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Things are tense, very tense in the Platt household. Martin
blames Gail for upsetting Sarah Lou and if I type what I've actually
written here in my update notes, I'd be banned by my ISP, so I
won't, but I happened to think that was a rather selfish thing
of him to say, the hypocrite. Martin and Gail try to talk but
end up arguing. They can't live together and they can't live apart,
so they're both suffering in their own ways. "Can we start
again?" asks Gail, "If you stay, it has to be for you
and me, not for the kids. Do we have a future?". "Don't
push me," he replies "Let's take it one day at a time".
Vera gets an invitation to Blackpool from the Hortons. They're
off on holiday without little Tommy so Vera and Jack plan to spend
their holidays at the Horton's house. Somehow, some way, Tyrone
and Maria, Norris, and Gary and the twins end up going there with
them. Norris ends up sleeping in the caravan in the drive after
giving it a good going over with Mr Sheen and a Jeyes Cloth. Vera
insists Tyrone and Maria have seperate rooms, but the two of them
never seem to have any time on their own. Just when it looks like
they can sneak away and go on the funfair, Vera drags Maria off
to see the clairvoyant as Jack and (not so) little (anymore) Tommy
play on the amusements. Meanwhile, on the beach, Gary dives in
the water to save a kid from drowning - and reappears without
so much as a splash on him, odd that. The kid, Walter, has a mum,
Paula, who thanks Gary, but our hero is too modest and wanders
away from all the excitement with the twins.
Over at the Rovers, Vinny wonders what Natalie's up to by putting
on this male stripper - isn't that sexist of her? And when can
he come in to watch a female stripper? "Catch me in a good
mood and you can have a private show," she tells him, and
the nation's males drooled. Anyway, the stripper comes on in the
Rovers and by 'eck, he's crap. In fact, I laughed at him. He was
supposed to be The Masked Python and was all green shiny pants,
arm bands and helmet (ahem) but he wasn't so much sexy or snake-ish
and looked more like a space invader. So he's strutting his stuff
and the crowd (Janice) is going wild, until he spots someone in
the audience he recognises, and she recognises him - it's his
mum! "I used to put talcum powder on that" she said
(well, no, she didn't, but she should have). The lads on the building
site find out the stripper was Sam and they have a laugh, natch,
but he promises them he'll pay them back the money he owes them
from last week.
Mark gives Linda an ultimatum; "It's me dad or me"
and when she says she can't choose, he tells Linda he's going
to travel to Bangkok with his mate Craig. He leaves a letter for
Mike telling him that he's gone, but when Mike reads it, the shock
is too much. He collapses holding his chest and is rushed to hospital
where they put him in intensive care and tell him he's had a heart
attack. Linda finally manages to get Mark on his mobile, in Amsterdam,
to tell him the news and he quickly comes back to be with his
dad. Linda, meanwhile, doesn't quite know what's going on between
her and Mark now. She assumes he doesn't want to be with her any
more as he took off for Bangkok without telling her but he says
he wants to cool things between them for fear of what finding
out could do to his dad and his dicky ticker.
Poor Emily. Just when we were getting used to her as the cake-baking,
tea-drinking eco-warrier, she's reduced back to her role as dotty
old woman. She arrives back at her house to find two lads in there,
they've burgled the place and quickly run out of the back door.
They've taken money, jewellry and thrown stuff about the house,
but worse, they've taken a wedding photo of Emily and Ernest for
its silver frame.
Fortunately, Spider later finds the photo in
the back lane and has it reframed for Em. She's distraught, of
course, but refuses offers from both Rita and Betty to spend some
time living with them. She wants to be independent and get on
with things - and her first step in doing this is to get a burglar
alarm fitted. Danny offers to fit one for her and although it's
not something they stock in the hardware shop, Sally and Danny
think it's about time they did start selling more security products.
The burglars have also struck at Deirdre and Ken's house. Blanche's
purse goes missing so she has to have drinks bought for her in
the Rovers, and Ken's laptop goes missing also. He doesn't mind
the theft of the computer itself so much, but the complete draft
of his new book was on there too. Rita suggests placing an ad
in the Weatherfield Gazette asking for the return of his work
on the diskette.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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