Update - Thursday July 18, 2008

Who’s that Girl?

At the factory Liam offers Kelly and Vikki overtime, which they agree to. Rosie then arrives to the office as if nothing had ever happened between her and Liam. Hayley rushes into the factory to talk to Liam about her trip to Africa. Liam urges her to sit down and calm down.

Fizz and Maria are walking down the talking when Maria is sees Liam come out of the factory with a very attractive blonde woman whom he kisses goodbye. At the same time, he sees Maria. Before he has chance to go over and explain, he is called back in the factory to answer a call.

Maria and Fizz are having lunch in the cafe. Maria is feeling very stupid as she thinks Liam is seeing the woman he kissed outside the factory. Fizz explains she should just ask Liam who the mystery woman is.

Maria goes into the pub, heads straight to Michelle and asks if they have any blonde female relatives. Michelle says they haven’t but does look a little confused by the question.

Someone really needs to tell Maria, just to concentrate on her life and goals instead of worrying about men all the time. I guess it is easier said than done.

Liam then enters the pub and sees Maria, he explains the woman was a buyer who he’s trying to keep happy and it was a business meeting. Maria pretends as if she doesn’t care – the Liam seems upset that she doesn’t care. He says he would be upset if he saw Maria kissing another man. She perks up and says it did, indeed bother her and tells her he’ll do anything to make it up.

At this point, I think of the Cadbury commercial with the Devil and say out load – ANYTHING??

Rain in Africa

Is Hayley the new Emily?

Hayley and Roy and in the café and she reveals the phone call was someone from a volunteer group they have been in touch with offering them a place to travel to Mozambique. That evening! Roy decides that it would be impossible to pack up their lives and leave in 24 hours. Hayley agrees but is unconvinced. Roy the suggests they use it as a test run for when another opportunity comes up when they will be able to leave. The volunteer group had told Hayley the next project wouldn’t go ahead until 2014.

Behind the counter Roy has broken the news about the possible trip to Becky. She becomes very excited and seems to think it is final. She perks up wonders about the possibility pay raise/promotion.

At the factory Liam is very understanding about Hayley’s plans. He does mention how much they will miss her but says she has to do what she has to do. Wow, has Maria already changed Liam into someone more calm?

Hayley gets off the phone and it turns out that a volunteer spot has been taken and they won’t get to go after all. But it is Becky who seems more upset at the thought she won’t be able to run the café on her own.

Roy suggests to a very sad looking Hayley, maybe she should go to Africa on her own.

Just call him Pinocchio

John is on the Street when his mobile phone rings, it’s Rosie. He claims he can’t talk because he’s in the staff room at work. Rosie is suspicious as it’s half term holidays. Rosie’s suspicions are confirmed when she steps out of her front door and can see him, right in front of her. Argh!! He infuriates me.

Hopeless

Gail enters the cafe and sits down at a table where David is eating his breakfast. David claims that he doesn’t care about the wedding or any of his family at all, he’s happy on his own. Okay, psycho.

David wonders up to the yard where Bill and Jason work. He sees that the lock on the gate is open and walks in. In his psycho voice he says, “Bad move boys” and lets himself in.

He goes into the office and sees the light on the answering machine. He listens to it and then deletes it and smiles.

He sees some type of wrench and walks around. He goes outside on the scaffold and it gives him an idea. He begins to loosen the nuts and bolts of the scaffolding with the wrench and leaves the building looking smug and satisfied.

Bill and Jason return from lunch to find no messages on the machine. Jason goes out onto the scaffolding and is leaning on the part that David has loosened. A van pulls up and asks for directions, Jason leans in to talk to him. Unknown to him, the rail slightly shifts. Bill is on the phone to the man whose message was deleted by David. The van leaves and Jason turns around looking at Bill - leaning on the rails.

In Other News:

Violet has felt the baby kick and Sean is thinking he wants to be more than a donor.

Sally is still going on and on about John to her work mates.

Kirk and Chesney are eating cereal stuck off on old plates.

