Feb 6, 2006
Here we go again with another warm wonder of wotsit plopping
onto the welcome mat of your email box. And so, without any further
ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
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Rita tells Fred he's a fool over Stacy when the burly butcher asks
her to go to th'ospital with him to check on how Stacy's doing. When they
get there, Stacy's gone - only to turn up later on the street begging
money from Fred. He takes pity on her and asks Rita to look over
Stacy for a couple of nights and against her better judgement, she does.
Fred tells Stacy she's not a bad person although Rita's face puckers up
in disagreement. When staying indoors and polishing the brass loses
its appeal, Rita takes Stacy shopping in town but disaster strikes while
they're out. Stacy's boyfriend breaks in and trashes Rita's flat, she's
in bits and blames Fred. Emily does her best for her mate with a strong
cuppa tea. Stacy moves in with Fred and turns on the old Orchid charm when
he tells her she'll have to move on, I say, Clurr and Ashley are coming
home tomorrow. Where've they been?
Sunita takes the twins and leaves Dev, the flat, the soap opera on
which she's been working for the last few years. Her brother Jayesh
drives her away (we rarely see a woman drive herself off the cobbles,
it's ominous when a Corrie woman drives a car anywhere at the best of
times). Dev begs, pleads and cries for her not to go and take his
babies and he crumples on the cobbles just as daughter Amber turns the
corner into Dev's life. After pricking his conscience, he offers
her a job in the shop, which she accepts. If this means we get to see more
of the wonderful Amber, then that's great news.
Maria tells Tyrone her period's late and he jumps to conclusions, puts
two and two together and gets quadruplets and is bouncing off the garage
walls at the thought of being a dad. When Maria finds out she's
not pregnant after all, she doesn't bother telling Tyrone until hours
later and he wonders how much their relationship means to her. He
decides to end things with Maria and they break up by the sinks in the salon.
A fitting end, I think. Molly seizes her chance and helps Tyrone
do up the chip van where they get hot and sweaty cooking burgers and prodding
baps and she helps him get his engine running, in more ways than one.
Maria goes on a date with the hack from The Gazette and bears all about
her cheating past while engaged to Tyrone. She thinks she's found someone
to talk to while the hack's mentally composing headlines for this surprise
twist in the paper's Surprise the Burglar competition.
It's Sarah's birthday and there's cards from all the family - Gail,
David, Bethany, Richard Hillman. Hang on, Richard Hillman? Someone
has sent her a card as if it's from Richard and Sarah ends up in tears.
Gail quizzes David who swears it weren't him and Phil denies all too.
Who could it be? If you know, do tell, as I haven't a clue. David
bumps into a stranger on the street, a beige woman called Muttley with a
blonde dog called Jo (or was it the t'other way round?). Anyway, this
woman Jo is carrying boxes from her car up to one of the flats above the
bookies (just how many flats are there up there now?) and says she doesn't
need help when she clearly does. She's cagey about the boxes (look
away now if you don't want to know what's in them - the flat is going to
be the Street's first cannabis factory and young David, feckless as he
is, will get seriously involved). I worry for the dog.
Never reply to an email from Friends Reunited. That's going to be my
motto from now on, you just might end up reuniting yourself with someone
like Clifford. He pops into the cafe to see Roy who's not best pleased
to see him after the debacle of the reunion t'other week. But when
Clifford tells Roy he needs help doing up his model railway system (aka toy
train set), Roy's eyes light up and he choo-choo-chooses to spend time with
his new old friend, much to Hayley's disdain.
Kelly legs it down to the police station to pick up her phone and her
bling that she had robbed a few weeks ago after her win on the scratch card.
When she's there she bumps into Becky, a girl she was in care with many
years ago. She gives Becky a bit of cash and tells the girl where she
works when she insists on repaying her. Oh dearie me, I don't think
that's the last Kelly will see of Becky somehow.
And finally this week, Charlie-boy the builder asks psycho Tracy to
move in with him. He tells her to bring her toothbrush and is somewhat
surprised when she turns up at his door with boxes and bags - and Amy.
