March 5, 2007

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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

March 12, 2007

Glenda is on holiday. This week's update written by John Dean.

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TAAAAH-ta-da-dadadah. Yes, your own podcast version, now with added sound. For the colour version, print this out, put it on the ground, tilt it to the  right at an angle of 135 degrees and tilt your head to the left at an angle  of 30 degrees. You will see at least two colours, maybe more.  No extra  charge. And so to the cobbles ...

Leanne is taking an interest in the property market and has it in mind to  buy Danny Baldwin's old house. And Fizz is on a new diet where she eats only  red and yellow food. And Kelly and Joanne sabotage Wicky's (pronounced  Vicky's) machine but have to put it right when she suggests she should ask  Mr Connor to fix it. And then gives Fizz a knowing look, indicating she  knows the grrrlzz were trying to put one over on her.

Tracy cons Jason into lending her the keys to the flat for her rendezvous  with David, having arranged for Adam to phone her at the critical moment so  she can make an excuse and leave. Adam nearly forgets because he's in a  drinking game with Leanne, Joanne and Kelly. The rule is that one player  makes a statement. Everyone who's done something the player hasn't has to  drink a shot. Leanne opens with "I've never lived in Scotland" which sends  Adam to the slammers, but he counters with "I've never slept with my boss"  which is drinks all round for the ladies, two for Joanne.

Jason is monitoring the CCTV and sees the two of them leave and also sees Tracy laying hands on David. Oh, the humanity! Jason shows the video to Sarah and she tackles David who explains he and Tracy need privacy to discuss the trial. She doesn't point out that discussing the trial is the one thing he and Tracy should *not* be doing but responds "Oooh! You've got an answer for everything!" (Isn't that a good thing to find when you're asking questions? Isn't it tons better than *not* having an answer?} She gets the same response when she confronts Tracy in the caff. Meantime Deirdre tackles Tracy with the same result although Tracy embellishes it with tales of David needing reassurance because of the nightmares, insomnia and bedwetting. She claims Gail knows nothing because David changes his own sheets. Though this would make Gail more suspicious than finding wee-stains if it were true.David makes further efforts to waylay Tracy, wanting to know when they will meet again. "You know what it's like" says the toothy one - which is missing the point. If David knew what it was like he wouldn't be pestering her quite so much.

Michele breaks the news about Sunny to Ryan and Ryan goes round to see him, discovering Sean skulking in the bedroom area. Ryan snatches the car keys and races off in the Sunnymobile and Sunny calls the police. Michele collects the lad from custody after his Police caution but Paul loses his temper and hits Ryan.

Deirdre overhears Tracy and David conspiring in the ginnel and talks to Ryan who lends her the video. (By the way, is it just me or is it strange that none of the people who see the video think it was weird that Charlie had a camera pointed at the flat he was renting out to Maria?) But at Tracy's urging, Deirdre destroys the tape, allowing herself to be convinced that there is an innocent explanation.

Leanne is travelling hither and yon on her mysterious business activities. She wants Les to drive her in his taxi for free because he's her Dad. Les wants to charge her, pointing out that if he drove her around for free in the Streetcars cab, it'd be like her using him as a taxi service.

Sean is recounting his dealings with Sunny and Michele to the UndrrrWrrrld Grrrlz, except this time *he* is the hero and everyone else is a zero. Unfortunately for him, Paul overhears him and sacks him "for laughing at my sister". Not one that's going to look good in front of the Tribunal. Sally and Hayley form a delegation to ask for Sean's reinstatement  and when this isn't forthcoming they call a strike. Everyone except Wicky (pronounced Vicky or, as her colleagues now call her, 'scab') joins in and pickets the Factory.  Sean finds it "very draining, being the focus of industrial action." Kelly tries a bit of cheerleading for the wictim (pronounced victim), hindered only by her lack of spelling skills:

Kel - Give me an 'S'!
Grrrlz - "S!"
Kel - Give me a HAITCH!
Grrrlz - Er, 'E'

But since Paul has run away rather than face Carla, Liam is on his own and decides to reinstate Sean. Hayley takes advantage of the temporary whip hand to insist that Vicky (pronounced Wicky) should be paid the same wages as everyone else.

Dev decides, prompted by Amber, to shop for a more trendy set of togs. He ends up in the Rovers upsetting Peter Barlow who is wearing the same shirt. (Well, not the *same* shirt because the two of them couldn't fit into it - it's actually two different shirts but with the same design). As Ken points out, Peter should be used to everyone looking the same after spending half his life in the Navy. The Barlows are back from seeing the barrister who's warned Tracy that she could get 15 years and that she should plead guilty if she *is* guilty. Back on the cobbles, Ken is tussling with the cryptic crossword  -"Six letters, 'Verdict left in computers with man about.'" He suddenly twigs the answer (see below if you're not a cryptic fan) and exclaims "It's easy when the answer's staring you in the face" but shuts up
when he realises Deirdre is staring Tracy in the face, and not in a nice way. A knock at the door heralds Jason who delivers a classic deadpan non
sequitur when Ken opens up - "Hello Mr Barlow, is Blanche playing out?"

Vernon has put an advert in the local paper announcing the establishment of his "Drum Academy" upstairs in the Rovers - lessons given, moderate fees.
And the sound of his first pupil (mother bought him 6 drum lessons for his 17 th, may have got Vernon confused with a Driving Instructor) is in the background while Liz is chatting up Derek the Drayman whose wife, we are surprised to hear, doesn't understand him. I suspect she understands him spectacularly well but there's always room for a new plot, especially when it's a recycled version of one we've seen twice a year for the last 40 years.

