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Well, the big story this week was of course Des and Nat's wedding.
Des has his stag night in the Rovers and spends the night slumped
in his seat there when he falls asleep in the bar next to Les
Battersby. Next morning, Vera cooks him a fried breakfast and
Jack brings him his wedding clothes from the house. At Natalie's
hen party, her son Tony turns up (looking as gorgeous as ever;
but purleeze, what happened to his hair?) and Maxine gets her
claws into him straight away with a bit of less-than-subtle flirting.
Unfortunately, it's Judy Mallett who answers the door when Tony
arrives, the sight of him brings back memories of her mum's death
and she leaves the party to go home. Tony isn't best pleased his
mam is marrying 'that plonker' Des but hangs around at the house
for a few days anyway. On the day of the wedding, Charlie West
turns up with an old piece of tent, says it's a marquee and sticks
it in the garden.
Martin Platt isn't too happy to see Les hammering tent posts
into his lawn and tells him to bog off out of it. Anyway, Alma
and Hayley grab some material and ribbons and tart up the tent
a bit to make it look half decent, with Alma helping out on the
food too. Somehow, after Charlie West arrived with his tent, Natalie's
wedding dress gets torn as it hangs in the living room and once
again, Hayley comes to the rescue to mend it. With Lorraine as
bridesmaid, Des and Nat go off to the registry office to get wed.
Desmond Francis Barnes and Natalie Felicity Horrocks, pronounced
husband and wife, October 23rd, 1998. Back at the house and into
the marquee, Les' best man's speech is done in the worst possible
taste. Then Des takes the mike to give a gushy speech about his
lovely bride and all that stuff. Then, heaven help us, Jim McDonald
takes the mike, announces how much he loves his wife Elizabeth,
so he does, and asks her to marry him again. What Jim doesn't
know is that when Liz left the party to go home to get changed
after Dobber spilt red wine all over her chest, she and Michael,
you know, did a physio themselves back at chez McDonald. Although
uninvited, Dobber did turn up at the wedding and starts eyeing
up the silverware wedding presents, wondering how much of it he
can slip in his pockets. He also asks Spider to get him some dope,
but Spider tells him quite pointedly "I-don't-deal".
"Sorry mate" says Dobber. "And I'm not your mate"
the lovely Spider replies. Des and Nat go off on honeymoon to
Ireland, leaving Tony to look after the house. A mate of Tony's
from Leeds calls to tell him that Tony's flat has been burned
down by someone he'd upset back there, so when Tony tells Maxine
he's going to stick around for a few more days, she thinks it's
her womanly charms that's holding him in Weatherfield, not the
fact that he's just become homeless.
Despite a few comments from the girls in the factory, the furore
over Hayley seemed to be quietening down. But when Les Battersby
starts on Hayley in the cafe, it really upsets her and she runs
upstairs to pack and move away. Roy begs her not to go, and kisses
her, he feels he's let her down by not being supportive enough.
Toyah's not amused by Les' attitude to Hayley, and says she thinks
Les is 'a prat'.
Michael tells Jim that he's going to move away and Jim tells
Liz the news. Distraught, Liz confides in Deirdre about Michael
and says she feels trapped by having to look after Jim. Deirdre
tells her that compassion is no substitute for love. Back at the
house, Jim tells Liz how much he loves her, and off they both
go out for dinner together.
In Greg and Sal's office, Greg goes out for a long business
lunch so Sal brings the girls in to the office as she's got no
one else to look after them. Greg isn't best pleased when he returns
with his client to find the girls there. He manages to secure
a large contract away from Mike Baldwin and wants to celebrate
with Sally, but again, isn't happy that the girls have to tag
along with them. He stays out overnight and Sally is distraught
with worry, but he smooths everything over with her when he returns,
saying he just had to have some time on his own to get his head
sorted.
A great storyline this week was Toyah, finally starting to
realise that Dobber is a bit of a prat after all. She has a few
tears, wonders what's the point of men anyway, and asks Janice,
"Is it normal to find them like, really, really, irritating?".
(Yes, Toyah, yes). She tries to stay away from Dobber but he's
not going to give in that easily somehow.
Back on the Street this week was Zoe and Ashley (and about
time too!). Zoe goes for an interview for a job stacking shelves
in a local supermarket but doesn't get the job. Quit a poignant
scene when Zoe and Judy meet in the corner shop and talk about
babies.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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