 

Tentative Pub Night

I’ve heard some requests for a Corrie Canuck Pub Night!

I’m thinking July 31st…which I will aptly christen the ‘Are You Man Enough To Drink Your August Rent/Mortgage Payment?’ Pub Night.

Before I set it up, hands up who’s in!

 

How Old Is The Snake….

Just thought I’d post this info.

From Wikipedia (which we all know is NEVER wrong), John Snape was born in 1978 which would put him at 29 (which is kind of what I was figuring).   Fizz was born 1985 which would put her at 22 during these episodes.

So there’s a 7 year difference between them which means that if Fizz was dating him at 15 or 16, he would have been 22-23.  Risqué perhaps, but certainly not on the creep level of Martin and Katie or what is happening now with Rosie.  (Although, I don’t know about the laws in the UK, would it be illegal for a 22 year old to date a 15 year old?)

Oh, on a sidenote, don’t go into Wikipedia if you don’t like spoilers.  The whole Rosie/Fizz/John thaaaang is played out there.

 

Our Karen - oh I miss her…

Here is the former Mrs. McDonald - did they get a divorce? On a new TV show called Harley Street, unfortunately shown only in the UK.

Here are more details:

Set in London’s famous medical district, the six episode series promises to get behind the facade of suave medics treating celebrity and wealthy patients.

So I am guessing: City bankers, models footballers and WAGs.

 

Update. Wednesday, July 16, 2008. But how do you thank someone, who has taken you from crayons to perfume?

There’s a timely episode of CBC’s The Fifth Estate tonight: Teacher’s Pet, which examines sexual misconduct in the classroom.

Mind you, Sydney Poitier wasn’t trying to sleep with Lulu in this movie…

To Sir, with Love

It’s Sunday at Fizz’s flat and they are preparing for a day at the cinema with Chesney. Fizz leaves to get him and John calls Rosie on his mobile. Rosie picks up at the Websters and goes out the back door, declaring she wants the conversation to be private. Sophie makes kind of fuss about her talking to a boy but Sally says it’s ok to want a little privacy.

John wants to meet somewhere for a chat but Rosie suggests someplace: Carla’s flat, which Rosie has the keys to. After making up a story about having some marking to do or something to Fizz, John meets Rosie there to discuss what happened the other day. He says he could get into a lot of trouble over what happened but Rosie is a step ahead: yes, you could be in trouble with Rosie, and with my parents, oh, and with school too.

What’s worse, she says, is meeting her at this flat, all alone. Rosie assures him, however, that she can keep a secret about the kiss, as well as other things that may happen.

He tells her that she is sexy and that makes her powerful and hey, are you sure nobody’s coming here…. oh, seriously. Shut up. John Stape is a guy and guys have a problem with this: they like to know that they’re attractive and they like to be told that women would make themselves sexually available to them, if they were given a chance. So they do dumb shit like this just to see how far it could go. By the time their consciences kick in, it’s already too late because something else has taken over the higher brain functions, if you know what I mean.

Rosie offers a tour of the apartment, starting with the bedroom. It’s up to our imaginations just what happened after that because when Rosie gets home, she tells everyone that she’s seeing a boy named John. Sophie asks what his family name is.

“Stape,” Rosie answers, seeing Sophie get upset, as she as a crush on Mr. Stape. Sally suddenly perks up and asks if she’s joking and Rosie says that she is, she really only bumped into him. Sally tells her to be careful about what she says as people could get the wrong idea.

Later, Sally and Rosie are heading out for a little shopping when they see Fizz and Kirk entering the Rovers. Sally calls over to John for a quick chat. Fizz’s eyes roll back in her head, Rosie smugs at John and John looks like a little boy who’s about to get caught doing something very bad.

Christian

Roy, after researching bus schedules and the store hours, is off to meet Christian to discuss what happened with Hayley, in the hopes he can convince him to accept Hayley back into his life. When he gets there, an employee tells him that Christian handed in his notice the day after some crazy woman came in and punched the crap out of him. Roy asks for a description of the assailant.

