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Betty, eh? She's seen fellas get their feet under the table in the
back room of the Rovers and she's seen them creep out at two in the morning
with their shoes on the wrong feet and their pants on back to front. She's
certainly seen enough to know that Charlie's a bad 'un after he lashed out
at Dev last week, but when she warns Shelley, again, she's told to keep quiet
and do the job that she's paid for. When Charlie gets thumped
by an enraged husband from Brunshaw Road, he tells everyone he's been beaten
by Dev, only Jason knows the truth and he's scared to speak out incase he
loses his job. When the Alahan's walk into the Rovers for a drink
Shelley ends up slapping Sunita after Sunita points out what a loser she's
become since she got involved with Charlie, believing his lies. As
the women fight at the front of the bar, Betty stands at the back, arms
crossed under her ample bosom, wearing a look on her face that says she's
seen it all before.
Kev finds out about Sally and Ian's affair when he goes to the garage
to find out why Sally's been sacked. Ian tells him the truth but Kev
decides to ignore it and believe Sally's lies. Even Rosie lies to Kev
and says her mum didn't have an affair with Gemma's dad, just to keep her
parents from splitting up again. So Kevin really knows the truth but wife
and daughter are doing their best to do his head in with lies. Rosie's
got problems of her own when Craig dumps her for getting on his nerves before
flinging the final insult: "You're not even a proper goth!". There's
a bit of a to-do in the corner shop when Sally tells Rita to stop sticking
her nose in where it's not wanted when she asks Sally if everything's alright.
All the old stuff is dragged up from the past and Sally accuses Rita of
only wanting to get involved in her family life when she's lonely or ill
or has a spare page left in the back of her cheque book and doesn't know
who to spend the cash on this time. They make up eventually but Sally can't
bring herself to tell Rita the truth about her affair with Ian. And
even when Justine storms round to talk to Sally, Kevin defends his adulterous
missus. Oooh, it's a veritable maelstrom of baked beans and big fibs.
Diggory the master baker makes his presence felt on the cobbles by tempting,
nay, kidnapping customers from the Rovers, the corner shop and the cafe to
taste his freshly baked products instead of the usual items they buy.
Mind you, nothing Diggory could offer would make me turn my nose up at a
Tunnocks Snowball (www.tunnocks.co.uk). Yum. (And any Brookside fans
reading this might remember Diggory Compton as the Wrexham fan).
Sadly, this week marked the passing of a much loved Coronation Street
character when Barney the rabbit died. Yes, a moment's silence is due. Next
door neighbour Keith is blamed as he never liked the thing anyway and he'd
already punctured David's football with his garden fork so was clearly capable
of doing the deed, or so David thinks. So when Barney's corpse disappears,
everyone at the Platts is a little bit worried and then rather disturbed
when Keith turns up with Barney stuck to a piece of wood, stuffed and mounted.
David doesn't know quite what to say, indeed everyone's quite lost for words.
Especially Barney.
Mel continues to cut a swathe through the street and Norris is still in
thrall, in fact he's sycophantic, bordering on hagiographic and that's not
something I say every day. In fact I never say it at all. A porcelain figurine
goes missing at Emily's and Mel asks if it was valuable. Emily replies it
was worth two hundred pounds. "It was not!" he retorts, then "Really?".
Clearly he's flogged it on the market as he's completely skint and cons
Audrey out of a big lunch at The Clock. Audrey's all of a flutter
with the attention although Ken's less amused with Mel laughing at his column
in the Gazette. "Ah, the angry young working class man" says Mel of Ken.
"It's not so much Look Back in Anger but look back in a very bad mood and
a cardigan". Actually he didn't say the last bit about the cardi but
I thought he should have done and was half expecting him to. As Norris
does the dusting, he's content to hear the tap tap tapping of the keyboard
as Mel types away at his new novel in the front room. But when the
tapping stops and starts winding itself around the tape machine, he knows
there's something up. Mel isn't typing at all, it's all a con, although
he tells Norris he couldn't have told him the truth because of his sensitivity.
The truth is, Mel says, the publishers have refused his new novel and he's
thinking of self-publishing instead - the very last resort of a desperate
author. I know, I read all about it once in the back of Exchange &
Mart.
Jamie seeks out and finds his real mum, Carol, in a Birmingham pub and
they catch up on the last 14 years but he hasn't got the guts yet to tell
Danny he's seen her. Danny has other things on his mind when Leanne
gives him the come-on (then the turn-off, all in one episode, she's so fickle
that girl). And now that Adam's returned from his posh Scottish school this
week to live with Mike and Penny, Danny under instruction from Baldwin senior
to take him under his wing at the factory and give him a job.
And finally this week Hayley tells Fiz and Janice she's worried about
Roy surfing the net on an evening. He won't tell her what he's up
to and every time she goes near the computer he flicks on the screensaver.
Fiz and Janice tell her it's probably porn but as this is Roy we're talking
about, it's probably trains.
And that's just about that for this week. Richard Whitbread will
be here next week.
Glenda
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