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Important stuff first - here we go. As Rita and Sharon natter
to Ian in the Kabin about the forthcoming wedding, in comes Betty
who recognises Ian as the bloke that Natalie's been seeing. Anyway,
Betty later tells Rita who collars Natalie in the back room, swears
at her "by 'eck ladeh, I've met some bitches in my time,
but you take the bloody biscuit" (or words to that effect)
and demands to know what's going on - and all the while Sharon
is having her hen party a few feet away in the Rovers bar! Natalie
tells Rita the truth, that she didn't know Ian was Sharon's fiance
and that she's been lied to aswell as Sharon, but Rita doesn't
believe her. Rita's in a dither, does she tell Sharon the truth
about the bloke she's marrying? or not? Natalie demands to know
where Ian lives, and Rita tells her, so off she goes to confront
him (there's lots of confronting going on in this week's update
if you haven't noticed already), and he tells her he doesn't want
to marry Sharon, that he loves Natalie and wants to continue seeing
her. Natalie listens to him grovel a bit and then tells him she
wants nothing to do with him, and leaves. Ian goes to see Rita
afterwards, telling her a pack of lies about how Natalie seduced
him and he couldn't say no to her overbearing demands. Rita, not
being a fan of Natalie's anyway, tends to believe Ian's story.
On the morning of the wedding, Natalie goes to see Rita who tells
her she doesn't believe anything she says, that she believes Ian
wasn't at fault here, but Natalie proves to Rita what a rat Ian
actually is when she phones him as he's getting ready for the
wedding. He tells Natalie how much he loves her and wants her,
and as he's whispering all this down the phone, Natalie passes
the phone to Rita so she can hear for herself what a prat Ian
is.
Anyway (I told you it was a week and a half, it's all been
happening) Rita calls to see Sharon at Sally's house and tries
to tell her the truth about Ian, but she just can't bear to see
Sharon hurt, so doesn't tell her. Sharon gets herself frocked
up in the traditional net curtain look and Rita arrives back at
the house to collect Sharon to take her to the church in the car.
When Rita sees Sharon in her wedding dress, she knows she can't
let her foster daughter go through with it, and tells Sharon everything
she knows. Sharon denies it all and then starts blaming herself
(no, Sharon, no!) but demands that Rita forget everything she
told her and declares that the wedding will go ahead as planned.
So, off they all go to the church with a tight-lipped Rita walking
Sharon up the aisle. When the vicar asks Ian to say his vows and
he gets to the bit about forsaking all others, Sharon belts Ian
around the head, screaming "liar, liar, bum's on fire"
(she didn't actually say "bum's on fire" but I wish
she had). She runs out and into the graveyard where she sits sobbing
until Sally runs out to console her. Then she gets angry. Back
to the Rovers in a taxi, and Sharon, still in her wedding frock,
barges into the Rovers, with Sally in tow, demanding to see Natalie.
"Why did you have to pick my bloke, why?" she asks Natalie,
blaming her for ruining her life. "I think I've done you
a favour" replies Natalie. There's a wonderful scene when
Sally leads Sharon from the Rovers back to her house and they
walk across the street with Sharon still in her wedding dress,
with the snow falling around them. It was such a powerful scene,
I wizzed it back on the video and watched it again. The next day,
Rita comforts Sharon after a sleepless night and offers her (well
padded) shoulder for Sharon to cry on. Ian calls to see Sharon
at Rita's and tells her he didn't want to get married, that he
just got caught up in everything, in Sharon's plans for a house
and family, and couldn't get out of it. "So, you've ruined
my life because you were too spineless to say no?" Indeed.
In the Rovers, Sally lays into Natalie and tells her what she
thinks of her, stealing yet another woman's bloke. She tells Natalie
she's going to move out of the house and isn't going to pay another
penny in rent.
Well, that's been the main storyline this week. Other events
were the christening of the Mallett twins. Jack and Vera are at
the church as godparents but Vera notices in the service notes
that godparents should themselves have been baptised, and Jack
hasn't been. The vicar says he can baptise Jack straight away
and Vera and Ken stand in as godparents to him, quite a funny
scene with some good oneliners from Les Battersby. Gary's brother
stays the night and is due to make a speech in the church, but
realises too late that he's forgotten his notes and that he's
going to have to wing it. He takes the podium, and in a really
funny scene, some members of the congregation wonder where they've
heard this speech before... "I believe" he says "that
children are our future. Treat them well, and let them lead the
way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside... " and
so on.
Elswhere on the Street this week, Rita and Nita the lady shopkeepers
call a truce. Nita stops selling papers and Rita stops selling
bread and videos. Leanne buys herself a pregnancy testing kit
but spends all her time with the kit in her hand, unopened, looking
anxious. Jack asks Mike if he has any room to look after his pigeons.
"I run a sweat shop, not a pet shop" he says, so Jack
gives his pigeons to Charlie West to look after, and he misses
them dearly.
Steve McDonald asks Vikram to go over his accounts for him,
and Vikram tells Steve he needs to cut back on his expenses, find
somewhere cheaper to live and get rid of his car. Oh, and stop
ignoring letters from the Inland Revenue if he wants to keep the
business going. Vikram suggests that Steve should fire a couple
of people to keep his expenses down, and one of the people Steve
decides to fire is father with two mouths to feed, Gary Mallett.
Kevin still hasn't returned since running away after his hissy
fit last week. Alison rings the police and so does Sally, peeved
to find out that Alison has already reported her ex-husband missing.
Sally goes to No.13 only to find Alison there rootling around
Kevin's drawers looking for clues to his whereabouts.
And guess who returned this week... good old Curly. He's been
backpacking around Kuala Lumpur, looking for Raquel by the sounds
of things and all he wants to do now is get back to his house,
put his feet up and make himself at home again. No such luck.
When Jacqui and Tyrone realise he's back, they throw his clothes
out onto the street and Jacqui throws a bucket of water on Curly
out of the upstairs bedroom window. Curly spends the night on
Emily's sofa and next day goes into Firman's, hoping to get his
old job back. However, Alma is as surprised to see Curly as he
is surprised to find out she's now doing his old job. He's even
more confused when Alma tells him that Jacqui and Tyrone aren't
squatting in his house, they have a legal right to be there because
she's installed them as tenants and they have their own rent book.
What to do, what to do? I reckon Emily will be on the case in
no time to crack this mystery, with the help of her sidekick,
the lovely Spider.
And that's it for this week!
Glenda ;-)
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