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The major storyline this week has been Fiona's pregnancy and
all the trouble it seems to be causing. PC Alan gets suspicious
when he starts to wonder if he really is the father of Fiona's
child. He puts two and two together, ends up with 27, and fingers
Steve McDonald for the crime, managing to get him locked up overnight
in prison on trumped up charges as his punishment. Naturally,
Steve is furious and frustrated at getting locked up when he's
done nothing wrong, and it's only when Alan comes into the prison
cell that Steve realises Alan was behind him getting locked up,
and he figures out that Alan thinks that it was he who got Fiona
in the pudding club. Anyway, when he gets released, Steve stands
up to Alan in the Street but soon ends up on the ground inspecting
the sole of a policeman's shoe with his nose, which leaves a definite
impression on his face and messes his hair up a bit. Jim is furious
when he finds out that Alan beat Steve up, and wants to rip him
from limb to limb, but Steve tells him to leave him alone, he's
defeated and starts thinking about moving away from the Street
altogether. Meanwhile, Fiona takes Alan's suspicions to heart
and wonders if the baby's father could indeed to Jim and asks
him if it could be possible. Jim tells Fiona he's had the snip,
so he has, so there's no worries there, so there isn't, but Fiona
wants Jim to have a test to make sure he hasn't become un-snipped
lately. We see Jim on the phone to the snipping clinic, they tell
him they'll confirm their telephone call with a letter (which
I'm sure will be left lying around chez McDonald ready for Steve
to read in a later episode). Jim is still incensed with Alan and
wants to get his own back on him without beating him up. He goes
to see Fiona, and tells her that he is indeed fertile and reckons
he could be the baby's father, so he could. I reckon that the
clinic told Jim that he was unable to father a child, but he's
told Fiona he is fertile as a way of getting back at Alan. Confused?
Me too. Atishoo.
Fred and Maureen are married this week, after Fred buys Mavis'
house for £47,000 and Mavis reluctantly agrees to the sale,
moving in with Rita until they move to the Lake District. Maude
isn't best pleased about the wedding arrangements, but Maureen
is convinced that Fred will look after them both. So, she's a
little disappointed and more than a little worried about her mother
when Fred tells her that he expects her mother to live in her
own house, and that he bought Mavis' house for the two of them
only. It's a lovely wedding ceremony, which even brings a smile
to Maude's face and manages to almost change her opinion of Fred,
when the barbershop quartet saunter in singing "If you were
the only girl in the world". During the wedding ceremony,
it transpires that Fred's middle name is Handel (after the composer)
which gets a titter from Liz and Deirdre. Fred tells Maxine that
Ashley also has a middle name after a composer and they spend
a while trying to guess what it is while Ashley looks embarrassed
that Fred has given away his secret. When the wedding party is
having drinks in the Rovers, Ida Clough wangles a free drink for
her cronies from Fred. "What would you like to drink girls?"
asks Jack "sweet or dry?" "Whatever you think is
more suitable for our character" coos Ida. "Rough"
says Jack.
Samantha's husband goes back to where he came from after Sam
says she's staying with Des. Ritchie tells Sam that he'll never
divorce her, and then storms off along the cobbles. Sam and Des
go off on a boating holiday together, Sam tells Angie she hopes
it will bring them closer together, even Curly wishes them both
well (quite a sad scene).
And what about Sally this week!! Kev and Natalie send a postcard
from the Canurries which makes Sally see red. With the girls off
on a day to Blackpool with Bill, Chris asks Sally if she wants
to go shopping, and she agrees. First, Chris has to feed Natalie's
cat at her house and Sally goes along with him, sitting outside
in the van before her curiosity gets the better of her and she's
in the house, looking around at the place where her husband is
living. She wanders up to the bedroom and is hurt to see a photo
of Kevin on Natalie's side of the bed. She then goes into the
bathroom, and sweet little Sally writes the word "whore"
on the bathroom mirror, empties all of Natalie's bubble baths
into the sink and leaves the taps running. She confesses to Chris
when they arrive back home, and Chris dashes back to Natalie's
house to clean up most of the mess before Kev and Natalie arrive
home from their holiday. Just as they walk in the door, Chris
tells them it looks like they've had a burst pipe and they should
call a plumber - they do, but the plumber can't find a leak at
all. It's only when Natalie is taking a bath later, in the steamy
heat of the bathroom, the word "whore" on the mirror
becomes visible. Natalie knows who flooded her house, and she's
out for revenge. Kevin can't believe Sally is responsible for
the flood but Sally admits to what she has done. In the Rovers,
Natalie and Sally have words, and Natalie follows Sally out onto
the street where a crowd gathers to hear them argue, and then
to watch them wrestle around on the ground, pulling each other's
hair out, before Kevin and Chris pull them apart. As all of this
is going on, the barbershop quartet sing "there's no place
like home!".
In the cookery class this week, Vera and Mavis are taught how
to make yorkshire puddings. Now, don't get me wrong, I know Mavis
and Vera have to learn how to cater for tens of people each lunchtime
- but come on - yorkshire puddings? Any northern woman worth her
salt can rattle up a dozen yorkshire pudding beauties in a heartbeat,
it's something we learned to during the adverts while waiting
for "Watch with Mother" to come on the telly.
Rita catches Alec in a gentle mood behind the bar of the Rovers,
and wonders if he wasn't about to go down on one knee and pop
the question to her last week when they drove off to the Lake
District. Alec just tells her that if he ever got down on one
knee, he'd never get up again, but there was a certain twinkle
in his eye which hinted at more to come, I hope.
Well, that's about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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