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When Janice has to get the plumber in, she gets more than she bargained
for when she falls in love with the bloke. But when he tells her he’s leaving
for a new job in France, what’s a girl to do? She’s fallen for the fella
and so when Roger asks Janice to go off with him for three months in France,
she tells him she will. “Ooh, it’s all very déjà vu de brouhaha”
notes Sean in the Rovers, all foreign-like, when Roger doesn’t arrive
to whisk Janice off the cobbles. Even Fiz is ready to tell her mate “I
told you so” as Janice’s spirits sink when she thinks she’s been let down
by the plumber. But they were all proved wrong when Roger turned up to put
a smile on Janice’s face. It was actually quite romantic as the pair of
them trundled off the cobbles in his little plumber’s van with plastic piping
on its roof, on their way to a (temporary) new life in France. Ooh la la.
Babies were much in the mind on the cobbles this week. First off, Violet
loses her baby after an ectopic pregnancy and it’s Jamie who holds her
hand in hospital when she receives the bad news. Elsewhere, baby Holly
proves problematic at the Grimshaw’s as Jason struggles to cope. He seeks
advice from Sarah and as the two of them swap tips on getting baby puke
out of their hair, they decide to get back together as a family of four.
The news doesn’t go down well, as you’d expect, with Eileen and Gail who
look on stonily at their offspring before storming out. Gail, clearly traumatised,
locks herself in David’s car with the radio cranked up on R&B when
a strong G&T would have taken the pain away better.
Michelle and Ryan move into the flat above the Kabin and Steve tries
to sabotage Michelle’s love life with Sonny. First off he tries to get
into Ryan’s good books by buying him chips in exchange for gossip on his
mum’s new boyfriend. Then, Michelle needs a babysitter for Ryan as she swans
off on a date with Sonny. Liz offers to plonk Ryan in front of the telly
in the back room of the pub and when Steve finds him there, the two of them
chat about Michelle’s new fella. On the pretence of getting the key to the
flat from Michelle, Steve drives Ryan to Sonny’s house – it’s all size over
style, ‘very Executive-Barratt’, the 2007 Corrie equivalent to ‘very bay
window’. Michelle knows what Steve’s up to and takes him some dinner
out to the cab, throws it into his lap and warns him to leave her alone.
In a flat with possibly the worst interior décor we’ve ever
seen on Corrie, Paul and Carla Connor celebrate her birthday. She could
be 27, 58 or 102, it’s hard to tell with a face like hers. She tells hubby
Paul she wants to start making her own line of kid’s clothes in the factory
but he’s against it, as is brother Liam. Paul is now the new owner of Underworld
which confuses the girls no end, having two Mr Connors to report to although
they could rename them to Mr Thunderbird Puppet Connor and Mr James Bolam
Connor. That’s what I’ve done, works for me! Anyway, Carla gets cosy with
Kelly and stitches her up by offering her work on the side to get her new
kid’s collection underway - without telling Mr Connor or Mr Connor.
Tracy Barlow doing the washing up in a maid’s outfit, stockings, suspenders
and frilly washing-up gloves might put a smile on Charlie’s face (and
indeed, him indoors on the sofa) but it’s all done to keep Charlie happy
while Tracy badmouths him outside of the house. She’s got Ken and Deirdre
wondering if Charlie’s beating their daughter up while Claire’s convinced
Tracy’s the victim of domestic abuse. This week we’ll see Tracy kill Charlie
Stubbs, a story that never held much appeal for this fan and is losing attraction
as each episode goes by. I can’t for the life of me think why any woman,
on Corrie or off, would have such low self-esteem that she’d murder a bloke
rather than pack her bags and leave him. But then, this is Tracy Barlow
we’re talking about, a woman for whom logic applied its lippy then upped,
left, got on the number 10 bus to town and went off the rails a very long
time ago. Anyway, Tracy’s brother Peter returned this week and on the advice
of Ken and Deirdre, took his sister for a drink to find out the truth about
Charlie. Jason sees Peter with his arm around Tracy and tells Charlie some
fella’s out walking with his woman. When Charlie gets home and Peter’s upstairs
in the shower, Tracy does little to disabuse Charlie of the notion that she’s
got a hot hunk upstairs, just to wind him up. But by the time Charlie’s
ran up the stairs and beaten seven bells out of Peter, it’s a bit too late
for Tracy to shout: “He’s my brother! Leave him alone!”.
As the fight goes on outside on the cobbles, inside of the Rovers it’s
the big quiz night. Norris has rounded up Ken, Rita and Emily for
the Stop Press team and Roy and Hayley’s with Becky in the Barmcake Army.
As the Rovers crowd dash outside to watch the Charlie and Peter knock-out
round, Norris comes back indoors early and copies one of Roy’s answers,
on trains of course, to his own answer sheet. Norris’ team wins the competition
and the fifty quid but everyone knows that Norris has cheated. Rita thinks
it only fair to buy Roy’s team a round of drinks and takes the £50
from Norris’ sweaty little hand. Vernon was wonderful as the quiz compere
with his drumkit and white dicky bow tie. “Welcome to the quiz!” he yells,
cymbal bash, drum roll. “It’s 3 rounds” bash, roll, “And 6 teams!”, bash
roll, etc. “Question two – who won the fight outside then?” He’s brilliant,
is Vernon. When the quiz is over the cops come to quiz Tracy and take Charlie
away for unlawful wounding. Peter discharges himself from th’ospital with
cracked ribs and dried blood all over the place.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
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