It's my final week here and boy, let me tell you, it ain't been easy. Despite several bids for freedom, they kept me here against my will, forcing me to eat stuff, blue stuff. It hasn't been pretty. And the singing. The singing was the worst but I had to do it. I had no choice. And when special projects are up and they let me go home next week, I'll start on the book that I promised I would write, so you'll know. Everyone will know. I'll tell it all, what really went on. Perhaps. But until then, the sun's now setting and I need to write the update before the light disappears, so here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Gail's rather worried and more than a bit jealous about Hayley's friendship with Sarah Lou. She warns Hayley off, telling Martin her interest in Sarah Lou is unhealthy but later apologises, and rightly so. Martin's got other things on his mind as he rings his nubile on his mobile from the Rovers as Gail nips to the ladies. Martin ends up fighting Jerry away from Rebecca after he takes exception to her filing for divorce, forcing Rebecca to think about moving out of the nurse's home and into her own flat. Not able to afford much on her nurse's salary, Martin offers to chip in with the rent money.
Lip-smacking, smooth-talking, brandy-drinking Dev chats up Debs in the corner shop and next thing you know, the pair of them are back from a night out together, with tongues down each other's throats. As dejected Duggie looks on, the pair of them go into Debs' house for some rumpeh-pumpeh. Next morning, Nat calls round to see Debs, amazed to find Dev there too, but she bursts Debs' bubble later in the day when she tells her that she overheard Dev telling all and sundry (well, Aunty Maya and Steve McDonald) that Debs 'wasn't wife material'. Debs is down in the dumps until Nat calls her to say Duggie is in the Rovers, alone, so she pops round, buys him a drink and accepts a dinner date offer. Blinkin-eck - does this woman bother wearing any knickers?
With blue neon flashing 'taxi', Streetcars opens for business. Jez has Steve over a barrel, forcing him to use the cabs for drug deliveries and bringing in his own driver. Innocent to all the Jez nonsense, Vikram is as keen as mustard in his first business venture, and you have to feel sorry for him, you really do. Other new ventures on the Street aren't doing so well, with Danny and Sally moaning about poor sales at D&S Hardware. "We might be losing money, but at least we're together" says Sally, rather stupidly, I thought.
Ashley asks Spider and Toyah round for a veggie meal chez Peacock, but Maxine's not too keen, asking him: "What kind of music do hippies listen to?" Anyhow, the meal goes okay until Fred turns up to see the 'turnip twosome' and Ashley fools him into eating veggie cheese on toast. (Fred: "Poisoned!") Returning the hospitality, Max and Ashley go round to the bedsit for a real veggie meal with Spider and Toyah, and their friends Pip and Wilf. Maxine's (over)dressed up to the nines in a pink frock and cardi. "Don't take this the wrong way but you look like a doll I used to have", Pip tells her. Pip and Wilf are a bit, you know, opinionated and heated arguments over butchery and vegetarianism, capitalism and feminism ensue. Maxine storms out, yanking Ashley out after her.
Gwen's finished the decorating at Jim's place and it looks, well... it looks like she's been to B&Q and bought some cheap and nasty wallpaper, contrasting of course, with the dado rail around the middle of the room. It yelled tacky to me but I'm a plain walls sort of girl, so what do I know? Jim tells her that his uncle John in Ireland has passed away so he'll have to go there to pay his respects and get drunk. Leaving Gwen alone with a store credit card? Bad move, matey.
Linda persuades Mike to put a performance related pay scheme into place in the factory. The girls aren't sure what to do but Hayley seems sure it's a good deal for them all, getting paid for the amount of work they do must only be a good thing, surely? They all assume it's Mike's idea so when Linda tells Janice it was she who thought it up, Janice has a go at her over putting her own interests first, now she's management and no longer one of the girls. But what does Linda care? Mike's given her a gold credit card (she's keeping it close to her heart - under her bra strap!) with instructions to use it to buy whatever she likes. And it doesn't stop there, the old romantic has just gone and arranged a horse and carriage for the day of their marriage.
Things are progressing nicely for Curly when Emma calls to see him one morning, well, she's passing by, like. Curly asks her "Do you want to... " "Yes" she replies, without even waiting for the question. Ah, bless. Anyhow she pops round there later as Curly cooks dinner and confides in her about Raquel and Alice. The evening ends with a snog for the pair of them. Lovely.
