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I'm either going slowly demented and soft in my (fast approaching)
middle age or else the acting on the Street this week has been
of a particularly high standard. A most poignant and emotional
scene this week when Mavis announced to Rita that she wants to
leave the Kabin and leave the Street, to head for the hills in
the Lake District to open a Bed and Breakfast. Mavis cried, Rita
cried, I cried - it was very, very sad. Rita didn't try to change
Mavis' mind about leaving, in fact, she later told Mavis that
she would come to the Lakes with her to run the B&B side by
side, two old dears pottering over the fried breakfasts together.
When Alec finds out about Rita's plans, he rushes into the Kabin
and urges her to change her mind, convinced that Mavis would drive
her to distraction after the first week.
Poor Deirdre - she obviously needs new specs because the rose
tints around the ones she's wearing now are obstructing her ability
to see clearly. She takes Liz to see the new house, and they both
ogle at it from the outside. Just as they leave, a taxi pulls
up at the house carrying an airline pilot, to be greeted by his
wife and children who come rushing out of the house to meet him.
Very odd, eh? Then, we see the pilot handing Jon the house keys
telling him to look after the house while he's away up in the
blue yonder and while his wife stays with her mother. Then Jon
writes a brief note and sticks it on the front door. Curiouser
and curiouser... Deidre packs up her belongings in boxes, ready
to move out of Weatherfield (and Angie and Chris have decided
to live together and pack up all of their belongings to move into
the flat when Deirdre moves out). Jon drives Deirdre to 'his'
house, but oh! shock horror! there's a note on the door, left
by Jon's ex-wife stating that she has taken posession of the house
and has changed all the locks, and why! Jon's key doesn't fit
the front door. Just what is this bloke up to? So, Deirdre moves
back into the flat, upset of course, and tells Jon he can move
in with her until things are sorted out. Chris and Angie are upset
that they can't move in together, and rather than move back into
Des' house, Chris roughs it by sleeping in the garage. Meanwhile,
Ken is moaning to Deirdre that now he's retired he's got time
on his hands he doesn't know what to do with. Deirdre asks him
if he'd like to work as a courier for her travel agency, picking
up and collecting from the airport, and Ken readily accepts anything
that will get him out of the house and away from Richard and Judy
on daytime TV. Well, I think you can probably guess what will
happen next. Ken of course will spot Jon at Tie n Fly in the airport
and will have a bit of a waffle about whether or not to tell Deirdre
the awful truth.
A cheer went up from my side of the sofa this week when Natalie
was sacked from the Rovers. She didn't exactly hit it off with
Betty and Vera, so Vera tells Jack he has to fire her. Of course,
she walks out on him as he's trying to sack her, made more difficult
for Jack as he had to cover the ketchup stains on his shirt (sprayed
on courtesy of Mrs. Duckworth) with a bar tray as he sacked her.
This terrible threesome in the Rovers - Jack, Vera and Alec are
all doing their best to wind each other up it seems, all of them
want responsibility, none of them want blame. Vera has signed
up for cookery lessons so that she can offer a more varied menu
in the Rovers, and it seems that Mavis may have also signed up
for the same course too. This should be ripe for a few laughs
as the two of them grapple with the zabaglione.
Zoe finally leaves the Mallets home after Gary signs as Katie's
father on the birth certificate. Instead of officially calling
the baby Katie, Zoe writes "Shannon Jade" in the register
and refers to the baby as Shannon instead of Katie whenever she
can. She cries when she has to leave, and doesn't do a runner
with the money and the baby like we all expected her to do, even
after Leanne (or was it Toyah?) Battersby told her to do. Audrey
is spreading gossip again that Gary is the father of Katie, so
Judy tells Audrey, in strictest confidence, of course, that Gary
is the real father. Judy knows this was the best way for the news
to be spread and when all the excitement has settled down, they
can get on with being a real family. Oh no they can't! Oh yes
they can! Oh no they ... sorry, it's too early for pantomime just
yet isn't it?
Natalie receives a one-off final payment from her husband,
and tells Kevin she's going to pay for them both to go away on
holiday to Gran Canaria (or as Sally said "the Canurries".)
When Kevin tells Sally he won't be around for a while, she has
a good go at him about finance and money for the girls. When she
finds out that Chris is sleeping rough in the garage, she tells
him he can stay on the couch in her house, which he accepts. His
first night there finds them both sipping (non passionate white)
wine together which puts a smile on Sally's face and I'm sure
it won't be too long before the pair of them move on up to rosé,
and then, perhaps even, the strong stuff! RED WINE! I can just
see them both sharing a large bowl of Heinz Spaghetti in Sally's
little wicker dining room, in scenes reminiscent from 'Lady and
the Tramp'.
Angie asks Samantha if everything is OK with her and Des, as
Des seems "bothered" about something. Samantha takes
this to mean that Des has been confiding in Angie, and storms
round to see him to give him an earful about not repeating anything
she says to him in confidence. Anyway, they eventually make up
and are back on track.
And I think that's just about that for this week - Glenda
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