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The Freshco outward bound team arrive back on the Street with
Fred declaring he knows how the Pope feels, he's so pleased to
be back, he could kiss the pavement too. He puts the block on
Ashley running home for a quick one with Maxine, telling him that
Elliott's butchery is a 'benign dictatorship' and he wants his
nephew in at work straight away. Creepy James, the Frescho nephew,
wines and dines Nita and she's all over him when he tells her
promotion to area supervisor is as good as hers. She opens up
her promotion prospects with a couple of nights of passion, although
how she can even bring herself to kiss creepy James on the cheek
is beyond me, but there you go.
Things get tense in the Kabin when Blanche and Rita have a
falling out. Blanche tells Rita there was a "shifty looking
sales rep with a suitcase full of tat" who'd been into see
her while she was out and it's the final straw for Rita. She's
ready to sack Blanche, but there's no need. Blanche tells Rita
exactly what she thinks of her and storms out, leaving an hysterical
Rita in the back room. Later, Blanche gets a great line when she
says of Rita "Any more uppity and she'd need an oxygen mask!".
Anyway, who should this 'shifty looking sales rep' be? None other
than Norris Cole! Back on the Street, he's as pitiful as ever,
now divorced from Angela who kept the business (and his balls
by the look of him). Anyway, Fred comes up with a great idea.
Rita needs an assistant, Norris needs a job - voila! Rita isn't
sure at first but Norris fits right in and gets to work decorating
the Kabin with Christmas lights. "Red and yellow and pink
and green, orange and Rita do we have a purple light?" (I
like him already, much better than I did last time he was on the
Street - and then when he appeared with that pen around his neck,
I warmed to him even more. I had a pen like that when I was six
years old).
Les does his sponsored silence and somehow, being quiet for
a whole day changes his personality a bit too, odd, but there
you go. He now things of himself as pillar of the community and
goes in for hugging everyone he possibly can. He even hugs Deirdre,
for heavens sake.
Deirdre and Ken go off to her appeal and her conviction is
quashed. An easy end to a long, drawn out storyline. They go out
to celebrate on the evening with a meal in a fancy restaurant
and get all mushy. Ken starts a conversation and you just know
he's going to propose to her, but Deirdre manages to get in first
and tells Ken - 'if it ain't broke, why fix it' sort of thing.
Mike finds out that Mark is seeing a Battersby and isn't best
pleased. However, Mark stands his ground and tells his dad he'll
see whoever he likes, and anyway, he asks his dad, isn't Leanne
just a younger version of Linda? No answer to that one, Baldwin.
Alma and Mike get their decree nisi and Alma decides she's
going to move out of Audrey's and buy her own flat. Mike's just
happy he managed to hang onto the flat and the business (and Linda's
relieved too). Meanwhile, Leanne gets her decree absolute and
celebrates with a night out with Marky boy.
Over at the Platts, Gail tries to seduce Martin but it all
goes horribly wrong. Anyway, undeterred, Gail books a table at
a restaurant, gets all dolled up and goes to the hospital to meet
Martin from work. While she's waiting for him, she spies him meeting
a woman and the two of them go off in a car together. Gail doesn't
come out and ask Martin directly what's going on, she drops a
few heavy handed remarks for a while until the woman - Rebecca
- rings the Platts and ask for Martin on the telephone . Gail
is beside herself with worry, convinced that Martin is having
an affair and confides in both Alma and Sally. Anyway, it turns
out that nothing is going on between Martin and Rebecca, she's
a colleague who's having a hard time at home with her husband
("I was going to have a family with him, now I can't even
have a conversation") and Martin is being a shoulder for
her to cry on. So what's the problem? When Gail asks Martin about
it, he's cold and uncaring, and doesn't once tell Gail the whole
story. Instead, he storms out after telling Gail to start acting
like his wife (when what he means is, they haven't had rumpey
pumpey in ages). Was I the only person to swear at Martin during
this scene?
Roy and Ken are elected chairmen of the Millennium Party committee
and the storyline sort of wandered on a bit this week with Roy
asking Audrey if she could close the street off on New Years Eve
so he could put his erection up. She said no. Oh, and Curly made
a web page for Roy for ex-residents of the Street to get in touch
to come along to the party. Roy wants to find out more about the
internet and asks Curly if he can find an awning online. Roy,
my dear man, online you can find anything you blinking well want,
and many things you don't.
Oh, and Gwen and Jim finally started talking this week, so
they did, and they even know a few people in common from their
time in the forces.
And that's about that for this week.
Glenda ;-)
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