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Roy wants to put a committee together to organise a street
party for the (if I hear this word one more time I'll scream)
Millennium. However, Audrey is dismissive at what she sees as
competition against the official council party. Not many residents
are interested in Roy's plans and even he's having doubts about
raising enough money to get the thing organised. Emily comes up
with a corker though - a sponsored silence - by Les Battersby!
Even I'd pay money to see that. A great scene in the Rovers this
week when Leanne embarrasses Roy into buying a round of drinks
for everyone in the bar. A hesitant Roy agrees while Hayley quickly
whispers something in his ear. "Ah yes", he says, "..just
have to nip home for my purse first".
Mike and Linda go out to a business dinner and Linda takes
her cleavage for an outing to the Rovers first and isn't deterred
when Janice comments: "You can dress a brick in fancy paper,
but it's still a brick". Anyway, on the way back from the
dinner, Mike gets pulled over by the police and breathylysed.
He's over the limit and ends up accompanying the officer down
to the station to spend some time in the cells while Linda gets
a taxi back to the flat. He's up in court the next day, confident
he'll get the car straight back but instead, gets a one year ban
and a 500 fine and is not best pleased, as you can well imagine,
and neither is Linda - how's she going to get to work now? (Watch
out this week for Linda's wonderful 'Supercow' t-shirt). Mike
hits on an idea and recruits Mark to be his personal chauffeur.
It's an idea that appeals to Mark once Mike tells him he can have
the car to himself on an evening. With that in mind, he drops
Linda off at the Rovers, picks up Leanne for a night out and takes
her back to the flat. Linda arrives back to find Mark and Leanne
in the nuddy in his bedroom and threatens to tell Mike.
Sharon and Ian leave the Street this week but not without wounding
Rita even more than they've already done. Ian calls Rita "a
sad old lady who tried to buy Sharon" (ouch!) while Sharon
delivers the final parting shot in a tearful farewell: "You're
still my mum to me", she says to a very 'try to be cool and
don't let the little toe-rags know how upset you are' Rita. I
think I boo'ed at the screen at this point, asking Sharon if she
thought it normal to diddle her old mum out of 45 grand, but I
don't think she heard. She's gone now anyway and taken that 'orrible
Ian with her. At least she had the decency to cry.
Les is back in court early in the New Year on charges of making
false benefit declarations. He asks Janice if there's any of the
neighbours would give him a character reference. After Janice
reels off all the ones he's upset in the past, he quickly realises
there's little chance of that, then. The Freshco team go on an
outward bound type of weekend, you know the sort of thing I mean.
All rain and wellies, bad food and even worse beer, hard bunk-beds
and team building skills. Not my cup of tea at all, and clearly
not Fred's either. So, stuck out on the moors, we have team leader
Curly, young Ashley, Fred, Ken, Nita and the fragrant Alma. Needless
to say, the Weatherfield team don't win anything, come last in
everything and get woken up at 1.30am and dumped on the moors
by organiser, Jock McFascist (name changed to protect the innocent),
because, well, because he's in charge and he can do what he likes.
And what he likes is dumping people on the moors at 1.30am. The
team find their way back, eventually, but not until they fall
out with Fred, who falls and sprains something and eats all the
chocolate rations. It's only Nita who gets an award at the end
of the weekend, for her 'individual skills'. Jock McFascist's
nephew, Nephew McFascist, aka James something or other and heir
to the Freshco fortune, takes Nita out for a drink to discuss
her... er... individual skills. Nita, realising her hard work
at Freshco's and ambition for the future might finally come to
fruition, is all eyeballs and big smiles for the boy wonder.
Over at the Platt place, Sally has been invited for dinner
and turns up with a bottle of plonk, something white, cheap and
nasty - just like Danny, who also turns up. Anyway, they're sitting
down to eat with Gail, but Martin's late. When he does arrive,
Gail gives him a bit grief over not being on time for his guests
but isn't mollified when he tells her he had to stay late at work
to deal with the victims of a car crash. She tells him she'd already
called the hospital and they'd said he was off duty. Well, they
have a bit of a falling out and then make up again, which was
nice, only to sit in the Rovers later like a couple of stuffed
sprouts with Martin pulling grim faces over the thought of spending
the (I thought I said if I heard this word again I'd scream?)
Millennium night on the Street.
Joy of joys. Blanche has started work in the Kabin. She's only
been there 5 minutes, purely just to help out, you understand,
but already, she's managed to upset Rita and most of the customers.
"Keep your hands where we can see them!" she tells a
spotty 15 year old looking at the computer magazines. She's got
plans, has Blanche, to help Rita run the Kabin, but Rita's already
wondering if she's done the right thing by hiring Blanche.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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