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Glenda was away, this week's update written by Barry Smith.
With the Underworld office party in full swing, Mike makes
his apologies and leaves early, only to bump into Alma in The
Rovers and the pair of them go for a meal together. Meanwhile
back at the party the women from the factory (plus partners) are
having a whale of a time eating pizza, drinking too much cheap
Valpollicella and taking Mark's trousers off. The money eventually
runs out and Linda invites everybody back to 'her' flat to carry
on partying. Everyone's a bit uneasy at first, it is the boss's
flat after all, but they soon get stuck into the best malt and
have a bit of a party. When Mike gets home he does his nut and
throws everybody out. Linda is very upset at the way Mike has
treated her friends and things are made worse when she finds out
later that Mike had been out with Alma and she's convinced there's
still something between them. She packs her bags and threatens
to leave and Mike manages to talk her out of it, but after one
patronising remark too many, she picks them up and walks out of
the door.
Sally mentions to Kevin that she's had a Christmas card from
Alison who is currently working in some cafe or other in Morecambe
(I went there once, but it was shut). On Christmas Eve, Kevin
packs up early at the garage and heads off in search of his lost
love and by some strange thousand to one chance he manages to
find her just as she is leaving work. He begs her to come back
to Weatherfield with him, but she hasn't forgotten how he let
her down and didn't trust her before and turns down his tragic
pleadings. She tells him that she's pregnant and that she wants
to bring her child up on her own. Naturally this distresses Kevin
even more, but her mind is made up and eventually he heads off
back to Weatherfield.
Kevin's Christmas Day isn't much better as he joins the long
faces of Natalie, Curly, & Jim (so he does) sat around the
table in the back room of The Rovers. There's not even any sign
of Vinny, who would surely bring a smile to the lips of Natalie.
Things get so bad as the maudlin crew pass around the whisky bottle
that Natalie decides to open up the pub and see if she can find
a smiling face to brighten the place up. Vinny arrives late and
full of apologies and agrees to help Natalie out behind the bar,
but that's not all he ends up helping her with as they head off
bedroomwards together at the end of the night. Predictably things
are a little awkward the following morning and they agree to try
and keep things quiet and on a friendly basis. I don't know how
they expect to do that though as Leanne knows about it and she'd
sell her granny for buttons to get another cheap thrill. Jez is
getting frighteningly heavy with her about the money she owes
him for cocaine, which has now reached £400 with interest
accruing daily. She tries to borrow some money off Steve to help
out, but he turns her down, things are certainly looking bad for
her.
Ken continues to help Tyrone with his reading and writing and
he helps him to write a really nice Christmas card to Jack and
Vera, thanking them for being so good to him. Christmas Day at
the B&B starts out happy with Jack & Vera, Gary &
the twins and Tyrone & Monica, but it doesn't stay that way
long as Terry turns up bearing gifts for his parents just as they're
tucking into their sprouts. Jack tells his son he's not welcome
and when Terry tries to claim he knew nothing about the state
of the car that caused Judy's death, Gary attacks him. Jack and
Tyrone eventually manage to prise the two of them apart and when
Gary cools down he heads home with the twins. Hallelujah! Praise
the lord! Vera has finally seen the light. She calls Terry 'evil,
'filthy scum' and she wishes 'I'd never had you' and to add injury
to insult, she hits him. With Terry gone, Vera and Tyrone box
up their disturbed dinner and take it round to Gary's.
Martin is working on Christmas morning in casualty and his
plans to get back home at a decent time for dinner are sent awry
as a 10 year old car crash victim is brought in (riding his new
bicycle round to his mam's to give her her Christmas present).
They fail to save the poor boy's life and Martin and Rebecca are
both pretty emotionally and physically drained by the whole event,
but not so drained that they can't sink into each other's arms,
snog and head off into a side room for a bit of festive rumpeh
pumpeh. When Martin arrives home late, Gail is understanding of
how difficult it must have been for him (their son David is 9
today) and when the kids have gone to bed she consoles him with
an 'early night'. When they get back to work on Monday, Rebecca
has a black eye courtesy of her husband and Martin offers to go
round and sort him out, but Rebecca stops him and says that she
is going to leave him, though claims this decision has nothing
to do with their earlier fling.
From little snippets of overheard conversation and by misconstruing
chats he has with Ashley, Fred gets it into his head that Maxine
is pregnant and he decides that he'll give the pair of them the
house as a Christmas present. It transpires of course that the
only patter of little feet that will be heard in the Peacock house
is from the kitten that Ashley has bought Maxine for Christmas.
When they realise why Fred has given them the house, Ashley wants
to give it back, but Fred insists they keep it as it would belong
to them sooner or later anyway. They have another visitor for
Christmas as Sergei, who shared a cabin with Ashley on his voyage
back from honeymoon, turns up on the doorstep unannounced. They
welcome him with open arms (eventually) and show him a proper
British Christmas, whilst he reciprocates by teaching them how
to drink large amounts of vodka. Sergei is a bit of a hit with
both Doreen and Audrey and, much to Fred's chagrin, Sergei is
rather taken with Audrey. Audrey takes him for a day out to show
him the sights of Weatherfield and when Fred hints that Sergei
is getting in the way at Ashley's, Audrey offers him her spare
room. He accepts and the two of them end up drinking vodka on
the sofa as Audrey gets tearful about Alf and Sergei laments his
lonely existence. He then springs a complete surprise and declares
his love for Audrey and asks her to marry him.
I think that just about covers it for this week. Tom's dad,
Duggie, visited him on Boxing day and told him that he was buying
into the Victoria Street development (where Roy's cafe is) and
offers to set Tom up in business in one of the units but they
end up arguing about Duggie not letting Tom spend time with his
mother before her death. There were the startings of some strange
story as Steve asked Emily if he could run a raffle for the Millennium
street party even though she has told him that all the proceeds
must go to charity, but I've no doubt we'll find out what that's
all about over the next week.
So who got what from who?
Ashley and Maxine got a house from Fred Vera and Jack got matching/contrasting
Jack and Vera T-shirts from Tyrone. Mike got a jumper from Linda
Linda got a corset (ok, a basque) from Mike Jack and Vera got
a vase from Gary Janice got a copy of The Kama Sutra from Les
Wishing you all a Happy New Year/Century/Millennium (or whatever)
Barry -- Barry Smith
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