Too hot. Fingers stuck to keyboard. Feet
swollen. Temper short. London great in spring, autumn, winter.
Culture, bands, excitement, shows. Great food. Summer heatwave, big city
nasty hot. No air. Tourists block tube doors. Temper gets shorter.
Only three days to go. Weekend sea breezes. Ice cream. Without further ado.
This week’s Coronation Street update. Here we go.
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Steve and Lloyd fight over the fixtures and fittings (broken chairs
and cracked mugs) and the star employee (Eileen) at Streetcars as they decide
to set up rival cab firms on the street. Eileen’s wooed by the promise
of a comfy cushion, non-stop Magic FM and a semi-nude picture of Tom Cruise
on the wall by her desk. Les thinks he’s negotiating better terms and conditions
between the sparring partners when neither of them wants him all that much.
After a fight in the cab office, Lloyd walks out with the office fan and
a tin of broken biscuits. But it’s left to Liz and Eileen to get the
two lads back together when Eileen bangs their hands together and Liz makes
Steve apologise to Lloyd and then cleans behind his ear with a hanky she’s
just spit on. It’s agreed that Lloyd will get the new license in his name
and the two lads shake hands on the deal but decline on the hug.
Liz further embarrasses her son when she sets him up on a blind date
with Shelley. Bev and Liz moan that their kids can’t find someone
solid, reliable, dependable… and as the light bulb pings over their heads
they all go to the pizza place in the precinct. When Steve and Shelley
find out what their mums have done, they walk out in mutual maternal amusement.
Back at the Rovers the two of them have a drink together, under the evil
eye of Charlie Stubbs, local builder of the parish and general ne’er do
well. Boo, hiss, etc.
Shelley overhears Charlie and Tracy in the Rovers planning their separate
nights out and it’s clear neither of them have made plans to look after
Amy. Tracy swans off leaving Charlie to return to the flat to mind her
child but he hops on a bus and goes straight into town. Shelley overhears
all of this in the Rovers, alerts Steve and the two of them break into Charlie
and Tracy’s flat to rescue little Amy. They don’t find the child but they
do find a note that Tracy’s left for Charlie saying that Amy’s with Sarah
Platt. When the forces of evil (Charlie and Tracy) find out what Steve
and Shelley have done, they storm into the Rovers and cause a big scene,
growl a bit at the locals and then slink out licking their wounds when it
becomes clear to Tracy that Charlie doesn’t give a stuff enough to check
on Amy before going out boozing. Anyway, Charlie’s now got his eye
on Shelley and reckons there’s still something between them when Shelley
bars Tracy from the Rovers and lets him stay.
In a blatant attempt to ingratiate herself with the factory girls,
Leanne takes them out for pizza and plonk. But it all goes horribly wrong
when she overhears them gossip about her - they reckon she’s no better
than a high class prossie with a taste for older men. She throws
them all out and sits with Janice who tells her she shouldn’t have expected
anything less, not when she’s sleeping with the enemy. Lost and alone,
Leanne reckons she’s better than the knicker stitchers and decides to make
mates with the sales rep who rings her up at work and is always dead friendly
on the phone.
Sean finds out that his real dad isn’t the actor Tim Healey after all
which is a right disappointment ‘cos he probably could have got him free
tickets for Billy Eliott. It turns out his dad is Paul Jones the plumber.
But how to find him? Adam suggests starting online. It always works
for me - when the mind boggles, the fingers google.
Adam and factory girl Jo start making eyes at one another in the Rovers
and there’s the frisson of excitement as the two of them realise they could
be falling in lust. But Jo’s worried that he’s just after her for what she
knows behind the scenes at the factory. Does he fancy her or the factory?
Is he going out with Jo just to get into ladies pants?
Clare and Ashley return from their jollies and there’s panic as Clare’s
rushed to t’hospickle when she can’t feel the baby move any more. All’s
well at the ultrasound and the Peacocks celebrate with lunch in town. When
they return home there’s a woman from the family court to discuss Matt Ramsden’s
access to little Josh. She says it’s not a problem that she’s waited all
afternoon in their house as she’s had Fred for company –although she should
be warned Fred’s proposed to women he’s spent less time with. The court
woman makes Ashley face up to the fact that Matt Ramsden has human rights,
or whatever they’re called, and has started a process that however unpleasant
for Ashley and Clare, will legally have to run its course.
