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Sophie and Chesney set off for big school this week but Sally gets a rude
awakening when Sophie's sent home as there isn't a place for her at
Weatherfield High. The Websters can't afford to send her to posh
Oakhill along with her sister, which is okay by Sophie as she didn't
want to go there anyway. But it's not such good news for Sally and
Kev when the only option for their daughter is a place at Paddington High
- school for the depraved, brave and/or criminally insane. Sally
gives a right ear-bashing to Weatherfield High headmaster Mr Lewis but
as the two of them have crossed swords before with cross words, he
doesn't take too kindly to helping her out. He tells her the school's
full - Sally's only option is to teach her daughter at home. But
after the first day of home teaching, with only one sentence written
in her notebook between watching telly and painting her toenails,
Sally knows she has to sort something suitable for Sophie.
Kev celebrated his 40th birthday in the Rovers this week with drinks with
the lads - Tyrone, Nathan, Martin, Ashley and er, Emily, Norris and
Rita. Jamie's mum Carole has turned up on the street again and after
helping herself to Mike's scotch in his office, she helps herself to
a free drink from any of the lads daft or drunk enough to buy one.
She gets comfy sitting on Nathan's knee just as Jamie walks into the
pub to see his mother muscling in on the muscly mechanic: "I was
Miss Bikini 1977, you know", she tells him. Nathan spends the
night on Kev's sofa after their heavy drinking session and young Rosie
develops a crush on the fella in the front room. Nathan spends
another night on the sofa after his girlfriend turns up to tell him he's
dumped and he has nowhere to stay after Tracy dumps him too. But
it doesn't take long for Tracy to take him back and the two of them
have lunch in the Rovers while desperate Deirdre wonders what to do
with Amy as she's due back at work - and crikey o'riley they have the
auditors in - and they go through everything, you know. Tracy
ignores her mother's calls to her mobile and so Deirdre calls Steve
who goes to pick up his daughter just as Tracy storms in and grabs
Amy out of his hands.
Guess who Claire had in the back of her cab this week? First she
picks up a cab fare called Andrew, a gardener of some passion who tells
her of his dream to create a garden of tranquillity on the red rec.
Claire rounds up a group of willing volunteers to help clear the site
(Emily and Ashley) and another group turn up just to ogle hunky Andrew (Janice,
the twins, Sean). Claire and Janice argue at the site over work to
be done and there's lots of mud-slinging, literally, and everyone's covered
in clarts until Emily raises her voice and her crutches into the air to quell
the affray. From such violent beginnings, the garden of tranquillity
is born and Sean and Andrew disappear together into the sunset. Next
thing you know, Claire's cab fare is a local big cheese who wants to set
up an account for his clubs and pubs with Streetcars. As Steve's away
helping Deirdre with Amy, new partner Lloyd does the business and gets
them the deal.
Norris gets an interview with stationery wholesaler Ream Team but lies
on his CV that he's only 46. Rita's quite surprised and not too pleased
when he tells her Ream Team want him on board and have offered him a job.
What she doesn't know yet is that it's a not a job he's been offered - it's
a paper caper franchise who want fifteen thousand pounds from him first before
he gets to shuffle stationery. Norris tells the girls in the Rovers
that his new firm is full of "thrusting young Turks" which makes Blanche
wonder what they want with Norris, "a rusting old berk".
Gail gets dolled up for her date with Phil the foot. Off they trot for
a pizza in the precinct where he asks her a question she wasn't expecting.
When he's not feeling feet, Phil's a student of criminology and is researching
the experiences of victims of crimes for his dissertation. When he
asks Gail if he can use her experience with Richard Hillman as a case study,
she stands up and walks out. "If Eileen Grimshaw wants him, she can
have him" says Gail to mum Audrey, with more than a whiff of disappointment.
With Zak's help, Shelley makes a trip outdoors all the way to Charlie's
yard taking him sandwiches for lunch. It's one huge step for Shelly, one
giant leap for sandwiches with Zak guiding her every step. She bumps
into Bev on the way, no problem, she deals with it. There were barking
dogs in the street, not a problem, she walks past them. But when she
gives the lunch to Charlie his only comment is that he doesn't like brown
bread. Zak witnesses what happens as Shelley gets into a state, he
knows it's Charlie to blame for the way she is. Shelley berates herself
for not having the right bread so she takes herself to the corner shop: "I'm
going to see Sunita! I'm going to walk into that shop, look her right in
the eye and order some bread!" says a determined, deranged Shelley.
When she does get to the shop, sans Zak this time, Sunita and Shelley dissolve
in tears in the back room over a brew when Shelley finds out that her best
friend's expecting and that no one had told her.
When they're ready to go, most characters leave the street in a taxi.
The unlucky ones leave in a hearse. Some go on the bus, some go with
a smile. Martin looks like he'll cluck off in a chicken outfit after
he gets to play the part of Weatherfield County mascot Bernard.
And finally this week, Diggory Compton's daughter Molly turned up and
hey, as luck would have it, she's a master of canine control so Maria puts
her in charge at the kennels, relegating Fiz to the bottom of the pack.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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