Ken and Deirdre warn their wayward daughter that Charlie's dangerous and
they're worried for both Tracy and Amy but Tracy pays them no heed (I love
that expression). Deirdre drowns her sorrows on a night out
with the girls - Frankie, Liz and Eileen and she ends up snogging some fella
in the Weatherfield Arms. Oh 'eck.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
Feb 13, 2006
It’s Valentine’s Day as I write this so this week’s
update comes to you with a big cuddle and a peck on the cheek. Well, it’s
a bit shy and we hardly know each other, do we? I’ve never met your
mother and you never take me out in public so a peck on the cheek is all
you’re going to get, you cheeky little monkey, you. And so, without
any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
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The big story this week has been Ed’s confession to Emily that he killed
Ernest Bishop back in 1978. I was ready for this, I really was. I
was all curled up on the sofa in my jim-jams with a steaming mug of hot chocolate
waiting for his confession to stir up Emily’s emotions in one of Corrie’s
biggest storylines in, oh, ages. At the end of episode one on Monday
night, it started well as Ed confessed, Emily wavered and I was close to
tears. And then… a half hour break in between eps where I switched over and
watched something nasty about RyanAir. Much later, it was back to Emily
and Ed still sitting by the fire in a state of shock while all I could think
about was airport security. If you haven’t seen these two episodes
yet, do yourself a favour and watch them one right after t’other to enjoy
it as much as you can. Needless to say, poor Emily’s distraught and
Eileen’s wondering why Ed’s ignoring her after their night of passion, blaming
herself for scaring him off.
Rita’s also been through the wringer this week after Stacy / Orchid’s
ex, Stuart turns up in the Kabin. He got Rita alone in the shop and
menaced her by the Tunnocks Snowballs. Fred tried to barge in through
the locked door and failed, so he called the police while hero of the hour,
Nathan, breaks down the door and wrestles Stuart to the ground. Rita’s
in tears in her dressing gown (and after all the crying she’s done over the
years, you’d think someone would have told her about waterproof mascara).
She tries to get used to being back in the flat on her own but finds it hard
and starts drinking too much when she helps Emily and Norris cook Sunday
lunch for the book club. Blanche wants their next book to be a Shirley
Conran but Ken suggests “A Ladder in the Stocking” – the tale of a randy
widow woman who wants physical intimacy in her dotage, or anywhere really,
she’s not that fussed. Thrilling stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Charlie tries, and fails, to get used to having Amy in his flat and
in his life. Amy’s toilet training and her little whoopsies on the carpet
don’t go down well with the bully-boy builder. He finally snaps and goes
to the pub leaving Tracy home alone with her daughter and a lot of misgivings
about moving in with Charlie but she tries to convince herself she’s done
the right thing. But when Tracy has to leave Amy in the flat with Charlie
as she rushes to the dentist (and then goes shopping and drinking), he decides
he’s had enough. He bundles Amy in his arms and drops her on Tracy in the
Rovers, giving Tracy her toothbrush along with her marching orders and orders
her to collect her stuff and leave.
Frankie and Nathan go on a date and have an Indian meal but the date
is doomed from the start when they order white wine instead of a fruity,
lusty red. The colour of the wine, as every Corrie fan knows, is the
barometer of passion likely to be encountered on any date on the cobbles.
If it’s white, forget it; rosé is hopeful; red is always, always a
done deal. Frankie can’t understand why he won’t share his saag and
gets coy over his korma while Nathan can’t understand why she keeps wittering
on about her Danny-boy.
Deirdre’s in a dilemma after her snog with the fella last week when
she was on her girls night out. The bloke turns up at the planning
office at the council where Deirdre works and tells her he wants her to
rubber stamp his erection application otherwise he’ll tell her husband about
their bit of passion. She does what he asks but as Eileen tells her, in
the best line of the week: “Two dafts don’t make a sensible”.
Clifford returns to visit the Croppers: “Hail, Hayley!” he says and
presents her with a model railway figure dressed in a red anorak.
She’s not as happy to see Clifford as Roy, who’s becoming completely immersed
in this model railway building thing that Clifford’s got going and the pair
of them aim to rebuild and win a trophy for their efforts.
