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Hayley starts at the factory as a seamstress and she's a little
nervous about meeting the girls there, so she takes in a large
bag of humbugs to share with her workmates. Hayley is so quick
at her work that she has the other girls wondering what she's
up to. Ida Clough is loudest in voicing her mistrust at Hayley,
wondering if she's a spy for Baldwin. Hayley soon wins them over
after offering to do the other girls' work for them, and feels
she's getting on okay with them, fielding questions from them
in the Rovers about Roy. When one of the girls tells her that
she thinks Roy is weird, Hayley defends him immediately. "Roy
is lovely!" she says, and heads up and down the country nodded
in agreement. Roy makes Hayley a packed lunch for her first day
but she goes to the Rovers with the girls instead, and Roy is
a little nervous about making sure that Hayley fits in at the
factory. He could just be concerned for her welfare of course,
but perhaps he's concerned that she doesn't reveal her past now
that the two of them are beginning to be seen as a couple.
Alec plucks up the courage to speak to Rita, and confides to
her that he loves her and asks if he can marry her. This is such
a sweet scene, Roy Barraclough (Alec) has tears in his eyes and
it was just a wonderful scene. I wanted so much for Rita to just
accept his proposal and for them both to live happy ever after,
but instead, Rita turns to him and says "Marriage is not
just about love.. " then she paused and I actually said aloud
(as I do, sometimes) "It's about trust". "It's
about trust" continued Rita. "And I don't trust a single
bone in your body." Alec leaves, crestfallen to say the least.
Anyway, he goes back to see Rita some days later and they have
a nice chat, with both of them agreeing to leave their friendship
as it is at the moment but if anything should happen, well, que
sera and all that. However, the next day, Rita can't remember
saying anything about this and is annoyed with Alec for telling
Ken and Leanne that he and Rita are "an item". Rita
starts having some problems trying to remember who's said what
to her, why and when. The episode with the carbon monoxide poisoning
seems to have done some lasting damage. She ends this week sobbing
in Alec's arms, terrified that she is losing her mind.
Greg and Sally. Groan. I'm not even going to try with this
one. Bed, sex, lies to Kevin. Greg entertaining both Sally and
Maxine while Sally worries about Maxine and Maxine worries Greg
has someone else (but doesn't know who). As the mother of him
indoors said to me on Friday night "What on earth would any
woman see in a bloke who wears a burgundy shirt AND tie with a
navy jacket, and who has no taste in bed linen or wallpaper?"
It's obvious Greg is after Sal's money, but she feels guilty and
wants to give Kev the money to buy Nat out of the garage. A solicitor's
letter arrives and the garage deal is almost done - will Greg
get his hands on Sally's spondoolicks before Kevin does? Who cares?
The absolute star of the show this week has been Toyah. Suffering
while watching Spider make a fool of himself with Lorraine, she
buys a teen magazine "Only 16" from the Kabin, to read
the article "Top 10 tips on how to nail your man." She
follows Spider and Lorraine to the nightclub and bumps into them
both in the supermarket, but apart from making Lorraine a bit
bad tempered, it doesn't really change anything. Spider just thinks
of her as a mate. Toyah reads more of the article which advises
her to look sexy by looking at her man through lowered eyelids.
She practises this in the mirror and it reminded me of my youngest
brother, Chris, who I found one day standing next to a mirror
with his eyes closed when he was 6 years old. "I'm trying
to see what I look like while I'm asleep" he said. Mind you,
this was also the brother who thought a gang show song was named
after him when we were kids. "Listen, he said, they're singing
about me... 'We're riding along on a Christopher wave and the
sun is in the sky... ". He's 28 now and still just as mad.
Anyway, Toyah gets all dolled up in white flowing clothes and
Les' leather waistcoat and tries to seduce Spider but he's not
interested, especially when Lorraine enters the room, fresh from
the shower with only a towel hiding her indignancy. TART! Toyah
continues with her studies in Ken's front room, she's making progress,
slowly. Ken tells her he's pleased she's reading something, anything,
even the trashy "Only 16" magazine she brings with her.
Toyah tells him the magazine is naff, and Ken coaxes out of her
the reasons why she thinks it's terrible, gets her to write a
letter to the editor asking to include articles on kick-boxing
and quad bikes, and then Ken posts the letter off to the magazine.
"I'm impressed" Ken tells her. "And I'm impressed
with you" she says "You're much better than you were
at school!".
Curly is having a bit of a dilemma. He's downcast that Lorraine
has gone off with Spider and feels he's not projecting the right
sort of image. He asks Alma how old she thinks he is, and she
guesses he's 40 (he's only 35). Curly complains in the Rovers
that his life is like a vortex where nothing ever happens (perhaps
he meant to say vacuum? as far as I know, a vortex is where lots
of very turbulent things happen). Mike and Alma offer to join
him for a drink "to take your mind off your sad and lonely
life" says Mike, as if Curly needed reminding. Just when
things look like they can't get any worse, a letter arrives from
Racquel in Kuala Lumpur. She's met someone else, someone called
Justin, and she wants a divorce.
Glenda :-)
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