EASTENDERS 26 - N O MEANS NO SPOILERS. NOW. NEVER EVER !!!

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Obv we have the sad death of mrs spam

Thankfully Aiden storyline finished

No one seems to know or care where baby abi is

Ben is still wandering round France

Poor karen and she has grown on us. Just like carol branning did. Anyone who comes in with lots of kids and shouting etc - seems to warm the cockles of our hearts

Jack will shag mel

Will kat /slaters stay or disappear again

Any more stories going on?

Me too mrsjayy - they both need a good slap imo!

What ring?

How about a new line of Mick finally fitting some locks on the doors at the Vic? Seems he & Linda or indeed anyone keeps having a coitus interuptus as any tom-dick-Harry saunters in!!!!

Weeks ago Kim gave her ring to Vincent to be pawned but Pearl took it out the box and posted it in the DVD player Karen was cleaning the house and got blamed ring is still whirring about i the Dvd player

coitus interuptus

If Ted is on an income based benefit such as Pension Credit he could qualify for help with Funeral Costs. If collecting State retirement Pension or private pension he won't qualify. (I think I am becoming over invested in these storylines).

Ridiculous because whatever falling out his kids had with their father they would still be involved in organising their mothers funeral.

Well his daughter did come. But she left in a huff because it turns out Ted (very badly!) pointed out her DH is a dick many moons ago.
And she won't admit he's right

Coitus interuptus made me spit out my coffee

Ted probably got beer money from Joyce and had no idea where their money came from saying that I don't believe that Jay didn't have contact to pass Teds details on, when an aunt of mine died the funeral director helped her family to apply for a hardship grant.

£6k is a lot for a funeral

a more basic one could be had forless and yes thekids would help

Ah thanks @MrsJayy

You are welcome catinboots

It’s bit mean of EE not to put information out about what available for funerals. We constant have the info hot line of touching on any sensitive issue. Apprently because some people can’t use internet. Yet on subject which primarily affects older people with no access no easy information on the web about support, mr Mrs Jones left there thinking well we don’t have £6k so looks like paupers funeral for us. That’s really upsetting. I know it’s soap but still.

Hope The Vic isn’t back into money troubles by next week again because of E20. In fact they better start having something to show for ally his money they are making.

The funeral directors should give some kind of advice regarding costs if somebody can’t pay or hasnt insurance I think? Not sure but I am guessing they might.
I’m shocked his daughter hasnt pitched in - you just would help even if you don’t get on. She is heartless.

Most funeral directors offer credit and payment plans these days I'm sure! Do wish they would do basic research sometimes.

Jay said that Les coker didnt want people ' having credit' - in which case i would take my custom elsewhere ( if i were Ted)
( sorry, custom for a funeral sounds a bit cold and harsh, but you get my drift. i dont want to offend anyone)

The three funerals I’ve been involved in - dh - my mum and my uncle

All 3 diff funeral parlours

And all wouldn’t do finance /payment packages as they said they wouldn’t get their money after the funeral

Thanks @The80sweregreat Must have missed that bit.

Odd, they all seem to near me. Credit provided by a broker not the actual director.

Blondes - that’s sad to read.

makes sense tho

you wouldnt eat at a restaurant/sains and say i will pay you £50 etc for the next 6 mths

no, i can see why a lot of directors dont have credit or payment plans - must be horrible though when people dont have any form of life insurance or savings as they do cost a lot of money, even the ones that Jay mentioned about for Mrs Murray - you still have to pay something.
My inlaws paid up front for their funerals years and years ago now. you dont hear of places doing this any more either.
its is all very sad.

You are watching a party political broadcast by Karen Taylor

Karen 😂😂😂😂😂

Karen was funny. It was amusing in parts and I actually laughed.
Bit of a first in ages!

Good point by PPs about this being one of the very subjects which would make Public Service Announcement-type information worthwhile. As Akire points out, the very elderly who are most likely to be thinking about funeral arrangements are the ones who probably can't do online research about costs, grants, worst case scenarios.

Loved Karen's political rant, but would have liked someone to take issue with her failure to vote!

I counted nine in Stacey's kitchen today, excluding Stacey's three kids and Tiff, there are five adults and not one of them is working! Why isn't Tiff at school? Is Bianca still supposed to be on a cruise?

Jean makes me laugh "keep me in the dark, why? I'm not a mushroom'. :) I'm sooooo glad EE is back to normal.