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It's the morning after the night before. Matt and Maxine are
trying their best to avoid each other which proves a bit tricky
when Ashley comes home from hospital and invites Matt and Charli
round for nibbles and drinks. Maxine is overly caring towards
Ashley, displacing her guilty emotions and Matt ponders on the
fact that not only has he had it off with his wife's best friend
but he's also had it off with his best friend's wife. Anyway,
Charli decides to pay her birth mother a visit and as quick as
you like, she turns up on the doorstep of a woman in a terrace
who's not best pleased to see her. She pretends she's not bothered
but when she gets home to Matt, she proceeds to get plastered.
Next evening when Matt discovers her drunk on the sofa at tea-time,
he knows there's a problem but can't prevent Charli from embarassing
herself further when she trips up the garden path in front of
Candice and Todd, pupils from school.
Candice and Todd, meanwhile, are having problems, or at least
Todd thinks they are when Candice refuses to see him after school.
He assumes she's got another boyfriend but Candice is spending
her time after school working in a factory being paid peanuts
for packing Christmas decorations. Todd's not keen on her working
there but she reckons it's good money. When she offers to pay
for dinner on Thursday (Thursday? Again? Do we really now have
5 Corrie episodes a week?) it puts a smile on Todd's face.
Rita and her neighbours reach a truce when Rita plays Radio
2 at loud volume when she gets up at 5am to do the papers. Karen
storms into the Kabin to give Rita a piece of her mind, but Rita
says she's only turn the volume down, if they do. Checkmate. I
have to say, I never liked Karen and thought her character pretty
much a waste of space but recently she's really come into her
own. Not only has she improved as a character, her relationship
with Steve is a joy. They're like the Laurel and Hardy of Weatherfield
with her getting him into yet another fine mess. It's come to
something when I feel sorry for Steve McDonald, but now he's married
to Karen, I do. At the bookies, there's a break-in and five grand
goes missing. Peter is prime suspect and he knows it so he asks
Shelley to give him the perfect alibi, all she has to do is tell
the police she was with him on the night in question. But Shelley
is made of better stuff than Peter, and refuses to lie for him.
Unhindered by morals, Karen offers to do it, for a price, and
she's on. The only problem is that in order for Peter's alibi
to be believable, it has to look like Peter and Karen were having
an affair on the night in question. Steve's male pride gets the
better of him so arranges to give Peter a thumping in the pub,
for the sake of appearance. It's all very silly but it does look
like Peter stole the money himself although he tells Shelley "I
didn't steal it, I just borrowed it". Peter's boss tells
him he's confident he'll find out who the burglar was; after all,
the notes were all marked.
Tyrone and Maria had a big falling out this week when Kirk
told Maria he'd seen Tyrone snogging Fiz. A tearful Maria confronts
Tyrone in the garage, he can't lie (though he tries) and she knows
it's all over. Later in the Rovers, Tyrone's drunk at the bar
when Maria goes on to talk to him but all he can manage is "Idunnoworrawant".
She gives him back her engagement ring before running away to
Spain on holiday for two weeks. Wasting no time, Fiz makes a move
on Tyrone immediately, but he's in bits and in tears and pushes
her away.
After last week's drunken night in the Rovers for Janice, Sunita,
Maxine and Edna, Duggie stumbles home the following morning, hungover
from his rugby bash. He staggers upstairs and into his bed, only
to find Edna - dead! Stone cold, out of it, under Duggie's duvet.
At the funeral tea in the Rovers, Edna's sister Iris turns up
looking very much the living image of Edna and a similar harbinger
of doom. It's a short scene but a good one, especially when she
asks Duggie how he's fixed for a replacement cleaner.
Sam books Toyah a week in Ibiza but Toyah's not having it and
turns down her week of sun, sea, sandals and Sam. She tells him
to back off, he's coming on too heavy and advises him to lay off
the love thang but it could be too late, he's smitten. She returns
to college this week and had a busy day with 2 lectures and a
possible library visit. Ah, how well I remember.
And finally this week, Deirdre's glasses were smashed. She'd
put them on the counter in the corner shop and in comes Dev with
a pile of boxes he dumps right on top of her specs. Off Deirdre
goes to get her spare pair, and they're even bigger and more horrid
than they ones she was wearing. Dev insists on buying her new
ones, perhaps, even, some trendy or wicked ones?
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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