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Eve decides to speed things up when Shelly confides she wants
Peter to ask her to move in with him. So Eve tells Peter that
Shelley's being evicted from her flat and needs a place to stay.
Anyway, it all ends up nicely with Shelley moving in and putting
cushions everywhere. Much like I've been doing this week myself,
ahem. They throw a flat-warming party to which the usual
suspects turn up for free drink and a booze-up along with Blanche
and Roy and Hayley. Blanche makes merry with the vodka bottle
and Roy and Hayley take off their cardis and cut the rug to Dusty
in a truly wonderful, truly Cropper scene.
But while Shelley and Duggie get cosy, Toyah and Sam are drifting
apart. Toyah tries to avoid Sam and tells him (twice, poor bloke)
that he's like a puppy dog following her. He can't quite
understand what's gone wrong but Toyah knows she has to be honest
and he's not the bloke for her. Methinks she could've been
nicer, if she'd tried. She tells Les she thinks Sam's a great
bloke, but not for her. Of course Les misunderstands and
tells Sam he's still in with a chance so Sam goes and spoils it
all by saying something stupid like "Will you marry me?"
to Toyah who replies with something sensible like "no".
Vik's still going nuts over Hazel, his angel fare from taxi-cab
heaven. But he gets confused when he arrives to pick her
up from home and her husband gets in the car with her. He confides
to Steve about what's going on and is warned to be careful about
what he's doing.
Duggie hosts a card game for the lads in his flat after hours.
The talk turns to women and Duggie comments: "Being with
a new woman is much like driving a new sports car."
"Especially with the top off" says Dev.
While they're playing cards, Richard spots Duggie unlock a mini-safe
in the living room. The safe is stuffed with used notes,
cash that the tax man knows nowt about. Duggie and Sunita
had relationship troubles this week but I won't bore you with
those, it's not worth it. Read on and you'll see why.
Richard becomes increasingly concerned about the quality of work
that Duggie's men are doing in the house. Duggie shrugs
it off, what's a few cut corners between friends? Alone
and in the dark, Richard goes to the house to inspect the work
for himself and when Duggie gets wind of where Richard's gone,
he's there like a shot to stop Richard from seeing too much.
So, you've got Richard and his torch and you've got Duggie in
a panic, they're together in a darkened, creaky old house and
you just know they won't be swapping tupperware catalogues when
they meet. Sure enough, one of them meets their doom as Duggie
steadies himself on the upstairs bannister and it gives way from
the wall making him fall to the hall. But what does
Richard do? Does he ring the police? Does he call out for
help? Does he panic? Does he buffalo. He takes Duggie's
keys from the body and nips straight round to his flat to steal
the cash from the safe and then turns up in the Rovers cool as
you like for a pint with Gail. He even rings Duggie's mobile
to tell him he wants to speak to him soon.
Karen's been wittering on for ages about how she wants to move
house, the flat just isn't good enough. There's a wonderful
scene outside of Streetcars when Steve tells her he's bought them
a new place. She hops in the taxi and gets Steve to drive
her to her new house immediately. The car turns the corner
and stops. Karen can't believe her eyes - he's bought No. 7 from
his mum for them both. Karen's been brilliant this week
and she chucks another mental about wanting a flat on the quays
or a castle in the air. After the McDonalds argue for all
the street to hear, Rita offers words of comfort to Karen in the
flat. Who needs to read Women are from Venus, Men are from
Mars when you've got Rita Sullivan's advice, eh? So
when Steve comes back, Karen's all mellow and like "well
I'll move in to number seven but on my terms and I want it all
decorated and to my design" only to be told that he's just
told Eileen she can stay as a tenant for the next six months.
Rita's words are forgotten, voices are raised and another mental
is chucked. Later in the Rovers Karen spares her blushes
by telling everyone she's staying in the flat because of Rita's
ill-health, she needs Karen to look after her. She makes it sound
plausible - until Rita walks in. Strangely, Rita colludes
with Karen's story but gives her a look that defies her to ever
try that again, lady.
Tyrone's finding it harder to say no to Karl Harper.
This time Karl's after MOT certificates and with a bit of a warning
that bad things could happen to Tyrone if he doesn't help out,
the MOT certificate is duly passed over.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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