When he gets back, he mentions this and yes, Becky admits she beat him up because of what he did to her best friend Hayley. She apologises but Hayley says the time has come to look forward, not backward and she and Roy go off to listen to Gardeners Question Time. This probably has something to do with her desire to do volunteer work in Africa.

You know, I once did volunteer work in Africa twenty years ago. It looked a little something like this:

Yes, that’s me with the beard. I was a damn, dirty hippie back in the day.

In Other News

Jerry? Still in Milan. Jodie? Still bitchy. Lloyd? Thinks Jodie’s making excuses not to see him. Violet? Not caring to hear all this from Lloyd. Me? I’m with Violet.

Doreen wants Norris to set her up with either one of his friends in the ex-husband club. Tinky Winky or La La will do. She’s not bothered.

David totally drove his Fiesta around the block without a license or insurance or anything! I KNOW!

 

John, You Suck. AKA, In Which Glacia Uses Some Swears. (oh yeah, Update)

First the update on this story, then my rant.

 

Rosie calls in sick to the factory and when Liam finds out, he calls Sally into the office for a chat.  He explains the situation and Sally while concerned and still being the bootlick employee sends some signals to Liam that her daughter is completely off limits.  Liam tells her that he hears her loud and clear and wants to know if he should apologize to Miss Rosie.     Sally says no and that this is a time when a girl needs her mother most.

 

She sees Rosie in the café and sits down to have a heart to heart.  Rosie is hurt, embarrassed and trying to deny the fact she fancies Liam.   Sally tells her that she started work at 16 and she knows what it’s like.   When Rosie repeats that she isn’t at all interested in young Mr. Conner, Sally seems pleased and all is well.

 

Uuuuuuuuuntil Maria walks in and lets Rosie have an earful about playing games.  There’s some catty words between them and when Maria has the final word about how Liam wants a woman not a stupid little girl – Rosie’s humiliation rises again and she says, (and I think this is a teen anthem.), “Oh just shut up, all of you.” – and then storms out of the restaurant – the door slam was a bonus.

 

Later that day, John comes over the Websters to cancel his tutoring session with Sally in order to spend some time with Fizz.   When he gets there he sees that Rosie is upset and asks her what’s wrong.   They sit down on the couch and she pours out the story along with all her insecurities and general teenage angst.

 

John assures her that she isn’t hideous and that one day people will realize the absolutely gorgeous woman that she is.  

 

Okay……teenage girl insecurity + older man ego boosting = propane + match = BOOM!

 

Rosie decides to kiss John, who initially backs away which causes her to apologize.  He says that he didn’t say all that stuff to get that kind of reaction (bullshit)….but you know hell, if that’s what she wants….and the motherf****r KISSES HER!

 

 

They go in for full contact necking but are interrupted by Sally coming home and they quickly straighten their clothes and stand up so that John can explain he came by to cancel their tutorial.

 

Back at Fizz’s place, John lets himself in and takes a shower.  When Fizz comes home we are all treated to a damp, slightly pudgy manboy who’s skin is the colour of oatmeal.  He explains to Fizz that he’s taken the night off and assuring her that he isn’t interested in Sally he says, ‘That’s one woman you don’t have to worry about.’  (Her daughter on the other hand….).

 

So yeah, John is on the top of my superdy-duperdy creep list.  I feel like he’s totally taken advantage of Rosie’s emotions and vulnerable state (that being a teenage girl).  Being a teacher to teens, he totally knew he what he was doing – so he’s an even bigger ass.  And the minute Kevin finds out, he’s going to beat your Pillsbury ass into the ground so that when the police come by to inspect all they’ll see is another oil stain in the garage that used to be you, because even if he is a good 10 years older than you, he’s well fit and looks like he’s actually been in a fight.   When the beat down happens, I’ll be sitting on the back of my couch sloshing martinis with one hand and waving my other fist in a ‘whoop whoop’ action singing ‘Go Kevin, go Kevin…Woo!  Woo!’, all the while encouraging my German Shepherd to also bark in a fury of ass whooping encouragement.