Charlie gives Keith 48 hours to get out of number 6. Keith can’t
bear to argue with Charlie, he starts packing to go and live with his
sister in Bournemouth but Craig’s got other plans and refuses to budge.
Jack helps Keith pack and Tracy swans around with a tape measure thinking
she’s going to be moving in there to play happy families with Charlie and
Amy. But the way Charlie has been eyeing up Shelley this week, I reckon Ms
Barlow should think on.
Ken starts tutoring David at home but when Ken has to look after Amy,
Ken tells David to go to the Barlow’s for his next lesson. It’s all
going well with Ken getting David interested in history until Blanche starts
butting in about onions and poems about spotty dogs.
And Diggory’s fortunes are failing so in a last ditch attempt to feed
his wallet he decides to open a pizza parlour in the baker’s shop with Tyrone
and Molly helping out.
And that’s just about that for this week. Still too hot.
July 10, 2006
With the messed up Corrie schedule because of the World
Cup, this week's Coronation Street update is made up of only three episodes
so it'll be shorter than usual for which I hope you won't mind. There's not
much I can do about it unless I start making stuff up which regular readers
will know is my wont, from time to time. A quick reminder that
I now write short episode reviews at www.corrieblog.tv and so without any
further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.
If you'd like your weekly update with pictures and fun Corrie stuff, have
a look at :
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This week saw the last of Grandad Keith and goth grandson Craig as the
two of them packed up and left. But it wasn't straightforward - is it ever
when someone leaves the cobbles? Keith had an angina attack when Craig locked
himself in the house and refused to leave without saying goodbye to Rosie,
who's in France you'll remember, on a school trip. Sally's the only
one who can talk some sense into Craig when Keith smashes down the front
door to get into the house. As chaos reigned with Craig and Keith,
the removal men were on standby in a bad mood. Keith once kept two pigs in
the garden at number six but there are two worse creatures that will live
there now as the forces of evil (Charlie and Tracy) hovered with boxes waiting
to move in. Keith and Craig finally left after a kiss from Audrey,
sage words from Sally, a promise to keep in touch from Jack and a text message
from David. Corrie characters usually leave the street in a taxi or
on th'bus but Keith and Craig drove off down to Bournemouth in their own
car with Richard Fleeshman taking a last glance over his shoulder at the
street that has carved out his future.
Bev and Liz try to fix Shelley and Steve up on a date and they spy on
the two of them from behind their newspaper in the Rovers as their off-spring
chat at the bar. The barmaid and the cabbie decide to go on a date after
all, purely as mates, to the pizza place in the precinct. Evil Charlie Stubbs
overhears their plans in the Rovers and books a table at the same restaurant
for him and Tracy. At the restaurant, Tracy gets a call to say Amy's been
rushed to th'ospickle with suspected meningitis so she and Steve rush out
leaving Shelley and Charlie alone where she once again falls for the bully-boy
builder as he turned on the charm and told her he loved her. Pass the sick-bag
now, it really was that bad. "You bullied me, you bruised me, you drove
me to the very brink of my sanity" Shelley reminds him. He also made
her wear nasty jim-jams, confined her to her bedroom for months on end,
made her go through painful and unnecessary surgery, bedded her mum, oh
the list goes on. But how quickly she forgets it all and snogs him by the
pumps in the bar when they end up back at the Rovers together. Then she
serves herself up like a reheated hot-pot for Charlie's delight after hours
in the bar. After they've done, you know, it, he tells her how much
he hates her, despises her, walks out and leaves her for a pizza and then
goes home to bed Tracy.
Sarah and Jason get their mums together to be nice to each other as
they've decided to get married sooner rather than later. Eileen's been
down to that London place for a visit. "Seen the Queen?" asks Gail when
she knows she went to visit son Todd.
