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Sinbad's love |
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Sinbad has never been lucky in
love. Over the years, he has had a few romantic encounters, but, sadly for
our lad, none has ever really led to matrimony.
It's not that he doesn't try - he tries very hard indeed.
He proposed to Marcia Barrett in Everton's football park, using the
electronic score boards to pop the actual question. She accepted at first,
but changed her mind a few weeks later.
Here's how he put it himself:
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'Marcia Rarrett was a wonderful girl who helped me find true
happiness for a time - she was me first what you might call really
serious relationship. She also helped me find me mum.
I met Marcia through me mate, Mick Johno. She was his ex-wife
Josie's best mate. Marcia was a real good laugh, dead easy going
just like me. We had loads in common, so it wasn't long before we
had our first snog. The only thing that came between us back then was me stomach - maybe that's why girls find it difficult to get close
to me.' (Sinbad's Scrapbook, 1995, London Boxtree)
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Sinbad's most serious relationship over the years seems to
have been with Mandy Jordache, murderer and amateur undertaker and landscape
gardener. Together, they created baby Ruth, although quite how Sinbad
managed to perform the deed was never explained in the programme. Perhaps
they were early pioneers in the use of turkey basters, as used by Jacqui
Dixon during her period as Miss Rentawomb when she acted as a
surrogate mother for Max and Susannah Farnham. |
| This relationship was also doomed to failure.
Mandy - previously timid and shy - developed a liking of public speaking
and helping women in abusive relationship. So impressed was Mrs Shackleton
(the leader of the organisation whose house Mandy lived in on the Cloe)
that she offered Mandy a post as live-in refuge organiser. Mandy accepted,
and she has since gone on to prove her own abusive parenting skills by
failing to turn up for her daughter's wedding and similar important
events.
Sinbad's made an effort to keep in contact, but baby Ruth no longer
knows him well enough for them to have a proper father/daughter
relationship.
Poor Sinbad. |
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