Enders catch up

I love Virgin replay. After half term when i missed 4 episodes of East Enders I had a luxurious evening when Husband was late at work (working hard) watching 2hours of East Enders and it was so exciting. Bradley saved people from Nick Cotton's terrifying hostage situation where he was getting violent with a REAL STOOL LEG (off one of Ian Beals cafe stools no less) it was so scary we all thought they were going to die either from GBH courtesy of N.Cotton and his stuff-of-nightmares stool leg (I mean, he just, like, smashed a stool, grabbed the leg and then held about 10 people hostage - how realistic!) or from the really realistic gas-leak that suddenly developed over the dirty cafe hob. And Dots hair got curlier and then Max came in and smashed down the door and Phil just kind of cowered in the background drinking brandy or something straight from the bottle. Meanwhile Billy was beaten up by Jases' killer and J forgave Billy and Ronnie has put holes in Jack's condoms because she really wants a baby to replace Danielle who got run over by that BITCH Jenene. God, i just love that programme.
So tonight, because i missed monday AND tuesday (Monday I was cooking dinner for Husband in an unprecedented act of love and loyalty (baked Mackeral, asaparagus, new potatoes - organic, on offer in Sainsburys, 1 glass of red wine); Tuesday i was cooking for Mother In Law in another unprecedented act of love and loyalty (spinach & fresh-pea risotto, followed by lashing of cheese & crackers, 2 glasses of white wine) - thus East Enders cruelly pushed aside) Husband back late (on bike today) i re-ran 1hour of Enders. Not so exciting and Wit's hair was just diabolical and kept changing from really greasy to slightly less greasy and has poor Bianca lost her for the real mother Deborah who is really such a cow? I'm not so bothered about Wits mum but can't believe no one from school has been to follow up her total absence from all the exams bar the slightly buffoony-English Teacher who went to school, i think, with Husband many years ago. So the Wit plot is a bit thin. Nevertheless its so watchable and so nice to sit eating pitta bread stuffed with cheese and chutney (Husband's home made apple chutney recipe courtesy of my paternal grandmother who was Chutney Champion) and tomato, knowing the girls are upstairs singing themselves to sleep (tonight they are mostly singing "I'm walking in the air" by Aled Jones, from the Snowman, which Liz insisted on watching 4 times in a row today and because I am weak, I let her).

I like it when Enders goes through plot lulls. Its like a small break for all concerned. The characters get to do some flippery scenes where its not all about to end in divorce abuse addiction death terminal illness a beating prison kidnapping or something worse. And the viewers get to chew their sandwiches really loudly and not be too alarmed if they miss anything because there is nothing crucial being said anyway in these plot lulls. Mastication and slurping wine noisily is OK at these story-line interval episodes.

Will Ronnie get found out by Jack?
What has happened to Bradleys HUGE and slobbering dog? (does the actor really like having it as his side-kick?)
Has Witneys hair-dresser finally put too much laquer on her hair? Will it ever recover?
And finally. Will Dot get murdered by her evil and crap-actress-grand-daughter?
With these deep and meaningful, yet unanswerable questions, I go and have a bath.