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MARCH 9
The Barlow men are both making waves. It's all
hands below deck as Peter returns after servicing a woman on a
Portsmouth yacht after everyone thought he'd been in rehab and dad
Ken drops anchor and moves in on Martha for a kiss on her
barge. Cabin-boy Ken tells Ted that everything between him and
Martha's above board but he's kidding himself and lying to his
missus, deadwood Deirdre as he drowns in a Bermuda triangle of love.
And when Leanne finds out that Peter's betrayed her, she's all at
sea and sets sail to Leeds. Peter's left landlubbing with his son
Simon, the cutest little kid that Corrie's ever had. Blanche puts
her oar in and comments on Peter's philandering, saying it's all
Ken's fault. Like father, like son. And then she turns back to her
woman's magazine of choice this week: Chit Chat. I like magazines
with short, snappy names: Take A Break, Have a Fag, that sort of
thing.
Talking of magazines, we also saw another magazine
this week on Corrie, this one's called Box Clever, strapline:
“Revealed! Storylines of your favourite soaps!” as Lloyd drew spots
on Jeremy Clarkson's cover pic. Lloyd's not best pleased at being
dumped by Liz who reckons he's embarrassed to be seen with her
because she's older than he is, so he takes to doodling
instead.
Over in the Kabin, it's Norris' birthday, he's a
hundred and ten and in a right faff. To cruise or not to cruise,
that is the question, and it's probably been a conundrum for much of
Norris' life. Mary wants him to release the adventurer within and
travel the world with her in the motorhome, or as she calls it “the
tardis of love”. Where Mary has visions of visiting China and Hong
Kong, Norris dreams of pulling up outside a nice tea-shop in
Keswick. Rita isn't exactly encouraging Norris to go, she can't help
but feel jealous that Mary wants to meander the highroads and
byroads with Norris by her side. Rita knows that Norris' place is
next to her in the Kabin, being heavily patronised on a daily basis
by a woman with big red hair and a clashing top.
Up in the
flat in the sky at Victoria Court, Tara tells Dev about her dream of
opening an art gallery. And it's no sooner said than done as Dev
sets plans into motion to make his girlfriend's dream come true.
Jason suggests Bill Webster as Tara's first artist, well the doodles
Bill does while he's on the phone to the timber company have to be
seen to be believed. The only fly in the ointment could be Dev's
Uncle Umed who flies in from th'India to take an over zealous
interest in his nephew's love life. He's only been on the Street
five minutes before he's eyeing up Liz McDonald in the
pub.
It's all systems go as Becky and Steve set their wedding
plan in motion. With only a week to go, Hayley gets stitching with
pink shiny material off the market to make Becky's wedding dress.
Becky wants summat like a cross between Princess Diana and Jordan's
confection of a frock. Can Hayley fix it? Yes she can! When Roy
finds out that Liz isn't too happy about Becky becoming her daughter
in law, there's a wonderful scene where Roy has a word with Liz in
defence of Becky, his surrogate daughter. It fair brought tears to
my eyes, it really did.
In the Rovers, Emily's lost for
words when Rita turns up in outfit clearly designed by someone on
drugs. “Well, I was always keen on things that clash,” she
tells a stunned Mrs B in the pub. Clash? The colours and swirls on
this particular top of Rita's put the vertical hold out on the telly
and the Sky digibox went weird. It looked like one of those Magic
Eye pictures and if you stare at it hard enough and long enough,
three peacocks appeared on Rita's right arm.
As the fall out
from the Windass and Platt clash die down, Tina and David split up
and Graeme decides to “have a pop” at Tina, the old romantic that he
is. But even armed with three cheap bouquets of chrysanths from
Dev's flower buckets, Graeme doesn't turn Tina's pretty head
although Gary Windass just might. There's an almighty row in the
Platt house when David finds out about the deal Joe did with Len and
this was one of Corrie's finest scenes in ages. A four-handed,
four-way scream-fest between Tina, David, Joe and Gail, beautifully
written and all their secrets came tumbling out onto the carpet.
Tina runs off in tears, David's sent to his room by Gail: “But I'm
17!” Gail: “And I'm 50, get to your flaming room!”, Gail tells Joe
to sling his hook and don't come back and Joe breaks down on the
cobbles. Wonderful stuff from writer Jonathan
Harvey.
Coronation Street writers this week were Peter
Whalley, Julie Jones, Simon Crowther, Joe Turner and Jonathan
Harvey.
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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