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Ken starts writing his bodice-ripper bonk-buster of a column for the
Gazette and the editor's so taken with his style that she asks him to
write the agony aunt column too. He's enjoying himself heartily as
Hermione Fairfax until Wretched of Weatherfield writes in for advice on
boyfriend trouble. Deirdre works out that Wretched is Blanche who
doesn't know that Ken is Hermione and tells him to pen a reply telling
her to get over Archie, there's plenty more fish in the sea (even if
they are mainly old trouts at that age).
Mike needs a lady companion to take to a business dinner and he asks
Audrey, who's only too happy for a reason to put on a new frock. But
then he meets Max's mum Doreen and decides to take her instead, feeling
sorry for her after she tells him her tale of infidelity with fellas.
At the dinner, Doreen is loud, blonde and vacuous (just like her
daughter). Mike's colleague and his wife look on aghast as Doreen starts
slagging off her ex-husband after a bit too much sherry. "What would
you do if your Ron took a shine to a little miss fancy knickers, eh?"
she asks the missus of the colleague before Mike drags Doreen home.
When Audrey later finds out that she was dumped for the dinner date for
Doreen, she tells Mike in no uncertain terms what he can do with their
friendship. And when Doreen finds out that Audrey was dumped to make
way for her, she's not best pleased with Mike either. Audrey and Doreen
drink in the Rovers together later and make quite a decent comedy
pairing, Corrie could do worse than let Doreen move in to Audrey's spare
room.
So now then, this Ciaran fella, friend of Peter's, tries it on with
Shelley and she's not having any of it. She tells Sunita what's going
on and Sunita says she should tell Peter but Shelley's just hoping it'll
all blow over and anyway, Ciarian will be gone soon enough. But he
tries it on again (and what part of "Get off me", "Don't come near me"
and "Go on, get out" didn't he understand?). Shelley tells him she's
going to tell Peter but he says if she does that, he'll tell Peter she
tried it on with him first, so boo, and then who will Peter believe?
Well, she does tell Peter who confronts Ciarian who lies to Peter who
tells Shelley it's over who tells Peter she's leaving him anyway if he
doesn't trust her. After some tears Shelly needs retail therapy. She
goes out and buys herself 3 new bras and 12 pairs of pants and asks
Sunita if she can move in with her. Meanwhile, it takes Steve McDonald
to make Peter realise that there's no way Shelley would mess him around
and that he shouldn't trust the big Irish fella, so he shouldn't, so
Peter tells Ciarian to sling his hook, so he does.
I'm sorry but I can't wax lyrical about Nick Tilsley. Maybe I could if I
took Adam Ricketts seriously as an actor.... but no. He came back this
week for Maria declaring undying love after lying his socks off last
week. She falls for it all and her move to Canada looks like it's back
on. Needless to say, Gail's got a face like a slapped arse when Nick
tells her and the two of them have a huge row.
Yes, Gail and Richard are back from their holider to Florida and Gail
gets carried over the threshold - for the third time. But there's bad
news all round when the Hillman's find out that the sale of all four
flats have fallen through. Yes, there's a Bail Hostel being built right
by the flats and the flat buyers have bailed out. "I'm ruined" Richard
tells Gail before doing a great bit of emoting straight from the Joey
Tribbiani School of Acting.
It's the Rovers 100th anniversary and Fred has a penny a pint promotion.
If anyone brings in old pennies, they can have a free pint. Les and
Kirk have their stash they conned from Emily and sell the pennies for
50p each. When Fred finds out, he's not best pleased but it's Emily who
has the last laugh when Roy points out that the pennies are a rare
vintage and worth at least £10 each. A donation to the Friends of
Weatherfield Hospital is a-coming. There's a bit of a sing-a-long in
the bar as Norris tinkles the ivories. He plays the piano a bit too and
it's all gaiety indoors as we spy Shelly croying her oyes out on the
street corner. It's what Corrie's always done best, this mix of comedy
and tragedy but this time it was about as subtle as a sledge hammer.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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