Greetings and welcome to another weekly update. There’s
no preamble ramble this week, so let’s just crack on with the update without
any further ado.
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Claire gets increasingly paranoid this week and thinks everyone is talking
about her. Oddly enough, they are. But not in the way that she thinks,
as people genuinely care about her but egged on by Casey, she leaves the
Street to go and stay with her mum. As soon as the coast is clear, Casey’s
straight round there to see Ashley, cooking his tea for him and opening
the wine. Ashley’s so distraught that Claire’s gone and left him
again that he seeks comfort in Casey’s arms and, er, other bits. Audrey
has a quiet word with me laddo after she spots Casey coming and going but
he tells her all’s well although clearly it’s not.
Lloyd and Jamie finally find out about Shania and Steve on holiday in
Malta. Eileen caves in and tells Lloyd the truth about Shania being a man
just to shut him up as he won’t stop going on about Steve’s holiday secret.
But if Ma Grimshaw thought that Lloyd would stay quiet, she clearly doesn’t
know him as well as she thought and he ribs Steve mercilessly and relentlessly,
as we all knew he would. However, Michelle demands to know what’s going
on with the photos and Steve has to come clean that he snogged the face
of a woman who turned out to be a man. Michelle makes Steve announce it
to all and sundry in the pub where, in a truly wonderful scene, his embarrassment
is complete and Michelle isn’t sure if she can trust Steve any more.
It’s the funeral of Norris’ ex-wife Angela and Norris meets up with two
more of Angela’s ex-husbands, George Trench and Ivor Priestly. The three
of them compare notes and head off back to the Rovers to enjoy the finer things
in life that Angela denied them – beer, crisps and the odd pickled egg. They
form the ‘Ex-Husbands of Angela Club’ and appoint Norris its Chairman on
account of him being married to the woman for longer than the other two.
Their talk turns to remarriage after a few beers in the pub and Norris
admits he has special feelings for a lady in his life and wouldn’t mind
popping the question to her. But who could it be? Emily, Rita or Doreen?
My money’s on Rita the lovely shop keeper.
Cilla gets a new job as a scrubber at the Badgerbrook care home for elderly
folk. She tells everyone she’s a hygiene technologist, but you would, wouldn’t
you?
Dev and Leanne chat finances over pizza and he makes it clear that he’s
interested in putting something up front to help Leanne out. However, it’s
not his cash he’s talking about and when Leanne gets drift of what he really
means she gives him short shrift. Good for her, what a creep that man can
be at times. He also makes up for being so creepy this week by being so nice
to daughter Amber and makes a fool of himself over a salad cream incident
in the corner shop.
Young David Platt gets chatted up by the wonderful Amber but is too dense
to realise that she really likes him. Instead, he flirts with Mel Morton,
convinced he’s in with a chance when he hasn’t got a clue. As Sarah
and Jason’s plans for the wedding steam ahead, David rubbishes his sister’s
future with the builder every chance he can.
Steve buys Ryan a new pay of trainers and gets wrong from Michelle. Mind
you, Michelle also gets ticked off from Liz after she laughs at little
Amy all dolled up like Princess Barbie with a face full of make-up that
Liz had slapped on her. Poor little kid.
And Tyrone heads off to Spain after he gets a phone call from the Benidorm
police to say his mum’s been arrested for shoplifting. For those of us
who remember Tyrone’s mum, this comes as no surprise.
At the factory, Rosie checks Sally’s seams and finds them wonky and loose.
Sally’s a bit concerned that Rosie is enjoying herself too much in the
management office while she sweats it out on the shop floor.
And that’s just about that for this week. Tune in next week for the update
as it comes with very special news.
Without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street
weekly update.
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Casey’s spotted at Ashley’s bedroom window by nosey neighbours with wagging
tongues on the Street. Kev pops round to see his mate Ash to ask him for
a beer but backs off when he finds Ashley with Casey wearing Claire’s dressing
gown and two wine glasses and an open bottle in the living room. Clearly
putting two and two together to make what even Ashley doesn’t yet know is
four, Kev tells Audrey that she needs to find out just what’s going on. Audrey
has a firm but gentle word with me-laddo and when Ashley tells her that it’s
none of her business, she says: “Oh, but I beg to differ, and so would your
father” which was a really nice touch. Casey collars Audrey outside
the salon in the middle of a Manchester thunderstorm and tells her to mind
her own business. It was really spooky, the thunder was crashing, the wind
was howling, Casey’s eyes were narrowing, it was all very Wizard of Oz.
