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Anyway,
Fiona brings baby Morgan home and her mother is fussing around
her trying not to let Steve McDonald get his feet under the table,
"She's vulnerable, it's her 'ormones, leave her alone"
she tells him. Steve buys Fiona a baby alarm which he plugs in
and overhears a conversation between Fiona and her mother which
he isn't supposed to here. Fiona tells her mum she doesn't trust
Steve and is sure he'll be out after the first piece of skirt
he can find. Indeed. Steve admits as much to Des in the Rovers,
despite seeing himself, the baby and Fi as a cosy ready-made family.
So, just what is it that Granada puts in the gripe water? Zoe's
baby Shannon and now this new one, Morgan, haven't cried, screamed
or yelled... just what is going on?... curious minds want to know.
There were tears in my living room this week as well as around
Emily's dining table when Spider told Emily and Toyah he was planning
to leave. His mate Hawkeye rang him from another eco-site and
said he needed help there, and just when Toyah and I were in floods
of tears, Spider then announced he's been offered a job at the
Red Rec from Professor Barker (the archaeology professor). Harrumph
and Hurrah. Toyah and I smiled, a lot. The Red Rec has been roped
off in case anyone goes there with metal detectors searching for
loot. Les Battersby is most put out that he can't use his new
metal detector on site after spending 35 quid buying the thing
in the first place. It seems Les found and then lost a Roman brooch
on the site, so he gets his old job back at the Red Rec in order
to find the antique brooch.
Leanne and Nick move back to live with Ashley and Zoe, and
by heck, when Uncle Fred finds out he does a mean impersonation
of Elvis which has just got to be seen to be believed. Fred questions
Ashley about the "menagerie a trois" going on in the
house when he thinks Ashley is shacked up with Zoe and Leanne.
"But we don't have any animals in the house" replies
Ashley. Uncle Fred makes things formal and legal-like by giving
Leanne and Nick a rent book. (CP Turner has a lot to answer for,
I typed 'rent boy' there and had to go back and delete it!). Gail
invites Nick for dinner, deliberately leaving Leanne out of the
invitation but the brazen hussy storms right in there and sits
down at the dinner table with the rest of them (a true Suzie Birchall
of the '90s). Gail is not best pleased and turns her face that
funny shape she does.
Des is moping about the way that only Des can do. Richie turns
up and causes a scene and further trouble in the back room of
the Rovers so Sam decides she's had enough and wants to run away.
Natalie tries to convince Des that Sam still loves him and tells
him that Sam is leaving for London. She calls Des a taxi ("Oi,
Des! You're a Hackney") which whisks him off to the train
station to try to stop Sam from leaving, but it's too late, he
misses her train by seconds. Fortunately, all's well that ends
well and Sam hasn't left at all, she's there on the Street when
he comes back in his taxi. They kiss and make up, yadda yadda,
blah blah, happily ever after.
Eric Firman tells Curly he wants him to write and prepare a
speech on the company eco-friendly policy for the next meeting
of the Weatherfield Association of Retail Traders (WARTS). What
an awful acronym, but not half as bad as the one my village almost
had. The local computing group had to change its name from the
South Hetton Information Technology Club for some reason. Anyway,
Curly - knowing nothing about eco-friendly anything, asks Spider
to write his speech for him. Spider says he'll oblige for a couple
of bottles of Holsten Pils (great product placement Granada, by
the way) but after a few more bottles, he still hasn't written
anything. Curly isn't best pleased and wonders where the speech
is, to which Spider replies "You can have it quick or you
can have it good". (And where have we heard that before,
ladies?)
A beautifully touching scene this week between Roy and Hayley
in the cafe. The hapless couple were supposed to go out for Sunday
lunch together but Hayley's bus is delayed so they eat in the
cafe instead, discussing bus timetables, life, the universe and
everything. Roy has something he wants desperately to ask Hayley,
but each time he plucks up the courage he's interrupted by both
Fred and then Curly who come into the cafe wanting something to
eat, assuming the place is open. Roy tells Hayley he feels they
have so much in common after Hayley tells Roy she liked woodworking
and technical drawing at school more than she enjoyed domestic
science. I truly wish the character of Hayley wasn't going to
turn out as a transsexual, because I can't bear to see Roy get
hurt when he finds out the truth about Hayley. Why couldn't the
writers just have made Hayley a regular woman, and for she and
Roy to run the cafe? Just my tuppence worth.
Glenda :-)
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