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Well, this week saw Gail's chin hit the floor (no mean feat)
when Nick and Leanne told her that they were married. Roy tells
Nick he knows they didn't go to Leeds for the day and knows they
planned to get married, so advises Nick to tell his mother the
truth pretty sharp like. While Gail and Martin are in the Rovers
arguing with Les Battersby (a long story I won't go into involving
Les falling over on the red rec, pretending he hurt his foot so
he could claim for industrial compensation and then Martin finding
out at the hospital that Les was swinging the lead), Leanne and
Nick are chez Platt consumating their marriage, again. When Gail
walks in through the front door, she finds Leanne commiting the
two cardinal sins that no daughter in law should ever, I repeat,
ever commit in front of their new mother in law. Firstly, Leanne
was wearing Gail's dressing gown, and more importantly, Leanne
was staking her claim to Gail's territory - standing in her kitchen!.
A bit of an argument follows which ends with Leanne egging on
Nick "Go on Nick, tell her!" And he does, the news is
out. While Gail tries not to hyperventilate, Leanne asks "Aren't
you going to congratulate us then mum?" Actually, she didn't
say "mum" but I wish she had done, it would have carried
that little extra punch. With Martin trying to calm Gail down
over the course of the next few days, the Battersby's take the
news somewhat happier with Les welcoming Nick to the family and
Janice giving full support to her daughter and new son in law
by offering them a room in the house. Instead, they move in with
Zoe, Ashley and the baby but Leanne wants to move out into a flat
of their own.
Rita takes Leanne on in the Kabin to help out but
she doesn't yet trust Leanne, being a Battersby and all that.
"I never leave anyone in sole charge of my bon bons on the
first day" says Rita. Sage advice I think we could all learn
from.
Alma wonders if Hayley is too lonely and sad for her own good
after she receives a cashmere sweater from the new friend she
just can't shake off. In the Rovers, she tells Mike and Audrey
she wants to fix Hayley up with someone. Mike denounces Hayley
as a geek, but Alma wants her fixed up. She wonders who is desperate
enough to go out with Hayley, and just at that moment, into the
Rovers walks Curly. All eyes turn toward him. "What?"
he says looking around, surprised. Alma invites Curly along for
dinner at the flat, then she invites Hayley, then Audrey as support,
then Roy as the spare bloke to make up the numbers. Mike decides
he's not staying in for dinner with the trainspotting society
and promptly leaves. Audrey gets hideously drunk and when Curly
tells Alma he wants to leave after dinner, Audrey blurts out that
the only reason he was invited was for him to get together with
Hayley. Everyone is embarassed and hugely upset except Audrey
who is having a whale of a time. (She's obviously had far too
much Sainsburys Merlot, this is good stuff). Roy decides to leave
too and offers to share a taxi with Hayley but the two cheeky
monkeys don't go straight home, they're off to the Rovers for
a chat about people being patronising to them both. There's a
twinkle in Roy's eye when Hayley tells him "I want to lead
my own life and live it my way" but he doesn't yet know exactly
what it means. And when he finds out, there'll be tears, just
wait and see.
Samantha confides in Natalie at the Rovers that she doesn't
want to marry Des. I have to admit, I hated Natalie's character
when she first appeared, tempting that poor boy Kevin Webster
away from his little wife and lovely kids. But now, well, I think
she's got potential to be the new Bet Gilroy. She's blonde, she
flashes her cleavage and she offers advice, sympathy and cups
of hot tea around the small table in the Rovers back room. All
we need now are some huge ear-rings and we're halfway there. Samantha
decides to visit Richie in London and asks Nat to be her alibi
for her overnight stay. In London, Sam tells Richie she doesn't
want a divorce because she doesn't want to be free to marry Des.
Richie agrees but you just know he's going to want something in
return. Des calls Richie while Sam is there and asks him what
the hold up is on the divorce and Richie tells him he's not going
to file proceedings yet. Des is crest fallen, Sam is happy and
Richie is just plain weird if you ask me.
In the hair salon, Steve McDonald tells Fiona he wants to be
friends with her, if she'll allow it. Seems he's the contractor
for the building conversion at the end of the street (could this
mean new characters eventually?!) and apologises in advance for
loss of power, water and general mess outside of the salon. Steve
tells his dad to stay away from Fiona in exchange for Steve giving
Jim and Gary some building work. Jim agrees, so he does. Maxine
goes nightclubbing and meets a new bloke with a flash car and
an even flasher tie. Just one problem, she'd told him that she
was a business woman who owned the hair salon and that her name
was... Fiona Middleton. Confused? You will be. A great scene when
Maxine admitted all of this to Fiona and Audrey while The Eurythmics
'Would I Lie to You?' played in the background. In walks James
(flash tie person) who tells Maxine (aka Fiona) to listen in to
the radio station that evening as the DJ is a friend of his. Maxine
and Fiona are both listening to the radio in Fiona's flat for
James' dedication, when they hear the DJ play a record for "Fiona
Middleton, just remember that Jim loves you, Jim needs you and
can not live without you". Unfortunately, Steve McDonald
also tunes in to the radio station in his car as he leaves the
Rovers and hears the dedication too. Rather a silly storyline,
but quite funny.
Glenda :-)
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