I have got my head around Monday's episode sometimes being the second half of Friday's, which would originally have been on on a Wednesday (by ignoring it) but an ep filmed in mid-March, which was supposed to air in early May being shown on TV in late June is percolating my little brain. Nonetheless, it's VE Day and Alex is dressed as? erm? a costermonger? serving liver casserole and dripping sarnies in the cafe. Um, yum? Carla is decorating the pub with patriotic plastic flags, but finds time to thank Abby (with a bottle of booze) for helping getting rid of the druggies-turned-blackmailers. It'd be lovely if those two became friends.
Talking of the olden days, David, wearing a nineties style tie-dye t-shirt talks about Shona coming back to live on the street. Shona has a new support worker, Aaron, who seems a bit more on it than the last carer who managed to lose her. Shona makes an immediate faux pas by putting a coin in Abby's keep cup, thinking she's homeless, David makes another one by storming into the flat and insisting on making tea for his wife and there's another from Shona as she she makes the moves on the care worker. To be honest, David is more scrappy but Aaron is better looking, with a sexy soft accent.
It's the morning after the lady of the the night before and Daniel decides to ring blonde Katie Harrison (Naughty Nicki), before going to buy some icky looking strong lager. Daniel turns up at the hotel after quaffing said lager and knocks on Nicki's door. Does she live at the hotel? Are the management OK with her plying her wares out of it?
Also in bad romance news: in the flat of many people, which I think used to house Maria and Liam (and Ozzy), Seb says he will move out and leave Emma and Alina (who's been in the Edwardian blouse dressing up box) to become friends. Didn't Emma chuck him out ages ago? Anyway, Seb buys Emma some flowers to apologise but then tells Alina that he still really likes her.
Meanwhile, Steve and even Tracy want to take Oliver to the city farm and promise to take anti-bacterial gel and hand wipes with them. Steve's obviously been stockpiling them since February. Leanne puts up resistance, but then changes her mind and says she will accompany the Barlow-McDonalds to the farm. There's a lot of stuff about not buying Oliver an ice-cream, as he's not allowed them, so I can only assume a 99 or maybe even a Nobbly-Bobbly is going to feature in Liz's downfall/exit storyline.
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