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Things go downhill fast and quite nastily after last week's
rumpeh pumpeh between Steve and Maxine. Fiona, blissfully unaware
of the sexual malarkey, asks Steve to marry her and to adopt little
Morgan as his own. He says yes, and it's snogahula. Anyway, Maxine,
saddled with guilt, goes to see Fiona and tells her the truth
about her and Steve. Steve denies everything and Fiona doesn't
know quite whom to believe. Steve tells Maxine to go back to Fiona,
to deny what happened and tell Fiona she'd been lying when she
really told her the truth (you following this?). He tells Maxine
she must cover up what happened if she wants to both stay friends
with Fiona and keep her job. So, Maxine goes back to the salon
and tells Fiona she lied about her and Steve but Fiona sacks her
anyway and tells her not to come back. So, while Fiona is out
at the baby clinic, Maxine returns to the salon to tell Fiona
that she was telling the truth in the first place. With Fiona
out of the way, she goes upstairs to talk to Steve and the pair
of them argue, he wants Maxine to keep quiet so he doesn't lose
Fiona and she wants to tell the truth in an attempt to keep her
friend. In the flat, they're both arguing and Steve opens the
door to throw Maxine out... only to find Fiona - she'd been listening
to every word.
Jim's having a few more twinges in his leg, so he is. His therapist
tells him not to get too excited about it though. Jim and Liz
chat about becoming grandparents when Steve adopts Morgan and
there's quite a grizzly sort of scene with Jim telling Liz she'll
be a glamorous granny. The nation shuddered.
The Freshco fiasco continues. Ann sends another letter, hinting
at dark things in pickled beetroot. Curly finds the opened jar
of beetroot on the shelf and there's glass in it (which Ann has
placed, of course). Anyway, after the police intervene and there's
a silly episode about "Operation Crustacean" it all
ends up with Curly getting arrested when the police find the book
(returned to Curly's book shelf by Ann) that's been used for sending
the extortion letters. But fear not, the intrepid threesome -
Alma, Aunty Em and (of course) the lovely Spider - are on the
case. Alma overhears Ann telling the police that Curly harassed
her and other general untrue things, so Ann becomes suspect number
one. Curly sends Alma a letter saying he knows that Ann is trying
to frame him, and there's nothing he can do to prove otherwise,
so he's done the only thing a man can do under these circumstances
- he's run away. In the Freshco office, Curly calls Alma but Ann
comes into the room so Alma cuts the call short and later does
a 1471-3 to call back the number. Unfortunately, Curly doesn't
answer it. It's a public phone box at Manchester Airport. Ann
announces to Alma that she's going to work at another store for
a couple of weeks. It's a fit up gov. Send her down. Oh, and feed
her up while you're at it. She still looks positively anorexic.
Now that Jack and Vera are employees of Alec's at the Rovers,
they're being pedantic about time keeping and whatnot. This is
causing Alec no end of frustration until he starts making notes
in his little book - if they're going to work to rule, then he's
going to pay them accordingly. Vera complains that the central
heating pump has broken down in the Rovers. "Well, get your
Jack to fix it!" says Alec. "Jack?" says Vera "What
would he know about old boilers?" "I would have thought
plenty, after being married to you", he replies.
Kev refuses to let Sally see the girls and she's really fretting
about it. She mistakenly thinks that Greg's solicitor is working
on gaining her access to her children, but you can tell that having
2 kids around, quiet little baked-bean angels that they are, is
the last thing on Greg's mind. Rita offers Sally support this
week, but she's still disappointed and tells Sally she must put
the needs of her children before anything else.
The hole in the wall between Rita and Alec's flat is still
a hole in the wall. Pat the builder has gone AWOL leaving behind
torn wallpaper, loose concrete and a heck of a mess. Oh, and a
hole in the wall. Rita hides the hole with a curtain as a temporary
measure to divide her flat from Alec's and thinks the two of them
should have some rules about privacy and the entrance to each
other's flat. "A bolt? What do you want a door bolt for?"
asks Alec. "Well..." she replies "I wouldn't want
to be thrusting myself on yer willy nilly". Oh, I did chuckle.
Anyway, Alec decides to finish the job himself and ends up spraining
his ankle when he falls. Rita summons help from Martin and Jack
who come up to the flat and wonder what on earth is going on.
Rita has a conversation with Jack, for some reason, about bromide
in tea. "Aye, they used to do that in the army to us, put
bromide in our tea, to stop urges, like". "Did it work?"
asks Rita. "No, not then, but it's starting to now!".
Martin and Jack take Alec back to the Rovers to dust him off and
rest his leg and of course, tongues starts wagging when news of
the connecting flats gets all over the place. "It was just
a bit of D.I.Y." says Alec. "Sounds more like S.E.X.
to me" replies Vera.
And that is just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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