July 5, 2010.

Greetings and welcome to another weekly update. The update this week is the first of its kind. It's the first update I've ever written to you from my laptop computer. Yes, I've joined the 21st century and gone up market, high-tech and all posh. So instead of being locked away upstairs in the spare room chained to a computer I'm sitting downstairs on the living room floor watching the football while chained to a computer. It's electrickery and I love it. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Trevor and Carla returned from the World Cup this week. Trevor's clean-shaven and had a haircut. He's even lost his beard which was really creepy because without his beard Trevor looks like Liam Connor Lite, which is presumably what Carla really wants. She's yet to find out that Nick's driven Underworld underground and has opened Nick's Nicks in its stead, a business that doesn't include her. I wouldn't want to be in Nick's Nicks when she finds out. I hope she blinking well throttles him.

Another Rover returned this week when Sean comes back from Sitges via Old Compton Street. Well, you book Ryan Air and you can never be sure which route they'll take. He's all loved up and tanned and wants to find his son Dylan. He sets up a Facebook (sorry, can't use that for copyright reasons so let's pretend it's called Facescene) account in the name and shape of Liz McDonald to get in touch with Violet Wilson online. Contact is made, pictures are exchanged and tears are shed as Sean's in bits when he sees his son.

Lloyd's in turmoil over Cheryl the stripper. She turns up with a black eye and he thinks it's her boss that's hit her but it's her husband Chris, a nasty piece of work. Lloyd takes Cheryl and her son into his flat to look after her while nasty Chris roams the cobbles looking for his missus. Steve tells Lloyd he's mad to even get involved hut Lloyd's fallen in lust.

Graeme and Tina's love thang takes off so when Graeme breaks the news to David, he ties him to a radiator first. But when David gets angry, he gets really angry and he hits the Street with the radiator tied to his wrist after he rips it off the wall in his mum's house. It's a fair bet to say he's not pleased with the news that his mate Graeme is dating his ex. David also rips the peaks from Graeme's caps and the hoods from his hoodies. "She's my Tina!" he yells at Graeme to which he replies: "Actually, she's my Tina now." Jason's also not happy and locks Tina out of the flat before throwing her clothes in black bin bags to the street below. Thank heavens for first floor flat fall-outs, it just wouldn't be the same if love went sour from the ground floor and bags were just handed out of the door instead of being flung from above. Graeme moves in with his uncle Derek but it's too minging for Tina who moves in with Rita. I loved this bit, Tina and Rita sharing a flat, a bottle of wine and some of Rita's memories. "Who's that old drag queen with the hair?" asks Graeme when Rita shows Tina some old photos from her youth. "That? That's Bet Lynch!" Rita replied. Graeme's also had enough of life at uncle Derek's and Emily asks him to move in to her spare room, news which doesn't cheer Norris at all, not one bit.

Lewd Lewis gets randy this week with Deirdre in the back lane. I hope you weren't eating at this point because it was real stomach-churning stuff. Deirdre invites Lewis and Audrey to a dinner party chez Barlow where her stuffed marrow is the talk of the night. Ken bores everyone rigid with his plans for a study in Blanche's old room and Deirdre reveals that he once worked as an escort himself. Those who remember this storyline will also recall that one of Ken's dates during this time died half way through the date which was probably preferable to a full night with Ken. Anyway, Deirdre flirts with Lewis and later in the back yard, Lewis and Deirdre share a postprandial fag and he tells her that she is (and these are his words, not mine, before you throw up) " a very naughty girl". Oh Deirdre, oh. But then, you can't really blame her.

In the Rovers it's Weatherfield's Fairest Barmaid competition and Liz wants to enter. She pretends to draw straws to see which of her staff should be entered to win but the straws all say Liz and she puts herself forward. Not one for holding herself back, is Liz.

