Week 45

Hi, everyone – and welcome to our first Caption Corner of 2006. Goodness, it hardly seems five minutes ago that we were greeting the new Millennium!

I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas. You certainly helped me to have one with all the laughs you provided courtesy of the Week 44 picture. You will recall that it showed EastEnders' Kat watching Mo desperately trying to defrost her half-frozen turkey in the bath in time for the Slater family Christmas dinner.

Right, so who and what made me titter?

Well, I have to say that some of you lot never miss an opportunity to give me a slight dig in the ribs over my occasional tardiness with picture updates.

Take Stephen Beales, of Hornchurch, Essex, for instance. He had Big Mo squalking: “Don’t worry, Kat... by the time Kris changes the picture again the turkey would have thawed.” M_de_F, of London, joined in as well on similar lines. I feel really hurt…

Meanwhile, Phil, in London thought Mo could be saying: “Sorry Kat, we only need one game bird” and Birmingham’s Jon Dracup reckoned it might be: “You've done it wrong, Kat! I said I wanted the small bird with the big thighs in the bath, and the fat bird, with the small thighs and breasts in the kitchen.” Kat: “Oooohhhhh!.”

Liam Berry, in Chippenham, Wiltshire, offered us: The turkey tries to escape down the plughole, as Mo and Kat contemplate eating it! while Kirstie, in Nottingham, preferred Kat saying: “Nan, did you ever think that maybe, seeing as it’s Christmas, I might have wanted to use the bath....you're so selfish!! Now I'll have to leave it for another year.”

It was a really close thing again, and at this point I found it all rather tricky to put the top five offerings into any sort of order.

Pause for thought…

…OK.

Mike, of Birmingham, had Kat groaning: “Eurrgh! I'm not eating that now Nan - you DO realise Dad uses that bath?”

Then we had Hannah, of Bath (oh, come on, Hannah, you’re winding me up, surely!). Her line from Kat was: “When I said I wanted a bird bath for Christmas, this wasn't quite what I had in mind...”

Week 44's picture

That brings us giggling to third place, which I award to Stacey, in Yorkshire, with Mo: “Ere, Kat - the new bath duck won't float!”

Runner-up spot, then, goes to Louise Edment, of Cambusnethan (my word, you need a large envelope if you’re writing to Louise, don’t you!). She reckoned the dialogue would have been along these lines - Kat: “Nan, why you bathing the turkey?” Mo: “I thought I’d better, it was a bit ‘fowl’ smelling!”

(more groans)

Now, I have a feeling that living where she does, Louise is perhaps not that far from our winner, none other than our old friend Peter Benassi, up there in Motherwell.

Fanfare of trumpets, please for his entry of Kat declaring: “I don't understand why you can't just use a rubber duck like everyone else.”

If my memory serves me right, I think it’s a while since Peter claimed the top spot, but I reckon he deserves it with that, don’t you?

Well done, that man.

Right, so on to our first picture of 2006. It’s from Coronation Street and shows Maria waxing Tyrone's back as a 'treat'.

As a special reward this week, I'll be awarding three prize packages each containing two DVDs to the first second and third place entrants. Thanks to our friends as Network DVD, I have copies of Coronation Street 1976 and Coronation Street 1977 to give away.

So, engage brains and away you go… and don't forget to fill in your e-mail address!