 

Oh, yeah, and you need to wax the back of your shoulders, Chewbacca.  It’s called Veet, use it.  (motherf****er.)

 

Jerry the Jackal

Jerry hasn’t bothered to contact his family about his incarcaration and Norris takes the time to hassle Eileen about Jerry’s waywardness.  Eileen’s reaction was to make some gang signals over Norris’s head.

 

Jerry ends up calling Eileen to pass the message on to Jody to call him.  The news is she needs to send money, lots and lots and lots of money to him so he can pay the fine get his ass (appropriately covered) back home. 

 

Jody’s none to please because this comes at the same time that Roger has broken the news that she needs a new boiler. 

 

Darryl is still disgusting.

 

In Which Glacia Keeps Singing That Toto Song About Africa

The Croppers are back for vaycay!  Haley tells Becky that her and Roy are thinking about volunteering to build schools in Africa.  Becky is a bit worried about what will happen with her if they leave, but Roy tells her that they’d like her to actually run the place while they’re gone…anyway, the whole idea is still in the ‘talking’ stages.

 

Roy then tells Becky that he feels really bad about the Christian thing and would like to go and talk to Christian to patch things up.  And because, he adds, you Becky were the only one to keep your head during this whole fiasco, I want you to come with me.

 

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.  

 

In Other News

Sarah wants a church wedding…because a church is that much more special.  Not special enough to go to on an even semi-regular basis, but special for her day when she needs a really pretty venue – cheap.  Boy man, if I was the vicar in that parish…..  Glacia puts away her ‘churchlady’.

 

Eileen buys David’s magazine for him as a thank-you for bringing our Todd home.   She then pinches his cheeks and after when he’s gone, she smells her fingers and makes an ‘ew’ sound.    I can’t even imagine what Darryl smells like.

 

Because of the work at the Kebob place replacing the boiler, Roger can take Janice out.

 

Dev Watch

Dev gets into a discussion with the ex-husband’s club about the virtues of a younger woman over an older woman.  (At least two of the ex’s preferring a woman who’s been around the block.)  But really, they lost my attention the minute the term ‘older woman’ was married to the word ‘grateful’.

 

Between that scene and yet another Lolita storyline….it hasn’t been a banner episode.   Word to Corrie writers, ‘Grow up.’.

 

 

 

Monday June 14th - The Home Truths Update

UK Time - Wednesday October 17th 2008

Its the morning after the wedding dress disaster. Jason is at his mother’s he couldn’t stay at Gail’s. Bill comes by to learn that Sarah’s melt down prevented Jason from returning to his proper stag do.

 

In the street, Gail and Sarah run into Jason and tell him they are so pleased that Todd is in town. At the yard Jason and David also have a conversation about how happy he is to see Todd. Although, I’m not too sure what they said because praise be to Jason Grimshaw in a white tank top in a builder’s yard.

 

Todd strolls up – I think – and has some exchange with David, I’m guessing. They all started to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher, if I’m honest.

 

However, I did perk up enough to see Todd tell Sarah some home truths. He basically called her a spoiled cow and she reminded the viewers why she is behaving like a psycho. Then they started laughing and went shopping together. Later David fumes when he sees that Todd, Jason, Sarah and Eileen are all happy families heading to the pub.

 

Maria is smarting from being stood up. I know that feeling, girl. Little does she know that Liam has been stitched up. He’s at the factory searching for his cell when Rosie hands it to him as if it was just under a binder. Liam says, “Oh I could kiss you.” Rosie is into it but Liam clearly wasn’t serious and now feels funny on the inside.

 

In the street, Liam runs into Maria and they sort out what happened the night before. Liam has figured it out now.

 

Later at the end of the work day and Liam pulls Rosie into his office and basically sings “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” but not in an ironic way. He has no desire to go all Martin Platt on the cobbles. Here’s a home truth, Liam doesn’t date teenage girls no matter how big their crushes are. Rosie, with a face like a smacked backside, heads home in tears. Thankfully they just live across the street.

