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





By Glenda Young
, writer of Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.


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