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Guess who returned this week? Looking like he failed the audition
for an Aussie soap, a new character takes the place of Nick Tilsley
this week, who returns running into this mother's arm at Don Brennan's
funeral. His year in Canada (has it really been a year already?)
has made him taller, chunkier and irresistable to Toyah Battersby
who starts following him round like a lost puppy, much to Gail's
disdain. "He can keep away from that little madam an' all"
she tells Martin. Too late, Gail. Nick enrols at the local college
to study Physical Education, Toyah enrols at the college too to
take an 'urdressin course but really, she just wants to be with
Nick. She tries to get him to skip class to go into town with
her, but he refuses. Gail isn't at all pleased about his friendship
with the Battersby girl.
Guess who left this week? Convinced that Emily has a serious
drink problem, angry that she won't confess to pinning his medals
to this P.J.'s (Les Battersby did it on one of his mischevious
jaunts between the lofts), Percy decides to call it a day and
moves into Mayfield Court, the same place where Maude now lives.
With his belongings (and his budgie) in Ken's car, he says goodbye
to Emily with a polite handshake and a few words of advice to
"take more water with it" and off he goes. The old codger
has gone. As long as I can remember the Street has always had
an old codger, Albert Tatlock, Percy Sugden.. who will take his
place? A few more years, and it could be Ken Barlow!
So, Les Battersby is still up to his nuisance tricks. Roy offers
to help solve the mystery, and to find out if indeed there is
a spirit in the Street or not. Armed with scientific knowledge,
he lays down a tray of sand in Ken's, Emily's and the Battersbys'
houses and tells them to inspect the sand the next morning to
see if it has been disturbed. When Ken is asleep, Les gets into
Ken's house and using a small battery operated fan, he creates
circles in the sand, (I thought it looked like Pamela Anderson
had fallen over and landed boobs down into the sand). Roy is mystified
the next day when he sees the mysterious sand circles, he's at
a loss to explain it all. When Alec is asked in the Rovers where
he stands on the spirit issue, he replies "don't mind if
I do, I'll have a quick scotch".
Angie and Chris are finished, she tells Curly "I started
picking at the relationship and it sort of unravelled in front
of my eyes" (I love lines like that), and while she is a
bit depressed, Chris is straight round to see Sally with a bottle
of white wine in his hand. Unfortuantely for them both, Gail visits
Sally while Chris is there and he leaves, Sally tells Gail he
just popped round to see if there were any jobs that needed doing.
(I think he was particularly interested in testing the bed springs,
dear). Angie has a few bad days at work after she has to meet
a (male) client to sell her designs. The client wants Angie to
model the designs for her and then asks her to lunch a few days
later, where he once again tries to get her into her undies on
the pretence of looking at her designs! She isn't best pleased
when she goes back to the office and Mike wonders why she can't
sell the lingerie, and storms out after calling Mike a sexist
pig. "awright then darlin'" he replies, or something
similar anyway. Angie gets a bit Brahams in the Rovers and after
deciding she can no longer live with Des and suffer the lovey
dovey atmosphere between him and Samantha, she tells Samantha
the only sensible thing to do is for her to move in with Curly
and for Samantha to move in with Des. It's all a bit comical,
especially when Curly turns up and wonders what on earth is going
on in his house. He doesn't seem to mind Angie moving back in
though, but when she takes a look around at the same walls, the
same rooms, the same Curly she left behind many years ago, she
wonders what she's done.
Judy starts work in the Kabin with Rita, but things get a bit
noisy when baby Katie keeps on crying. Rita wonders if she's done
the right thing taking Judy (and the baby) on in the Kabin. She
questions Judy about Gary's relationship with Zoe and Judy spins
her yarn about Gary being the father of the baby and how she's
forgiven him for what he's done. Rita gets that wise old owl look
on her face and you know she doesn't believe a word of what Judy
has just told her.
And just what is Jon the airline pilot / tie salesman up to
now? Ken finally agrees to go along with Deirdre and John's story
that John was an airline pilot, got vestibular neuronitis (same
as me! fame at last!) and so took a land job in retail management.
They tell as many people as possible this new lie and people seem
to believe them, once more. But... just when it looks like things
are straightforward at last, Jon tells Deirdre he has to stay
overnight somewhere to manage another branch of the tie shop chain.
However, we see him sitting very cosily on a sofa with another
woman we assume to be his wife (ooh!), fondling a cuddly bunny,
which I assume is meant to let us know that he also has kids.
Deirdre - to believe one lie is unfortunate. To believe two is
simply careless.
And that's all for this week.
Glenda :-)
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