 

Guess who’s home! It’s Kevin and he still smells like booze. He has left Jerry in Milan as he has been arrested for dancing naked in the town fountain. Real mature, Jerry. Jody is about as pleased as she is interesting.

 

Moreover, there are problems with the equipment at the kebab shop. If I were Jody, I’d tell Jerry where he could put his kebabs. Here’s a home truth: Jerry’s an idiot and Jody needs to move.

 

Later, we learn that Jerry’s charge will be commuted to a fine.

 

In Other News

 

Rosie has decided to go back to Oakhill – I wonder why?

 

Maria tells Kirk to get his act together. It has no effect.

 

Friday June 11th 2008 - I Know Its Late Update

UK Time - Monday October 15th 2008 (episode 2)

Sarah is one pissed off Platt and who can blame her. Her gay ex-boyfriend just showed up to attend her wedding to Jason. Who could have known that she would ever have to see Todd again once she married his brother? I guess it was just an unforeseen shock, totally out of the blue.

 

Anyway, she’s behaving like a banshee and it takes several people to convince her that David invited Todd and that perhaps the best course of action is to not show David that he has scored any points here.

 

Sarah continues to be a pain the ass as Jason tries to leave for his stag do. She is going to be an awesome life partner.

 

Later, at the most dysfunctional house on the street Sarah is modeling her wedding dress, Eileen is drinking at a moderate pace, Sally is making an ass of herself and Gail is being a homophobic psycho.

 

The boys are having a great time at the stag do until Sarah calls shreaking. The issue is that her wedding will be catered by an ex-hooker. No, the real issue is that Sarah managed to rip her dress.

 

Jason, of course, goes running to her side only to be reprimanded because he has now seen her in the dress before the big day. Sarah proceeds to go ballistic and ends up with red wine all over the dress.  Eileen “helps” by tossing white wine on the stain in a protein gets out protein moment of logical reasoning. I mean seriously, Sarah goes ballistic. It was like watching a star go super-nova.

 

Over to the newest street romance, Liam and Maria try to make plans for that evening, but Maria can’t really commit until she talks to Audrey. Maria has to swap some overtime with the phantom third stylist seeing as Sarah already had plans to go insane that evening.

 

That afternoon Maria calls Liam at Underworld because calling his cell made no sense and left a message with Rosie: Milk Bar 8:00PM. Rosie, that little minx, decides not to pass the message on and then steals Liam’s cell phone. Witness the mind of the hot-to-trot teenager and their clever games.

 

Later that night, as Maria prepares for her date she tells Fizz that she feels that something isn’t right with Liam (could it be that there is no chemistry and the relationship is a pathetic ploy to put together the two best looking characters who just happen to lack any sort of real storyline). Maria is waiting for it all to go pear shaped. I know that feeling. Don’t even get me started on my weekend.

 

Rosie’s plan is successful and Maria gets stood up by Liam. They’re writing songs of love, but not for her. Or are they?

 

In Other News

 

A newly styled John talks to Rosie about going back to Oakhill. I don’t care what they do to that man’s hair, he is still not sexy.

 

Fizz allows Chezney to stay with Kirk for a bit longer even though the place is in a state.

 

Fizz tells John that she is feeling neglected.

 

Paul continues scheming and gets more money from the bank against the Duckworth estate.

 

Update: Thursday July 10, 2008 - The Return of …..

Bridezilla!! - to be fair, I don’t blame her.

 

 

Midsummer’s Nightmare

Wicki (or Vicki – if you like) wonders if Sean is feeling any better. The truth is, being the fashion diva he is – he is gone into the city centre for a new shirt, for Jason’s stag. The girls go on to discuss Cilla going off to America leaving poor Chesney behind. Fizz is offended by the conversation and says they should not jump to conclusions, there may be more to the situation than they know. The others however, know Cilla better and aren’t so sympathetic. Funny to see Fizz coming to Cilla’s defense.

