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The Street went a bit daft this week. I mean, daft as in silly,
unbelievable, laughable. It was the first time I can remember
watching the Street, shaking my head from side to side, tutting.
What a pile of rubbish the Crystal of Nirab storyline is. Anyway,
I suppose I'd better explain. Ruth and Ben come to dinner again
at Zoe and Ashley's house and they're getting really pally with
Zoe, she feels loved and accepted by the gruesome twosome. Off
she goes ice-skating with them and the next thing you know, Zoe
has been offered a job by Ruth. Anyway, at the 'office' where
Zoe is now working, Ruth and Ben get her involved in the "foundation",
giving Zoe her very own Crystal of Nirab to wear around her neck
and warn her not to have fleshly contact with people (Ashley)
outside of the foundation. Ruth takes Zoe outdoors, selling crystals
door to door to bored housewives with a spare fiver in the back
of their purse. Ben tells Zoe that when they think she's strong
enough, they'll show her the inner sanctum (whatever that is).
It's all a bit naff and doesn't sit well in my favourite soap.
Next!
The Jim / Liz / Michael saga continued this week (unfortunately).
I wish she'd just pack her bags and leave, but oh no, she's still
hanging around. Michael asks her to go to Milton Keynes with him
(go Liz, go!) but she feels a certain duty towards Jim (no Liz,
just go!). Deirdre gets to act as the shoulder to cry on again
this week, and little else. Jim warns Liz that if she goes off
with Michael, he'll put in a formal complaint to Michael's employers
saying he took advantage of the situation but this doesn't deter
Liz or Michael.
Nick signs up as a model for the art class at college and yes,
it's cringe making time when we get to see him in the noddy -
well, sort of, more or less. He's keeping quiet about his new
job at college, telling Leanne that he's just there doing a few
odd jobs "All I do is get the equipment out and put it away
again" he says.
Greg is furious with Sally when he questions her about the
Rubens contract and she admits she told Gail in the cafe about
it. He knows that's the only way that Baldwin could have found
out about the contract and now he's ruining every chance for Greg
to make a success of his own company. Sally is in tears, begging
Greg to calm down, and after a few dreary minutes of Sally whimpering
"Oh, Greg" and then Greg answering with a menacing "Shaddup",
he takes a swipe at her and she falls to the fall, crying, her
lip burst open and bloody. Greg takes advice from his friend,
the solicitor, who advises him to patch things up with Sally otherwise
he'll be up the creek without Sally's money paddle. So, Greg returns
to Sally with a bunch of flowers and a made up tale about how
his father used to hit him as a kid. The lies make Sally warm
to Greg, when she recounts how her father used to hit her mother
when she was little, and they hug and she says she'll give him
another chance.
Des knows there's something fishy going on with Natalie's son
and when Tony asks to borrow £1,000 from Des, the answer
is a definite 'no'. Des and Nat go to the Rovers and while they're
out, three lads come looking for Tony, and when they find him
in the house, give him a good beating up when he can't pay his
debt for the drugs. Anyway, when Nat and Des return to find Tony
lying on the floor, Nat assumes Tony has fought off burglars.
He gets rushed to hospital in an ambulance but discharges himself
the next day. Des comes home the next day to find Tony digging
something in the garden, he's trying to bury the drugs but Des
unearths them and flushes them away down the kitchen sink as Tony
cries "No, Des! No!". Des tells Tony he doesn't want
him around, and that he'll call the police if he stays, so later
in the Rovers, Tony tells his mum he's leaving to go to London.
And finally, my favourite storyline of the week. Rita and Alec
have an "official opening" of the doorway connecting
their two flats. Rita performs the opening ceremony, cutting the
blue ribbon that Alec has festooned all over it and they celebrate
with a bottle of champagne and Rita cooks dinner (looking resplendent
in her black sequinned shoulder padded jumper). Over dinner, Alec
is fumbling with the top of a second champagne bottle and when
Rita asks him to stay the night, he almost pops it open to overflow.
Next day in the Rovers, Alec pours himself a glass of stout to
keep his energy level up, he thinks he's going to need it when
Rita tells him she wants another early night. However, he's disappointed
when she says she wants to be alone with a steamy book and will
be fastening the lock on her side of the door that evening.
Glenda :-)
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