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Before she goes for her interview as a tram driver with North-West trams,
Claire gets clued up on the subject from a most unlikely source. Thinking
that Roy might be the man with the info, she's surprised that although Roy
knows his onions when it comes to trains, he tells her it's Dev who knows
how the cookie crumbles when it comes to trams. But Dev's not keen on
being outed as a trammie and wants to keep things quiet. He passes a
parcel wrapped in plain brown paper to Claire under the table at the cafe,
and tells her if she wants more hard-core stuff; signalling, points, that
kind of thing, she only has to ask. Confident she'll get the tram
driving job, Claire's disappointed when she doesn't. First off it's
her eyesight when it turns out she's shortsighted and she fails the eye test.
"But you've got lovely eyes" says Ashley. Next time we see her she's
wearing a huge pair of Deirdre specs, there's no other word for them, subtle
they ain't. (Should have gone to Specsavers). Ashley's quite taken
by Claire's new look and much is made of taking off specs and letting down
Claire's hair with a shake of her head. Fitted with her focals, she
goes back for the interview but fails again, something to do with not being
able to go without the toilet from one end of Manchester to t'other.
Norris shares his train set with Claire as the two of them get misty eyed
about steam and romance. And so, after the set back at the tram driver
interviews, Claire decides her future's on the buses.
Sally's showing Gail new clothes she's bought for work, short skirts and
tight tops for the benefit of the boss. Gail's not best pleased and
tells her friend: "Bad Sally! Naughty Sally! Off the bed, now, Sally!" and
then "End this sordid affair, he's your husband's friend!". Angela overhears,
this last bit anyway, and assumes this is proof that Sally is indeed having
an affair with Martin. When she tells this to Tommy, they both pass
on the news to Katy, who slaps Martin, packs up and leaves the flat.
Martin's frustrated she won't believe he's not having an affair, but being
the complete pillock he is, goes about it all completely the wrong way.
Katy's back home with her parents and abortion is discussed before they're
all down the clinic and Katy's had the op. Tommy beats up Martin on
the cobbles (always painful in that area) and when he tells Kevin his missus
is having it off with Platt, Kevin throws a few punches at Martin in the
Rovers. Martin lurches wonderfully, drunk, around the cobbles from
pub to shop to garage and back again, getting jumped on and beaten up by
Tommy and Martin while the truth still hasn't found its way out.
It's Rita's birthday and she celebrates it at the book club in the Barlow's.
As they sit around and discuss the merits of Hard Grinding, Blanche is rather
confused until it turns out she's been reading Grinding Hard, which sounded
much more interesting, involving as it did, spies and women with beehive hairdos.
As Roy, Ken and Norris attempt to bring some gravitas to the discussion,
it's hijacked by Rita's birthday celebrations when Deirdre brings in a birthday
cake for her.
Scooter brings Sarah a bottle of perfume as a gift and she wrongly assumes
he's found it on the skip. He's hurt that she thinks he's such a cheapskate
and shows her the receipt to prove he's not lying. It'd be a shame if
she finished with him now, he's a good little character, I like him a lot
and think he should stick around, him and his skip. David called him
Stig of the Dump this week, which was what Audrey once called Spider, if
my memory serves me right.
Underworld is underworked and sales orders aren't forthcoming so Danny starts
talking about laying people off. Meanwhile Mike's made a promise to
his mate at the golf club that he'll take on his great-neices, identical twins
Jessie and Joanne. The factory girls can't believe their eyes, these
two girls are indeed identical, in the same way that say, Laurel and Hardy
were. But what was Mike thinking of, taking on new staff when
there's not enough work? Not his problem, he tells Danny boy.
In the bar of the Rovers the girls and Sean take the twins for a drink.
Janice asks them if they have a special language that only twins can understand.
"What? Like Polari?" says Sean before doing a bit of vada wotsit while Janice's
wondering what nuclear missiles have to do with being a twin.
In the Rovers, Charlie tells Shelley he's heard Sunita and Frankie bitching
about her behind her back. They haven't been of course, but Shelley believes
him and stops speaking again to her mate Sunita just after they'd made up
with a girls night out, except it was held in the Rovers - under Charlie's
watchful eye.
And that's just about that for this week.
By Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995
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