They are all on a tea break and Sally is boring Wicki to death how about how wonderful John is – and his choice in corrective vision. Kelly says to Fizz she thinks Sally fancies John. Which seems pretty obvious to me.

Rosie compliments Liam on his striped shirt – and trying to hold a conversation with Liam but he couldn’t seem to care less. She takes a phone call from John who she arranges to meet later. Liam doesn’t even flinch then she says “it’s a date” very loudly. He doesn’t flinch.

 

Hell’s Kitchen

Tyrone is chatting to Jack on the phone. When he hangs up, Molly questions why he told Jack that everything is okay – when it is far from that.  Tyrone says it is because they wouldn’t believe Paul would do anything wrong like steal from his previous employers. Finally, Tyrone has caught on.

Paul arrives at work at the restaurant and face Leanne. She is far from pleased that they took the petty cash, knives and champagne. Paul explains the thugs weren’t the reason for his black eye. That was Molly. Leanne does not want to know the details.

Later, Paul brings out food from the kitchen and places in from of Leanne saying “away” as if she were one of the waiting staff. She has a few words with him the other day, he retorts that she doesn’t have a squeaky clean past either. Good one, Paul!

Bridezilla

Sarah answers her phone and has a short conversation “I’ll let him know” She notices David down the street holding his side as if in pain. She looks a little concerned. He says with much sarcasm that it’s the pain he feels because he hasn’t been invited to Jason’s stag party. Sarah walks away rather perturbed.

At the yard, Bill and Jason are chatting about the stag night. Bill says Jason should have gone for an all weekend to Berlin. Sarah appears just as Jason says “well if I ever get married again I’ll consider it”. Bill and Jason explain the conversation – she retorts “ I don’t need an action replay (I love that line) She lets Jason know his suit is ready to be picked up. She also informs Bill he’d better behave on the stag night that evening.

Sean and Violet are sat on Eileen’s sofa chatting about what’s on daytime television and eating potato chips. Eileen says she’s got hold of Jason and he’s coming round later. She is going to break the news about Todd coming to the stag do. “If Jason wanted fireworks on his stag night he’s going the right way about it” says Eileen.

Jason arrives home and Eileen gives him the news about Todd’s arrival later that day. Jason’s confirms it was neither him nor Sarah who invited his brother. He tries to phone Todd but as Eileen said it would the phone goes dead. He knows he has to put this fire out, right away.

Sarah is alone in the salon when Jason arrives. He is intent on telling Sarah about the arrival of Todd stops short, when he sees how upset she is. She’s been trying to get in touch with Candice without any luck. She’s worried they will won’t have a matron of honour. Jason tells her that the reason he came in is that he was having trouble deciding on a best man. “Have who you want” she says “I don’t even care if it was your Todd”. “Really?” Jason asks. “Of course not, as if we want him there to ruining our day” she replies. Just then David walks in. He notices that Sarah is upset. “What’s the matter?” he asks “Has something gone wrong?” he says looking very pleased with himself.

A taxi pulls up to Coronation Street and Todd steps out. It is really nice seeing him again. He unlocks the front door just as she arrives back home with a bottle of wine. He is finding it a bit strange to be back on the street. He tells Eileen about an argument he had with his boyfriend who apparently threw his mobile phone into the dog’s water bowl.

Later outside, Eileen sees Jason in the street and tells him that Todd is back. He asks if she told him he wasn’t invited to the stag do, which she obviously hasn’t. He still doesn’t know what to tell Sarah.

Jason drops by his mother’s house, to be greeted by the sight of a half naked, dripping wet Todd fresh from the shower. Heeelllooo.. (We need more of this)

Todd thanks Jason for the invitation. Jason tells him that he isn’t invited. Todd can’t quite believe what he’s hearing. Jason claims he knows who invited Todd, David Platt. Eileen is rather impressed by David’s forged invite “he’s got your hand writing down to a t” she says. LOL!

