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Now then, where were we? Ah yes, Martin's in hospital after Craig cut
the brakes on his car. Tommy 'fesses to the coppers and says it were him,
like, but Craig tells Martin the truth. Katy wants Martin to call the cops
but Martin says enough damage has been done and doesn't make the call.
Things settle down, Tommy and Craig move back home to Angela and while not
a thorough thawing, there's a definite defrosting of Tommy towards Katy
and Martin.
On Christmas day at the Barlow's, Blanche gives Deirdre oven gloves;
Deirdre gives Blanche a blouse and Blanche gives Tracy the house down the
street. Yes, Blanche has bought No. 7 (Curly's old house) from under
the noses of the Croppers who wanted to buy it themselves, and has given
the house to her greedy grand-daughter and great-grand-child to be.
This causes much tension between Blanche and Deirdre - who feels her mother's
forgotten her priorities and has gone straight to Tracy with her money and
affection rather than to her. After arguments and snide comments, Deirdre
tells Blanche to pack her bags and leave. Blanche shuffles down the
street with her dented pride and her suitcases - all the way to Tracy's -
who isn't best pleased to have her gran move in. Blanche reminds Tracy,
however, that although the house is hers to live in, it's Blanche who owns
it so she'd best think on. Another Christmas day bombshell
is dropped when Tracy tells Steve he's the father of her baby and Steve tells
Tracy he wants nowt to do with her.
Steve and Karen continue to plan their big fat greedy wedding with a
cherry on the top and Steve has asked twin brother Andy to fly in from
Spain to be his best man. Karen, however, isn't best pleased to learn
that Steve wants Liz to be there too. She's just, like, no way.
Betty sets off for Christmas in London with son Gordon and his missus
but after a mix-up at his end and a small house fire at hers, Betty spends
Christmas at the Rovers in the spare room, mainly feeling sorry for herself
but let's face it, who'd blame her?
Nanna Brenda gives Sarah and Todd a TV for Christmas and while they're
grateful for her gifts and for babysitting Bethany, bad vibes begin when
Ashley gives Sarah odd news. Ash is at the cemetery talking to Maxine
when he spies Bethany wandering around the graveyard alone. When
Brenda catches up with Bethany, Ashley wants to know what's going on and
Brenda yells at him to keep away from her 'daughter'. Sarah and Todd
decide it's best for Brenda not to see Bethany any more so Brenda kidnaps
Bethany from nursery, takes her up on a church roof and tells Bethany she's
going to see her daddy in heaven. Meanwhile, Emily gets wind of what's
going on and dashes to the church. She arrives just in the nick of
time to catch the credits roll as Brenda stares out into the darkness from
the roof of the church and threatens to jump, taking Bethany with her.
Fiz and Kirk fall out after Cilla, a nasty piece of work, sticks her
oar in to stir things up for her daughter. Fiz and Tyrone end up
together on Christmas night after Fiz and Cilla argue in Les' house.
Tyrone's got some beer and Fiz sleeps on the sofa, it was as innocent as
that (at least I think it was, I dozed off myself at this point). But Cilla's
determined to let Kirk know that Fiz has done him wrong and there's a love-triangle-stand-off
in all four corners of the Rovers later - in the blue corner is Tyrone
with Jack and Vera; in the green corner by the cigarette machine
is Fiz with Janice for support and in the red corner is Kirk with Cilla
and Les. And so besotted with Cilla is Les that he finally agrees
to sign the divorce papers for Janice this week.
A wedding was planned, if you recall, for Sunita and Ciaran this Christmas.
After telling Sunita that she's too good for Ciaran, Dev tags along on
the stag-do and gets a thump from Ciaran, who gets arrested and put in
the cells for the night. Anyway, not surprisingly, it's one of those
Corrie weddings that gets to the part that goes: "Do you take this man*.."
and Sunita of course, doesn't. She runs out of the wedding, with Shelley
in tow and a bridesmaid's frock and says she can't do it, because she knows
deep down that Ciaran doesn't want to do it either. Next day Sunita
goes to see Dev and things are said between them, although not too much,
as Dev and Maya are now living together and he feels it's too late for Sunita
and him.
By far the best storyline has been the Cropper's virtual baby - a crying,
plastic doll that Roy insists will stand them in good stead to practise
on before the real baby arrives. Mind you, although it worked for
the virtual baby, taking a real baby out for a walk in Roy's shopping bag
may not be for the best.
And on New Years Eve in the Rovers, there's a Promise Auction to raise
funds for the Friends of Weatherfield Hospital (aka Emily).
Harry auctions off his cleaning skills: "I'll make your knob shine and clean
your nooks and crannies" - sold to Blanche for £12. Steve auctions
off a chauffeured trip to town - sold to Tracy (who wants to be alone with
him), to Karen (who wants him for herself), to Tracy (who's desperate),
to Karen (who's worried), to Tracy (I want him!), to Karen (no one else
is having him!). Going, going, gone, to Karen for a whopping £150.00,
which delights Emily no end. Norris auctions off his obsessive-compulsiveness,
offering to sort out and send out greetings cards to everyone in someone's
address book. With no takers, Rita spares his blushes and pledges
a pound - and it's sold to the lady in the cardi with the hair and the vodka.
Wasting no time, Norris gets to work, tut-tutting at the amount of men in
Rita's little black book and sending cards out to people she hasn't seen
in twenty years. Offering £7.30, Janice beats Cilla's bid
of £5.00 to win Les and his offer to "do anything". Janice subcontracts
Les out to the factory girls and gets him up to all sorts of cleaning stuff.
This upsets Cilla no end, which is great.
And finally, Vera's over the moon when their Terry sends them one of
those big American fridge-freezers for Christmas. Only trouble is,
it won't fit through the front door and has to come round the back. Even
then it rips off the door frame and causes all sorts of problems before
it gets inside the house. Charlie the builder is called and reckons £2,000
for building work to get the door put back and things straightened in the
kitchen. The Duckies can't afford it but Jack's got a plan and
trades in the fridge-freezer as part payment on the building work, much
to Charlie's delight, leaving £1,500 for them to find to pay him.
Vera pawns her engagement ring and wrings her hands at the kitchen table,
feeling sorry for herself - once again.
And that's just about that for the festive season. See you next
week.
Glenda
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