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Gail's the talk of the wash-house after she threw Phil the foot fella out and Eileen's face lights up as the gossip reaches her end of the Street. Until, that is, she hears that Phil threatened Gail's son and then Ma Grimshaw's hearty bosom heaves in maternal solidarity with that of Mrs Platt. Gail tells Audrey she's had her fill of fellas - and the male populace of Greater Manchester breathed a collective sigh of relief.
After Ronnie flirted with Charlie last week, Steve starts to wonder what's going on between the pair of them when he catches Charlie stroking Ronnie's hair in the street. Well, I think he was stroking it, either that or his fingers had become stuck in her hairspray. Steve starts threatening Charlie to lay off Ronnie's flicked-up bits but soon backs down when Charlie's inner psycho threatens to stick the nut on Steve who goes pop-eyed in his own defence, much like my brother's gerbil did once when it got stuck behind our mam's fridge. Not one to miss a fracas or a fight on the Street, Tracy comes out to find out what's going on and Ronnie lies that Charlie's the one who's been flirting with her. Tracy drags builder-boy home and throws things at him before crying a bit while Steve takes Ronnie to task and asks her just what she's playing at. "They were smug, I was bored" she says by way of explanation for trying to mess up four (already pretty much screwed up) lives.
Muddled Mike does a lot of running away this week. First he runs off from Deirdre after she takes him for an afternoon in town and the whole of the street are out looking for him as he calmly sits and plays draughts with Chesney at the Battersby-Brown's as Mike waits for Bet Lynch to return. Then he does a runner from Leanne in the flat, heads out into the pouring rain to find Adam, the one son he reckons who loves him, only to end up on the doorstep of the one who ran off with his missus. Yes, Mark Redman returned to our screens when he opened his front door to find a confused and shrivelled old man at his front door, claiming to be his old dad. Mike tries to throw Mark out of his own home and then does a runner from him too, back out into the torrential rain as Mark rings the Rovers back on the Street. Jamie and Frankie zoom there in the van to pick up Mike from a park bench where he's sitting in torrential rain and a dressing gown, drowning his sorrows with a bottle of scotch and a handful of pills. Jamie takes the pills from him and gets him back home. In a fraught week that's leading up to Mike's death this coming Friday, the men have been in tears and the women turned to drink but Blanche had the best line when commenting on it all: "I bet Deirdre's glad she picked Ken, now"
Norris decides to hold a party in Rita's flat, or as he puts it - a soiree in his bijou pied-a-terre, after repainting the walls in a post-modern beige. The guests arrive with a heavy heart and Blanche won't eat the food because it's been prepared by ".. men's fingers" and when the party turns out to be as dull as Norris' pullover, they troop out one by one to the strains of Englebert Humperdinck singing 'There Goes My Everything'.
Sean's lonely and upset and pretends he's met this really great bloke but ends up breaking down in tears (see, they were all at it this week) when he can't keep up the pretence any longer. He confides all to Jamie and asks why he can't find a decent fella of his own. Jamie tells him: "If I was on your bus, I'd be sat in the seat right next to you".
Chesney starts asking Cilla the one question she can't answer, he wants to know who his real dad was. "We was just like ships that passed in the night" she said. Are you thinking oil-tankers? I know I was. Anyway, Chesney decides he wants Les to adopt him so they get the hoover out and the Social Worker in and Les lies when she asks him if he's got a criminal record. "Of course he has, he's a Status Quo fan" says Cilla but Les has done his chances of adopting Chesney no good at all by lying from the start.
And finally this week, Vernon auditions for a new singer for his Rock Rhythm Rascals. The first one's too young, then next one's menopausal and so Liz decides to have a go herself and sings a passable rendition of 'Fever'. Vernon's quite impressed and tells her to ease up on the fags to give her voice a chance. Just when it looks like Liz might get the job as singer with the band, in walks Michelle (aka Kym Marsh from Hear'Say) and after she's belted out her number, Vernon wordlessly tells Liz she's not in the band as he hands her back her packet of fags.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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