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On the good ship Lollipop Cap'n Des is cruising through the illey-alley-oh
while there's mutiny down below and the crew is revolting. Especially
Becky, who in the guise of being a troubled teenager, this week
gets away with throwing a camera overboard and kicking her mother
in the bottom when she sees her lying on the riverbank kissing
Des. (Kids today eh? If I'd done this when I was her age, I'd
have been slapped round the legs so hard they would sting for
days, sent to my room without any tea and had my pocket money
stopped for a fortnight). Despite calm words from both Claire
and Des, Becky is still rocking their love boat with accusations
that Des is trying to take her father's place. Back on dry land,
and with Becky out of sight at camp with the girl-guides, Des
wants Claire to stay overnight with him and is angry when she
tells him she can't because of her duty to her parents-in-law.
The police tell Gail and Martin that the bank security camera
has taped someone taking money from Nick's bank account at a cashpoint
machine, and the police ask Gail to watch the video to see if
it's Nick. Gail and Martin get their hopes raised, it could be
Nick on the tape but when Gail watches it, she doesn't think it's
Nick after all, which makes them worry even more now. It could
mean that someone has stolen Nick's money and his cash-card....
Don has finally sobered up and he tells Josie the truth about
the garage. She's furious, of course, and realising that she has
nothing to gain from keeping the garage running herself, she goes
round to see Kevin and Sally and offers them the garage for sale
at only £25,000. Sally and Kev want the garage and at such
a discount, it's a steal. When Kevin tells Tony about the deal,
he's interested in it too. Champagne corks are flying in the Webster
household later and Sally wants to drink a toast to her's and
Kev's future but the fizzy stuff leaves a strange taste in her
mouth when Kevin announces that the garage won't be the Webster
family business she envisages, but that he's going into partnership
with Tony."So what you're saying Kevin, is that you need
him to hold your hand!" she shouts, and then, I have to admit,
Kevin gives a great speech about why he hasn't the confidence
to go it alone in business.
Jim moves into his old house on the Street and Liz has found herself
a little flat somewhere that she's moved into. Ann has decided
to buy her own place now that she's a frozen food executive and
asks Andy if he wants to move in with her (as a lodger...). They
decide to tell Jim that they are looking for somewhere else to
live, but find it difficult when Jim assumes that Andy will be
staying on in the house with him. Jim gets a hair cut (it looks
like it's been done by Bill and his junior hack-saw) and visits
Steve in prison. He tells him that he's building up the business
with Bill so that Steve can have a decent job when he gets released.
Later, when the inmates are taken for walkies, Steve chats to
that chap (I can't remember his name right now - the one he bought
the stolen whisky from [Malcolm Fox - Graham]) and he tells Steve
he might want to "do some business" with him.. whatever
that means.
Andy is working at Firman's Freezers under the watchful eye of
his boss - Ann, er, sorry, Ms. Malone. She wants Andy to respect
her authority at work and when he playfully hits her on the bottom
beside the frozen gateaux, she isn't best pleased. (This girl
needs feeding up, send her your left- overs now!).
Roy is helping out in the cafe and cooks a fry-up for Gail to
cheer her up. He ends up confiding in Gail and tells her that
his father walked out when he was just a child and he still feels
the pain of it today. Later, both Roy and Mavis feel the sharp
end of Audrey's tongue when she snaps at both of them as they
try to offer words of support about her missing grandson. Audrey
tells them both they can't possibly know what Gail feels because
neither of them have children. Roy, subtle as ever, asks Mavis
"no children eh? - so was it internal problems then, or did
you just not get around to it?".
It's Judy Mallett's birthday and Gary buys her a pair of ear-
rings, and her mam gives her a new outfit she's bought from the
catalogue. But these can't take her mind off the fact that Gary
has taken Samantha out on his bike, she's jealous and angry. Gary
tells Samantha to pretend to Judy that she was interested in buying
the bike from him. Later in the Rovers, Samantha spins this yarn
to Judy in front of Gary, and then knits the whole thing up by
giving Gary a wad of cash to buy his bike from him (at a discount
price), money which he promises Judy he'll buy a dishwashing machine
with. Gary has been stitched up good and proper, but Samantha
still seems keen on ripping this marriage apart, so stay tuned.
(I warned you she was trouble!).
With Derek's birthday last week, President Clinton and Judy Mallett's
birthday this week, I'm in good company! In a shameless attempt
to get birthday email from people I've never met, I hereby declare
that it's my birthday too - on Friday 23rd August... :-) (so if
you don't get an update next Tuesday, it means I'm still hungover!!).
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