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Right, down to business then and here we go. Gail is doing
her best to make sure she keeps Sarah-Lou's pregnancy a secret,
she even stops Audrey from knowing the truth (although she finds
out next week, and it ain't going to be pretty). But wait - Gail's
come up with a cunning plan - why not take Sarah Lou off to Canada,
let her have the baby there, come back to Weatherfield and try
to pass the baby off as Gail's own? It's a plan, yes, but far
easier surely to tell the truth to everyone? I can't quite understand
the deceit, but then again, I live in Sunderland, so I'm pretty
well used to seeing pregnant teenage girls on every corner, on
every street, in every pub. Martin's not keen on the idea, as
you can imagine. Candice comes round to visit and although Gail's
told her daughter not to tell anyone about the baby, Sarah-Lou
confides in her friend, in a wonderfully written scene. It's time
to face school again, and Martin and Gail march Sarah-Lou off
to face the headteacher with their news. As the three of them
walk into the playground, Sarah Lou spots Neil Fearns (pudding
basin hair cut, scowl, shirt pulled outside of trousers, miserably
kicking football - much like Paul Butler was doing for Sunderland
yesterday vs. Leicester) and Gail realises it's the father of
the baby. Both she and Martin are shocked to see such a young
schoolboy and are forced to realise their darling daughter wasn't
overpowered by some burly 6ft sixth former who forced her to have
sex against her will. They all troop home to more arguments and
Gail insisting the trip to Canada is their only solution.
Over at the corner shop, Tunnocks caramel wafers made a couple
of appearances this week as Dev tackled Vikram about his selection
process for recruiting a new shop assistant. Where Dev wants to
hire someone honest and reliable who can do the job, Vikram wants
supermodel looks and artificial curves. Dev reminds him the corner
shop "...isn't a private dating club for skinny shopkeepers
who can't find a squeeze!".
Anyway, it looks like their problems
are over as they take on Gwen to work part-time, weekends and
evenings. Jim came up with a solution to Gwen's money problems
when he asked her to move in with him, but she turned him down
on the grounds it was too early in their relationship and if it's
working well between them, why spoil things? Good on yer, Gwen,
you'd only have ended up ironing his shirts along with your overalls.
Ken does more research into the Cartwright murders and gets
an article published in the local paper. As he delves into the
murky past of the murders, he discovers a shocking truth - the
Weatherfield butcher is related to the Weatherfield butcher -
turns out that Cartwright himself is none other than Fred Elliot's
grandfather! Blanche overhears Ken tell Deirdre this and armed
with such a juicy bit of gossip, aims straight for her target
and with maximum impact, delivers the news to Ashley that his
great-grandad was a murderer.
Mike sends Linda out to sell to one of his customers - a tough,
female one. Linda manages to get a £33,000 order from Helen
Cooper after promising a sharp delivery date and pants in size
14 and bigger (and rightly so!). The haughty Ms Cooper says she'
s pleased to do business with Linda instead of Mike, saying she
was getting tired of Mike and the same sad old chat up lines he
uses to make a sale. When Linda returns with the order, Mike can't
quite believe it, and although the size of the order pleases him,
making bigger knickers in a shorter turn around time, doesn't.
Audrey can't keep quiet any longer and has a heart to heart
with Alma over Bob's advances. Alma, of course, can't, won't and
doesn't want to believe what her friend is telling her about her
new bloke. She storms off upstairs then tells Audrey she's had
enough of her, she's going to look for her own place and move
out. Worse is to come though, when Duggie Ferguson tells Audrey
that Bob's been arrested for corruption at the council. How's
Audrey going to break that to Alma?
In the café, Hayley gets an admirer when Stuart, one
of the builders on the Victoria Street site starts flirting and
chatting her up. Hayley gets all flirty over the burger and chips
while Roy hasn't yet noticed what's going on.
Elsewhere on the Street this week: Tyrone passed his driving
theory test, Sally and bland Danny moaned about how cold it was
standing on a market stall in the winter, there's still no sign
of the lovely Spider, and Maxine's pink fluffy jacket was just
terrific!!
And that's just about that for this week. Glenda :-)
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