Diggory's pizza business is now up and running - Name Your Type, We'll
Bring It By Bike - but it turns into a complete failure when the only order
they get is from a rival pizza firm ordering 10 meat feasts for delivery
to the local - and closed - slimming club. "We might as well flog
a dead horse" moans Diggory although somehow I can't see that sort of pizza
catching on.
And Sean starts calling all 164 people in Sheffield called Paul Jones
who could, or could not be, his real dad. He ropes in Adam and Joanne to
help him ring round the Paul's of the parish and Blanche sums it up best
when she hears what he's doing: "Yer daft in the 'ead!". When Eileen finds
out what Sean's up to she tells him not to feel so sorry for himself, and
says she thinks of him as her third son. Ah, bless.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
July 17, 2006
Greetings fellow pop-pickers and welcome
to another weekly update of wonder. If the update comes to you disconnected
and smiling this week then it’s only got itself to blame. It’s been in a
different place for a few days in a tent at a festival and isn’t quite back
yet to where it usually is. Which is not altogether such a bad thing.
And so, lovely people, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
If you'd like your weekly update with pictures and fun Corrie stuff, have
a look at :
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Shelley tells Violet about her night of regret with Charlie the builder
after hours in the bar of the Rovers Return. Violet plays to her strengths
and emotes silently with nice hair. Shelley tells Tracy, as we all
hoped she would, and Tracy doesn’t want to believe her but of course knows
full well just what Charlie’s like. It was billed as Corrie’s biggest
cat-fight but Tracy’s slap across Shelley’s face came way down on my list
of best punch-ups on the cobbles. That was surely when Sally hit Nastily Horrid
across the chops when she found out she’d been sleeping with Kev the mechanic
husband. Bev wants to know if it’s true that her daughter has slept
with Stubbs the builder so Shelley lies in the ladies and says no, she just
told Tracy she’d slept with Charlie because she hates her so much. As you
knew she would be, Tracy’s in the loo hiding behind the door and overhears
every word. It all got a bit confusing with Tracy mouthing off in the Rovers
about who slept with who and who lied to who and then she tells Charlie she
wants to move into number six with him when he says he’s doing it up to sell
on. Somehow the two things were connected which is probably more than
my fingers are to my brain today. Shelley rides off in the back of a taxi
like the Queen of Sheba waving goodbye to the corner shop, the pub, the bully-boy
builder but if tabloid reports are true, then she’ll be back with the builder’s
baby inside her this summer for the wedding of Sir Fred and Lady Bev.
Liz is in Vernon’s bad books when his van goes missing after she doesn’t
lock it up. It’s got all his favourite records inside it, they’ve
all been nicked too and he’s not best pleased. But is he telling the truth?
Steve’s started noticing just how feckless Vernon is and tells him he thinks
his mum’s fella’s so lazy, he’d even get Liz to hold a grudge for him. I
love lines like that, me, don’t you?
Adam and Jo the factory girl start seeing each other and Blanche is stunned
into silence (but not for too long) when Jo strolls downstairs the morning
after the night of passion with Adam Barlow. Ken and Deirdre offer the
girl a hot cuppa but it’s her clothes and her pants from the dining room
floor that she’s after, not breakfast.
It’s Ashley’s day in family court and he agrees to Matt Ramsden having
access to Josh. “He can have two hours every mumf” yells Ashley to the
judge while going red in the face and all angry-like. When Matt turns
up for his allocated spot with Josh, Clare goes into labour and the ambulance
arrives after the new baby boy does. Which means that Matt Ramsden the
too-tall doctor put the baby into the first Mrs Peacock and pulled the
baby out of the second. Ashley thanks Matt for his help but can’t
help feeling frustrated and angry by the doctor who roared onto the street
in his SUV and parked it behind Maxine’s seat (which is perhaps how they
all got into this trouble in the first place).
As “Tainted Love” plays in the background at the Rovers, Danny and Frankie
share a moment of tenderness on what would have been their 20th wedding
anniversary. Frankie’s back from Spain now and losing patience
with Nathan who walks in and then storms out when he finds Danny at home
with Frankie poring over her photos of son Warren in Spain.
And Diggory the fat baker this week shut up shop and prepared to move
on.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda
July 24, 2006