Sarah crosses the street while talking on her phone. (She does this a lot) and is having a fight having with someone who has double booked their reservation. She looks like she is going to explode!  She walks into the house and passes the phone to Jason. “Speak to the hotel. They’ve double booked us, we haven’t got a reception!” At that moment she turns round and sees Todd standing in front of her. She throws herself toward Todd pushing him. (How bold) Eileen tells her to “get out” and points out that Todd is her son and can visit whenever he likes. Sarah goes out into the street slamming the door behind her and SCREAMS! at the top of her lungs. 

Pan out..

Good therapy.

 

In Other News

Norris organizes the next meeting of the Old Husband’s Club.

Fizz tells Kirk that she appreciates all that he has done – but will now take care of Chesney.  Kirk feels hurt.

Sally arranges for John to meet with Rosie, to talk some “sense” into her to go back to Oak Hill.

 

 

 

Update July 9, 2008 - Hell’s Kitchen

Cheech and Rocco: Restauranteurs

Molly and Tyrone are doing the dishes and try to get Paul to do a bit cleaning but he brushes them off and heads off to the restaurant.

At the restaurant, Leanne is preparing for another day of business when two shady looking characters come in, holding a copy of the restaurant review she received the other day. They want to have a little lunch, and perhaps meet the chef but she tells them they’re not open yet and could they please come back later. They ask if they could order a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu and wait for the place to open.

Paul arrives and sees the men, recognises them, panics, and goes back home without them seeing him. They wait for some longer and when it’s clear he’s not showing up, they tell Leanne what’s up: they’re the guys he stole from at the last restaurant he worked out, and there were a few indiscretions as well. When he does arrive, they tell her, they are going to take back the money he owes them. Otherwise, Leanne can just tell them where Paul lives. She refuses and threatens to call the police. They advise against it, saying it will be bad for business and she’d lose her top chef.

Meanwhile at the Duckworth’s, Paul comes home and tells Molly and Tyrone he wasn’t supposed to work after all and offers to clean the house. Leanne calls to warn him that he’s going to have visitors shortly. He panics and tells Tyrone to hold them off while he bolts out through the back alley.

Tyrone answers the door to the two goons, asking after Paul. He claims not to have heard any “Paul” and tries to shut the door but Rocco plays the old “stick the foot in the doorway” trick favoured by salesmen and religious sollicitors. Becky passes by and asks Ty if he’s ok. They tell Ty they want their £500 back but aren’t bothered about the wife.

The men go back to the restaurant, threaten Leanne, take her float (about £200), a case of good wine, and the good knives. Leanne is too intimidated to do anything and now, she won’t be able to open her restaurant.

Later, Paul owns up to Molly and Tyrone and tries to get them not to tell Jack and Vera. He also cracks a joke about sleeping with a man’s wife when Molly slaps him -hard- and says there are going to be a few changes around here.

Funniest Line of the Night

Again it belongs to Blanche. Jason and Sarah come in to the café to ask for porridge. Becky says it’s really Roy who does that with his special pan that nobody else is allowed to use.

“I can do a porridge in the microwave,” says Blanche. “That’ll do for a Platt.”

Bwah!

Anyway, Eileen just heard from her son Todd, who is coming to the wedding. This is suprising given his history with Sarah but he’s even going to Jason’s stag party.

Also, Eileen bought herself a fancy new outfit. Turns out Gail got the same one a few weeks ago.

£1000 Gets a Lot of PS3 XBox 360 Games

Kirk bought Chesney a Full English and an PS3 XBox 360 to cheer him up. Fizz learns of the money Cilla left, as well as the fact that she was going to give Fizz some but took it back. Anyway, Fizz tells Kirk not to spend it all on video games and to save some for, you know, rent.

In Other News

Jerry and Kevin are off to Milan. Jerry’s kids (heh) kind of loathe him right now.

John promises Sally that he will talk to Rosie about her future. John also has a new haircut and is shopping at better stores these days.