Jack gets a new job, as a lollipop man. Vera isn't too happy when she finds out, worried about his heart. But, she's more likely to be worried about his wallet now that she's found out he'll be working on the new pedestrian crossing outside of the betting shop.
And that's just about that for this week. Read this then eat it. Destroy all the evidence. Thank you.
Glenda ;-)
I'm back home now, ladies and gentlemen. Back to the safety of my own home, my own dog, my own wine, my own cheese. My own CD's on the stereo and no blue food in the fridge. The police tell me I'll go through a period of adjustment as I come to terms with normal life again, but I don't know for sure. I don't think I'll ever get back to normal, whatever that may be from now on. I've seen too much and I know things I shouldn't. My job now is to warn the others. I'll do that just as soon as I sellotape the dog's nose together. First, of course, and much more importantly, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Vikram picks up a taxi fare, Eileen Grimshaw, and it turns out she's a whizz at this taxi lark, having worked in the biz previously. She soon ends up working in the Streetcars office drinking tea, eating chips and answering the phone while sitting on the decent chair she demands. She's absolutely brilliant! Steve still hasn't told Vik the truth about Jez, so when Jez keeps ringing for a free taxi ride here there and everywhere, Vik refuses his requests. Not the best thing to do really, under the circumstances, but he's not to know. Anyway, Jez storms into the office demanding to know why his taxi requests are being ignored and there's a bit of argy-bargy when Vik pushes Jez around, not realising who he's dealing with, of course. As Jez leaves and Vik leans against the wall, pausing for breath, Eileen pops a chip in her mouth and pipes up "While you're stood up, put kettle on". Wonderful stuff. Anyway, Steve's sure that Jez had something to do with Tony's murder and confides his suspicions to Natalie. She's straight on the phone to DI Reynolds who wants to know her source, but she's refusing, quite rightly, to say who told her. Steve's a worried man, and so is Vikram after Steve finally tells him the truth about Jez's involvement with Streetcars. In fact, Steve is so worried that he's thinking of going to the police himself.
There's baby stuff all over the place this week. Sarah Lou goes to an ante-natal class and learns how to put a pretend nappy on a plastic doll which I'm sure will come in handy. As Alison comes over all sweaty in the café "I feel sick and me eyes have g one all funny" (I feel like that after Chardonnay), Gail gets Curly to ring for an ambulance and Alison's rushed into hospital with suspected pre-eclampsia. Gail and Sarah Lou talk about Alison's situation, about the fact that she could actually lose the baby and Gail is shocked when Sarah Lou says that if it happened to her, maybe losing her baby would be the best thing for all.
The girls at Underworld are underwhelmed by the new pay scheme when they all, apart from Hayley, realise they're going to be earning less than normal. Linda, afraid that the girls will think she's gone back on her word to get them earning more money, st ays late after they've all gone home and stitches pants for Gwen and Janice to make up their earnings.
After Debs made it clear last week that she's still interested in Duggie, the pair of them spend the night together. This time he isn't as anxious and doesn't run away, well, not physically, but mentally he's too anxious to perform on Debs command. Being the sensitive soul she is, Debs runs straight to Natalie and tells her all the gossip. But anyway, things get straightened out in the end. Afterwards, the pair of them have a drink in the Rovers, with red wine and cheeky grins.
Martin and Rebecca pick up the wrong mobile phones and much hilarity ensues, not. What is quite funny is that Gail has invited Rebecca to dinner chez Platt (pies: meat, chips: frozen, veg: tinned, dessert: with custard). She also invites Gary Mallett along, hoping to pair him up with Rebecca. I can hardly wait. Rebecca moved into her new flat this week and despite not liking this woman AT ALL, NOT ONE BIT, I warmed to her a little when she decided to go shopping for cushions. Now, cushions I like. Cushions, I understand. You always know where you are with a cushion. Or twelve.
Jim's back from the funeral in Ireland, furious to find out that Gwen has turned his living room into something from 'Changing Rooms from B&Q hell'. He makes her cut up the store credit card yet foolishly agrees to opening a joint bank account with her. Odd. Gwen goes moaning on in the Rovers to Janice that she's thinking of leaving Jim as he's so unreasonable to live with.
