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The fall out from Martin and Sally's relationship hits the
street this week. Rosie and David have a punch up and Gail and
Sally have a severe falling out. Audrey sticks her oar in, as
is her wont: "You're like love struck teenagers playing musical
chairs". Kevin can't handle it, gets drunk, has a fight with
Martin in the Rovers and then stumbles to Molly's place for a
shoulder to cry on but even she's not that desperate for friends
like him and throws him out: "..and tek yer booze and yer
self pity with yer!". Gail has a quiet word with Kev in the
Rovers, telling him he's in danger of having his access to the
girls denied, if he's not careful. There was a touching scene
between mother and son as David and Gail had a heart to heart,
a lovely scene indeed as David tries to come to terms with the
changes around him. But for the first time ever, I sat and watched
Corrie this week with my fingers in my ears going "tra la
la, tra la la" at loud volume. It was horrible, it really
was. There was Martin at work, all clinical in his green gown,
interrupted by Sally who'd popped in to see him, telling him she
wasn't feeling too grand. "It's my heart doc, it keeps pounding"
(tra la la, tra la la) "And I have a yearning deep inside"
(tra la la bloody la). Yuck.
Mrs MacDonald isn't happy with the start of married life, living
in the flat with her husband his business partner. She's hoping
if she nags long and hard enough, Steve will buy her the quayside
apartment she thinks she deserves. But it's Anthony's old flat
they end up moving into, much to Rita's dismay. (Oh no.. Boro
are losing 1-0). Anyway, there's loud music and parties chez MacDonald
which annoy Rita something rotten. While Steve expresses his concern,
Karen couldn't give a stuff about the noise, about the flat, about
Rita. She wants to live in that flat on the quayside, or nothing.
Rita tells Norris about the problems she's having with her neighbours
but that's nothing to what Norris has to contend with, oh no,
living next door to Blanche Hunt: "She's at it every night
with Des O'Connor."
Cue to the bookmakers, you remember, that place where Sean
Skinner and Des Barnes used to work. Well, the set has been given
a fresh coat of paint and we're in there watching Peter get told
off by his boss for having an extra 15 minutes at lunchtime. But
the bookies is up for sale (now there's a coincidence) and Peter
asks Ken if he'll loan him the money to invest in the place. Ken
thinks about it but has to ask Deirdre who gives the thumbs down
when Ken tells her they'd have to put their house up as collateral.
Meanwhile Peter and Shelley become an item, i.e. they're shagging.
Talking about shagging, Sam and Toyah finally get it together
when she tells him she's ready for lurve. There's just one problem
- Sam's an old romantic and wants to be with Toyah every night,
every day. He tells Toyah it's her he needs to chase the blues
away. It must be love, love, love but Toyah thinks it's madness.
Curly gets promoted to Area Manager at work and although he's
chuffed to little bits, Emma is less happy. What with his council
work and extra responsibily at Freshco, she's concerned about
life when the baby arrives, especially as they'd already agreed
he would give up his job and she would return to hers. Nesting,
Emma gets more help with the decorating from Charli, who confides
to Emma that she's an adopted child. I'm sorry but Charli could
have told Emma she was really Lord Lucan and it wouldn't have
made her any more interesting to me.
Fiz continues to chat up Tyrone and the poor lad's confused.
Jack tells him to sample all the sweets in the sweetshop while
he's young (but maybe lay off the ones that rot your teeth and
turn your tongue blue). Maria's annoyed and quite jealous and
tries to fix Fiz up with Kirk.
Ashley goes to hospital for more tests on his doodah and finally
it seems that a problem has been identified. With private health
insurance, he's whipped in the next day for his op and Maxine
buy him silk jim-jams while he recovers. "We can have babies"
she whines, in an annoying Posh Spice kind of way, "Lots
and lots of babies". In the Rovers after hours, Maxine celebrates
with Edna, Janice, Sunita and a bottle of champagne before stumbling
home and bumping into doctor Matt. After spraying champagne in
each other's faces, the pair of them end up wrestling on the carpet
with tongues and limbs wrapped round each other. A strange way
to look for the cork, but there you go.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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