David lies and tells everyone on the Street that he and Mel Morton are
an item. Sarah warns Mel off David and David’s jilted at the cinema with
two big tubs of popcorn all to himself. He later tells Amber that he dumped
Mel after he’d been sleeping with her and of course this news finds its way
back to Mel in the kebab shop where dad Jerry takes matters into his own
hands. He storms in to see Gail to tell her to keep an eye on young David,
or else, and Gail marches David by the scruff of the neck to apologise to
Mel and to Jerry. David then climbs up on the garage roof and takes imaginary
shots from an invisible gun at his mum, sister and gran while Jason tries
to talk him down. He’s such an evil, scary lad that David Platt, but I don’t
half feel sorry for him. As Audrey calls time between Sarah and David
arguing in the hair salon she says, with a flourish: “Ooh, I feel just like
Boutros Boutros Gali!”. Who? Indeed. Apparently he was the Secretary General
of the United Nations but perhaps not as adept as peace keeping in a hair
salon as the lovely Mrs Roberts.
Carla tells Sally that Rosie’s decided to work full-time at the factory
and she’s not going to go back to School. “Oh yes she is” says Sally to
anyone who’ll listen and even Kev gets involved and makes his voice heard,
trying to get Rosie to see sense and not throw away her highly priced education
on some low budget pants job. The Websters head off en famille to Greece for
their holidays with Rosie tagging along after Sally makes her pay her own
way now that she’s earning. Best line of the week was from Rosie to Amber
telling her all about her new job: “A full-time job means a full-time fashion
commitment” she says as she swans along the Street, all a-la-mode Primark
with a hint of New Look.
Leanne still needs £20k to keep the pizza burning and the red wine
flowing at the restaurant. Paul Clayton says he’ll invest and Leanne doesn’t
take him too seriously at first wondering how he’s going to raise the cash
but Paul’s got a plan, one that involves fleecing his granddad Jack Duckworth
for all that he’s worth. Well, he is Terry’s son and we should never forget
it.
Poor Jack. It’s his and Vera’s Golden Wedding anniversary this week and
it’s left to Molly and Paul to make all the arrangements as Tyrone’s in
Spain visiting his mum in Benidorm jail after she was caught shoplifting
some flip-flops. I once saw someone shoplift some flipflops, but it wasn’t
Jackie Dobbs. And I thought to myself, if someone really needs to shoplift
flipflops then they probably really need them, for whatever the reason,
so I’m going to keep quiet and say nowt.
In her new job at the care home, Cilla gets an official reprimand after
being nasty to one of the old men, Frank Nichols. But when she finds out
it’s Frank Nichols of the famed Nichols’ Tickets and he’s worth a bob or
two, well, she’s hitching up her skirt (ugh), showing off her stocking tops
(retch), and flashing him her boobs (oh stop it now! now!). Frank, however,
is tickled pink with the attention and the stocking tops, particularly the
stocking tops, and asks Cilla to take a full-time job as his carer after
admitting that yes, he is stinking rich. “You’ve got the first part right”
she replies.
Norris, George and Ivor chat about Norris’ mystery woman, the one he wants
to propose to. When Emily comes into the Rovers, George and Ivor assume she’s
the one as Norris rushes to the bar to buy his landlady a drink and is aghast
when his new mates wind him up about the fragrant Aunty Em. (Oh, and as
this is my last ever update, I’m not going to miss a final opportunity to
say this: BRING BACK SPIDER!).
Michelle asks Steve to go on holiday to Ireland to meet her mum. She tells
Steve that Ireland’s a lovely place, very romantic and I’m sure it is too,
to be sure. It seemed to do the trick for my parents when they were in Glendalough
all those long years ago, strangely enough about the time of my conception.
I’m still grateful that they weren’t in Tipperary.
And that is just about that for this week.
The updates are now
having a break until December 2007.
Glenda