There's a couple of lovely scenes between our young lovers, Maxine and Ashley. She's worried that she's forced her vegetarianism onto her husband so cooks up a full English breakfast for him to make amends. Meanwhile, the lovely Spider, dressed in black jacket and white shirt, looking gorgeous at the Rovers bar, with hair slightly ruffled, gives Ashley an idea. He asks Fred what he thinks about selling organic produce but Fred wonders if Weatherfield is ready for happy meat. And even if they are, can they afford it?
Emma and Curly plan a weekend away in the country together. Curly's glasses just about steam up when she mentions she'd like to get back to nature with lots of physical exercise.
Sally's working all hours in the shop, which is odd, as they've never got any customers and it's not making much money. Danny's bored. When his brother offers him 50 quid for helping out shifting stuff in a van, hejumps at the chance. And when his brother wants him to go for a drink afterwards, he does. And Sally doesn't like it so she moans, she drones and it's all too boring for words.
And that's just about it for this week. I knew I should have stuck the dog's nose back on before I started writing the update. It might be too late now.
Glenda ;-)
Hiya everyone, I'm back again. No sooner has Glenda returned home from her strange travels (that blue stuff couldn't have been Harpic could it?) than I'm back filling in for her as she prepares for her exams later this week. Good luck Glenda, though I'm sure you don't need it. There's nobody I know who knows as much about seaside holidays and cowboy's bathing habits than you. Here we go with this week's happenings down Coronation Street.
Steve can see no other way out of his predicament, so for once in his life he does the right thing and shops Jez to the police. He gets taken in for questioning, which pleases Natalie, Steve and Vik but before long he's back out on the streets trying to find out who is to blame for his temporary incarceration. His first port of call is Steve who convinces Jez that it can't have been him as he's a mate and anyway he knows full well what would happen to him if he did and so Jez turns his attentions towards Natalie and threatens her menacingly with a pork pie. With all this hassle, Jez decides he needs his money back from Steve and Steve is more than happy to give it to him to get him off his back but he arrives at Jez's just in time to see him being taken away in handcuffs by the police. With Jez out of the way Steve wastes no time in sacking Jez's man Rich from the taxi firm, who smashes the coffee machine on the way out. So traumatised is Natalie by her encounter with Jez's growler (that's yorkshire for pork pie) that Debs arranges for her to go and stay with a relative for a few days to get away from it all.
Everyone is worried about Alison stuck in hospital - who wouldn't, she looks awful - and Gwen and Janice manage to touch Mark up for a few quid for some flowers and chocolates. Things are under control and it looks as if Alison is going to be ok but it's plenty of rest for her from now on and no more working at the factory. It's probably just as well as the new productivity scheme is doing nothing for incomes in the Street and Janice, Gwen and Bobbi are looking particularly strapped for cash as they receive little more than their basic pay and are continually having to copper up to buy a half of shandy to share in The Rovers. Janice has Dev look over the contracts they've all signed but he reckons they look kosher and there's no get out clause for them. Meanwhile Kevin realises that they're going to need more space at home once the baby is born and tells Jim that the only way he can afford to move is to sell his share in the garage. Tyrone takes the prospect of being out of work so badly that he's put off his food until Jim talks him round and tells him that he's a good mechanic and if the worst comes to the worst he'll be able to get another job, no bother.
Curly and Nita are both interviewed for the Area Manager's job but neither of them get it. This doesn't seem to bother Curly too much as he has far more important things on his mind as he and Emma head off into the country for a weekend's walking and camping. Curly is finding it hard work but because of how he feels about Emma he puts on a brave face (though from what I saw all the walking seemed to be downhill) and pretends to be enjoying every last minute of it. As they stop for a rest they see a hotel in the distance and decide to have a cup of tea before heading off for a night under canvas. Quick to jump on any chance possible of avoiding a night under canvas, Curly says it looks as though the weather could turn bad and so Emma asks reception if there are any rooms spare. The bad news is that they are fully booked but the good news is that Emma had already booked a room anyway and was only teasing Curly. Now Curly has got a good one here. Any woman that arranges a weekend away for her man in a posh hotel with a four-poster bed is an absolute gem and should be cherished (though as Emma points out, it's not the bed that's important, it's who's between the sheets that counts). Curly is clearly smitten and the following morning practices telling Emma how he feels about her .... to a donkey. He keeps on trying to tell Emma how he feels and finally the message seems to get through and the feeling is clearly mutual. At one point he even tries poetry - 'I wandered lonely as a cloud and then I came to a stop, And then I saw before me a gorgeous looking cop'. Back home in Weatherfield and Nita tells Curly that as a result of the Area Manager's job going to the store manager from Inverness there's a vacancy in Scotland and he's a dead cert for it. Curly isn't interested in it though, not now that he's found Emma, which leads to much amusement to and teasing from Alma and Audrey. However with the completion of the sale of Nita and Vik's house, there may be somebody else who's interested.