Elsewhere, Steve and Becky have a meeting with the adoption people at which they have to take along something from their past which means a great deal to them today. Becky takes a fluffy monkey and Steve takes Buster Tough Guts (of the Weatherfield Tough Guts), he's an all-action figure, aka a doll. Anna and Eddie Windass also attend. Anna brings jewellery and is disappointed in Eddie who turns up empty-handed. But when it's his turn to speak, he says the thing he's brought is "our Gary in the army, defending the freedom of each and every one of us. My own Buster Tough Guts". There wasn't a dry eye on our sofa.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Mark Wadlow, Joe Turner, Simon Crowther, Jonathan Harvey and Carmel Morgan.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

   



July 12, 2010

The football’s over, so you can take down your flag and bin your vuvuzela.  Corrie goes on and it's time to pick up your glass of stout, step over that cobble and wear your hairnet with pride.  And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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There's an elephant in the room when Trevor gives Janice a pachyderm present with her name spelled on it wrongly. He's brought it all the way back from South Africa too.  Now that Carla's back on the cobbles the first thing she does is swan round to see young Tilsley-me-laddo and give him what for: "You're a puffed up little ponce!" She thinks he's running Underworld under the viaduct but it's Nick's Nicks he's got up and running there and Carla's not pleased.  So she does what any good businesswoman would do faced with a patronising partner who's tried to rip her off. She undercuts Nick's bottom line in knickers with his buyer and sets out to rip him off in the pants. Go Carla, go

Anyway, the reason that Nick's in Turner's joinery in the first place is because Leanne rang up George and pulled in a favour to help out her ex.  So when Natasha finds out that Leanne and Nick's getting close, she tells Nick that Leanne used to be on the game but it doesn't put Nick off and he's still on the Battersby sniff.  Leanne came out with a cracker of a line when she tells Nick that Natasha "isn't even fit to lick my patent leather boots!"  Leanne storms home in a huff and tells Peter that her past has a way of always catching up with her.  He tells her that Natasha's jealous of her relationship with Nick. "You've got history, they've only got cushion covers."

Mary takes Hayley on a scheduled day out to look at wedding venues. It's all itinerary and maps and Dolly Parton on CD as the motorhome heads out to a country hall. Hayley's too polite to say much to Mary but it's clear she's uncomfortable being involved in Mary's manic world. That is, until she spots a steam train running alongside the wedding hall and knows Roy would love it. I think he'd be chuffed and reckon Hayley should choo-choo-choose it now.

In the Rovers, Ciaran gets naked when he loses a bet with Michelle. He tells her he'll cook her dinner and if she doesn't like it, he'll bear all behind the bar. So when he over cooks the chicken and it ends up burned, in the bin, it's his drumsticks and chicken legs on show in the pub. And quite tasty there were too. 

Over at the Barlows' it's Deirdre's birthday and she's 110. Ken gets out the best cups and Deirdre breakfasts on chocolate. A touching scene came when Ken finds a birthday card from Deirdre that she'd put out, it's from last year and Deirdre couldn't face throwing it away last year and not having it on show this. She shares her birthday with little Simon, who's 7 and there's a party with jelly and kiddies and screams. And Simon's wasn't much better. 

Lewis is still giving Deirdre the glad eye which, if you're watching whilst you have your tea, can fair turn your stomach real bad.  And his phone still rings with middle-aged women calling him for a date and then there's Claudia who he bumps into a night out with Audrey as they're eating at Vito's in Manchester (I've been there, it's a real restaurant and it's great!) and she can't believe her blow-dry that Lewis has settled down with Audrey. Audrey tells Claudia to delete Lewis from her phone, reallah, but Claudia just gives Audrey a look and gives Lewis another.

Meanwhile, Lloyd looks after Cheryl and her son (who's a little cracker) and she makes a decision to leave her brutal husband Chris who beats her up. 

Graeme's upset this week when he tells Tina he loves her and she doesn't reply. He reckons he's blown it with her and confides in Norris about his lack of love life. Norris, I know, who better to get maudlin with in the back room of a shop with a cracked cup of cheap tea?

And finally this week, Eddie and Anna's nephew spills food colouring all over their sofa. They need a new one, a cheap one and think they know a man who can get them one but John Stape isn't really a furniture salesman, he just likes to let the neighbours think he is and Eddie's not a man to let a sniff of a bargain escape him. Just when John's wondering how he can get himself out of this little furniture fix, along comes fruity Charlotte with a bottle of wine in her handbag and a glint in her eye. She wants to know if John's heard from their mutual friend overseas, the elusive Colin Fishwick and he tells her not yet. Oh, but he will.  Charlotte leaves the wine, and a chill down the spine, with John and Fiz while Chesney starts to wonder just what's really going on.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were John Kerr, Chris Fewtrell, Julie Jones and Jan McVerry.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at
http://flamingnora.blogspot.com


 

July 19, 2010


Greetings and welcome to another week’s worth of carry on from the cobbles, gossip from the gutter, words from Weatherfield, stuff from the Street. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.


