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Roy and Hayley eventually spend the night together in the same
room (and the same bed!). The next morning at breakfast they're
discussing everything about the previous light - curtains, duvets,
sunlight coming through the window - everything except what they
really want to know "How was it for you" The Roy and
Hayley scenes are lovely, They really are, very subtle. Roy suggests
they go away for a long weekend so Hayley says she'll ask Mr Baldwin
for time off. Later in the Rovers, Mike lays into Roy about his
weekend away with Hayley, asking Roy if somewhere like Thailand
wouldn't more appropriate to take Hayley and calls her "a
freak". (By this time the lounge of the Royal Glen Hotel,
Blackpool, were up in arms!). Roy quietly suggests that Mike should
step outside and when he refuses, Roy throws a pint of beer in
Baldwin's face! (and a loud cheer went up from us all). Hayley
goes to see Mike in his office, to ask him, please, not to cause
a fuss, all she wants to do is live a normal life. But when Mike
makes remarks about her "having her wedding tackle cut off"
you know he's going to remain the bigoted little prat he always
was and nothing will ever change him. Roy and Hayley ask Gail
and Martin for supper again. They accept, and then Roy suggests
it should be a weekly thing, one week at the cafe, next week at
the Platt's place. Gail and Martin are less enthusiastic.
Jack and Vera are off on holiday to Tenerife. Jack doesn't
want to go, he tries to get Alec to make up an excuse why he's
not allowed out of the Rovers. Alec is curious, why wouldn't Jack
want to go on holiday with his missus? "Because our Vera
gets all frisky" he says, shuddering. Now Alec knows the
truth, he absolutely insists that Jack spend time with Vera, and
wishes Jack 2 weeks of connubial bliss. Steve tells Audrey that
he owns a thousand pounds worth of fixtures and fittings in the
salon, and wants his cash, now. Audrey, unsure what to do, asks
Fred's advice. Fred knows that Steve is up to no good and has
a quiet word with him. He gently reminds him that Audrey is on
the planning committee of the council and it Wouldn't do him any
good to go upsetting a member of the planning committee now, would
it, not when He's a builder. (A great little scene). Steve apologises
to Audrey and tells her not to worry about the money. Fred has
a moan to Audrey about not being her love interest. "Fred"
she says "You're my hero, my champion, and that's better
than being my husband, any day". (I love lines like that.)
Sally goes to pick up some clothes for the girls from the house
and Kevin isn't best pleased to see her. As she's upstairs packing
some clothes, Kev prowls around the dining room table in a strop.
By the time Sally comes downstairs, he's prowled himself into
a really bad strop and takes it out on her, throwing Sally on
to the chair. Sally breaks free and rings Rita to ask for help
before running out into the street, away from Kevin who seems
to have finally snapped and gone a bit mad. Anyway, Rita comes
out and asks Sally what on earth's the matter. Sally tells her
about Kevin throwing her down, and all Rita can do is more or
less say she deserves what she gets for leaving her kids. Ha'way!
I mean, no one said this to Kevin when he jumped into Natalie's
knickers, did they? What's this then, one rule for Kevin(it's
okay to have an affair and leave your kids) and one rule for Sally
(it's not)? Anyway, Sally tells Gail that Greg is wonderful, Greg
is kind, and Greg has £12,000 of her money. Concerned, Sally
tells Rita. Doncha just love gossip?
Gary decides he's going to have a bash at being a proper drummer
instead of just bashing the things to bits in the front room.
Off he goes to his audition where he's told to play a "standard
funk beat" which throws him completely - if it's not Purple
Haze he can't play it. And as for sixteenths, crotches, wotsists
and quavers, he's lost it. He hits the stick things up and down
a bit on the drums, realises he can't play for toffee and decides
to sell his drum kit.
Someone after a "standard funk beat" of his own is
Dobber. Now then, who's Dobber? - you may well ask. Well, Toyah
comes home from her holiday with the girls, announcing to Les
that she's met this lad on holiday who was really great like and
she can't wait to see him again. Les humours her, until she tells
him that this Dobber lad lives close by so she really will be
seeing him again soon. (Now I always thought a dobber was that
wooden stick thing you used in gardening, but as I found out in
Blackpool this weekend, apparently that's a dibber). Anyway, Dobber
seduces our young Toyah, ladies and gentlemen and she deserves
better, she really does. He's a bad `un alright. On the day she
arrives back from holiday he picks her up in his car and drives
her somewhere quiet. Our young girl Toyah becomes a woman in the
back seat of a rusty Ford Escort. Leanne, horrified to hear what's
happened, tells her sister to get the `morning after' pill from
the doctors quick-sharp like, which she does. In the cafe, Dobber
wants a free meal but the cafe is closing up, he demands a tenner
from the till instead, which Toyah steals for him.
Ken Barlow recognises Dobber in the cafe and warns Janice that
he's trouble. Toyah takes Dobber home to meet the folks. "Dobber?"
says Janice "You sound like a horse". "At least
I don't look like one!" he replies. Les throws him out. For
Toyah though, love is blind and first love is everything so I
think we'll be seeing young Dobber again. (I remember the first
lad I ever went out with - he'd pick me up in his customised "Starsky
and Hutch" striped car that had a musical horn which played
the same tune as the one from the "Dukes of Hazard".
It was quite exciting at the time).
This update's quite long so far, isn't it? Anyway, on with
the rest. Alma and the lovely Spider devise a plan to help their
friend, Curly. Spider says he'll have a word with Anne and convinces
her that Curly does in fact fancy Anne, that he loves her and
always has done but just didn't get around to saying it. Anne
believes him and says she wants to clear Curly's name too. She
says she knows who wrote those letters and who framed Curly -
it was Alma! Anne is clearly mad (and still too thin).
Natalie and Des, back from his brother's wedding, are all lovey
dovey (like you get after a wedding - must be all that free booze).
Anyway, this week saw Natalie move into Des' house, bringing with
her some personal things, a lamp and some womanly bits and pieces
to put around the place. A comfy sofa and some decent curtains
would've come in useful too.
And finally, Liz and Jim go out together for a romantic meal,
so they do. In the restaurant Liz is given the glad eye (I love
that expression) from this bloke in the corner. When Jim goes
out to the toilet, the bloke comes over to speak to Liz but she
turns him away, saying she's a happily married woman, thank you
very much. Jim sees Liz being chatted up by the stranger, loses
his temper and flies into a rage. Liz tells him he's just the
same person underneath it all, ruining everything he touches -
always did and always will. Well, that's him told then.
And that's that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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