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week as Blanche Hunt's funeral takes place, so without any further ado, here
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Street
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Ken and Deirdre return
from Portugal and get down to the
business of burying Blanche. Deirdre's snapping at
Ken for going through Blanche's
things before she feels up to it and
when Ken finds an envelope with ‘Open in the event of my death' on it, in
Blanche's drawer, she feels like Ken's taking matters into his own
hands. But once she's had a
fag, a cuppa and another cry, she apologises to
Ken. "I'm
sorry
for being a right cow," she
says. Well, someone's got to
take after Blanche. Deirdre opens the letter and reads
Blanche's instructions for making her funeral the
best it can be.
Unfortunately
for Deirdre, Blanche's
wish list includes a pipe band
and all manner of bizarre and wonderful things.
Fortunately
for Deirdre, there's a
second list with cheaper options. She thought of
everything, that Blanche.
The funeral goes
smoothly with May Pen leading the delegation from the 1o'clock club who've
arrived with high hopes of a good day out with their tartan flasks of hot
tea.
Norris, Ken, Peter, Dev,
Ashley and Roy are Blanche's pollbearers of choice although
Norris tries to get out of
the task, blaming his sciatica. Archie
Shuttleworth's on duty, as you'd
expect, Deirdre gets through a lot of fags and there's tears at every
turn. As the crowd prepare to
go into the church, Audrey arrives and offers
Deirdre a valium, just in case. Deirdre declines it,
saying she needs to have her wits about her. But when Tracy Barlow
arrives, handcuffed to her prison warder, fresh out of jail, Steve turns to
Audrey: "Did I hear you say
summat about a valium?" he says.
The eulogy's lovely,
with Deirdre doing her best to get through her speech, dedicated to "my
mother" through her tears. The Andrew Sisters are
belting out on the CD: “Accentuate the Positive” but as the mourners file out
after the service, Tracy loses her cool and has
a go at Becky over little Amy. As Blanche's coffin is
lowered into the grave, Deirdre declines throwing ashes to ashes, dust to dust
and places yellow freesias on her mum's grave
instead. She later takes
more cream coloured
freesias to Blanche's room in a vase. And so to the Rovers as the ladies
from the 1o'clock club help themselves to free food and stuff sausage rolls
into their handbags. Blanche would have been
proud. And finally, a toast
proposed by Ken to which everyone raises their glass: "To
Blanche".
Elsewhere in the Street,
Norris natters on to anyone who'll listen about his narrow escape from death
at Mary's hands in the country cottage. No-one cares, or wants to know, they
think Mary's perfectly normal. Ah, what little do they know. "Don't turn me
into a stalker" warns Mary to Norris when he tells her to leave him
alone.
In the Rovers, Dawn the
social worker pays Steve and Becky
a visit to assess their suitability for adopting a
child. Becky gets a make-under
from Claire, wearing dull clothes, combing her hair and putting her bra straps
away. It doesn't fool the social
worker and finally the
McDonalds come clean about their past life of crime, drugs, time inside and
other shenanigans they've both been through. So desperate are the
agencies for people to adopt, the
McDonalds are through to the next ring of the game.
And Eddie and Anna
Windass have a visit from their social worker regarding their plan
to adopt. They're hoping
for the same friendly
social worker as the one who
visited Becky and Steve but instead get a hatchet-faced harridan called
Hilary. Not even Eddie's three layer chocolate
cheesecake can woo this one, she's diabetic and refuses the
cake. "He's half-Delia,
half-Mick Hucknall," Anna chirps. But Eddie rises to the challenge and
tells Hilary that next time she comes round, he'll bake her a special
diabetic-recipe cake, news which fair puts a smile on her
face.
There's a World Cup
footy storyline taking shape. Trevor's got some tickets but the wives and
girlfriends, for it is they, won't allow his mates to go. So now he's trying
to get some of the local lads to buy the tickets and get a party together to
head to South
Africa later this year. So
far, there's Steve, Ashley, Peter and Tyrone in for the deal but they're
keeping it quiet from the females for now. "Not a word to the ladies," Steve
advises. What a bunch of wusses.
In the Rovers, Kirk
arranges a second date with Izzy. He
borrows
David Platt's shirt and sits
with sweaty armpits as he chats Izzy up in the pub.
And in other news this
week, Sean decides to search for his son, Dylan and pokes Dylan's mum Violet on facebook.
Coronation Street writers
this week were Peter Whalley, Mark Wadlow, Jayne Hollinson and Damon “I buried
Blanche Hunt” Rochefort and Chris
Fewtrell.
Find out
more about the
Coronation
Street writing
team.
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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