Hi folks. I know I've asked before but please humour me while I ask you again - what do you do with your weekly update? I really want to hear from you if you print off the update and share it around in any way. Perhaps you're somewhere remote or doing something odd and someone prints off the update and sends it to you each week? If you have any stories at all to tell, please email me direct. That is, of course, unless you print out the update and cut it up for hamster bedding. I mean, I wouldn't blame you, but it's not the sort of thing I need to know this time. Anyway, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Terry continues to cause trouble for the Duckies. Tyrone overhears Jack and Vera talking about Terry staying in the shed. When he hears words like "can't stay there forever" and "he'll have to move out", Tyrone assumes they're talking about him, wanting him out of the house. Vera comes clean with Tyrone about Terry in the shed then the two of them bring Terry back to the house for a bath, a meal and a night in his old room, while Tyrone takes the sofa. When Jack finds out that Vera's brought Terry home, he's not best pleased, worried what'll happen if anyone finds out. Well, that's exactly what happens - what did they expect, living next door to a copper? Fortunately, Terry does a runner but Emma warns Vera that she could face prison for harbouring a criminal.
Alone and left to his own devices, Les is in a mess now that Janice has gone. Janice and Dennis set up home in a flat so grotty it makes Wayne and Waynetta Slob's place look posh as Eileen puts on a brave face and Les falls to pieces. He's drinking himself stupid and loses his job at Streetcars until he sorts himself out. Toyah can't bear to see him like this and sends for Janice to come and have a few words with him. It doesn't really work and in true Corrie style - the likes of which we have not seen for some time -Les throws Janice's clothes onto the cobbles from the upstairs window. Toyah has a few words with Janice in the Rovers, reminding her that Dennis promised love and affection to Eileen not so long ago, the same love and affection that he's now promising her. "But he's different wi' me" says Janice. Ho-hum. Mind you, although it wasn't as good as when Sally slapped Nastily Horrid around the chops, the best part of this storyline this week was when Eileen stormed into the factory to thump Janice in the mouth.
Norris plays detective this week into the financial agreement that Emily has signed with Richard. He's like a cat that's got the cream when he finds out that the director of the company that bought Emily's house is none other than Richard Hillman himself. But he also finds out that there's a co-director of the company - Mrs Patricia Hillman. When Norris puts his findings to Emily, she's not too concerned. In fact, she's rather annoyed that Norris has been sticking his nose into her financial affairs. But when Norris confronts Richard with both pieces of evidence, Richard gets a bit irritated with Norris but doesn't seem unduly worried. But he does, firstly, go to see Emily to tell her that she is free to go to a different financial advisor if she so chooses and oh, didn't he mention that he was the director of the company who would benefit financially from her death? "Oh silly me" says Emily. "I'm sure you must have told me, perhaps I'm just a fluffy old woman with a tea-bag for a brain." Richard has a grin like Shere Khan which he takes to see Gail. Without mentioning Norris or his finance company, he tells Gail that he hasn't been entirely truthful with her. Gail already knew that Richard's first wife had died but what she didn't know was that Richard re-married - to a lady called Pat. He tells her they're divorced now but doesn't mention the finance company arrangemnet or his meeting with Norris. So he tells her half a story and it's still a bit much for Gail to take in. Why hadn't he told her before? Why is he telling her now? Richard tells Gail if she wants to end the relationship, he'd understand and leaves the ball in her court. Methinks Gail needs to have a word with Norris.
Geena gets jealous when she finds out from Deirdre that Dev's planning to expand his portfolio. Geena makes it clear to Dev that she should be first to know if his empire was about to enlarge instead of finding out second hand from some woman in specs behind the counter selling beans.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
Greetings and welcome to another weekly update. Many thanks for the replies I received last week letting me know what you did what your weekly updates. They made for very interesting reading indeed, especially the email from the woman in Uganda who prints off the update and then eats it in a sandwich. Seriously though, your replies made for great reading and are cheering me up tremendously as I battle with a bad cold. And so, with a steaming honey Lem-sip and without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Vera's at her wits end, wondering if Emma will turn her in to the police for harbouring her criminal son in the shed. It's all a bit tense. Curly begs Emma not to tell and in the end, after wrestling with her conscience, Emma gives in and says she'll keep quiet - this time. Emma and Curly go round to Vera's to give her the good news, she's over the moon as you'd expect and Emma has twins. No, sorry, I read my notes wrong. Emma has a twinge. She has a funny turn and has to sit down after feeling a bit dizzy - ITV's little way of reminding us it's almost Christmas + Emma is just about to give birth = ratings rocket for another Chrimbo baby.
Roy asks Ken to give a talk in the cafe to the Weatherfield Historical Society. Ken, well qualified to talk about old stuff, agrees. The Chair of the society, Anita (yet another woman on the street with another name ending in the letter "a") takes a fancy to Ken. In her mini skirt, long boots and with come hither eyes, she's got the hots for old Barlow and Blanche warns Deirdre to keep an eye on her. Over a drink in the Rovers, she tells Ken she'd like to interview him for her column in What's on Weatherfield. Ken agrees and Anita looks forward to taking down Ken's particulars.