Over at the Platts, Phil gets nasty with young David again after he
chucks a Westlife CD that Phil has just bought him (I think David had a
point, I’d have done the same thing). While Gail’s out shopping, Phil
throws David against the wall and jams his hand in the cupboard, threatening
to slam the door shut on his fingers. What a nasty piece of work this fella
is but Gail of course, seeing nothing, believes no ill of him. Not
yet, anyway.
Tyrone and Molly take the chip van to the car boot sale and sell bacon
barms to people who’re buying other folks’ rubbish in a muddy field on a
Sunday morning. Well, that’s been my experience of car boot sales
anyway. Driving home after a successful first day as entrepreneurs,
the van catches fire and Tyrone has to drive it into a lake to extinguish
the flames. However, nothing can dampen the flames of desire between
Tyrone and Molly (well, it is Valentine’s day so forgive me if I get smoochy)
and the pair of them have a kiss in the lake as the van smoulders behind
them.
And the wonderful Amber quizzes Dev when another of his daughters, Shareen,
turns up in the shop. Amber’s still adjusting to her new circumstances and
doesn’t feel she can handle another sister turning up out of the blue. She
tells Dev she knows a way they can work out their family problems but he
doesn’t seem to think that going on Trisha will help, not all that much.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
Feb 20, 2006
Greetings and welcome to another weekly update. This
week the update is listening to the Artic Monkeys while it types itself up
and has just been ticked off by an 11-year-old for saying the band are cool.
Apparantly, that word is no longer hip. Oh, and neither is that one.
Trendy? With-it? Nope to both of them too. Ah well, the updates have never
been infra-dig so it's not too bothered (does it look bothered?) as here
we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
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It was Valentine's day on the Street this week and Gail received two
cards - one from Phil the foot fella and one from killer Richard Deadman
Hillman. I reckon Gail should be as scared to receive one as t'other but
she throws the one signed Richard in the bin and swoons over Phil's. Audrey
reckons it's Phil sending the cards, pretending to be Richard and advises
her daughter to dump the foot fondler. Phil denies it's him as does
young David but he's got other stuff on his mind this week. He helps
out Jo the air stewardess by walking dog Muttley while she flies through
the air joining the Mile High (As A Kite) Club. Jo's left her cannabis
farm in the flat and David's been watering the plants while she's away.
When a leak springs upstairs, Jack, Eric and Charlie break in and find the
plants, the dope gets busted by the cops (see, I know all the terminology),
David denies all and signs a statement full of lies while Gail looks on,
aghast, with a face on her that Ivy Tilsley would have been proud of.
Emily's friends rush to her side for endless cups of tea and handbags
full of sympathy. Emily's feeling vengeful and says she'll never forgive
Ed for killing her Ernest. When Eileen finds out the truth about
her fella she grips her handbag to her very ample bosom and has a few tears.
Eileen finally meets up with Ed to hear his side of the story and realises
she loves the fella. When Eileen tells Emily she's decided to face the future
with the killer of her husband, Emily spits out at her and asks is she really
that desperate for a fella that she'll spread open her duvet for a cold
blooded killer? The answer, dear reader, is yes.
Clifford gets his feet well under the table of life that is Roy and Hayley's
marriage. Roy's in his element, chosing bits and pieces for the rail
set while Hayley can't ignore the fact that Roy's neglecting his duties
in the caff to play at toy trains. More importantly, she feels - and
rightly so - that he's neglecting her too. Clifford knows exactly
what he's doing to them both. He wants Roy as his friend, he wants
his trains to play with and he doesn't want Hayley to spoil anything for
him.
Charlie tells Tracy she can move back into his flat. She's free to bring
her bits and her bots but not her baby, so Tracy dumps Amy on Ken, Deirdre
and Blanche and takes her frillies to Charlie. "Throw her out if you don't
want her here!" Tracy tells her parents. (I watched this scene with my
mother who did a sharp intake of breath at this scene. I thought I'd have
to revive her with a large brandy but in the end she was ok so I drank
it myself). Anyway, an incensed Deirdre warns her wayward daughter that
when Amy's old enough to understand, she's going to tell her what's happened
so the poor little kid can find out just what kind of evil Tracy was capable
of.
