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I'll start with the Alma storyline as it's been the most poignant
and of course, the most upsetting, with tears spilt in my living
room once again this week. She starts having pains and realises
she's got to sort out a few things. She calls Molly in to talk
about pain relief and hospice care and she calls in her solicitor
to talk about wills and organising a party for her funeral. Alma
tells Audrey she's leaving all of her money to Gail and the kids,
Roy and Hayley, and her, on one condition - she's got to change
the name of the hair salon - to Alma's. And if you don't cry buckets
at that little scene, well, I'm a plastic tortoise. With her mind
on looking after Alma, Audrey tries, and fails, to concentrate
on council business and finally tells Curly she's giving up as
councillor. As Audrey stands down would the real slim Curly please
stand up? Curly proves good at problem management after David
litters the Street with his campaign leaflets. When the photographer
calls to take a picture of the mess he's created, Curly catches
David by the scruff of the neck, points him at the camera and
squeezes him so hard, the lad can't do anything but a really wide
grimace. Fortunately, the reporter thinks that David was helping
Curly clean up and our new councillor-to-be gets a positive front
page headline all to himself: "Waste Buster Watts".
Yawn, yawn. Bobbi and Vik fall out after he finds out she's
been reading the Venus Mantrap rule book. Then they make up. Then
Janice bets Karen a tenner she can't get Steve McDonald to take
her out to dinner. Karen turns up at the Rovers, tarted up with
cleavage pushed up to chat Steve up and it looks like she's won
the bet so Janice takes it further. Twenty quid says she can't
get Steve to agree to tek her on holiday by the end of the night.
The bet's are placed and the dogs are out of their trap as Karen
leads Steve out for dinner in town. "If you pay for the meal.."
she tells him, " I can promise you something special for
dessert". Steve's only hope is that she doesn't give him
spotty dick with custard. Over at the Rovers, Shelley's up to
all sorts. First, she nominates Duggie in North West Landlord
of the Year competition. Then she spills the beans on Peter after
Duggie wonders who's been nicking the whisky. She even manages
to look concerned as Duggie traps Peter and sacks his golden boy.
Then, she gets Duggie to organise a drag night where the fellas
of the Street have to turn up dressed as female pop stars. And
I have to admit, I'm warming to her, I really am.
When Geena takes a phone call at Dev's place from his mum,
she's not best pleased when his mum assumes that Geena's his cleaner.
And when she confronts Dev about it, he's evasive, to say the
least. Why, she wants to know, is he keeping her secret from his
family? And when he can't give her an honest answer, she walks
out. And who'd blame her? Geena starts thinking Dev's all set
for an arranged marriage with an Asian woman and that she's just
a conquest, but he says not. Unfortunately, he's not very convincing.
So when he calls in the Rovers to talk to her at work, she gives
him short shrift, and rightly so. Dev's hot gossip in the corner
shop (is this the only shop in Britain with more staff than customers?)
between Sunita and Deirdre, each of them fascinated by Dev's love
life themselves, for their own particular reasons.
Molly's having trouble with her car so she takes it into the
garage and Kev promises to have a look at it. It seems like that's
all he's done because when he gives it back to her, it breaks
down again. So he's not fixed it and she's not paid him and the
pair of them look set to end up in bed together in a hot passionate
embrace. Just a guess.
Max is distraught, she's not pregnant, again. The pair of them
troll off to the docs who tell them to be patient and keep on
trying but Maxine says she won't and Ashley says, wearily, he
can't. Doc Ramsden tells them they'll be seen next week if they
go private, but Ashley admits he's terrified as he'll be tested
first. "I don't want to go to hospickle, on me own, in a
lickle room." he says. I think Ashley's had his script typed
up wrong 'cos it was supposed to read "... and your character
will be having, like, a baby". Anyway, between thoughts of
fertility, Max demands driving lessons in the new car from Ash.
But as she takes the steering wheel in her hand, puts the car
into gear and speeds off in first gear, there's a touch of Cruella
de Ville about her and your thoughts turn to wondering where that
kitten of hers went to.
There's undies in the Duckie's sink and Jack's getting tired
of not having his house to himself. He tells Vera that Maria's
got to go after finding "Maria's doings, you know, her smalls"
in the bathroom sink. The lack of privacy is getting to them both
too but it'll break Vera's heart to have to move her out.
And finally this week, Janice and Les are in competition for
Most Horrid Haircut of the Year award. My bet's on Janice. Yes,
it really is that bad. And that's about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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