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Not content to wait until summer 2007 for her day up the aisle in a confection
of a frock that looks good from the back, Claire convinces Ashley she wants
the wedding brought forward. They decide on December 25th for a perfect
Christmas Corrie celebration. I can see it now. As they're smooching
at their wedding reception in t'Rovers feeding Fred's pork pies to each other
and drinking champagne from tinsel-rimmed fluted glasses the camera will fly
outside to Maxine's bench where snow will be falling and an undernourished
urchin sits and shivers, holding out a tin cup and crying for a storyline,
a bit of dialogue and a bag of chips.
Karen finds out in the most cruel way that Steve was on the game show in
London with the Barlows. Steve tries to stop her from seeing the show
on TV but she walks into the Rovers just as it's on the screen with everyone
gathered round. Humiliated in front of everyone, she tells Steve she
can't trust him and throws his stuff out of the window along with Liz's bits
and bobs too. Liz takes herself and her bits to the Barlows who put
her up and put up with her as she camps out in the living room and dries her
thongs on the toaster. It fair puts Ken right off his crossword. Liz's
delighted that Karen's had enough of Steve, she thinks Tracy and Steve should
be together instead. Things get tense for Karen who goes round to the Barlows
to give Tracy what for. "It's about time that pug-faced mardy mare felt the
weight of my hand!". And in a wonderful scene on the street both women are
there in their huge hoopy ear-rings and flicked-up hair, as mad as each other
and Steve hasn't a clue, or a hope. Karen finally decides she
wants Steve back and they talk about moving away from Weatherfield until
she realises, duh, that she won the car for the Barlows and by rights it
belongs to her and Steve. And now she's going nowhere until she gets her hands
on her prize.
Charlie's started being demanding of Shelley and persuades her not to go
on a night out with Sunita. She does what she's told and his dominance of
her continues in a most unpleasant way. This is all going to lead to a domestic
violence storyline which, I dunno, soaps and drama series say they do these
things with best intentions at heart and there'll probably be a helpline at
the end of the programme - but to call it entertainment? I tend to
disagree.
The Duckworth's get a letter from the North West Conservation Society to
say their home has been picked as authentic and chosen to open as a museum.
Vera's all a flutter when she hears cousin Prince Charles will be doing the
honours and opening their humble abode to the public. There's only one problem,
to be truly authentic they really need a pigeon loft in their backyard. It's
all a plan of course by Jack to get his pigeons back in the yard but Vera
still hasn't seen through the scheme yet.
Les and Cilla's bath times are becoming even noisier and Danny joins Emily
and Norris in protesting to Les who pays no heed. Danny has a plan to turn
off their water and blames a breakdown in the national grid. But peace
and quiet doesn't last long and the whirring, grinding spa bath is back in
action as soon as Les phones the waterboard and they tell him to unstop the
stopcock.
Elswhere in the Street, Kelly decides the only reason Sean's gay is that
he hasn't met the right woman yet - and she decides the right woman is her.
And that's just about that for this week.
By Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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