Gail has Gary and Rebecca round to dinner. Things are all a bit strained and she soon gets the message that nothing's going to happen between the pair of them. Rebecca leaves her purse behind and the following day Gail goes round to her flat to give it back. She calls as Rebecca and Martin are busy hanging wallpaper so Martin hides in the bedroom while Rebecca quickly gets rid of Gail. With the baby due in a few weeks Sarah-Louise is getting increasingly worried about what's about to happen to her and when her parents tell her that she can't go to the end of play party she tells them that she's going to have the baby adopted. Gail is furious and tries her to shout her round but she digs her heels in and it's clear that she is plain scared at the prospect of her impending motherhood, so much so that she breaks down in the Post Office when Gary is telling Rita how hard it is bringing up the twins. Rebecca points out to Martin that legally it's down to Sarah-Louise what happens to the baby and that it sounds like the baby has come to mean more to Gail than to Sarah-Louise. Martin points out to Gail what the legal situation is and is more supportive of their daughter, but Sarah-Louise is upset and confused, saying 'I don't know what I want, I just want it all to stop.'
Things don't seem any better between Danny and Sally as he resorts to getting drunk with his brother Kieran to forget his cashflow problems at the shop. Unfortunately the drink doesn't blot out the constant nagging that he receives from Sally, made worse by the memory of the effect that drink had on Greg Kelly when he was living with her. Danny eventually does as he's told but I don't know if this relationship is going to last.
That's it for this week, see you all again sometime
Barry Smith
Before I start, I'd just like to thank Barry Smith for writing the update for me last week while I was in the middle of exams at Uni. I'm sort of de-mob happy as I write the update this week - term's just about finished, exams are over and all that's left is a project to write up and a presentation to give. And when that's all done, the end of my second year as a student will be rounded up by a very long, very drunken, very British bank holiday weekend at the seaside. I can almost smell those toffee apples now. But before any of that, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update, ably assisted by Timothy Taylor's Landlord, green olives and Wensleydale chunks.
Curly gets a second interview for the Freshco job in Scotland. It's not a job he wants to be offered, not now he's found Emma and has every reason to stay in Weatherfield, but he goes for the interview anyway, just to show willing. Anyway, when Nita tells Emma where Curly's gone, she assumes the worst, that Curly wants to move away and isn't best pleased when Curly tries to explain what's going on. No need to worry though because it's Nita who's offered the job as Curly tells Emma "I'd rather be here with you". Nita doesn't want a fuss but Dev insists on throwing a "party" (and I can't even begin to spell how he pronounced the word but it made me melt, that's for sure). Could Dev be the new Spider? I think so, ladies, I think so. He certainly has the charm, if not the ethics. Steve drops by with a bunch of flowers for Nita and off she goes, driven away in a taxi by Vikram.
Over at the Platt's, Gail is managing to play happy families - all by herself. She tells Sarah Lou she's prepared to look after the new baby for her, letting Sarah Lou go back to school and have a life. And then Gail goes and puts her notice in at the cafÈ. Just like that. Martin isn't too bothered about it all, he's got a couple of other things on his mind at the moment. While he's wining and dining Rebecca, Sally and Danny walk into the restaurant. Danny doesn't manage to manoeuvre Sally out of there quick enough and she insists on sitting next to them both, with Martin explaining away the situation as an out of office discussion with a colleague, as it were. Now that Gail is no longer working at the cafÈ, it's become obvious to Roy that he needs an extra pair of hands in there. Toyah's no good at the moment, she's revising for exams and Roy sends her home. And as luck would have it, no sooner has Roy put up a help wanted sign, than Vera walks in and just about claims the job as her own. It's ideal - from the cafÈ window she can keep her eye on Jack at work on his pelican crossing - and the bookies.
