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MARCH 2
Liz limbers up in a skin-tight, stretch-lino sort
of a frock for the annual Licensed Victuallers Do. She's dressed to
impress as she wants to get one over on her nemesis from The Three
Tuns – Mandy Bennett - and for those who remember her, she's the
Stella Rigby of her day. Let's just hope we see Mandy in the Rovers
one day, casting her beady eye across the bar and putting Liz in her
place with a raised eyebrow and a tut. While Liz is out with the
licensed ladies who lunch, she doesn't want to, but has no choice to
leave Becky in charge at the bar. So Becky's running the pub alone
and oh, wouldn't you just know it, that's the very day that a bus
load of heavy metal fans breaks down on the cobbles and the heavies
all want pints and pies and loud music on the jukebox. Becky
struggles to cope and ends up fighting on the Street with Kelly
Crabtree just as Liz slithers back and she's not best
pleased.
She's even less pleased when Steve tells her that he
and Becky have not only named the day, they've gone and booked it
aswell. Becky's over the moon but there's a problem, it's Friday the
13th and she's superstitious. She's also supersonic when Michelle
tells her that the engagement ring that Steve's given her is the one
that she picked out for herself. Rings get flung around the Rovers
before Steve apologises and tells anyone who'll listen that Becky's
the girl for him. Well, this week anyroad.
Now then, the last
time Rita's Rs was a source of amusement was back in 1973 (I said
Rs, dear, Rs) but they featured heavily this week. Colin decides to
decorate a window box for Rita and finds an old metal doings ready
for compost and pants. It's got the letter R on it twice so it could
have been nicked from Roys Rolls or the Rovers Return but we're led
to believe that the Rs stand for Rita. Well, it might once have
stood but at the age she is now, it's forgivable to sag. Graeme puts
his horticultural knowledge to the test and pots up the windowbox
with Hyacinth (var. plasticus recyclii) for Rita's delectation.
Norris isn't happy, gives Graeme some stick and shakes the lad on
his ladder as he's up at Rita's window. Graeme responds with some
horticultural heckling to Norris who carries on shaking so much that
the compost falls from Graeme's hands and onto Norris' neck. Norris
is shaken and stirred so much that he can't bring himself to look at
Mary's snaps from her cruise: “This is me on the top deck. This is
me on the lower deck. Ooh, look, the sea's on this
one…”
Eileen Grimshaw gets to smile this week when she has a
drink with her old school mate Paula, who's Julie Carp's mum. Eileen
hasn't seen Paula since Paula left school aged 14, up the duff with
a baby put there by Eileen's dad. Except that Eileen doesn't know
that bit yet, but she'll find out soon enough what a randy old fella
her dad really is, was and probably always will be if Rita's Rs is
anything to go by. But hang on a minute, if Paula was pregnant when
she was 14 then doesn't that make Eileen's dad a pervy, dirty old
man and guilty as charged? It also makes Julie and Eileen
half-sisters.
The Windass and Platt clan have their day in
court and Tina testifies in tears. She also tells the truth and Gary
Windass is cleared of assaulting David Platt. This has been a dull
storyline but one that's drawing to a close and all I could think
while watching yet another Corrie court case unfold was how much I'd
love to be a Corrie extra and sit on a Corrie jury.
And over
at Underworld, Rosie needles Janice to get back to her stitching
when she finds her reading a First Aid book. Rosie takes the mickey
out of Janice who might be reading up on cardiac resuscitation but
can't pronounce it (I had trouble there spelling it) and the two
almost come to blows until Mr Strong sorts them out. He's kind, he's
loving, he is Mr Strong. And he sends Janice on a course to be the
new first aider which sends Rosie's stuck-up nose right out of
joint.
Coronation Street writers this week were David Bowker,
Lucy Gannon, Mark Wadlow, Jayne Hollinson and David Lane.
And
that's just about that for this week.
Glenda, writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.
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