Eileen continues to put on a brave face as Les continues his breakdown. He's not doing well and turns the screw as much as he can every time he bumps into Janice or Dennis. In the corner shop, Janice tells him what to buy for his tea and when Dennis finds them, he isn't best pleased and warns Les to stay away from them both. Toyah's doing her best to look after Les at home and as she and Sam go to Janice's for Sunday dinner, she tells Les "I've left you a pie in the fridge". Words which would keep most blokes I know feeling quite happy. Unless of course they didn't like pies, or, er, they didn't have a fridge. At lunch in the new place, Les turns up in tears with a Christmas card from Leanne which he reads out to all present, bringing tears to everyone's eyes. He's turning the tables on Dennis as much as he can as often as possible. Meanwhile Eileen gathers her boys around her for comfort and support, they're as hurt as she is at the betrayal by Dennis. When she finds out that Dennis has been working on Jason's bike, she storms round to the flat to tell him to stay away from her boys. In fact, she suggests he keep as far away as possible and move out of Weatherfield. And when Jason finds out that Dennis has been working on his bike in the garage, he clocks him one round the chops with his left hand. There was some wonderful dialogue again this week when Eileen talks to Gail about Dennis. "Men, eh? You get over one and then lie under another".
And as for Gail this week, well, she rings Richard and leaves a message on his ansaphone but he doesn't call back. Instead, he turns up days later at her front door saying he's been working away all week in the Lakes and hadn't got her messages from his machine. She's overjoyed to see him but he still doesn't come clean and when David tackles him as to why he hadn't returned his mum's calls, he tells him his mobile phone has been out of action. So he's still lying and leading Gail on for some reason and as they stand in the living room, he does one of those faces over her shoulder as he hugs her. You know, one of "those" faces. So, he's wheedled his way back into Gail's heart and her bed. David warns him he's got his eye on him, so he'd best not hurt his mum again, and Richard really did look rather worried. But then, he probably has every right to.
Over at the Rovers, Shelley wants to put up the Chrimbo decorations but can't find them anywhere. Eventually she finds the box of decorations in the back yard on the dustbin. Geena had thrown them out, hoping for some stylish and new ones, not the old red and green ones that have seen better days. There's more excitement (more! I know!) when Duggie announces to the ladies wot work there that he's selling up and moving out. After Dev belittles Gena that being a barmaid is beneath her, she announces her decision to buy the lease from Duggie. "My name's gonna be above that door" she tells Dev. I hope she's wrong. I sincerely hope she's wrong.
Tyrone's been clocking the mileage on cars for Karl after the money proves irresistible to him and to Fiz. Karl pays Tyrone 50% of the money up front and he and Fiz go out clubbing, causing Tyrone to miss work the next day with a hangover. Celebrating their ill gotton gains later in the Rovers, Tyrone surprises Fiz with matching red, white and black leather jackets. Poor lad.
Plans for Christmas dinner were being made this week. When Peter finds out Shelley has nowhere to go, he invites her along to dinner at the Barlows and although Deirdre agrees, she and Blanche raise their eyebrows in unison, meaning only one thing. Blanche tells her: "You'll have to make more of an effort with the turkey. It were very dry last year."
Eve's making noises about wanting to move out of Elliot mansions. It reminds her too much of Fred's first wife Sybil and she'd like somewhere new to call her own. She mentions this to Duggie who in turn tells Fred, who puts it to Eve that should she fancy a change of decor, he's open to suggestion. But it goes further than that, she tells Fred she wants to move. Maxine tells Eve that she needs to decorate anyway, to get the place ready for sale. While the decorating takes place, Ashley tells Fred and Eve they can move in chez Peacocks. Maxine's not best pleased but you just know this will be fun.
And finally this week, Candice says "can do" to Sarah who offers to, like, make up and become, like, friends again, or what?
And that's just about that for this week.
PS: If you're not in the UK or haven't heard the recent Corrie news, it looks like Julie Goodyear could reappear on the cobbles as Bet once more. Reactions are mixed in our household about this. I think it's great news and truly hope it happens. Watch this space for more as it comes in. You are now free to print off this update and put it in your sandwich.
Glenda
Greetings folks and welcome to another weekly update. I'm not sure yet if there'll be an update next week as I'll be up north and away from the PC for a while. This could mean there'll be a bumper two week update between Christmas and New Year so if I don't speak to you beforehand, I hope each and every one of you has a wonderful Christmas. I'm just about ready for it. After writing the update this morning I've got a pile of presents to wrap, a trip to the post office to post one of them off and then much washing and ironing before said trip up north. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
Richard's trying to smarm his way back into Gail's life and takes young David to buy a Christmas tree after school. Emily stops Richard in the street to thank him for the way he's handled her finances; the sale of her house has been finalised and the lovely Spider in Streatham is just about ready to open his juice bar. However, just when we're beginning to think Richard might not be as dodgy as we think he is, Tony Lawson comes looking for him. He's a disgruntled son of a customer of Richard's, wanting a word about some dodgy dealings he did with his mother's house which meant the house was sold to Richard's company instead of Tony inheriting it as he had hoped. Now, I've seen the ads for this kind of financial advice to old folk - they're on daytime telly between Gloria Hunniford and Watercolour Challenge - and so I guess the service that Richard offers is a legal one but it still just doesn't seem right somehow.
