This week's update written by Karen
Jankel.
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Glenda's off on her travels and she's organised a rota in the
update officewhile she's away. I have my suspicions that she may have joined
Rita on hercruise but, in the meantime, this is what's been happening a little
closerto home.
This week there seems to be a bit of a dustbin theme
going on. While Becky has been observed wandering aimlessly around the cobbles
with a mysteriousblack rubbish bag clamped firmly to her chest, Janice has been
seen leapingonto the side of the refuse collection lorry in protest that her
overfilled bin hasn't been emptied.
Becky clearly has something far more
serious on her mind but with Steve being too busy getting drunk and making an
idiot of himself with his new motorbike and Liz more concerned about her bar
rota than her daughter-in-
Over
at the Websters' Sally seems to have taken up residence in the bath while she
recovers from her operation although she does make a brief appearance for a
family outing to Weatherfield General for her first session of radiotherapy. In
fact, it's quite a week for breasts all round because, as Rosie explains to her
Dad over the breakfast table, she's "nil by mouth" in preparation for her FF
enhancement. For once in his life Kev makes a sensible decision when he
decides to accompany her to the clinic. Whether by accident or design he manages
to put her off the whole idea and the two of them make a swift escape before Uri
the surgeon has time to sterilize his scalpel.
Meanwhile Tyrone continues
his quest to win back Molly while she continues with her "cruel to be kind"
approach and sulks in her flat over the shop with her supply of microwaveable
meals for one. Still desperate to see Kevin, she pops round with a get well card
while Tyrone follows hot on her heels, clutching a box of chocolates for Sally.
The sight of Tyrone ensconced on the Websters' sofa, munching his way through a
packet of ginger creams would be enough to turn any woman's stomach and in
Molly's case it looks like the final straw. Not that she has any better offer on
the table as Kevin has made it very clear he wants nothing more to do with
her.
Dev is another person who is trying to rekindle an old romance. When
he calls round to see Sunita on yet another pretext and she invites him in for
coffee he believes he might be finally getting somewhere.
Romance is
also in the air for Janice. After placing an ad in the Kabin for a lodger, who
should turn up to see the room but the hunky bin man who refused to take away
her rubbish? She can't believe her luck and when he asks, referring to the room
for rent, "are you offering it to me?" her immediate response is "on a
plate".
Back at the Rovers, when the truth finally comes out about
Becky's mother, Liz starts to show a modicum of concern. Steve is clearly
furious with Becky for not telling him but it becomes apparent that underneath
it's because he really cares. However, there's one secret she still hasn't
shared with anyone: the fact that she's pregnant. She finally tells her new
bezzie mate Claire who is probably not the best role model when it comes to
perfect pregnancies. However, Claire manages to convince her that it's not
necessarily such a bad thing and before we know it, Becky and Steve are talking
to each other again, she tells him, he's shocked, then delighted, she says she
might not have the baby, he says it's her decision, she says she's worried
she'll make a terrible mother, he convinces her she'll be brilliant, he says he
would have married her even if he'd known she didn't want children, she says
she'll go ahead and have the baby and they all live happily ever after. Well, at
least until a week on Thursday or whenever the next falling-out
occurs.
While all this is going on, Leanne is making preparations for her
hard hat party to get the press interested in the new bar. The only thing she
needs now is a chef. As luck and unbelievable coincidence would have it, she and
Peter go out for dinner and who should come storming out of the kitchen after a
row with the manager but Peter's old friend and drinking buddy Ciaran. With
barely enough time to take off his chef's whites, he's back in the Rovers,
chatting up anyone in a skirt and causing Peter to gaze rather too longingly at
a pint of bitter.
Later that evening Leanne and Carla decide to have a
girlie night in over a bottle or six of Chardonnay and Deirdre ends up joining
them. At some point they move on to the nearly-built bar where they decide to
test some of the stock. Peter finds them at the end of the evening and offers to
clear up. Alone and surrounded by all the booze the temptation becomes too much
and, before he can stop himself, he swigs back a half-finished glass of wine. He
angrily tosses the rest of the bottle in the bin but it's clear that the demon
drink has struck again.
Karen Jankel - http://www.corrieweeklyupdates.btinternet.co.uk/karen.htm
