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It was Curly's 40th birthday this week and it had me in tears. As everyone sang Happy Birthday in the Rovers, Emma told Curly she was moving out of his life, all the way to Newcastle. There was a bit of a Curly moment when he went through his old jobs and past loves, all of them distant memories, many of them regrets. Kevin, Tommy and Martin were quite surprised to hear he'd once bedded Maxine but it was when he talked about Emma, I shed a bit of a tear. "I thought she was the reason I was put on this earth" he said and then later to Emma he confesses that when he named the star for Raquel, he did it for the wrong woman, he should have done it for her. When the birthday cake arrives, it's iced with a photo of Curly from his bin-wagon days surrounded by 40 candles and the whiff of a wasted life. Desperate to keep his marriage and family together, he tells Emma he'll move to Newcastle with her. He says it's what he wants, but Emma clearly doesn't agree
Steve goes back to the flat to start clearing out Karen's stuff and comes across their wedding pictures stuffed in the back of a drawer. It's Steve's 29th birthday and Tracey Barlow offers herself up as a birthday treat for him but the next day she's given short shrift when Steve finds out the truth about why Karen left town. He goes to see Baldwin and pays back the eight thousand pounds that Mike reckons Karen owes him and then rides off into the sunset to look for his wife. Ooh, he's just like John Wayne in The Searchers - with Rosamund Street as the backdrop where the Sierra Nevada should be.
Martin has his hands full this week with Katy trying to cling onto him like only a 16-year-old with raging hormones can do. Now then, Martin's what? 57? 28? He's somewhere in between those at least and he should know better but, as he confides to Curly, he's smitten with this young girl - although he tells Curly it's a nurse at work. And Katy tells Sarah about the older man she's got a crush on, calling him Mark. So Martin's trying to end it but sends Katy mixed messages; when he tells her he wants to put a stop to things, he pulls her close and gets breathless although she could just have trod on his toes. Who knows where this relationship will go? One thing's for sure, when Tommy finds out, there'll be trouble.
Tyrone gets a date with gardener Maz and goes out all to impress but as usual, gets it wrong. Fiz helps Tyrone with his clothes for the date and gets him clothes that suggest intrigue, travel and Top Shop. Tyrone also gets help from Roy, who lets him read his National Geographics so he can impress Maz will his travel knowledge. Tyrone changes back into his own clothes before the date and does his best to act natural, while failing completely. Meanwhile Maz continues to grow things up at the allotment and Tyrone continues to feign interest.
Todd moves into the flat above the bookies and Eileen goes spare when she finds out he's sold his laptop to pay for the deposit. Mind you, she doesn't feel half as betrayed and cheated as Todd does later when Sarah tells him she's not moving in there with him. Over a chat with Martin, Sarah tells him her concerns about moving in there with Bethany, the place is not right to bring up a small child in. Todd drowns his sorrows with a miniature bottle of brandy which he then throws, as dramatically as one can throw an empty miniature bottle of brandy, at one of the flat walls that are closing in around him.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
By Glenda Young , writer of Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.
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