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Fiz 's fellas are in frenzy as Tyrone and Kirk fight over her in the garage
where there's fisticuffs by a clapped out big end. With both of them
pledging their troth and asking for Fiz's hand in marriage she's torn and
can't make a decision. Tyrone overhears Fiz say she wants to be swept off
her feet by a knight on a white charger. He hires the horse, it gallops past
the factory as Fiz is coming out of work and he falls off, ending up with
his arm in a sling for his trouble. Anyway, Fiz asks them both to make
a list of their top 3 Fiz fun facts - things they like best about her.
Tyrone plumps for 1) Eyes, 2) Sense of humour and 3) Something that he whispers
in her ear that puts a knowing smile on her face. Kirk's a bit more
subtle and tells Fiz it's her 1) Past - because it's made her what she is,
2) Present - because she brightens his day and 3) Future - because he wants
it to be with him. In all this tension between Tyrone and Kirk, Jack
tells Tyrone to remember Kirk's his best mate: "If Kirk were a female, there'd
be no need for Fiz." Jack says. Later in the Rovers Tyrone buys a reluctant
Kirk a pint as animosity starts to thaw between them. Until, that is,
Karen tells Fiz it's no good having blokes wrapped around her little finger,
it's the finger next to it on her left hand that an engagement ring should
be wrapped around - and then it's war all over again. Tyrone's first
off the block and down on his knees in Fiz's flat. "It's not real,"
he says, "It's diamonday". (*Not to be confused with darrenday who also
turns up regularly at cheap and tacky engagements). Anyway, not too
surprisingly, Fiz turns him down and tells him to keep the ring for when he
meets someone special. "I already have." says a saddened Tyrone.
Karen's plans for her wedding steam ahead as she hires an 'arpist - to play
Wonderwall. She's off to gawk at some wedding fayre (£18 entry
fee, free confetti, frocks that make your bum look enormous, satin shoes and
chimney sweeps). Steve doesn't want to go with her and they argue, of
course, then he ends up helping Tracy move furniture into No. 7. And then
it got rather dull. Tracy tells Steve she loves him and adores him and
wants him to be daddy to the babby but Steve tells Tracy he wants nowt to
do with her. And this kind of went on all week with Tracy threatening
to tell Karen the truth about the baby. She doesn't, but she plans to ruin
Karen's wedding one way or t'other. She calls the wedding venue pretending
to be Karen and tells the wedding coordinator the whole thing's been called
off.
Meanwhile Roy and Hayley anticipate arrival of the baby and decorate the
spare room as a nursery, throwing out their old jigsaws to make room in the
flat. Roy picks up a cheap old fashioned pram, the sort that comes complete
with its own Norland Nanny. Hayley points out how ridiculous it is while Harry
marvels at its good old-fashioned British engineering. Anyway,
it's replaced soon after with a more modern version as Roy frets endlessly
on whether Tracy will sell or keep the baby when it's born.
There's not much else that really happened this week. Martin's mate
from work, a fellow nurse called Karl ingratiates himself with Katie and makes
her miss a class at college when he calls round for biscuits and tea.
Martin's wondering what's going on with Katie and his (younger) colleague
but there's nowt for him to worry about - it's Todd he'll be after, just you
wait and see.
Dev gets 4 free tickets from a rep to see Badly Drawn Boy (I preferred him
in the early days, when he was Scribble). The tickets fly from Dev to Todd
to Sarah who invites Katie and Martin along to the gig for a funky foursome
at some arena or t'other.
Fred's gone to Umbria, I say, he's gone on 'ollider to Italy leaving Ashley
and Claire alone in the house. Thing is, Claire feels guilty having nothing
to do as baby Josh is at his grandparents so she signs up for some agency
work leaving Ashley on his own and Fred's plan in pieces.
Despite Gail offering them her sofa, Nick and Maria need some privacy and
decide to get a flat together - presumably kitted out with flat-packed furniture
to match Nick's flat personality. Mind you, Gail's face fell flat with
the realisation that she'd be on her own again if Nick does move out.
And finally this week, one of the brewery draymen tells Shelley that his
mate Eric's got a crush on her and gives her the nickname Sunshine Shelley.
Although the thought of going on a date with Eric doesn't fill our Shell with
glee, she's got nothing to lose and let's face it, nowt else to do.
There's a real treat in store as Peter Kay joins the Corrie cast later this
week as Eric the drayman. For those who've never heard of Peter Kay,
have a look at http://www.peterkay.co.uk. And for those who have heard
of him but haven't yet seen his Live at the Bolton Albert Halls performance,
do yourself a favour and rush out and buy it now.
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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