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It’s Darryl and Kayleigh Morton’s 18th birthday and dad Jerry buys them
a car. Lucky beggars. All I got was a box of chocolates and a bunch of roses.
Anyway, there’s a birthday party to be had and have it they do. Even Gail
and Sally get drunk in the garden and end up falling through the fence.
Jerry’s doing his best to look after all his kids but he’s got another two
of them on his hands now that mother Theresa has offloaded her offspring
onto the Street. At the last count there were 59 Mortons living in that house.
Vernon proposes to Liz and she accepts, well sort of. “Alright, then”
she says when he’s down on one knee, serenading her in the back room. Now,
I’m no expert but “Alright, then” doesn’t exactly sound like a ‘yes’ although
to be fair, it doesn’t sound like a ‘no’ either. Liz tells him he’ll have
to sort himself out, get a job, wash his hair. “You are my rock” he tells
her. “And you are my roll” she replied, which I thought was the most romantic
dialogue on Corrie in a long while. As the punters in the pub buy Vernon
pint after pint to celebrate his engagement, Liz is at the flicks with Deirdre
(am I the only person left in the world who still calls them flicks?). Vernon
was supposed to meet Liz at the restaurant but he’s dead to the world,
asleep on the sofa in the back room of the pub as she sits alone waiting
for him to turn up. Liz takes off her new ring and rings on to Derek the
drayman who turns up moist with delight. The two of them have dinner together
after he leaves his wife at home.
Eileen tells Jason the truth about baby Holly not being his after all.
When it finally sinks in, Jason says he wants nowt to do with someone else’s
kid, and who can blame him? Eileen refuses to let Emma into the house to
see Holly and says she’ll fight for the right to hang on to that kid. Jason
tells his mum that it’s a fight she’ll fight alone. Come on Eileen, let’s
play fair and have a bit of toora loora toora loo-rye-ay, eh?
Gail has more problems with David who’s refusing to go to school to
study for his exams. Every time these two come on the screen in my living
room I find myself yelling out to Mrs Platt: “For gawd’s sake, just hit
him”. Well, somebody should.
And finally this week, it may have been the biggest storyline, but for
me it was the least interesting so that’s why I’ve kept it till last. Polish
worker Kasia dies in the factory after a tumble down the stairs. She’d been
working all the hours the Connors could squeeze out of her on the day-shift
and night-shift, and tired and overcome she tumbled to her death down the
Underworld steps. As she died on what was officially the nightshift – that’s
the shift that the Connors weren’t covered by their insurance for – Carla
and Paul decide to keep schtum until after 8am when they can ring an ambulance
and pretend she was working on the dayshift. Still with me? Wake up! Just
as they’re deciding what to do, in swans Sally Webster who spots Kasia’s
dead body and starts to get suspicious. The cops are called and do a routine
inspection but when they tell Carla that Health and Safety will have to
get involved too, a shiver runs down her spine. It was hardly thrill of
the week, but there you have it in a nutshell.
And that’s just about that for this week.
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