Over The Top Family

[pips1]

Before anyone states the obvious, I KNOW it is a soap but the trouble the Carters went to for Linda's birthday in Eastenders was surely OTT. It wasn't even a special birthday and by the way if she is supposed to be 37 when did she have all those grown up kids? must have been young! It feels like it has gone on all week, talk about one spoilt lady, does anyone else have this special treatment every year?

[silliemillie]

Yes, she seems to have had a week long birthday! I think she was a teenage mum by what they were saying the other week.

[Buenchico]

Some families really do seem to make a big deal out of 'ordinary' birthdays.

I live on a 'bog standard' cul-de-sac of a Barratt Homes estate in a predominantly working class area. So my neighbours definitely don't have film-star lifestyles! But I've overheard one guy admitting that he might have gone a bit overboard with spending £2000 on fireworks for his daughter's 5th birthday and there are several houses where birthdays (of both adults and children) are celebrated by cordoning off the end of the road and filling it with bouncy castles [note my use of the plural - one wouldn't be enough for some of these people!], barbecues [plural again!] and even a DJ with a full sound system. That means that, several times per year, we have noisy parties going on in the street outside until 2 or 3am (with kids of even pre-school age playing and screaming until midnight). The cost of each of these parties clearly runs well into four figures (even without any fireworks!).

So perhaps whatever happened in Eastenders (which I don't watch) wasn't as unbelievable as it might have seemed?

[pips1]

Crikey Buenchico, that is ridiculous! As my mum says it is just another day and we all have one! I can think of far better ways of spending two grand, surely a 5 year old would far rather have a holiday to Disneyworld than fireworks that last about 20 mins, but each to their own.

[ummmm]

I think she had her first child at 15.

I'm not sure it's OTT. Having a pub makes it easy to celebrate birthdays. It was only Karaoke which would probably be booked anyway.

[pips1]

That's true ummmm, I've changed my mind after reading what happens in Buenchicho's street! I meant more about the time it lasted and how they all had to be involved and secretive and treat her like an absolute princess, maybe I'm just jealous, haha.

[andres]

Did you watch the ending? She wants another baby!!

[silliemillie]

One day soon (can't remember when) Deano overhears Mick and Linda discussing a secret from the past that only them two know, wonder what that is?

[ummmm]

I thought that Mick might be Shirleys son.

[elliemay1]

I didn't like it when they introduced that new family but I must say that they 'belong' now. I really like the actress who plays Nancy.

[ummmm]

I like her too, and Johnny.

[elliemay1]

Yes, they're very believable as brother and sister. She is so protective of him.

[pips1]

Mick IS Shirley's son ummmm

[ummmm]

Ohhhh....does he know? I've missed a few.

[elliemay1]

No, he doesn't know...yet!

[ummmm]

Do we know what the incident was that made Mick so scared of water?

[elliemay1]

Apparently Shirley tried to drown him in the bath when he was a baby as she couldn't cope.

[pips1]

Shirley nearly drowned him in the bath when he was about 3 because she was so young herself she didn't know what she was doing, but Mick thought it was his mum and had always felt rejected by her. In an argument Shirley blurted out that it hadn't been his mum it was her!! Mick still doesn't know she is his real mum but Phil Mitchell does after a heart to heart with Shirley and he was trying to persuade her to tell him the truth.

[ummmm]

Thanks. I thought that.

I'm actually starting to like her dad :-) (such a saddo)