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2008 - MAY
12
It's just so wrong but somehow so right. No, not
tuna paste toasties, but something much more tasty. It's Carla and
Liam Connor, together at last. If Carla and Liam were sitting in a
tree, they'd be s-n-o-g-g-i-n-g. Oh, that doesn't scan. Never mind.
The two dark haired lovelies ended up in each other's arms this week
as Liam struggled to cope with the death of baby Paul. Maria
distanced herself from her husband, sure that there was summat going
on between him and his sister-in-law and she was right, in a kind of
round-about way. But when pressed on the point (ouch!) Liam swore
true love to Maria after he admitted feelings for Carla that were in
the past. Maria went off like a rocket, packed her bags and moved in
with Fiz. Now then, I'm not sure that moving in with Fiz is the best
place for poor Maria. The girl's just gone and lost a baby, buried
him in a funeral this week and split up with her husband who's
having a fling with Carla Connor. Does she really need comforting
from someone who wears fluoro blue eyeshadow, a permanent grin and
gives glib advice: “I bet he'll come bursting through that door any
minute saying ‘Maria, I want you back' and you'll wonder what all
the fuss was about.” I was half expecting Fiz to burst into
song with “The sun'll come out, tumorra!”. Bet your bottom dollar it
doesn't though.
Meanwhile, there's a house swap to organise
as Sally and Claire convince their errant husbands that they want to
move house. It was like watching a virtual game of ping pong as
Sally and Claire batted their husbands' balls across the cobbles
from the Peacock's to the Webster's and back again. Fifteen love,
new balls please, raise the net and don't drink cans of beer in the
conservatory, Kevin. “He's so stubborn, he'd be a typical Taurean if
he wasn't a Virgo,” moaned Sally of her Kev. This is going to be
great fun to watch as Sally goes into true Mrs Bucket mode with her
ideas of grandeur now that she's going to have a garden and
conservatory. Meanwhile, all Claire's got to look forward to is a
kitchen so small the house will carry the reek of beans for weeks.
Mind you, she will have Hilda's hatch and that's a gen-you-wine
Street antique.
Gail finally came face to face for a
heart to heart with her dad on the sofa in her house. Tina was there
too, she'd left home after an argument with her mum and she provided
the perfect backdrop to Gail's meeting with Ted. Gail wrongly
assumed that Ted had been married and struggled to come to terms
with having a gay dad while Tina took it all in her stride and asked
right nosy questions. She also took a photo on her phone to show
David in the big house on her next visit. “This is, like, gonna do
his ‘ead in.” Gail's head was already done in but she tried to
showed how she could be as liberal and open-minded as much as the
next middle-aged woman knocked sideways out of her comfort zone.
“I'm a Blairite, I voted Blair,” she gasped. Then it was
Audrey's turn to hear Ted's news when she swanned in looking like
Vernonica Lake with her new hairdo for a spot of flirting with Ted.
Audrey's got a new stylist at the salon, a temp called Natasha.
There'll be more on her next week once she's said more than a couple
of lines of script, but so far, so good.
In the bar of the
Rovers, it's all change as Leanne took the reins behind the bar and
started work as the new barmaid. You'll remember that Leanne once
worked behind the Rovers bar before, a nasty business to do with
drug dealing and Jez Quigley. This time she'll have Vernon to fend
off and Liz to keep on the right side of. Dan doesn't quite know
what to make of it. When he went to the gents' loo, Leanne was on
the customer side of the bar, when he returned she was behind the
bar working and he had that puzzled expression on his face. Mind
you, Dan's so feckless that you could turn him round twice in his
own living room and he'd be lost.
As well as minding Maria,
Fiz has Julie Carp on her case. Kirk's new girlfriend inveigles (and
that's a word I've never used in an update before; I'm not even sure
what it means) her way into Kirk's life which pushes Fiz's nose
right out. She even starts looking after Chesney, which rankles and
irks Fiz no end. And at baby Paul Connor's funeral, Julie's free and
easy with the tears and has histrionics in the church despite only
knowing Kirk five minutes and his sister even less. Say, what, three
and a half minutes? Enough time to boil an egg or indeed make a tuna
paste toastie. “It's empathy,” she tells Kirk when he asks why she's
snivelling. “A lot of people have it. Princess Diana had it
too.”
And finally this week, Becky's guardian angel in an
anorak (aka Roy) doesn't quite know what to make of Becky's
relationship with Jason. He does however, know what to say to Jason
and gives him a stern talking to, reminds him that he's still a
married man and warns him to stop messing with Becky. Roy then
worries he's old fashioned and arcane. And indeed he is, and that's
just the way we like him.
And that's just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Martin
Sterling, David Lane, Joe Turner, Debbie Oates and Simon
Crowther.
Glenda -- Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com
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