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There's been a lot of emotion on the Street this week, more
so than usual. Firstly, Gail sheds some tears when she begs Nick
to stay away from Leanne, and of course he refuses. The Battersbys
hold a party at their house for the newly weds, a party to which
Gail and Martin are invited but decide not to attend.
Roy tells Gail he knew about the wedding plans in advance and
Gail, quite naturally is rather upset with Roy for not telling
her so she could have stopped the wedding taking place. I screamed
at the TV "You heartless bitch! when Gail told Roy "and
you... it's true what everyone around here says. You are mentally
retarded!". Oh Gail. Yes, you were upset but no, there was
no need for that. Hayley walks into the cafe, and seeing Roy's
shocked face asks him if he's okay. With one word that broke my
heart, Roy quivers a bit and simply replies "No". Fortunately,
all ends well with Gail apologising to Roy and hugging him by
the bread buns. Roy, obviously never having hugged anyone before,
is unsure how to handle Gail's bear hug so tells her she'd better
let go of him in case anyone should walk into the cafe and get
the wrong idea.
At the wedding party, Ashley and Zoe arrive together with the
baby, which is promptly taken upstairs before it can ask for a
drop of sweet sherry and a couple of cigarettes. Zoe ends up all
over some other bloke and Ashley is not best pleased. He's trying
to be all tough with her to get her to see sense but she still
tries to wrap him around her little finger. A chap from the Benefits
Agency calls to the house with respect to Zoe's claim for £100
per month housing benefit. If the BA {Benefits Agency] finds out
that Zoe isn't in fact a lodger in the house, she could face prison,
the chap informs them both. Naturally, Ashley is just a lickle
bit scared about the situation.
Someone that Roy might hug, (or not, who knows?) is Hayley
Patterson. Roy takes her out to dinner and helps her off with
her red anorak. They both admit they,ve never been on a proper
date with anyone else before and raise their glasses to Alma,
with much gratitude, for bringing them both together. Hayley helps
out at the red rec with Roy, taking soon-to-be out of date lemon
meringues from Firman,s. Spider has been digging tunnels on the
rec and the pies go flying as the hapless couple fall straight
into one of the holes. Hayley hurts her leg and Roy rubs it better
for her. "How does that feel?" asks Roy. "Lovely!"
she replies. Roy takes Hayley to the Rovers for a drink and presents
her with a gift of stain remover, to take the mud off her anorak.
Quite romantic really (and more than I received this Valentine's
Day but that's another story, which doesn't involve anoraks I'm
pleased to say).
Meanwhile, back on the Red Rec. Spider hits what he thinks
is concrete while digging his tunnel. On further inspection and
with the help of Roy's encyclopaedic knowledge, it turns out to
be remains of a Roman settlement. The bulldozers are set to make
a move on the Red Rec and the council chappie comes with the eviction
notice but Professor Barker, a local archaeology professor saves
the day. He brings with him a notice from the council that states
the building work must end on this site of historical significance.
Spider, Toyah, Roy and Emily (complete with the omnipresent handbag
which deserves a few lines of its own) celebrate with a drink
in the Rovers.
Less happy is Des (does that guy ever smile?). He goes to see
Richie in London to pressure him into giving Sam the divorce he
thinks she wants. As Des drives to London, Samantha rings Richie
and leaves a message on his ansaphone. She warns Richie that Des
is on his way there, asks him not to mention that she was there
last week and not to mention anything about the divorce. So, Des
arrives and what does Richie do? Tells Des Samantha was there
last week and plays him the ansaphone message that Sam left. Furious,
Des storms up the motorway and straight into the Rovers (have
you ever noticed how often people storm, in and out of the Rovers?
- well, they do in my updates anyway), and in front of a full
bar, yells at Samantha "You slut!". Despite her attempts
to make up with Des, he won,t have her back, tells her it,s all
over and throws her out into the street where Natalie takes pity
on her and invites her to stay at her house for a while. Watch
this space, rumours are that Des and Nat end up together. "DesNat
- sounds like a toilet cleaner to me".
And meanwhile, in the hair salon it's McNugget in one corner
and McBigOne, so it is, in the other corner as both father and
son battle it out in front of the backwash basins after last week's
radio dedication fiasco. Steve later goes to see Fiona to apologise
for his behaviour. He presents her with a bouquet of flowers,
the stench of which is so overpowering that Fiona goes into labour
immediately. Maude, who is in the salon having her hair done at
the time, tells Fiona in that common sense old woman type of way
that it's probably a false alarm but Fiona makes Steve drive her
straight to the hospital. Once there, Steve looks nervous and,
typically blokish says "You okay then Fi? Right, I'm off".
Fiona is in so much pain she's having spasms or contraptions or
whatever it is that happens to women in childbirth (I hope I never
find out. I want an Absolut drip in my arm and to be force fed
chocolate, Cadbury's of course, when/if my time comes). "Come
here you she yells. "I'm scared and you're going nowhere!".
Thatta girl.
Glenda :-)
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