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2010 - August
16
On the Street where time enters the twilight
zone and a house sale takes 2 weeks instead of 6 months, the knicker factory reopens just
a few episodes after being burned to the ground. It's still got a
dead body underneath the freshly laid cement, however, and Julie
thinks she smells a rat when the girls move back in to work at their
machines. But the
stench is coming from Hayley's sardine sandwiches so it was
something fishy that Julie could smell, not something Fishwick.
The factory's quick turnaround is thanks to
new builder Owen, who works as quickly flirting with the laydees as
he does with the trowel and probably lays it on just as thick. He's
winking at Eileen while giving Liz the glad eye in the bar. But he
falls out with Bill, tells him he's too old for the trade before
offering him menial work doing some pointing. Not the kind of
pointing where you stick out your finger and go "ooh, look at that"
but the kind of pointing where you're up on a roof filling gaps in
the brickwork, knock a bucket to the ground that narrowly misses
hitting Owen's daughter Izzy on the head and go "ooh, look at
that". That sort of
pointing. Bill's troubled through lack of work and falls out with
Jason who's now joined the other side and is working for Owen. So
troubled is Bill that he tells Owen he's willing to sell the
builder's yard to him if the price is right.
Down the street at the bookies all bets are
off as Deirdre and Lewis are caught kissing under the CCTV watchful
eye of big brother and lands everyone in big bother. Leanne had left
Deirdre in the betting shop alone and seduced by Lewis' lips, she
nips home for a corkscrew to have a glass of wine with the wily cad.
While Deirdre's out Lewis knocks up a fraudulent betting slip and
when Deirdre asks him what he's doing behind the counter when she
returns, corkscrew in hand, he snogs her face off to distract
her. And a distracted
Deirdre is caught by the camera kissing Lewis in the shop. Well, you just know now
that their camera on kiss deserves a wider audience and it gets one
at Audrey's leaving do.
At Gail's house all the usuals are gathered around
for wine and goodbyes. There's Rita and Claudia and all of Gail's
family who are joined by the Barlows when Peter storms in to show
the video of the kiss, demanding his four thousand pounds back that
Lewis has ?won' on his ?2 five horse accumulator. The old nags Lewis has
accumulated look on aghast as Peter shows them the video and Audrey
breaks down. Gail's
incensed at the Barlows once again making a mockery of the Platts
and she picks up the closest thing to hand, a cream Manchester tart
and throws it at Deirdre, hitting her slap-bang right in the middle
of her face. This was the funniest thing on Corrie in ages, it was
wonderful stuff. "Ken! Do Something!" Deirdre
screams but all Ken can do is turn off and tut. The one saving grace
for Audrey is that Lewis might have ripped out her heart but he
hasn't ripped off her bank balance and when she gets back to the
house, in pieces and in tears, she finds a photo of them both with
"I tried?" written on the back. Once a gigolo, always a
gigolo, only this time Lewis heads out to Barbados. David sums up
his gran's situation completely: "She was ripped off by a geriatric
rent boy."
At the Barlows' the tea-table plays host to
an autopsy on marriage.
Whose affair was the worst? Why isn't Ken like Lewis? Why
isn't Deirdre more Martha? What's for tea anyway? Ken
turns off Dusty Springfield for a classical choon on the wireless,
and for me, that would have been grounds for divorce. Nobody should switch off
Dusty and get away with it, no
one.
At Sally's house, Sophie and Sian's secret
visit to a music festival is uncovered when Sally gets a call from
the festival saying they've found Sophie's purse. Sophie's grounded,
Sian's sent home, Kev agrees with his missus and Sally's renamed ?a
right fascist cow' by her second born.
Natasha finds out she's pregnant but she
doesn't get the chance to tell Nick, he dumps her because she's
being too needy and weedy. Leanne finds her crying at
the bus stop and puts two and two together to make one and one plus
a lickle baby and although Natasha begs her not to tell Nick, you
just know the secret will come out. Leanne and Nick are getting
quite close, and when Peter walks into the Rovers to find Nick with
his hand on Leanne's hand he throws a wobbly, takes Nick outside and
knocks him out on the cobbles. Oh, how we cheered from our sofa when
the Plattilsley boy got socked in the mush. "You're where you
deserve," spits Peter to Nick lying prone on the ground "In the
gutter." "Yeah, but I'm looking at the stars." replies Nick a la
Oscar Wilde by way of Raquel Watts. Later in the factory, Nick and
Leanne share a tender moment, it's clear Nick still loves his
ex-wife but this time they're caught out by Natasha who walks in on
them, announces she's pregnant and then watches in tears as Nick
squeals away in his car.
And that's just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Jan McVerry,
John Kerr, Carmel Morgan and Simon Crowther.
Find out more about the Corrie writing
team.
Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at
http://flamingnora.blogspot.com
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