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There were smiles across Weatherfield, and our living room, this week when Sally Webster returned to the Street. She's been away recovering after her chemotherapy (in real life too) after fighting cancer so to have Sally back on the Street is wonderful news. There's a BBQ in the back garden as the Websters welcome the rover's return but she doesn't yet know that daughter Sophie's kissed a girl and she liked it or that husband Kevin kissed a girl and he liked it too. So much so that he made the girl pregnant with child. But that'll all come out in the wash. For now, young Sophie's going through torment because she's jealous of Sian and Ryan's friendship and thinks there's summat more than them just being friends going on.  But it's Ryan who ends up jealous and upset when he spies the girls snogging in the builder's yard later. Sophie wants to tell everyone that she and Sian are an item but Sian wants to keep things quiet for now. Trouble is, what'll Ryan do with their secret?

John Stape turned into a sofa supremo this week, king of the cushions, when he sold Anna and Eddie Windass a new sofa in a shop.  Yes, we all know he's pretending to be Colin Fishwick while illegally teaching using someone else's ID but his friends and neighbours think he's working in a furniture shop and so when the Windasses want a new sofa, they only want to buy it from John. He rises to the challenge and pretends to work in a furniture warehouse. So well does he carry out his task that the store manager offers him a job. And it'd be an offer that John should have taken up for if he'd done so, he wouldn't have been punched in the face by a fella this week whose wife's been having an affair with Colin Fishwick.  And the fella thinks John's Colin although Colin's now back in the country and can't believe his ears when Charlotte and John tell him that John's being Colin. "Think of it as an homage," says saucy Charlotte. "It's like having your own tribute band."  And all of this fake ID chatter over a pint in the Rovers was accompanied wonderfully by the Ting Tings song, That's Not My Name.  Fiz finally gives John an ultimatum – say goodbye to education or get the elbow.  John's mouth says the right words that Fiz wants to hear but that look in his eyes says something else. Charlotte turns up again, she's like an on-heat-seeking missile and she moistens herself up to John on the cobbles, threatening to have him under her duvet before he knows what's hit him.

Down at Underworld, Carla takes the reins and harnesses Nick to the role of underdog, giving him a job on condition that she can call him Nicky. Go Team Carla, go.  Nick's a broken man, having lost his factory and his balls to Carla. She keeps them snug in her sleek designer handbag, right next to her own. Nick moans to Leanne, in tears, about his fate in life and muses on how she'd have made a great mum.  Ooh, what a beast, these words from the man who made Leanne abort their child.  What a nasty piece that Nicky really is.

As Carla rules the roost at Underworld under the viaduct in the makeshift sweatshop, she's got the builders in at the factory building it back up and putting things right. She gives the building work to Izzy's dad Owen who's on the job quick sharp with a bunch of lads working hard. He's on time, he works hard, he's the builder you always dream of having fit your kitchen but Bill Webster's not happy about having his nose pushed out of joint and out of work. Izzy's dad Owen has fitted into Corrie well and quick.  Rita remarks to Norris that he reminds her of Len, and indeed he does, there's something of the old-school, classic Corrie chap about him. And he wastes no time in chatting up the landlady of the Rovers too, another trait we have to love him for, as well as saving Sian's life when he rushes her to t'hospital after she collapses with appendicitis and then recovers overnight.

Meanwhile in the corner shop, Sunita can't cope looking after the house, the kids and Dev as well as working in the shop although Dev expects her to do all three. And more besides. And when she gets into a pickle with an order for chutney, she tells Dev she wants to swap jobs for a week so that Dev has to mind the kids, cook, clean and chutney-up the shop while Sunita does whatever it is that Dev does do.

And finally this week, it's almost Audrey's birthday and Natasha organises a 70th birthday party for her for Friday night in the Rovers. Liz offers the buffet menu – there's standard (sausage rolls), luxury (big sausage rolls) or supreme (sausage rolls with parsley garnish).

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Damon Rochefort, , Mark Wadlow, Mark Burt, Peter Whalley, Martin Allen. Find out more about the Corrie writing team here.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at
http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

 

July 26, 2010
Sorry, no update this week


 
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