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2008 - MAY
5
It's been a sad old week on the Street this week
so to get the main story over and done with, I'll start with poor
Maria and her stillborn baby. Over the years I've cried a few times
at Corrie when stories have struck a nerve or I've been that wrapped
up in a character's dilemma, and even though I've never particularly
enjoyed the character of Maria in Corrie, my eyes filled with tears
when she had to give ‘birth' to her dead baby boy. She didn't tell
anyone, especially not Liam, what happened and took refuge in
Audrey's posh house on Grasmere Drive, it's all very bay window.
Fortunately, it also had a spare room and Audrey gets the news out
of Maria, sob by tearful, heart-rending sob. With Maria holed
up in Audrey's house out of Liam's reach, she knows that as soon as
he finds out the bad baby news, he'll have no reason to stay by her
side. Maria knew, deep in her heart (look, I know it's only telly
but let me have a waffle) anyway, where was I? oh yes, Maria knew
deep in her heart that Liam doesn't love her as much as she'd like
him to. And it'll be Carla that'll be consoling Liam when she finds
out what's happened to baby boy Connor.
So that's the sad
part over and done with and the update returns to its normal
flippant tone, so stick the kettle on and fasten your cushion to the
sofa, ‘cos we're off.
Gail's intrigued, nay shocked
and stunned, when Audrey tells her that she's met up with Ted Paige.
Gail knows that Ted's her dad but has never met him before and she
starts to wonder just what her mum's up to. Bill's of much the
same mind and he and Gail collude and confide about Audrey's man
malarkey.
Over at the bookies, Paul storms in wearing that
face that he does, the one that makes him look like he's just about
to fart. He's furious when he finds out that the cops are taking no
further action against Leanne and Dan and storms out again, probably
to pass wind. Mind you, Leanne might have got off scot-free from the
cops but she's given a strong word or two from Janice who throws her
out of the flat. “Sling yer hook, ladeh,” Janice said, in a
roundabout way and Leanne slings it as far as Dan's flat where she
sinks her hooks in deep.
Feckless Vernon left on his cruise
without Liz this week, she told him she couldn't leave the Rovers
when she really couldn't bear to go. So while Vernon bashes out his
premature paradiddle on the high seas, landlubber Liz gets chatted
up by Harry the bookie in the bar.
Meanwhile, Claire succumbs
to reading too much Daily Mail and suffers her very own consumer
credit crunch. Apparently, this two-income couple who have no
mortgage as Fred left them his house and who run the only butcher
shop this side of Weatherfield are on the brink of financial ruin.
She tells Ashley they'll have to downsize their life and wants to
move to a smaller, cheaper, tattier house. As luck would have it,
Sally Webster has the house of Claire's dreams and suggests doing
a swap. But Sally's plans to get Kev to move to the Peacock's
house come a cropper when he tells her he's happy where he is and he
doesn't want to move. Ah but he does, he just doesn't know it
yet.
And finally, there could be trouble in store for Fiz
when Kirk's girlfriend Julie starts to take over in the house,
getting the boys to wear serviettes as they sit down to tea. “It's
not a serviette, it's a napkin,” explains Julie as Chesney tries to
cope with a telephone call from Les who says he's not coming back
for at least another year. Oh good.
And that's just about
that for this week.
There were only two Coronation Street
writers this week; Julie Jones wrote two episodes and Lucy Gannon
wrote three.
Glenda
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