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It's been heartbreaking this week in the Platt family household,
even Barney the rabbit has barely escaped the emotional turmoil.
It's Gail and Martin's wedding anniversary and Sarah and David,
bless them, make dinner for their parents. They set the table
with candles, napkins and the best cloth and David even lays a
tea-towel over his arm as he guides the unhappy couple to their
seats. It's all a bit much for the divorcing duo and they accept
their spaghetti bolognaise with long sighs and heavy hearts. While
they're eating dinner, Sarah Lou sits on the stairs and secretly
listens in to her parents conversation (and who didn't do that
when *they* were 13, eh?!). Sadly, she hears them mention divorce
and she's soon in tears. Worse is yet to come when Gail and Martin
have to sit down and be truthful with David. "Of course I
know what divorce is" he spits at them, "I'm not stupid"
and with that, he runs up to his room and he's in tears too. "He's
crying," says Gail to Martin to which Martin replies: "By
the time all this is over, we're all going to be". At first,
David starts blaming the divorce on Sarah and Bethany and Candice
comes to her friend's defence when she has a little chat with
young David in the garden. Well, actually, she threatens him a
bit at first before softening towards him and telling him that
it'll all be alright, she's been through it all too. Audrey's
been around them a lot this week, but bless her, she kept her
own counsel and didn't apportion too much blame when she bumped
into Martin in the Rovers, just simply told him that he wasn't
the man her daughter had once fallen in love with. Over a pint
with Danny, Martin starts feeling sorry for himself yet in the
same breath admits he thinks about Rebecca daily. Anyway, the
Platt's dirty laundry goes onto full spin cycle when Sally pops
round and lets it slip that she knew about Martin's affair all
that time ago. Gail isn't best pleased as you can well imagine,
and there's a dreadful air of sadness all around.
Another storyline, another tear in my eye when Gary left this
week. He's all packed up at No. 9, waiting for Paula and he's
beginning to wonder if she's had second thoughts - is she coming
or what? Anyway, she arrives late, with a hangover, after a party
her friends had laid on for her the previous evening. Gary puts
his final bits and pieces in his boxes, with the very last thing
being a framed photo of Judy, which he kisses gently and places
on top of the box. The moving van moves off. Gary, Paula and the
twins get in a taxi and they're gone, just like that....
.... but not before selling No. 9 back to the Duckies! Yup,
in yet another miraculously quick Weatherfield house sale, Gary
gives the Duckies the keys to their old house, and it's theirs.
Again. It's Jack's idea of course to buy the old place, but it
doesn't take much to convince Vera to move back in there too.
Norris, however, wondering if there'll ever be any escape from
the Duckies, Tyrone and Monica, can't deny he's not happy about
the situation: "It's like being stalked!".
Sam (the ex-stripper) starts work at the garage and Tyrone's
not best pleased that the new lad gets on so well with Maria.
He gets somewhat jealous, telling Sam: "This is Maria. She's
mine" and his insecurity leads to him telling Kev that Sam's
work at the garage isn't quite up to scratch and he doesn't think
Sam fits in there although Kev soon works out what's going on.
In a scene with Tyrone, Maria's dad and two of Monica's puppies,
Tyrone asks his future da-in-law about buying Maria a diamond
engagement ring. For me, the puppies stole that scene, licking
faces and chewing cardigan sleeves. Any puppy that can chew a
cardigan is worth it's weight in gold. In fact, they should all
be trained from birth to chew cardigans.
Anyway, talking about cardigans, Ashley gets himself into a
pickle this week when he gives Emily a bag of clothes for the
hospital jumble sale. It's not jumble at all though, it's Maxine's
designer wear which she'd got ready to go to the dry-cleaner.
But by the time Ashley's worked this out, it's too late, Maxine's
clothes have been sold as jumble. Ashley spots Karen wearing one
of Maxine's pink tops and has to give her £25 to get it
back before Maxine finds out what's happened. He also spots Edna
wearing a pink fluffy cardigan and gives her £25 and the
promise of a large sausage to get Maxine's clothing back. Maxine,
of course, finds out what's gone on and when she gets the bag
of clothes back, she picks up Edna's cardigan, going: "This
isn't mine! I wouldn't be seen dead in this!". Poor Ashley.
Roy and Hayley get a visit from a nice man, a very nice man,
from the adoption agency. Roy's slowly warming to the idea of
becoming a dad, for Hayley's sake more than his own and wonders
what they'll do when the baby arrives as it'll need "full-time
surveillance" and he sets off to make a checklist. The Croppers
are honest right from the start with the adoption man, and when
he hears their news he says "There's nothing in the rules
that say you have to be a conventional couple". Discussing
things later, Hayley wonders what sort of child they'll get, saying
to Roy: "We might get one like you". "No, "
says Roy, "No, I wouldn't wish that on anyone".
Toyah and Phil Simmons are like two Yorkshire Terriers, yapping
at the heels of Rottweiler Ferguson over eviction of his old tenants,
the ones he turfed out illegally and made homeless. Duggie isn't
bothered at first but starts getting annoyed when a letter arrives
from Phil's solicitor and he's just about foaming at the mouth
when he's told by Toyah that his nasty landlord tactics are going
to be front page news in the Gazette next week.
Over at the factory, Harvey, fresh from the Sean Connery school
of sneering, takes out Karen, then Bobbi. The two girls, never
before having had their own storyline, are now thrust in the spotlight
arguing over some cheesy bloke they wouldn't give a toss about
anyway. Come on scriptwriters, this is pretty poor stuff. Give
the girls a chance. Give them a decent storyline.
Emma and Curly go to the pub together to celebrate the end
of Emma's armed response training. Her two male colleagues are
there with their partners, but the more Curly hears about this
armed response unit, the more worried about Emma he becomes.
And finally, Rita confides in Anthony about Sharon, and in
turn, Anthony tells Rita about his own children, Gregory and Amanda.
It looks like it's time for Rita to meet them both.
And that's just about that for this week. "Geranium! It's
Geranium! Ask the bloody audience!"
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