THE FALL OF BAZ-RAH

Backstreet Moon wafts around the square, buying flowers and dreaming of his night of hot hot lovin' with Kellay. Kellay gets all paranoid when Fool lives up to his name and tries to give her a tenner to "buy something nice". She screams:"Now everybody knows I'm a tart" at the top of her voice and the whole square looks unsurprised. She dons the sackcloth and ashes, and dumps Backstreet. Backstreet is sad. I predict non-comedy teen entrepeneur antics over the next couple of weeks as Backstreet tries to prove that he can earn a Man's Wage.

Baz starts tidying up Cave Evans. Juhneen pops in and out all day, chattering brightly, taking his grey underpants to the launderette. Pat and Simpleton look suspicious. Juhneen looks sly.

We're spared the non-comedy baybay antics in favour of a strange revenge-cum-Furwank-bashing day with Pat and Babs. Babs has asked Pat to do a bit of cleaning. There's a whole load of weird dialogue where Babs forces Pat to agree that Furwank was a bastard and no good and everything he touched turned bad. Pat looks uncomfortable. I mean, she's cleaning for the woman who shagged a kiddy fiddler, ferchrissakes. Babs has a whole pile of ironing for Pat to do tomorrow. Minty (ew) is looking for rent. Pat looks desperate.

Dot gives up her church reading to go Tea Dancing with Jim (for some reason she chose an Whitsun text, so it's probably a good thing). Jim looks sad because he was going to play in the Big Money Poker game with Ian and Fill and Minty and Central Casting (Thugs).

Den Jr antics. Shazza and Vickney go to Rough-as-a-dog Ma Rickman's funeral. Before the funeral, Shazza spends some time mooning over Den Sr, looking wistful in the Vic and wondering if Den Jr will be as bad as her father(dull dull dull). Den Jr doesn't turn up until after the funeral, and he looks waayyyy older than 25. Shazza and Vickney rush to greet him, but then his prison warders appear and cart him off. Well, at least he'll be easy to find...