It's the day of the dead after the Hallowe'en before. Or the Price-Driscolls have been asleep all weekend, Rip Van Winkle style. Ollie is tasked with picking up the final member of the extended family, Will, but he doesn't turn up. How's he managed to get lost between Hull and Manchester? they ask. Well, he probably got a Transpennine train. Mrs Doyle says that Will never wanted to come here and how they've moved around - from Galway to Toulouse to Hull. How come Ollie has a Mancunian accent then? I suppose I'll have to file this under Peter Barlow coming back from Scotland with a Nottinghamshire accent and Dylan living in London all of his life until 2022 but sounding like he never left Bolton.
Cassie has lost her "nechkin" Scouse accent and now has what my grandma used to call a telephone voice for answering calls at Streetcars. Tim teases her with a call from "Killian Mbappe", saying it's an initiation, but then Tracy does some proper hazing by unplugging the switchboard, to Tim's consternation, although Cassie seems more bothered about how all of Tracy's relatives like her more than Tracy-luv than the missed fares.
For once, Becky comes 'round to no. 6 invited. By Carla, to dole out some home truths (I am hoping for some brawling in the street before this story ends). Becky talks about masks and how it's sexy being incognito. Not as sexy as Carla in that tight cop uniform on Friday - Lisa knows which side her ciabatta is buttered, or at least she should do, although you can hardly blame Carla for worrying about infidelity given that her most recent husband cheated on her on their literal wedding day. Becky drops the bombshell that when (if) she moves back to Spain, Betsy's going with her. Swain, probably the only person on the street who keeps up with the news, points out that you can only stay for 90 days nowadays. Betsy says she'll get a work visa and a job waitressing. You struggle to boil the kettle! says Swain, not unreasonably.
Finally, Carl continues his descent into evil by saying he should have access to the hotel finances - I guess he's only going to go once he's screwed over all of his family. Debbie says she's not about to order 20 million toilet rolls. What about olives? She gives him all of the boring jobs and says she'll keep going with the accounts. Wise.
Rachel Stevenson - on bluesky
That's a good point about accents. I would have thought Bethany would have had an Italian accent, having been brought up in Milan, but no.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that George and Chrissy were talking about the Louvre in Paris in the rovers - this was clearly filmed before the recent theft of jewellery there!
It was nice to have a respite from Abbey, Kevin and Carl but I confess that I'm totally sick of the Lisa/ Becky/Carla love triangle.
It's gone on too long and I am not convinced by Becky, as there is no emotional intent behind her words. She just blandly trots her lines out.
I'll be glad when it comes to an end, hopefully before Christmas.
So, there's street chat as well as platt chat? I wouldn't have thought Rita would be bothered with it myself!
If Dev bombards folk with Bogoff offers, why doesn't Brian join in and do the same? 6 greetings cards for the price of 4 or 2 bags of sweets for £2!
That's the only way they are going to shift those huge jars of sweets, stuck in the window.
The rovers now has more staff than ever- Eva, Maggie, Ben, Glenda, Gemma, Lauren and Sean. How an earth are they going to pay them all?
What about olives! LOLZ! When you know, you know. Thanks Rachel :-D xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks, gorgeous!
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