With a suitcase and a loud "Hello Pussy Cat!", Fred and Eve moved in with the Peacocks this week. Maxine's getting ratty because she can't sleep, she reckons it's Fred's snoring that's keeping her awake but when they mention it to Fred, he's somewhat taken aback. I say, he's rather concerned because it isn't Fred that's keeping the household awake with his snoring, it's Eve. Eve's rather shocked when Fred tells her what she's doing. Well, she would be, wouldn't she? Along with farting and picking our noses, snoring is one thing we ladies never do. Never.
Meanwhile in the Rovers, Dev and Geena have competition from Shelly and Peter in the race to take over the tenancy of the pub. Geena goes to the bank to ask for a loan and not suprisingly - she hasn't seen the books, done no forward planning or forecasting, wears a silly tie - she gets turned down. Peter has better luck with the offer of a loan on the strength of his success with the betting shop. Dev & Geena 0, Shelly and Peter 1. Peter mentions to Fred that the pub is up for sale although he picks a bad time to tell him. Fred and Eve are heading home for a bit of rumpeh pumpeh while Max and Ash are out when Peter gives Fred the news before Fred runs across the cobbles to his missus as fast as his fat butchers legs will carry him. So could we see an outside contender in the ample shape of the Elliot's? A quick straw poll of everyone in my living room this morning (me) reveals the following: the new Rovers landlady should be judged on the usual attributes which make up the three most important constituent parts of every Rovers landlady there ever has been and therefore there ever will be and so may it come to pass, amen. Boobs. Hair. Attitude. My vote goes for Eve and long may she reign.
Les/Janice/Dennis/Eileen has become rather dreary, weary and not at all cheery. Les has tarted his cab up with Christmas decorations and donned a Santa suit to cheer himself up. Janice and Dennis are thinking of moving to Sheffield (go! please! go!) and in the middle of it all, Toyah's sharing the kitchen table with the sauce bottle as she writes her essays for Uni. Eileen invites Les in for a drink and he misinterprets her friendship as something more; but then he would, 'cos he's thick, and he still can't understand why Janice left him.
Ken is invited by Anita to a pre-Christmas get together of members of the Weatherfield Historial Society. He mentions this to Roy who seems rather perturbed, there was nothing in the diary about an extra meeting, but off the pair of them go to Anita's house as planned. It seems Anita was only expecting Ken to arrive, she's dolled up to the nines but the three of them settle down to tea and a chat about Weatherfield's past. When Anita confesses she knows Ken's book almost off by heart because she takes it to bed with her, Ken catches a whiff of parfum eau de sperate and tells Deirdre later that the meeting had been, um, interesting. Roy can only agree.
Jack and Vera are both in Blackpool this week, leaving Tyrone home alone. Fiz decides this just won't do and moves in with him. It's Tryone's 19th birthday and Hayley bakes a cake with a marzipan mechanic on it. Yes, Hayley's back! resplendent in red anorak. Anyway, Fiz makes a bithday tea, tells Tyrone she's done the cooking and made the cake herself and gives the birthday boy his presents; there's a CD, a new pair of undies and "an exotic blend of aromatic oils which will leave your senses tingling" - which sounded like a bottle of Babycham to me but it was in fact massage oil. Later on the sofa, Tyrone's in the nuddy as Fiz gives the lad a massage when there's a knock on the door. As Tyrone stands there in his manhood, the police burst in to do a quick inspection of the premises, looking for Terry.
Steve and Karen return to the street after visiting Liz in Leciester. There's much arguing after Karen reckons Steve didn't stand up for her when Liz slagged her off and he won't hear a bad word said against his mum. Karen calls him a mummy's boy and he responds in kind: ".. and you're a right cow". Later at the flat she tries to make up to him but Steve reckons she's hurt his feelings and he sleeps on the sofa wrapped up in a duvet.
Geena's mum appeared in the corner shop (where Tunnocks tea cakes made a top shelf appearance). With her Marks and Spencer coat and her Elsie Tanner voice, she asks Geena home for Christmas dinner - without Dev. Dev doesn't want to play happy families anyway, he'd rather count his cash at the tills, and why not? He lies to Mrs Geena, telling her that he's whisking her daughter away to Spain on a plane, but he's not. This means Geena has to lie to her parents too and no-one ends up happy.
Elsewhere on the Street this week; Leanne sends Les a letter to say she's coming home for New Year; Nick sends Gail a postcard to say he's not. And Sam's flat has been flooded so Les tells him he can move in with him and Toyah. Naturally, when Toyah finds out, she's not best pleased.
And that's just about that for this week. Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, whichever way you do it and whoever you're doing it with, I hope you have a wonderful time. Merry Christmas!!
Glenda
For the update that covers this week and next, please see January 2, 2002.
