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After Audrey’s outburst at Maxine’s funeral last week, things have settled
down nicely as far as Richard’s concerned and the heat has been taken off
him for a bit. In the Rovers however there’s tears and
turmoil in the back room when Matt the too-tall doctor rings up for a chat.
Fred can’t understand why Ashley won’t speak to the man, I say, show a
bit of decency and talk to the fella, so Ashley has to come clean and admit
to his dad, that he thought was his uncle, that he might not be the grandfather
of the son, that he said was his nephew. Martin offers Ashley a hospital
shoulder to cry on as he comes to terms with knowing he has to find out
if he’s Josh’s father or not and signs up for a paternity test with the
doc. Not Matt the too-tall doc, another one, probably called Bill
and probably less tall. Or it could be a lady GP, some of them are
these days you know. Maxine’s parents moved out this week and back in with each other. “It’s
not a reconciliation,” Doreen tells feckless Derek: “But at least it’s a
start”.
Happy Harry in the Rovers magics up a signed Man Utd football from somewhere
and raffles it off to raise money for Maxine’s memorial fund. And
the winner is, ladies and gentlemen, the Nelson kid, wotshisname.
No seriously, wot is his name? I know the daughter’s Katy. Anyway, Kev’s
a bit suspicious after he finds out that young me-laddo who’s name I can’t
remember, writes the wrong name on his class book at school. So that’s
two names I don’t know. Anyway, he writes the wrong name but it’s
the same name as the one that was in the wallet in the garage that me-laddo’s
dad Tommy picked up and said was his own. Using the signed footy as
an excuse, Kevin takes the ball to young er.. Nelson junior and asks Tommy
about the incident at school but no-one says a word. Later in the garage,
Kev gives Tommy another chance to explain and finally Tommy tells him the
truth. Kev’s happy, Tommy’s happy and the number one mechanic gets
his job back at the garage.
Spider does his best to look after Aunty Em and tries to menace Norris
when Emily lets slip that he’s becoming a pest. Les and Kirk take
advantage of Norris’ good nature, kind heart and penchant for the Shopping
Channel as he prepares Sunday dinner for them. With seven different veg on
the table, lovingly prepared by Norris in his pinny, Les forces himself
to try some of those unfamiliar to him but upsets Doris (as he’s taken to
calling his new lodger) greatly when he spits out his courgette.
Poor Roy. He doesn’t like change. He likes things just the way
they are, thank you very much. And then this young whippersnapper
Ciaran comes in with his plans for extending the café, forcing Roy
well outside of his comfort zone, making him ruminate, cogitate, contemplate
and agitate. But when Ciaran refers to Roy’s Rolls as nothing more
than a backstreet naff caff, it’s the ultimate insult and more than Roy
deserves. He tells Ciaran any deal he may have been considering
is now well and truly off - but Ciaran’s got plans of his own. After
talking to Spider about his organic juice-bar, Ciaran tells Roy if he won’t
join him, he’ll beat him. He plans to open up next door to Roy selling
fancy frothy coffee, contemporary cappuccino and lah-di-dah latte.
By far the best storyline this week was Toyah finding out the truth about
John. She can’t understand why Fiz is being so nasty to John and decides
to move out of the flat and in with John just as soon as she can.
As Toyah’s packing to leave, she and Fiz argue about friendship as Toyah
tells Fiz she’s no friend, not a real friend to her or Maria. With
tears in her eyes, Fiz tells Toyah the truth about friendship, the truth
about Maria and then it’s Toyah’s turn to cry. First off, she storms
into the Rovers to find out from Maria if what Fiz said was true. Maria
can’t deny it, she’s guilty as charged but somehow the conversation leaves
Toyah wrongly assuming that Maria was raped. So off she storms round
to see John, bursts in to his artsy-fartsy seminar and loses it completely.
Telling him much more than he deserves to know, she breaks down and admits
she was raped. There’s real anger from Toyah (excellent acting from
Georgia Taylor) and if she wasn’t already threatening to smash John’s face
in with a mini-statue, I’d have wanted to do the same myself. Later,
Janice finds her in bits and takes her back to her flat where Toyah breaks
her heart over men.
And also this week, Sarah celebrated her 16th birthday when she and Todd
did it, you know, it, upstairs in her bedroom when they had the house to
themselves. There was a lovely scene in the corner shop when Todd
went in to buy some, you know, toothpaste. Dev was behind the counter
and knew what Todd was after but made him sweat a bit before handing over
the goods, free of charge to young Todd.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
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