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Let's just zip back to last week with Gail and Sarah-Lou in
the doctor's surgery and the doc has just dropped the bombshell
that Sarah-Lou is five (yes, five) months pregnant. It's chaos
and disorder in the Platt household as Martin prepares to tell
Gail he's leaving her for Rebecca - just as Gail tells him the
news about Sarah-Lou. As the news sinks in, Martin offers support
to his step-daughter, you know, the one he was prepared to walk
out on just a day earlier. ("He's got more faces than a tea-pot,"
as a certain tea-lady I knew used to say.) Sarah Lou doesn't seem
to grasp the enormity of what's happened/happening/going to happen
to her and wants to swan off to school and go out with Candice,
as per, but she's whisked off to the maternity clinic by Martin
and Gail. At the hospital, Martin finds Rebecca to tell her what's
happened, there's no way he can consider leaving Gail, not yet,
and the pair of them grizzle at each other. A social worker calls
round and pries into the Platt family life, leaving Gail and Martin
feeling they've failed as parents and need to hush up news about
Sarah-Lou. There's some emotional scenes between Gail and her
daughter this week which left me in tears. "It's going to
hurt, isn't it mum?" Sarah Lou asks Gail, to which mum replies:
"Oh yes. More than you can imagine, in more ways than you
can know". I crossed my legs and winced.
Over at the factory, Linda wants to prove there's more to her
than a bit of gusset, so jumps at the chance to sweet-talk a customer
who calls round when Mike is out on business. The girl does good
and Mike reckons she should have a crack at one of his toughest
customers, but this time there'll be no fluttering her eye lids,
for this is one of Mike's toughest customers - nicknamed 'the
dragon lady'. Mark goes off on his business trip to Bruges and
much to Mike's alliterative annoyance, ("He's taken that
Battersby bird to Bruges"), takes Leanne with him.
It's the night of the charity auction and Alma wants her hair
done at the salon so she can bop to the ball with Bob. She pops
into the salon but jealous Audrey reckons she can't fit her in
as there's simpleh no appointments, ladeh, so Debs does her hair
instead. Debs is off to the same do with Duggie and everyone seems
to have had a good night so Debs isn't sure what Duggie's playing
at when he's rude to her in the Rovers the next day. She tells
Natalie she's not sure what she's done wrong, so Nat has a word
with Duggie who confides that he's feeling guilty as it was his
first date since his wife died. Duggie, via Natalie, apologises
to Debs for his behaviour. However, all is not so straightforward
with Bob-me-laddo. Duggie makes a couple of remarks to him about
taking back-handers at the council, and then Bob calls round to
see Audrey with the offer to help her do some council finance
stuff. While he's there, he makes a play for Audrey and tries
to kiss her. She pushes him off and sends him packing, but can't
quite bring herself to tell Alma what's happened, especially when
Alma comes home later, gushing that Bob is "beginning to
restore my faith in men." Oh dear.
Gwen gets a visit from a debt collector, it's obvious that
she's in a bit of a pickle money-wise and Jim, bless him, wants
to help. The pair of them sit down and work out her incomings,
shortcomings, outgoings and outpourings and none of it adds up,
it's a fiscal fiasco. She's somehow managed to buy herself a haircut
and new hat this week though.
Things are brightening up between Vinny and Nat now that he's
working on the building site. He comes into the Rovers, all dolled
up, and she looks lovely in a great frock before the pair of them
go out together for the evening.
Ken's on the trail of the history of the Cartwright murders,
but quite frankly, this storyline is so boring I'm not even going
to bother with it (for now, although I do hope it's leading somewhere).
Finally, in the corner shop this week, Vikram gets a panic
on when there's more than 2 customers to serve as Dev moves into
Nita's flat upstairs (where's Nita gone then?). And, I'm pleased
to report that Tunnocks Tea-cakes were involved in a couple of
prominent scenes, in which they performed to their usual high
standard.
And that's just about that for this week. Glenda ;-)
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