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It’s Valentine’s day and Sophie sends a card to nosy Norris as a joke. But
it misfires – both badly and sadly. Sally signs the card, thinking it’s
from Sophie to Chesney and as she flourishes the Bic, she signs it ‘Hot
Lips’. Norris is over the moon and spends all day mooning by the cough drops
wondering who his Valentine could be. When Sally comes into the Kabin to
pay her paper bill (The Gazette, Grease Monkey Monthly for Kev, Pushy Housewives
for Sal) she leaves a signed cheque and Norris notices Hot Lips’ handwriting.
All of a quiver, he starts flirting with Sally, who tells Kev, who turns
Neanderthal and storms into the Kabin threatening to knock Norris into next
week if he doesn’t stop being free and easy with his bon-bons to his wife.
When Kev and Sally later joke about Norris chatting her up, Sophie realises
what’s happened and comes clean about the card. She’s marched to the Kabin
to apologise to Norris who’s crestfallen that he hasn’t got an admirer after
all.
After Jason called the council last week to report baby Holly being mistreated,
Eileen gets a visit from Shirley at the social. The social worker tells
Eileen there’s been a complaint and only after Eileen grizzling at Gail
on the Street for grassing her up to the council does Jason come clean and
admit it were him. He says he can’t cope, doesn’t want to cope, and as there’s
been no test done to prove that Holly is even his baby, why should he try?
He seems perfectly reasonable, if you ask me. But Eileen wants to keep the
baby and says she’ll look after her with help from Violet and Sean. She
even cooks up a plan with Clare to share jobs at Streetcars and child-mind
in their spare time. I love it when a plan comes together.
Fat Brenda from Levershulme, come on in, your time is up. It’s at least
the second time Fat Brenda’s been mentioned in Corrie. Will we ever see her
or will she remain a shady cab character along with Streetcars’ Big Al?
Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen Fat Brenda and Big Al in the same
place? At the same time? Inquiring minds what to know. Well, I do, anyroad.
At Roy’s Rolls, Becky tries again to make amends with Hayley who’s not
having any of it. Hayley’s been hurt badly and won’t let Becky get close
to her again. So when the café goes up in flames and Becky’s
carried out of the smoke by cabbie Lloyd, Roy and Hayley jump to conclusions
and reckon Becky set the place on fire out of spite. “You wretched, wretched
woman!” yells Roy to Becky when he sees his livelihood go up in flames.
And Hayley jumps in with: “You nasty, rotten, little cow” (which is as bad
as Hayley’s ever got). Despite Becky’s protestations, no one believes that
she had nowt to do with the fire and she’s sacked from Underworld and cast
out of the cobbles. So Hayley’s got some explaining to do when the fire
officer tells her the blaze was started by a fault with the deep fat fryer.
Hayley feels even more wracked with guilt with she finally opens the gift
that Becky’s been trying to foist off on her all week – curtains for the
Woody with an embroidered H and R on them. Until the flat and café
are ready to move back into, Roy puts a sign on the door “Closed Until Further
Notice” and Rita lets the Croppers move in with her. Meanwhile, next door,
Jodie Morton presses Jason and Bill - “Can they fix it? Probably, love, but
we’ll have to wait for the parts” - builders of the parish to crack
on with doing up her takeaway so she can capitalise on Roy’s closure to nick
all his customers. Roy dreams of reopening the caff as a French tea salon,
all croissants and Edith Piaf instead of barm cakes and Bez.
Fiz is upset when Chesney goes back to live with Cilla and Les, tempted
by chips and pies and a newly painted bedroom. Cilla taunts Fiz and tells
her if she wants a kid to look after she’d do well to have a baby of her
own. Kirk overhears and assumes Fiz wants to get pregnant so backs off when
she gets sexy on the sofa, telling her he’s not ready for babies, not yet.
But neither is Fiz, she’s just feeling alone with no direction in life, nothing
to aim for and nowhere to go. I love Fiz when she gets like this, kicking
out against life on the cobbles. She’s the only young ‘un that ever does.
“I’m not going back to that nasty little chicken” says Carla Connor of
sister-in-law Michelle who’s burned the Sunday roast she was cooking for
the Connor clan. Something that does put a smile on Carla’s tanfastic face
is when she gets a double order for her kids clothes from Trendy Tots.
But with Becky now sacked, she’s down to Kelly stitching the clobber all
alone.
In the corner shop, Dev interviews Molly for a job, she’s had enough
of working at the kennels and when a Rhodesian Ridgeback with the runs turns
her stomach she thinks of taking up Dev’s job offer instead. Amber takes
it into her own hands to interview Molly while Dev’s out of the shop and makes
it plain so doesn’t want another woman in the shop, afraid that Dev will
make babies with yet another of his shop keepers. Needless to say, when Dev
returns, Molly gets the job and Amber gets sacked.
Clare tells Ashley she’s going to volunteer as a phone counsellor for
Women at Crisis, a Manchester run charity “for women who are depressed, and
that”. She wants to practice on Ashley pretending to be a lady caller on
the baby intercom but it doesn’t quite work when Ashley won’t play along
at pretending to be someone called Miranda or Ruth who are depressed, and
that.
And best scene of the week was David Platt, done up to the nines and
reeking of Eau de Boy Band aftershave, tempting Tracy Barlow to give him
what he wants for telling lies to her solicitor that’ll keep Tracy out of
jail. Tracy assumes David wants cash and gets £100 from Steve after
lying that she needs cash to buy shoes for Amy. David takes the money, but
wants what else Tracy can offer and when the penny drops and she realises
he wants her body, she laughs in his face and tells him it ain’t gonna happen.
Oh, but Tracy, I think it soon will.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
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