Tyrone's trying to save up for a car and Jack hits on a plan to raise some money by breeding their pedigree chum. If Monica's pups sell for approx. 500 quid each, Tyrone could be well on his way to affording a nice little run about. At first, Tyrone isn't so sure, he's got Monica's well being at heart, but he changes his mind after young kennel maid Maria befriends Tyrone and Monica. Tyrone's keen to see Maria again, so he walks Monica on the red rec, where he knows Maria sometimes walks, but he's downhearted when he spots her walking along with another lad.
Over at the factory, a debt collector comes in looking for Gwen. Janice gives the woman some old fibs about not knowing where Gwen is these days, hasn't been heard of for a long time and even when she was round these parts she never bought a round at the pub, and off the woman goes. Gwen has some explaining to do, and Janice realises Gwen's in a lot of debt, still, and it's debt that Jim knows nothing about. Now then, Jim has been left some money in the will of his Irish mate who died the other week. It's a substantial sum, and he's wondering if he should buy the garage from Kevin and Natalie, both of whom want to sell up. Gwen's all for Jim spending his money and buying the garage, well, she would be, wouldn't she? Jim's a bit more cautious and wants to talk to the loans officer at the bank first.
Geena and Bobbi move into the flat above the hair salon. Yes, apparently it is a two bedroom flat, with Audrey saying something about the second bedroom was where Fiona kept the sunbed. Anyway, they move into the flat and Audrey gives them a lecture along with a rent book, and asks Gail to keep an eye on the pair of them. What's she going to say when she finds out they're going to have a flat warming party on Friday night then? A party which Steve and Vikram have got themselves invited to. (I have to say that pairing Steve and Vikram together in this new taxi business was a good move. Vikram was never a favourite of mine, but the pair of them are good together, it really works).
Steve gets a visiting order from Jez in prison, and of course, he goes, terrified as to what Jez might want to see him for. But there's no need to worry, Jez thinks it's an old pal of his who's grassed him up, not Steve, and he only wanted to see Steve to tell him to keep an eye on his money. Meanwhile, Natalie tells Steve he'll get the ten thousand pounds reward for finding Tony's murderer, on the day that Jez is found guilty in court.
Norris has been an absolute star this week, he really has. He started off the week waxing lyrical about his little bubble car he used to have when he were a lad, then ended up by trying (and failing) to keep Audrey and Blanche from tearing each other's hair out in the Kabin. Without knowing, or caring, that Audrey is behind her in the Kabin, Blanche lets her mouth go about how disgraceful it is for young Sarah Lou to be parading her pregnant self about the street, and before you know it, Audrey's in there and the pair of them are trading insults like professionals. Rita throws Blanche out on to the street. "Street?" she says, glaring at Audrey. "Street? Why stop at the street? Let's go to the gutter 'cos that's where SHE goes!".
Anyway, Sarah Lou, relieved that Gail is going to take responsibility for the baby, breaks down in tears when Hayley comes round with a blanket she's knitted for the baby. She confides in Hayley how scared she is about becoming a mother, and Hayley, bless her, holds Sarah Lou's hand and offers more support than either Gail, Martin or Audrey has done so far.
And that's just about it for this week.
Glenda ;-)
Here I am, another week over and another update due. The update's a day later than normal due to the Bank Holiday weekend. It was a most enjoyable weekend which included, in no particular order; involuntarily joining in a game of basketball; a cheeky little pigeon and hugging a trumpet-playing bloke who was sitting on my knee. Anyway, that's a whole other story, so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Quite a wonderful episode this week when Audrey gets reflective and tells Gail all about her father. "He was just a fella, really," says Audrey, telling Gail all about Ted Page - the bloke she never loved. The bloke who's best friend she fancied. Ted Page - the man Audrey used in her plan to get baby Steven back after giving him up for adoption; a plan that involved Gail being conceived and born. I was just about in bits watching this scene. It was so touching, Audrey was in tears, Gail was in tears, I was in tears. Anyway, Ted Page was in the army and he moved away, never to be seen again. Mother and daughter cry and hug, the love and respect for each other evident between them - which contrasted nicely with the lies, hypocrisy, deceit and betrayal that Gail doesn't deserve, but is given from her husband. In order to spend the night with Rebecca, he tells Gail he's staying overnight with a bloke called Tommo who's having a stag do on Friday night. Danny's hesitant but he agrees to back up Martin's story - and Sally rumbles the truth. She isn't best pleased with Danny, naturally, for lying to her and decides the best thing to do is tell Gail what's going on. She storms over there ready to tell Gail everything, but hangs fire when words tumble from Gail's mouth about how wonderful Martin is, how she wouldn't have got through the Sarah Lou saga without Martin, how Martin is her rock. Sally tries Plan B - she goes to see Rebecca at the hospital and warns her that she knows what's going on. Rebecca bleats some old tosh about how she and Martin never meant to get involved, it sort of just happened Yeah, right, like they never had a choice. Sally ends her rant with Rebecca in tears, "You end this affair, and you end it now. Or I will".