Fred picks up the phone at the Rovers and it's Bev, she's been dumped
by her fella and at the side of a road. She's cold, lost and alone so Fred
jumps into the van and roars off to find her. If Bev had been hoping for
a knight in shining armour, what she got was a fat man in a meat van but
it's good enough for Bev who's very grateful to Fred for rescuing her.
The van breaks down and the two of them have plenty of time to chat.
Grateful for a captive female audience, Fred asks Bev the question you
just knew he would and asks Bev to be his bride, I say, would she do the
great honour of marrying him? In good Fred style, he asked her twice.
She replied only once. Her answer, dear reader, was yes
And finally this week, Rita goes off to view a retirement home but after
a look around she decides she isn't yet ready to be put out to pasture.
Emily offers Rita to move in with her and at first Norris isn't best pleased,
that is, until Rita says he can move into her flat above the shop.
Fancying the life of a dandy batchelor once more, Norris' eyes light up
and he accepts Rita's offer.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
Feb
27, 2006
Hello and here we go with another weekly update. This week the
update is careful where it stands as it's got a mice infestation nibbling
at the edges and doesn't want to get its feet stuck in a trap. It's the
cold weather that does it, or so the nice man at the council said. But anyway,
without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
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Bev and Fred are as happy as Larry (whoever he is) and can't wait to tell
their families the good news about their upcoming nuptials and marital what-nots.
Shelley and Ashley are less enthusiastic when they hear the news although
Claire reckons it's romantic and congratulates the hearty, happy couple.
There's an engagement party for the pair of them in the Rovers where glasses
are raised and Fred's down on one knee, this time with a ring doing a proper
proposal to Beverley. Shelley's face almost had a smile on it wishing
her mum and Fred well but it's soon knocked off when Fred announces
to all and sundry, I say, to all those at the party, that he reckons Bev
will make a great landlady at his pub.
Ashley's got more worries on his mind when he gets a letter from the too-tall
Dr Matt Ramsden. You'll remember him as the real father of little Josh
who once had a fling with Mrs Peacock in the bedroom with the candleabra.
Anyway, Matt wants to see Josh and Ashley's all upset. Not even Claire's
ham and cheese sandwiches with the crusts cut off can cheer him up, alas.
Leanne crashes the sports car that Danny's just bought her and knocks
down Gail's front wall. Janice demands that Danny pay for the damage caused
and rages at Kev and Sally about shoddy work on the car. It's no-one's
fault but Leanne's, it seems, but Janice growls at anyone who'll listen. She
steps up her vendetta against Sally to the point where the two of them fight
in th'factory by the gussets and Janice gets sacked. With no mates,
no job, a bad hair-do and a really awful jacket, you have to feel sorry for
Janice, you really do.
Sally and Kev are over the moon when Rosie returns from her ski-ing trip
abroad to find out that she's split up with Craig, who's been seeing a floozie
called Susie while Rosie's been gone. Rosie dumps Craig's stuff on his door-step
and he calls her inside where he explains that's nowt going on between him
and Susie, it's Rosie he loves and he's missed her like mad. The two of them
decide to keep up the pretence that they've split up with each other just
to keep the oldies off their backs.
Norris finds life alone in the flat rather lonely and it's not long before
he pops back over the road to Bishop Towers for a cuppa tea with Emily and
Rita. Eileen and Ed split up this week as she realised that his obsession
with redemption was getting in the way of some decent hanky-panky, so she
threw him and his bible out.
Penny's worried about Mike as she hasn't heard from him since he went
to Spain. Jamie does the honours, dials the digits and calls abroad where
he does his best for international linguistic relations by shouting in the
phone going "Oi, mate, non-comprendo, me old son".
Tracy books a holiday for her and Charlie telling Ken and Deirdre that
Amy will be fine left alone in their 5th floor apartment. The Barlows demand
that Amy is left with them, which is what Tracy wanted all along. Jason tells
Charlie that he's under Tracy's thumb and with this slight on his masculinity,
Charlie puts Jason up against the wall and under no allusions that he should
never slight him that way again.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda