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Karen's plans for her big greedy wedding continue unabated and she names
the date as Feb 14th next year. She wants rivers of champagne, swans a
swimming, geese a laying and five gold rings - despite Steve's protestations
that they simply can't afford it. After protestations escalate into
argument, Tracy overhears them shouting at each other and hears Steve tell
Karen that the wedding's off. She assumes it's because he's found out that
the baby she's carrying is his, not Roy's, and doesn't know whether to be
relieved or saddened when she realises they weren't arguing about her at
all. Peter keeps on telling Tracy that she must tell Steve the truth
and if she won't, then he will.
Talking of Peter, Lucy calls a truce and lets him see Simon two days
a week while in the Rovers he's being welcomed back, slowly, into Shelly's
life. But when Lucy spies her husband walking with her baby and wife
v.II, she has a good cry and swears revenge on them all. When Peter
next goes to her flat, Lucy's packing to leave. She's off to sunny Spain
in the morning and lays down the options for Peter. Either he goes to Spain
with her or he won't see Simon again. As Peter pulls the leaves off daisies,
wondering should I stay or should I go?, Shelly breaks her mum's heart when
she breaks the news that she's thinking of getting back with Peter. Despite
warnings from Bev and Sunita, Shelly says it's what she wants... just as
Peter's telling Lucy that being with her and Simon is what he wants too.
Hayley stuns the factory girls into silence when she announces she and
Roy are having a baby. Fed up with two-faced Tracy, the Croppers
are relieved that the news is finally out in the open about their bun in
her oven. Tracy agrees to the plan to marry Roy and the pair of them
sign up for the doings at Weatherfield registry office, the date cast in
the computer for November 17th.
Cilla washes Les' feet and strokes his ego along with his bunions until
he asks her to move in with him but Kirk's not best pleased. Ever since Cilla
turned up, Fiz has been turning him down and he wants to be alone with his
girlfriend: "Kirkeh needs some lovin' babe". When Fiz finds out her mum's
moving in at the Battersby's, she's straight over there with her binbags
of stuff trying to move in first so that her mum can't. Mother and
daughter have a stand-off in the living room amidst much name-calling about
who should get to move in there first. "I've brought all me stuff!" says
Cilla. "Have you brought Chesney?" asks Fiz. Turns out Cilla's kept
quiet about her 9 year old son with a most unfortunate name - but not as
unfortunate as the kid I saw at Leeds-Bradford airport a couple of months
ago. As the family of seven waddled past in their shell-suits and
chip fat, mother yelled to toddler: "Come on, our Eminem". And I kid
you not.
And finally, this week took in Hallowe'en and it is to the Rovers we
go for the All Hallows Eve party. This was a great episode and as far as
I can remember the fancy dress went something like this: Candice (looking
like a young Sandra Bullock) was the bride of Dracula (Nick) who was in the
middle of three witches (Eileen, Janice, Shelly) who was serving drinks to
a horny devil (Karen) and a hairy wolf (Steve) who was disgusted, as you
would be, to find out the hair stuck on his face was sweepings from the
salon. Morticia (Bev) was up to her elbows in pumpkin and Frankenstein
(Fred) tempted punters to Transylvanian stew and dracula pies, which will
be making a repeat performance next week, I say, we'll see them again. Tracy
came as herself as evil personified and Jack, dressed as normal, said he'd
come as the husband of the bride of Frankenstein while advising the undead
(Tyrone) that no, the white paint on his face wouldn't come off as it was
cheap stuff he'd got for painting the pigeon cree. Terri the tarot card
reader sat in a corner dispensing cliches to anyone who wanted to hear them.
Fred had a quiet word with her before Ashley came in and told her to say
what he thought Ashley wanted to hear. When Terri started on about "I'm
seeing the colour pink... and the letter M... " and saying that Maxine wanted
Ashley to get on with his life and to find love with another, Ashley knows
Fred had something to do with this and isn't best pleased. In fact, he's
right angry. Yet Terri tells Fred that it's what she really saw, she
hadn't needed his words in advance. Terri tells Bev she sees marriage
within the year to someone connected with the Rovers and she gives Ciaran
the glad-eye all night - although I do hope it's Fred. That's if, of course,
I believed in such things and I'm never right sure that I do.
Sally bores for England on the topic of Rosie's role in Grease while
failing to notice that nobody cares. "Have you seen the price of Rosie's
taps?" she moans in the bookies. "Is she havin' her own bathroom,
then?" asks Jack, while putting a £10 bet on the nose to win with a
horse called Alo Vera. It's up to Sally to point out it's not a greeting,
it's a skin lotion, beneficial on the nose, yes, or most other places of
exposed skin.
Tracy passes her taxi knowledge test and starts work as a proper member
of the Streetcars team. Dev doesn't want a pregnant woman working for them,
especially not Tracy, and sends her out on the nightshift when she insists
she wants the job. Deirdre sends her off with a packed lunch and biscuits
and on her first job, Tracy gets a group of students in the cab, all drunk,
all penniless, all saying that their mate Tigsy will settle the bill at
the end, all Tracy has to do is wake him up. Tigsy, however, is a
dummy and when she brings him back to the office, there's giggles all round.
It even managed to put a smile on Tracy's face and there's not much that
does that these days.
And finally this week saw the start of something new. We've had
the caramel wafers. We've had the teacakes. And this week, ladies and
gentlemen, saw the arrival of Tunnocks Snowballs which Sunita priced up
in Dev's shop. Rush out now and buy some, they're lovely.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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