Vinny and Natalie start chatting again and Nat invites the lad out for the night. He thinks he's off to a pub for a quiet chat, as friends, but Nat's got other plans. She and her bosom take Vinny out for dinner. She tells him she misses him now, she wants him back, she misses his back, she wants him now. Poor Vinny doesn't know if he's coming or going.
Tyrone walks Monica on the Red Rec again, hoping to bump into Maria once more - and he does. She explains that the boy she was with last time Tyrone saw her was her brother so our two young lovebirds decide to go on a date - same time, same place, after the weekend. They sort of smile at each other for a bit, wondering how to end their little chat on a friendly note so they thump each other on the arm and Tyrone walks off with a smile on his face. The next time they meet up at the red rec, Tyrone finds he's got a rival for his affections when Monica growls every time he and Maria get close. Back at the B&B, he sits up close to Vera to see if Monica gets jealous then, but it seems it's only Maria she's taken exception to. There's a lovely little scene between Vera and Tyrone, he really is a star, that lad.
Up above the salon, there's a flat warming party going on. A party that finds Toyah and Spider starting to fall apart at the seams, Ashley getting drunk, Maxine walking out, and Vikram ending up with his face painted with make-up and wearing coloured false nails. Everyone (apart from Toyah and Maxine) get very drunk, and Ashley is so drunk that Maxine won't let him back into the house. Awakened by the noise of Ashley whimpering in the street, Debs takes him in there and lets him sleep on the sofa. Maxine assumes there's been rumpeh-pumpeh going on next door and falls out with Debs, throwing insults at her across the perm solution in the salon. Next day in the Rovers we have Ashley being given advice from Vikram and Steve "don't give in to her, let her know who wears the trousers", that sort of thing. And on t'other side there's Maxine being looked after by Bobbi and Geena "let him make the first move, make him apologise", and so on. Anyway, like a scene from Grease with the pink ladies on one side and the greasy heads on the other, Sandy and Danny Peacock smile at each other, have a bit of a chat and walk out of the Rovers - together, singing "You're the one that I want". Well, almost.
So, Spider and Toyah look set to become history pretty soon as Toyah soberly celebrates her 18th birthday with an orange juice. She wants to keep a clear head to cope with exam revision, but Spider just thinks she's gone boring.
Linda tells Mike she's passed the theory part of her driving test which is news to Mike, he didn't realise she'd even thought about learning to drive. But, now that he knows, he realises that having Linda drive him around would be better than being chauffeured by Mark, so he encourages Mark to give Linda driving lessons. Wahey! Some saucy scenes and lots of innuendo to be had about big ends, burly chassis, gear sticks and clutches as Mark and Linda get to grips with the driving, and each other.
In another corking scene this week (and there were plenty of them, for a change) Candice and Sarah Lou sit in Sarah's bedroom to talk baby clothes and cotton wool. "Will you be the baby's auntie?" Sarah asks her friend, and Candice agrees, saying that it's going to be dead good fun having a baby to play with. Sarah Lou doesn't look convinced.
And, elsewhere on the Street this week: Vera started work at the café and nobbled Jack as he nipped into the bookies; Jim's windfall totals £10,000 and although he's making plans to use the cash to buy the garage, Gwen (who has quickly become the most annoying woman, ever) has other plans to spend it, I'm sure.
And that's just about it for this week. I'm off now to look for a man with a trumpet.
Glenda ;-)
