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There's angst and anger between Todd and Nick after the kiss on the sofa
last week. Nick steers clear of Todd with a sneering: "I've had to
disappoint better blokes than you in the past" and Sarah moves in with grandma
Brenda. After much tears and attempts at clearing up confusion, Sarah
moves back in with Todd although Nick's not happy about the arrangement and
lets them both know. With the seething tension, bubbling passion and
barely concealed anger hanging over her kids this week, Gail knows there's
something going on but isn't sure what. In the corner shop, Todd finds
a confidante in Sunita. I mention this only because there were gratuitous
shots of Tunnocks tea-cakes this week and I wanted to give them a mention.
It's Ken's 64th birthday and a card arrives via Ciaran from Peter, who's
still in communicado (I think it's somewhere in Spain). At the bookies,
Sally hands in her notice and the keys to Shelly, saying she's not running
the place for Peter while he's away. Shelly and Lucy decide to run
the place themselves and put Sally back in charge. Lucy reckons that
because she's his wife, she's entitled to 50% of everything Peter owns and
she helps herself and Shelly to the takings which they go out and spend.
Lucy's lapping this up but Shelly's unsure. When Ken finds out what's
going on, he tells Ciaran to tell Peter and soon a For Sale sign goes up at
the bookies.
Roy and Hayley reckon they've been more than patient with Tracy and think
the time's right for her to tell her parents she's pregnant. However,
Tracy has plans of her own and shocks the Croppers when they find out she's
started work as a Streetcars cab driver, and worse, they find her drinking
in the Rovers as she celebrates her divorce. Anyway, there's a showdown
in the sitting room when Roy and Hayley wait with Ken and Deirdre for Tracy
to return before letting the Barlow's know about the baby. There's
screaming and yelling and a line of dialogue at which I did a quick intake
of breath when Deirdre said to her daughter: "That kidney was wasted on you".
Tracy calls Roy a freak and Deirdre calls Tracy a monster and an evil little
cow, all part of a good healthy discussion then. When the crying
stops and the yelling ends, Deirdre and Ken tell Tracy they'll support her
because she's carrying their grandchild. Which means they're somewhat
surprised to hear Tracy, bless her isn't she kind, say that she plans
to give the baby to the Croppers when its born. Hormones being what they
are and making her clearly confused, she forgets to tell her parents that
in exchange for the baby they're paying her sixty million pounds and free
barm cakes for life.
Since Nick returned from Canada, he and Maria have done a good job of
pretending to themselves that they no longer care for each other.
So when Maria says she doesn't want anything to do with Nick, Candice takes
her chances and asks Nick out on a date. When Candice goes to the flat at
lunchtime to try on her outfit for the date (which couldn't have taken long
because there's never a lot to Candice's clothes), Nick follows her in there
to find out where she wants to go on the date that evening. Anyway, you can
probably guess what happens next. Maria comes in just as Nick and Candice
are coming out of the bedroom, after you know, and pretends not to be
jealous while Candice gloats and Nick makes a quick escape. It's just
like the teen Big Brother house really.
Dev dons a pair of specs and affects a mannerism which he hopes will get
him a date with the lady solicitor he's got his eye on, but which manages
only to make him look like an Asian Eric Morecambe. He didn't get the
date although he did get a few laughs in our house.
And finally this week, Norris loses his patience with Rosie, David, Craig
and a cheeky little monkey of their mate who play football in the street,
kicking the football against the Kabin walls. With his Pentel swinging, he
strides out on the cobbles and takes their ball away, not once but twice
and when they go in the shop to complain, he punctures it with scissors, right
in front of their eyes. Later in the Rovers, Tommy has a go at Norris
and tells him he wants a tenner for each ball. Norris, Rita and Emily pay
up and leave, muttering about kids and no manners these days and have you
seen the price of fish?
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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