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Ken's blaming Mike and Mike's blaming Ken for Susan's death,
culminating in a shocking scene at Susan's funeral when Mike turns
up unannounced. Ken, proving he really is the worst dad in the
world, ever, part III, shows little respect for his dead daughter
when his surprise at seeing Mike at the graveside consumes him
with anger towards his sparring partner. Upset, Adam runs from
Ken's side, straight into Mike, hitting him in the face after
he blurts out, in his anger and his grief: "..but I'm yer
dad". I have to say though, there's nothing like a Corrie
funeral to get the gossip going and the most outlandish outfits
aired. It's cold out so Emily wears a smart hat, Blanche wears
a thick scarf and Rita, bless her, puts a snow leopard on her
head. Poor Adam, upset as can be over his mother's death and odd
relatives, gets whisked off to Glasgow with Peter and Ken to pick
up his stuff while Deirdre is left home alone with Blanche to
get used to the idea that Ken wants Adam to move in with them
all. Deirdre still hasn't managed to pull her chin off the floor
after going into shock at having to look after Adam full-time
while Mike is already planning with his solicitor to get custody
of the boy. As for Adam, he questions Ken about Mike but as you'd
expect, Ken isn't giving the bloke two thumbs up.
It's Valentine's day in the Rovers and sexlicious shopkeeper
Dev surprises Geena with a smashing bunch of flowers (though they
weren't a patch on the ones I received). Anyway, Geena and Toyah
are in red slinky tops and Sam and Duggie are in suits with red
dickies to sell kisses in the bar, for charity, on valentine's
night. However, Dev isn't best pleased to see his girlfriend snogging
all and sundry and gets so jealous he pops a fifty quid note in
the charity box to stop her from kissing anyone else. Edna (looking
glam) keeps managing to find an extra 50p at the bottom of her
bag to make merry with Duggie while Janice snogs Sam.
Gail and Martin both receive Valentine's cards - Gail's says
"Love from M" and Martin says, you've guessed it, "Love
from G". It doesn't take too much sleuthing to figure out
that young David had sent the cards to his parents hoping to get
them back together again and Martin takes David to the cafe for
a milkshake and a fatherly chat. Sarah Lou gets disappointed in
the love stakes this week when the Grimshaw lad she fancies turns
out to fancy Candice instead. How can any lad resist her when
she can "do that thing wi' me hair, you know, like what Jennifer
Aniston does". What, sell it to L'Oreal? You're worth more
than that, Candice.
Roy and Hayley said goodbye to Jackie this week when her mum
was sent home from hospital. Before she went, however, the Croppers
worried themselves sick over Jackie being broken hearted when
they thought she fancied Jason Grimshaw only to find out, when
Roy was hovering with the hot plates, that he had his eye on someone
else. What else to do but console her with macaroni cheese and
sticky toffee pudding. Prepared for a crying match and teenage
histrionics when Jackie returned to the flat, Roy and Hayley were
somewhat surprised when she was happy as larry after being asked
out by some lad at school. They're learning the rules of parenting
slowly, but very, very surely.
Rita's cooled off towards Anthony greatly over the last week
or so, and Anthony's just about accepted their relationship is
over. They bump into each other in the street and he slowly approaches
her. Well, I ask you, could you live with a bloke who spoke to
you like this - "Is there any?" Raises eyebrow. "Way?",
Twiddles bow tie. "We can sort?" Gestures towards her.
"This out?". Fred gives Anthony advice, he can see his
point of view but Rita can't, or won't, until she hears Anthony
arguing with Amanda next door in the flat. She realises she could
lose Anthony's friendship for ever if she doesn't get off her
high horse, and soon.
Sam's mam throws him out after she finds out he's gone back
to stripping to raise some money to buy himself a jam-jar. He's
got nowhere to stay although Kevin offers him some floor space
there. Janice and Les chat to Sam about offering him their spare
bedroom as a lodger. Les wants to know what music Sam likes to
listen to and Janice wants to know if she can stitch the sequins
on his posing pouch for him. Fortunately for Sam, he's got other
plans (I'm still not sure what) and ends up at Gail's for Sunday
dinner with David thinking of him as an elder brother and Sarah
Lou making eyes at him over the Yorkshire puddings.
There was also a storyline this week where Vik and Karen tried
to pair of Steve and Bobbi which didn't work - neither the pairing
off or the storyline. Sorry, but Karen and Bobbi are the most
boring women ever to have been brought onto the Street. There
was a great scene in the Rovers this week when Peter, drunk at
the bar, told Toyah and Karen "The way you two carry on,
you'd think you weren't a couple of slappers stuck in a back street
bar". While student Toyah knows this isn't true of her, Karen
looks confused. Oh, and as predicted, Karen, in a basque, makes
a pass at Steve as birthday boy Vikram has broken down in Birkenhead.
And finally, Sal's upset when she finds out that Kevin's done
a runner to the cotswolds with flowers and a card after finding
out that Nat's had her baby, a girl called Laura that looks like
ET. They all do, at that age, don't they?
And that's just about that for this week.
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