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While Vernon’s reading wedding mags and lusting over visions of Liz in white
leather on their big day, Liz’s got other things on her mind. She’s also
got another fella in her hands as she and Derek the drayman have some afternoon
delight in the sort of pub that people only go to when they’re having an
affair. It’s all dark wood, secrets and stains on the candlewick. Betty
keeps counsel to herself when she spies Derek visiting Liz using the front
door of the pub and not the tradesman’s entrance round the back. Now then,
we all know there’s a rude joke in there, but I’m too polite to write it.
Blanche returns to the Barlows and her oap-antennae picks up immediately
that things aren’t right between Deirdre and Ken. The tension is high as
Deirdre quotes Shaw at Ken and he flings it right back at her with a touch
of Oscar Wilde. Ouch. Just when you think it couldn’t get any more violent,
Ken offers to go to the library and bring Deirdre back a book. “I don’t have
time to read” she moans in between drags on her fag. “You’ve got plenty of
time to smoke!” he replies before flouncing off with his hair-do. Deirdre
takes herself to the Rovers for a cry with Liz at the bar after Ken does his
best to get through to Deirdre, but fails. Liz asks her mate what’s the matter.
“It’s (sob) Ken (sob). He’s being really nice to me and I don’t know what
to do (sob sob)”. You can imagine how bad things get then when Ken
prepares steak and wine for his missus. He even puts flowers on the table
and wears an apron to serve, but all Deirdre does is criticise and tut. Emily
finds Ken later sitting on Maxine’s bench outside of the salon as Deirdre
sits in the pub with her cigs and her booze.
Shirley the social worker took baby Holly away this week. Just in case
we were under any illusion that the situation might have brought Gail and
Eileen close as friends, Eileen laid that to rest when she told Gail to stop
sticking her nose in other people’s business. As baby Holly went, there were
tears at the Grimshaws from Eileen, Jason, Violet and Sean. Me? I’m just
glad it’s all over with. Next!
Carla finds out that Liam wants her out of the factory. He’s had her desk
shifted and all her stuff’s gone. With a face that’s got Not Best Pleased
all over it, Carla takes herself to the pub and unleashes her bad mood on
the nearest Connor she can find which just happens to be Michelle. When Michelle
defends her brothers, Carla lets slip that she wouldn’t be so kind if she
knew what they’d been keeping from her. And find out she does. In a fantastic
scene that was Classic Corrie in the Making, Liam Connor comes clean to
sister Michelle that her husband didn’t die at the wheel of the car as a
drink-driver. Now then, in Corrie, red wine denotes hanky-panky, brandy
settles nerves and whisky, well, whisky is for really bad news. This was
a whisky one, as Liam told Michelle it was Paul who was driving the night
Dean died and they moved Dean’s body into the driving seat to get Paul off
th’ook. Kym Ryder as Michelle was excellent in this as was the tall, dark,
handsome Rob James Collier who plays Liam Connor. As Michelle tries to come
to terms with what’s happened, she reels in the back room at the Rovers as
sympathetic Steve tries to snog her on the sofa. She gives him short shrift
by the curtains and tells him he’s out of order. Steve’s clearly misread the
signals but then goes and does it again later when he makes a pig’s ear out
of the apology he tries to give Michelle.
Vera gets Jack to do a bit of dusting and cleaning round the house but
it turns into a shambles, she should’ve known better. When Jack puts his
pigeon mags on the stairs, Vera trips and falls and does herself a mischief.
She’s now laid up with her foot up on the sofa watching TV and being waited
on hand and foot by hapless Jack. When Molly picks up a baby monitor that
Jason was going to throw away, they use it to listen in on Vera who’s sat
alone while Jack, Molly and Tyrone head to the pub. Jack reckons there’ll
be no escape from Vera now he’s got the monitor to carry and reckons it’s
like being electronically tagged. When Jack pops off to play darts, leaving
Molly and Tyrone alone, the two-some talk romance and babies and pledge their
allegiance to the cause of living over the brush. Vera overhears it all on
the baby monitor back at the house and when they get back there later, she
says there’s cause of celebration so out comes the Tia Maria and chips.
And Violet and Sean hit the town together after downing something blue
in a shot glass in the Rovers. They both get chatted up by one gay and one
straight which gave Violet a story and a bit of dialogue for a change and
a chance for Sean to give us his best chat up line: “Ooh, I like yer hat”.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
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