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Sonny the money (as Vernon now calls him) drops to his knee
in a flash restaurant and proposes to Michelle who’s wearing her nighty.
I’ve always thought that if a fella needs a restaurant audience for his
proposal then there’s summat suspect about him but Michelle thinks it’s
all romantic and says yes, oh yes, please gawd, yes. She’s full of herself
when she gets back to the Rovers and Steve gets jealously Tourette Syndrome
and shouts out “Sonny’s gay. He’s gay. Gay, did you know?” at every opportunity,
and then “Sonny! Gay! He’s gay, you know, he’s gay!” just for good measure.
Michelle thinks he’s just jealous (he is) and says he’s lying (he’s not).
Steve tells her he saw Sonny snogging Sean but when she quizzes Sean he
lies through his teeth. Sean’s foced to come clean to the Connor clan later
after Liam quizzes Steve about the gossip he’s heard. Liam’s all for mindless
violence against Sean’s person but older, wiser and more dishy brother Paul
goes for the silent and deadly approach instead. Sending the factory girls
home, they get Sean in the office where the weak and feeble warbler sings
like a canary, confessing all. Then Connor Bros Inc. march Sean to the pub
to break the bad news to Michelle which he does with both of them in tears
by the time he’s had his say. And when Sonny pops round later to see Michelle,
oh, she’s ready for him. Upset? Oh yes. Mad as all heck? You betcha. Shame
the slap she gave Sean only registered an average 510 in our house (I gave
it 6/10 and the lovely person I live with gave it 4/10). Will Steve say “I
told you so?”. I hope that not even he could be that insensitive, but you
never can tell, not with Steve McDonald.
Best line of the week went to Steve who said to Vernon in the pub after
he’d been ‘flattering’ Liz: “Why do always sound like a cheap greetings
card?”. Vernon’s one of the best things to hit Corrie in ages but I know
he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. He’s certainly not Betty’s as she squares
up to him behind the bar of the Rovers, not a fight I’d want to be in the
middle of. Steve puts Vernon on a cab job to get him out of Betty’s way
before she hurled a hot pot at him and the dozy so-and-so wears his headphones
and batters a drum beat on the dashboard, unable to hear the cab radio.
“Is that another of yer Desperate Housewives?” asks Ashley when Claire’s
on the phone to Casey, yet again. Casey’s one of the women that Claire
is helping out on the counselling scheme, for Manchester women who are
depressed, and that. Ashley’s not best pleased that Claire’s got another
outside interest away from him and the boys, again, and especially as Casey
rings in the middle of their Sunday roast. So engrossed are Ashley and Claire
in Casey’s well-being, neither of them seem to have noticed the stairs in
their house have moved from one end of their living room to t’other.
Shirley the social worker comes round to see baby Holly and the visit
goes well, all the boxes are ticked and Eileen’s well pleased. Jason only
finds out about the visit by accident and is a bit put out that Eileen’s
taking responsibility for the baby without his consent, although, hang on,
that’s what he wanted last week. With Eileen in the Rovers, Jase and baby
Holly are left home alone together and he almost broke my heart (and the
glass mirror in our fireplace) when he started singing a lullaby to the baby
he thinks is his daughter.
The Underworld girls are being undermined when one of the Polish night-shift
workers starts working at the factory during the day. They fear for their
wage packets and Hayley, Sally and Joanne take their concerns to the boss
man. (Why aren’t they in a union?) Will the factory girls be turned into
slave labour in a sweatshop?
Leanne returned to the Street this week, all Spanish tan and pink suitcases.
Jamie picks her up at the station in his cab, little realising she was
his fare but the two of them chat like old mates. She even ends up staying
overnight in his spare room, but only ‘cos Jamie’s lonely. It’s clear that
Leanne’s got a bob or two now after her stint in Spain and as she’s been
working as a vice-girl, she’s probably got a bob, a dick and a harry too.
Liam Connor’s already got his eye on Leanne after he helps her break in
to Janice’s flat. She’s trying to use her visa card and he uses his pair
of size nines against the door. And once she finds out that Liam’s got
a bit of money and owns half the factory, well, kerching, it’ll be love
at first sight of the bulge in his wallet.
Rita’s got another nasty hangover and feels like death warmed up. “I’ve
only got one word to say to you” says Norris. “Aspirin?” asks Rita. “Doreen!”
he replies. After a vodka in the Rovers to put her right she tells Norris
and Blanche she’s going to cut down on seeing Doreen. I like the idea
of detoxing on Doreen, one drink at a time, you can do it, Reet, you know
you can. Just Say No. It’s Norris’ birthday this week and he’s all done
up in his cravat and best suit for a night at the Italian, a treat from
our Reet. When Doreen turns up wanting to tag along, they tell her quite
politely but firmly that they’re going as a two-some. Rita even kissed Norris
on the cheek in the Kabin this week, but what was more worrying was that
he didn’t seem to mind.
And finally this week, Tracy gets a call from David who’s bursting
with hormones in the back ginnel. He wants to have his wicked way with
her but Tracy’s holding him off for now and spurns his offer of chips and
gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. She lies to mum Deirdre that the reason
she’s seeing so much of David lately is to help him calm down as he’s having
nightmares after seeing Charlie try to kill Tracy. Nope, I don’t think
that’s the reason he’s having sleepless nights, Trace!
And that’s just about that for this week.
Glenda Young
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