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Usually, it's the back room of the Rovers where secrets are
laid bare, passions declared and tears flow freely, but this week
it's been the bus-stop. First off in there is Candice and Todd,
snogging. It's dead good actually, is that bus stop for snogging.
I've done it myself, no honestly, I have, that very one. Anyway,
Todd's got a massive lovebite on his neck and despite trying to
hide it with Elvis collars Eileen and Dennis notice it, as parents
always do, no matter how much toothpaste you massage on it. Eileen's
a bit concerned that Todd's first girlfriend is someone as, um,
experienced as Candice and she insists that Dennis has a man to
man chat with young Todd to put him right on a few matters. But
Todd and Dennis haven't exactly bonded yet, or whatever it is
that blokes do, and Dennis is left in no doubt that his advice
is not wanted. As Sarah Lou twirls Candice's hair in preparation
for tea at the Grimshaw's, young David, pretending to be engrossed
by the troll bogey wand in his latest Harry Potter, eavesdrops
on the girls' conversation, piping up only to tell Candice "You
look like Lily Savage". David finds out that Candice is two-timing
Todd with another young scally called Darren, and he's quick to
spill the beans when Darren comes looking for Candice later. Darren
confronts Todd who confronts Candice who finds herself dumped
by two boyfriends in the space of two minutes. But all is not
lost. She collars Todd in the cafe later to make up, telling him
that she'd already dumped Darren, she just hadn't told him and
she and Todd pick up where they started...
..which returns us to the bus-stop. The Barlow's, at the moment,
is not a happy place with Ken and Mike still fighting over Adam.
Ken offers to take the lad to football to see Weatherfield wallies
play the Notown noddies. And just when Adam thought the day couldn't
get any more exciting, Mike turns up with tickets to see Man Utd
vs Leeds, and Adam goes off with his dad. Well, wouldn't you?
Ken decides the only thing to do is move far away from Mike -
to Scotland. He and Peter discuss the move and when Deirdre finds
out she hasn't been consulted, she's not best pleased. Despite
wearing those massive specs of hers, she didn't see that one coming.
She's upset and distraught and decides to move out. She packs
her bags, pulls her anorak to her chin and heads for the bus-stop,
in tears. And then, wouldn't you know, delicious Dev stops at
the bus-stop in his car, wipes away her tears and takes her back
to his place. And that would be enough to cheer any woman up,
even Deirdre.
Emma has the inquest this week into the shooting of Linda's
brother in the Freshco siege, you know, that supermarket shoot-out
that happened ages ago. Well, lawful killing is what's been decided
and although Emma's relieved, Linda's brother Ryan is deeply disturbed.
And when he finds out that his brother's killer lives across the
road from the factory, he gets a nasty glint in his eye and hangs
around the bus-stop looking for revenge. And then, spookily, one
of those soap opera coincidences occur. Just as Emma has attracted
this super loony scary person who's watching her every move, Curly
shoots off on a business training course for two whole weeks,
leaving Emma alone and more vulnerable to the sinister Sykes stalker.
It's Norris' 60th birthday and he's hinting like mad to everyone
he meets that actually, he really would like to be made a fuss
of. Rita and Emily organise a surprise party in Emma's house and
the plan is for Anthony to take Norris to the Rovers for a drink
before bringing him to the party where everyone will jump out,
shout surprise! and make merry with a buffet. But things don't
go to plan and what happens next is the best piece of Corrie comedy
for years. Norris is hurt and upset that no one's in the Rovers
to have a birthday drink, so he hops on a bus to "anywhere
I'm appreciated" (see, it's that bus-stop link again) with
Anthony in hot pursuit. The two of them end up getting very, very
drunk and insulting each other's ties before swaggering back to
the Street singing songs from The Mikado. Wonderful stuff that
even made Anthony seem quite human.
Elsewhere on the Street, yawn yawn, Karen and Steve got caught
snogging on the carpet when Vikram walked in unexpectedly. Ho-hum.
They should've used the bus-stop instead.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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