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Saturday 16 June 2012

Coronation Street Weekly Update - Feb 29 2000

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Let's just zip back to last week with Gail and Sarah-Lou in the doctor's surgery and the doc has just dropped the bombshell that Sarah-Lou is five (yes, five) months pregnant. It's chaos and disorder in the Platt household as Martin prepares to tell Gail he's leaving her for Rebecca - just as Gail tells him the news about Sarah-Lou. As the news sinks in, Martin offers support to his step-daughter, you know, the one he was prepared to walk out on just a day earlier. ("He's got more faces than a tea-pot," as a certain tea-lady I knew used to say.) Sarah Lou doesn't seem to grasp the enormity of what's happened/happening/going to happen to her and wants to swan off to school and go out with Candice, as per, but she's whisked off to the maternity clinic by Martin and Gail. At the hospital, Martin finds Rebecca to tell her what's happened, there's no way he can consider leaving Gail, not yet, and the pair of them grizzle at each other. A social worker calls round and pries into the Platt family life, leaving Gail and Martin feeling they've failed as parents and need to hush up news about Sarah-Lou. There's some emotional scenes between Gail and her daughter this week which left me in tears. "It's going to hurt, isn't it mum?" Sarah Lou asks Gail, to which mum replies: "Oh yes. More than you can imagine, in more ways than you can know". I crossed my legs and winced.

Over at the factory, Linda wants to prove there's more to her than a bit of gusset, so jumps at the chance to sweet-talk a customer who calls round when Mike is out on business. The girl does good and Mike reckons she should have a crack at one of his toughest customers, but this time there'll be no fluttering her eye lids, for this is one of Mike's toughest customers - nicknamed 'the dragon lady'. Mark goes off on his business trip to Bruges and much to Mike's alliterative annoyance, ("He's taken that Battersby bird to Bruges"), takes Leanne with him.

It's the night of the charity auction and Alma wants her hair done at the salon so she can bop to the ball with Bob. She pops into the salon but jealous Audrey reckons she can't fit her in as there's simpleh no appointments, ladeh, so Debs does her hair instead. Debs is off to the same do with Duggie and everyone seems to have had a good night so Debs isn't sure what Duggie's playing at when he's rude to her in the Rovers the next day. She tells Natalie she's not sure what she's done wrong, so Nat has a word with Duggie who confides that he's feeling guilty as it was his first date since his wife died. Duggie, via Natalie, apologises to Debs for his behaviour. However, all is not so straightforward with Bob-me-laddo. Duggie makes a couple of remarks to him about taking back-handers at the council, and then Bob calls round to see Audrey with the offer to help her do some council finance stuff. While he's there, he makes a play for Audrey and tries to kiss her. She pushes him off and sends him packing, but can't quite bring herself to tell Alma what's happened, especially when Alma comes home later, gushing that Bob is "beginning to restore my faith in men." Oh dear.

Gwen gets a visit from a debt collector, it's obvious that she's in a bit of a pickle money-wise and Jim, bless him, wants to help. The pair of them sit down and work out her incomings, shortcomings, outgoings and outpourings and none of it adds up, it's a fiscal fiasco. She's somehow managed to buy herself a haircut and new hat this week though.

Things are brightening up between Vinny and Nat now that he's working on the building site. He comes into the Rovers, all dolled up, and she looks lovely in a great frock before the pair of them go out together for the evening.

Ken's on the trail of the history of the Cartwright murders, but quite frankly, this storyline is so boring I'm not even going to bother with it (for now, although I do hope it's leading somewhere).
Finally, in the corner shop this week, Vikram gets a panic on when there's more than 2 customers to serve as Dev moves into Nita's flat upstairs (where's Nita gone then?). And, I'm pleased to report that Tunnocks Tea-cakes were involved in a couple of prominent scenes, in which they performed to their usual high standard.

And that's just about that for this week. Glenda ;-)


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