EASTENDERS 19 - NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

I'm away at moment so havnt managed to watch any EE 🙀🙀🙀

But gather from 18 that we now know

Fi and Clarke kent are siblings

Linda hasn't told nick about her cancer

Will lauren find out Stephen lied

And that her sister abi is preg with his baby

What will happen to jane and max

Will there be a funeral for Stephen

What else is happening?

I’m so frustrated with all of the stories at the moment.

The billy sorry, so predictable. Why oh why couldn’t they just let him make a go of something for a change. The max thing is unrealistic, dull and completely run out of steam.

Jay giving Silly Billy cash must be a conscience thing after he stole from him? I can't help thinking sex on a kitchen table must be mightily painful on the spine - but them I am old and not so supple . I hope they wiped it down before dinner time.

Billy said that Les was still having an interest in the business, surely he could have phoned him up for advice? why were the invoices not in the office and at home? there were only a few of them, it couldnt have added up to that much? I think you can pay tax back by instalments, but not that sure really.
I am confused with the whole Sophie / Max story , although she is clearly scared of her 'daddy' - not sure what is going on there to be honest and who is double crossing who. Shakil is a teenager, first thing he would have done is walked into the kitchen and looked in the fridge! Poor kid is doing too much for Bandage Bex, her eyes are clearly on her new instructor.
Sophie and Max must also have a tardis to get around, just how fast was she from getting the memory stick and back to canary wharf? All without being caught. the whole episode was terrible and I actually thought that things were looking up a bit.

You're right, The80s - no self respecting teenage boy deviates from the front door-fridge path IME! I was uncomfortable when Fi went into Carmel's house with Max, squirming when they were getting it on in the kitchen and convinced that Shaki would discover them.

I think Billy explained that Les used to take care of the books but he was so devastated by Paul's death that he hadn't been doing them. The last we heard from Pam was that he was fine and enjoying his seaside retirement, wasn't it?

The first thing my teenagers do when they come indoors is to go upstairs to their rooms. Shaki must be the same kind of teen.

I can't work out how the whole rvenge thing is going to pan out. JWB can't win, that much is certain I would have thought. I can only assume Fi and Max double cross him somehow.

Okay. Never liked Fi, and I suppose we're not meant to anyway, but she's reached a new low on the scum scale. Coming to "the other woman's" house and marking her territory (again, like in the loo of the Vic) and 'superiority'. On the kitchen table, the "heart of the house". Just hope she didn't pee on Carmel's awful biker jackets to spread her scent.
Agree, The80s, clearly some daddy issues there.

Surely according to soap logic and soap moral code that means that Bex, the inexperienced driver, will mow Sophie over. Perhaps in Max's car. It would make a change for the victims not to be pitied and innocent, like Danielle, Abi's dog Tramp, Emma Summerhayes, or the chippy.

Off topic, I've been living in the UK nearly two decades but I'm still puzzled how anyone can just get in a regular car and drive off – as long as you stuck the big red L on and are sitting with someone, anyone, whose only requirement is that they're alive and have had their licence for three years, you're good to be let out onto actual real life traffic.

I guess Super Son still has the money she stole from the pensioner.

I hope the revenge story will be over soon

I did watch Friday's episode. But was also staring out of the window quite a lot. Sometimes it was hard to tell which.

I think somebody had a driving lesson?
A tax man looked concerned?
A couple had sex on a table (seems to be an EE "thing", unnecessarily crude for pre-watershed)

Riveting stuff.

I'm confused. Maybe I missed an episode. Jay got the papers through for the car lot, I saw that bit, but did he sell it? How comes he's awash with cash now??

Sophie is a dirty dog! ( so is max )
Not sure about the rules for learning to drive , you could go out with someone with a provisional licence years ago ( if the instructor had a full licence ) my fil taught my dh to drive over the caradrome in essex, but in 1978 / 79 the roads were less crowded than now! Most people go with a proper instructor these days i,guess. I wouldnt want Robbie or Gethin teaching me!

I found the whole tax inspection thing so irritating - I’ve never seen one irl but I’d bet a fair few quid it’s nothing like that, seemed like utter claptrap (the way the inspector essentially speculated it would be many thousands without any hesitation or looking at facts) although fits in with everything else atm Wheeeeeeeen will it get betttttttttter - waaaaaiiiiiiilllllllll

Kitchen table sex is fine. Just use it imaginatively and don’t try to do missionary on the top. I’m pretty sure there was a recent rom com with kitchen table shagging.

Not sure I could get in the mood with pink vomit coloured walls though.

Why kitchen tables though? i just couldnt think of a worst place ( well, maybe it is a step up from the Vic toilets for Sophie and maxthough)
you eat meals and prepare food at tables - its just insane..

agree that the tax inspectors were irritating, they would just say ' we will be in touch' i bet, then send the threatening letters or emails! lol.

The most exciting thing that happens on my kitchen table is the guardian cross word.

Nancy, ha ha!

HMRC inspector was a ridiculous caricature. Really grates on me. They may as well have put him in a bowler hat!

In real life they're just normal people, with normal work-clothes and normal accents, and -gasp- they're helpful!

The driving lesson was stupid, surely only named drivers on their insurance can take learner out or is,that not correct?

Billy and the tax thing was stupid. Would there bit be mitigating circumstances and Les would surely pay an accountant not trust illy idiot and 2 invoices would not equate to 1000s.

The only way Z illy would go from owing nothing to owing thousands is if one of those invoices was for the Queen mother’s funeral - the average funeral is what £6k? The tax payable on a couple of those is hardly likely to push them in to bankruptcy

For which tax year is he supposed to owe all this back tax plus penalties? I didn't think he'd been running it long enough.

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I'm really curious to know:

Why the bloody Hell don't the clouds outside the windows of Willmott-Brown's 'boardroom' ever move??? Laughable.
(I'm assuming they're to convince us that his business empire's successful enough to afford London skyscraper premises).

Or are they meant to look so obviously fake that we assume the view's just part of the decor wallpaper?

And don't get me started on his dramatic worst acting I've seen all year backshot chair swivel cliffhanger. Recreating Charlie from the original tv Charlie's Angels? Awful.

Those clouds wind me up too! Its very Crossroads that set. Hugo and james are terrible.

Cremations are cheaper than burials as you have to buy the plot of land. They all have burials in EE, apart from Steven.

Lineys very good point!

And then Billy's line 'I'm not a business man, am I?!' –
a) you're running a business, (and so far has been doing well) so yes he is and b) if you're overwhelmed with your tax return, even of you're Billy you wouldn't just 'wing it', you'd get an accountant or at least ask one of the other people with businesses on The Square.
Like Sharon for instance, who spent her time carrying around 'tax files' when she came back from Italy...

Thank you for the insight re. driving lessons The80s
Excuse my derail.

Sex on the kitchen table only reminds me of George Michael's "Outside" 'I think I'm done with the sofa, I think I'm done with the hall, I think I'm done with the kitchen table baby."