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Shelly's got a black eye and the side of her face is bashed in after she
walks into the door in the back room of the Rovers. Knowing that no-one's
going to believe her bruises haven't been caused by him beating her up, Charlie
locks Shelley away in the upstairs bedroom, tells everyone she's got chicken
pox and she doesn't want to be disturbed - (clearly, she's disturbed enough
already). Shelly lies around and mopes while the staff downstairs enquire
after her spots and say she's gonna need an ocean of calomine lotion.
With Shelly locked out of sight in the room at the top and Charlie keeping
watch at the bedroom door, if they'd both been better looking it could have
been a bit Hitchcock.
Jamie's in a quandary after meeting up with his real mother, Carol. The
woman's clearly got problems – not only is she an alcoholic, she's also got
terrible taste in net curtains. As Jamie grapples with getting
to know his real mother again, Leanne grapples with Danny under the
duvet while loving wife Frankie frets about her step-son.
Diggory lures Sarah away from the corner shop with the promise of an extra
50p an hour and all the jam tarts she can eat. And he insists that she
ties her hair up in the hygienic cap: "A hair in your pasty and things can
get nasty". Dev's incensed that his staff have been poached but Sarah's
soon asking for her old job back after she's sacked by Diggory who accuses
her of taking money from the till. The money has in fact been eaten
by rats and Diggory finds himself with an infestation on his hands and around
his feet. Keith helps out with rat catching while Dev allows himself a snigger
until Diggory pulls rank and reminds him of his position as Chair of Weatherfield
Traders Association and therefore in a powerful position to wipe the smirk
off Dev's face.
Liz visits Jim in prison and tells him she wants a divorce. She's sick of
sitting in, night after night, waiting for him to come out of prison and now
that he's beaten up his cell mate and got himself another couple of years
in the big house, she's had enough. "Don't leave me Elizabeth, I love you!"
he calls after her as she jiggles out of prison visiting and into speed dating.
Speed dating, ah yes, now there's a thing. Norris, Rita, Blanche and
her mate Lena think they'll try it too so off they all go to the Weatherfield
Arms to win over the person of their dreams with 3 minutes of chat, a pie
and a pint. Norris fares well with a literary lady until Blanche tells
her that Norris isn't the published author he likes to think he is.
Blanche does well too until Norris points out to the interested gentleman
the similarities between her and a black widow spider. But it's Rita that needs someone to
watch out for her when a strange bloke called Glenn with a fetish for red-headed
women called Rita "My first wife was called Rita, and my second." hones in
on her with a strange look on his face.
Claire starts her new job on the buses but catastrophe strikes as she drives
along the cobbles. Little Josh rushes out onto the road at the same
time as Schmeichel. Swerving to avoid hitting Josh, the dog gets knocked
over and things don't look good. Chesney's in tears and even Cilla gets
a lump in her throat but that could have been Mr Wong's fish bone and batter. After an operation at the
vets', Schmeichel's kept in overnight and makes a full recovery next day.
Claire's not faring so well and says she'll never drive again so the last
thing she needs is the whole Battersby clan including Chesney, Fiz and
Kirk, demanding that she pay the enormous vet bill for the enormous dog.
And finally this week, the ladies of the Street are helping out Keith look
after grandson Craig. Betty turns up with a hotpot, Blanche with
jam roly-poly and Emily with cock-a-leekie. Unfortunately they all turn
up at the same time and there's an embarrassment of riches in earthenware
dishes for Keith to choose from. The ladies aren't impressed and assume he's been playing them off
against each other and taking their home cooked goods for granted,
which hasn't been the case. Later in the Rovers he apologies to them
all and offers his DIY skills around their houses in exchange for their home-cooked
grub. "I've a dripping tap at home." winks Lena. "Fix that and I could
run to a lamb shank".
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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