gets a visit from a new, female rep selling fabrics. They
go for a quick lunch in the Rovers and it's obvious to Mike that
the rep, Julia, is new to the sales game and tells her she's got
a lot to learn. She suggests they have lunch again sometime when
she'll be ready with the sales patter, and he agrees. Telling
Alma about the rep, he describes Julia as "gorgeous but gullible",
and the camera pans to Nat, walking into the Rovers after an argument
with Sharon who had said more or less the same words outside to
describe Nat herself.
It's Mothering Sunday and Judy gets a card from the twins (via
Gary, of course), Janice gets her tea made for her by Toyah and
Leanne but it's Deirdre who gets the biggest surprise when Tracyluv
turns up from London. She's walked out on her husband saying the
marriage is over and can she stay with her mum for a while. Deirdre's
eyes roll to the heavens. Anyway, Ken and Deirdre try to get Tracy
to tell them what's gone wrong with Robert and she gives them
her side of events before going shopping with Robert's credit
card. Then, Robert himself turns up in a rage looking for Tracy.
Ken calms him down and over a drink in the house, Robert tells
him that Tracy has had an affair with another bloke and ran out
and left him. Ken hasn' t yet told him where Tracy is hiding out.
Steve asks Nita out for a drink in the Rovers but she's got
him pretty well sussed. "You know, under the surface, I get
the feeling there's not a lot going on" she says. Nita asks
Maxine for her opinion of Steve and nothing she hears convinces
Nita there's more to Steve than she first thought anyway.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda ;-)
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