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Sally spies the Weatherfield High headmaster sneaking his daughter into
posh Oakhill School when she drops off Rosie. He can't wriggle his way
out of this one but keeps on insisting there's no place for Sophie at his
school. Sally offers the promise of good old fashioned blackmail with
a story in the Gazette and the poor fella concedes to Mrs Webster's wishes.
She'd make a good mafia moll, would Sally, don't you think? It's
a role I quite fancy for myself to be honest. I can't watch 'Casino' without
thinking that Sharon Stone is acting a part I would have played in life had
the dice been thrown differently. Honestly. Well, now you know.
Phil the foot apologises to Gail afer the contretemps (I love that word)
he caused by the clumsy way in which he asked if he could delve into and
rummage around in her painfully emotional scarred life at the hands of a
murderer who tied her up and tried to drown her and her kids. Hey,
but it's a date and she hasn't had one of those since 1943 so Gail accepts.
New girl Molly settles in at the kennels as Maria puts her in charge and
Fiz isn't best pleased. It turns out that Fiz used to bully Molly
at school and now Molly's out for revenge which she gets by a) locking Fiz
in a kennel with a barking dog and b) making a cuppa tea for Kirk when he
returns from Cyprus. "She's pampering him" says Fiz. "He's not used
to that, it'll make his head explode". Molly's clearly out to
cause problems and starts by trying to split up Kirk and Fiz.
At the Weatherfield Arms, Liz meets Barry The Plumber. You know he's
Barry The Plumber because it says so on his t-shirt and I reckon we could
all take a leaf out of his book and wear something similar to announce who
and what we are: "Glenda The Weekly Updater" or "Stewart the slightly
neurotic tropical fish fancier". I spot a gap in the market, I really
do. Anyway, Liz has her head turned by the overweight,
sweaty bloke (that wasn't written on his t-shirt but it was just as easy
to discern) but has her hopes dashed of a quiet night in after hours when
Bev turns up in a state saying someone's followed her home from work.
Rita finds out that Norris has been offered a franchise, not a job, when
he leaves his contract behind in the Kabin and she reads it. Well, you would,
wouldn't you? I would. Go on, you would too. Well anyway, she did, and now
she knows and she tries not to gloat but Norris still pesters her to sell
him a share of the Kabin and Rita, quite rightly, still refuses. He
can be a nasty old shrew that Norris, he really can.
After she braved the great outdoors and made it all the way to the corner
shop last week, Shelley goes a bit further all the way to the church. She
makes a date with the vicar to marry Charlie in two weeks. Can you do that?
Can you just go and ask the vicar if he's got a window like that?
Don't these things need months, years, of planning, dieting, wishing and
hoping? (It's all Dusty Springfield's fault; I'm getting introspective).
Anyway, Charlie takes the news with a forced grin and strong drink.
Zak the psychotherapist fella tells Shelley that inviting Bev for a celebration
drink would be a good way to bury the hatchet between them although Bev
would, I'm sure, agree on a more appropriate, painful, place for it.
The worm starts turning though, you can see it in Shelley's eyes. When Charlie
touches her, she doesn't find it as comfortable as she once did, she's starting
to realise that things just aren't right and when he tells her that Bev offered
him money to disappear from Shelley's life, Shelley doesn't quite know what
to think. It might be a while yet before full consciousness raising
takes place and her transconfigurationism into Xena Princess Barmaid is
complete. But at least it's started.
Steve and Tracy spit at each other in court as they battle over Steve's
access to daughter Amy. The judge can't believe his ears and has to
hang on to his hair piece when he hears just what Tracy's done. Old wounds
are opened, the Croppers are covered and scores are settled. Steve gets
access and takes Amy out of Tracy's arms and off on a day out to the safari
park with grandmother Liz.
Audrey's frustrations with penny-pinching Keith come to a head after they
spend an afternoon at the cinema to get the pensioner's special rate and
then go off for a pizza on the early-bird menu for OAPs. Keith
makes no apology for the way he is and Audrey knows if she wants a relationship
with the fella, she'll have to accept it. But when she spies
a piglet running around his back garden because "the ham will see me and
Craig through the winter" he says, Audrey's wondering just what she's let
herself in for.
And finally this week, Danny and Leanne agree that what they've been doing
is wrong so they decide to knock it on the head. Which still
doesn't sound very right, but what do I know?
And that's just about that for this week.
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