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I forgot to mention that at the end of last week’s episodes Tracy swanned
back to the street and she should have swanned back into the weekly update
too, but somehow I forgot all about her. Anyway, she’s back and Ken
and Deirdre hold tight to their parental instincts in order to stop themselves
caving Tracy’s head in with a casserole dish (Deirdre) or whacking her senseless
with a rolled up copy of the Weatherfield Recorder (Ken). Tracy’s confidante
is Emily, the only one so far who knows she’s pregnant and the only one it
seems that the top-tart will listen to. When Hayley finds out Tracy’s back
on the street she marches round there with Roy at her heels determined to
find out the truth. But all Tracy can do is call Hayley names and then
a bit of slapping goes on before she announces she’s carrying the Cropper
child. “You’re lying! And evil!” says Hayley. “Pregnant?” says Roy.
And then in a scene which had me in tears, Roy says he feels he must provide
for the baby and asks Hayley if she can stand by him if he does. Apparantly
not. Hayley packs to leave, assuming that what Roy has always wanted
was a “real” woman to give him a family. Roy swears on little Bethany’s
life that he can’t remember what happened in Tracy’s bed but continues to
blame himself for what can only be described as his animal instincts.
“But you never get carried away” says Hayley. “Do you remember that
cuddle on the sofa we had the other week,” replies Roy, “When we were playing
scrabble and I knocked the board away? We haven’t seen the letter Q
since.” As Hayley packs to leave Roy asks if he can help.
“You can get my oestrogen” Hayley says, before spending the night with Angela
across the road. Meanwhile at the flat Roy starts knocking back the
aspirin, one at a time, carefully and slowly, leaving a note in the café
with a twenty pence piece for whoever finds him to call the Samaritans.
Fortunately, Hayley returns to the flat in the nick of time to get Roy to
the hospital after giving him salted water to make him vomit and a severe
ticking-off to try to make him see sense.
There’s a stand-off (I love that phrase) in Janice’s flat as Les holds a
crowbar to PC Mick’s face. Curly gets his glasses smashed in the fracas
and then reveals all to Janice that PC Mick hasn’t told her the truth about
what happened with Les. Anyway, it all comes out in the wash (I love that
one too) and while Janice agrees that Les deserved a good thumping, he didn’t
deserve three months in prison. Whatever, he certainly doesn’t deserve
to be back in the cast.
Kevin’s suspicions are confirmed when Martin tells him that yes, he’s having
a relationship with Katy. In an excellent scene, Kev takes Martin to
the garage for a quiet word and Martin doesn’t lie. He says they’re both free
agents and Katy’s over the age of consent but Kev calls it perverse – and
worse – and escapes having Martin punch his face in as Martin takes out his
anger on one of the cars instead. “Grow up, the pair of yer” Kev says
when Martin tells him it’s lurve.
Meanwhile, little Bethany gets electrocuted in the flat and is rushed into
hospital. Gail throws a wobbler and as you’d expect, Martin’s on duty
as Beth is brought into the ward. Fortunately, Bethany’s fine and does
a grand job of acting from her hospital bed before she’s released home again.
Having calmed down enough to be devious and dumb, Gail rings the social services
and tells them she knows of a little girl in her street who isn’t being looked
after properly… dot dot dot
And that’s just about that for this week.
By Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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