Meanwhile Carla has a showdown with Liam over Paul's increasingly erratic behaviour - apart from hitting Ryan, he's taken off with a car boot full of samples they were supposed to show to the buyer they've just had to send away and he's also failed to provide the necessary costings. Liam gives in and confesses all. Paul is distraught because Ryan's joy ride has brought back memories of what *really* happened to Ryan's dad, Dean. (No, I'm not writing memos to myself, Ryan's Dad was called Dean)

Turns out Liam, Paul and Dean had been out together (in Dean's car) and they'd all had a lot to drink. Dean was particularly out of it ("trying to put his car key in the stereo") so Paul insisted on driving. On a deserted stretch of road he loses control. Dean is killed and the brothers decide, as you do, to drag the corpse behind the steering wheel, as you do, so Dean can take the blame and Paul can keep his licence. They decide not to tell Michele or Ryan about this and particularly not Carla. But now the truth is out  ...  Ooooh!

Oh, and that crossword clue?
IT = Computers
L= Left
GUY = man
So "left in computers" is 'L' in 'IT' = ILT with "man about" means put GUY round ILT and get "Verdict" = GUILTY  No wonder Ken shut up.

John Dean


March 19, 2007

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There’s fondant fancies on the factory floor when Polish Vicky takes in a box of cheap cakes as a thankyou to the girls for getting her upgraded and on the right wage. She’s not said much, this Vicky girl, but you can tell she likes cakes. The disappearing Paul Connor reappeared at the factory, possible when he heard there were free cakes on the go, after Liam had called him and told him he’d had to break their secret to his robot-wife, the dead-eyed Carla. So, the news that Paul had been drink driving and killed Michelle’s husband Dean only to put Dean in the driving seat before the coppers were called, has come out, but it’s best kept from Michelle and young Ryan, for now. To celebrate Paul’s return into the glossy haired bosom of the Connor clan, they all go out for a meal, again, single-handedly keeping the pizza place in the precinct, the one with the red checky tablecloths, cheap plonk and garlic bread, in business. 

Maria and Peter get friendly over drinks in the Rovers and a haircut in the salon. Tracy’s furious that Charlie’s ex-flame Maria should be getting her claws into her brother but it’s her mother Tracy should be worried about. Deirdre’s going round asking all sorts of questions to all sorts of people – Steve, Claire, Gail – as she’s starting to doubt that Tracy’s as innocent as she says that she is. Tracy meets with her barrister and enjoys his tea and ginger nuts (biscuits, dear, biscuits) but she isn’t too happy about being given little direction on what to say when she takes the stand.

Derek the (married) drayman asks Liz out on a date. As Vernon’s took himself off to the Rochdale Northern Soul Record Collective, Liz is alone and abandoned so takes Derek up on his offer. When Derek comes back to collect Liz, Vernon’s returned from his jaunt: “Who needs Northern Soul when I’ve got Northern heart?” he smooches to Liz, which probably meant that the do had been cancelled. Derek’s face drops, almost as much as Liz’s cleavage has done, when he realises his date with Liz is off. Never mind, he can go home to his wife and cheer her up instead, perhaps he can ask her why she doesn’t understand him.

Dev’s still in his Man at C&A mode and there’s new shirts a-go-go in the corner shop. I thought he looked rather dashing in a blue flowery number but the wonderful Amber and shop girl Molly give his shirt short shrift, and even giggled at it.  He goes golfing with Paul Connor and Steve McDonald later in the week when the three of them are done up like Rupert the Bear on acid, all check trousers and diamond print jumpers.  Paul’s a golf pro, or so he reckons and isn’t too happy to be beaten by Steve and Dev who are new to the game. He blames his golf clubs and his too-tight shoes. I blame the fact he was rubbish.

Leanne heads off into town, telling Janice she’s working at a property exhibition in a swanky hotel. Leanne’s closely followed by Janice who takes Leanne’s phone that she’d left behind in the flat. When Janice reaches th’otel she spies her step-daughter heading upstairs with some old geezer, talking all posh to the fella. You know how some people have a telephone voice? Leanne’s got a sex voice and calls herself Rachel. Janice sits in the bar waiting, fuming, and gives it with both barrels to Leanne when she comes back downstairs. “You’re a prostitute!” Heads turned in the bar. Someone might have tutted. Leanne tells Janice she’s making good money as an escort girl for an agency and it’s not a life she plans to give up. Janice throws Leanne out when Leanne says she’s working the streets (or the hotels) to get away from everything that Janice holds dear – the street, her flat. She even flung the word ‘scabby’ in for good fun. But they make up later on, keeping the news of Leanne’s profession from Les, for now.

The Mortons arrived on Corrie this week with Sinbad from Brookside playing Jerry Morton, a jolly fat man with a stock line in catchphrases. “Don’t be a stranger” he tells new neighbour Gail as he tries to chat her up and gets nowhere. “You look hungry” he tells just about everyone he bumps into as he tries to flog off kebabs from his new takeaway. If you were ever in doubt as to who ate all the pies, I can now confirm that it was Jerry Morton. Possibly with help from Polish Vicky.

And that’s just about that for this week.

Glenda

March 26, 2006

ello, come in and welcome to another weekly wotsit, fresh from th’oven and slathered in buttery words and fruity flavours.  And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

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Events on the cobbles have been dominated by Tracy Barlow’s legal trial which started this week so you’ll forgive me, I hope, if I jump straight in and tackle the trial. We had a special episode this week with just Tracy and Deirdre at the kitchen table, slugging back a bottle of red that Ken had bought from The Sunday Times. I think it was called ‘Vin de Chateau Tory Reader Nouveau Riche Rouge’. As mother drank and smoked her way through the two-hander episode, daughter Tracy told Deirdre the truth about Charlie. Deidre ran the gamut of traumatic emotions in three seconds flat. There was denial: “You don’t mean you planned to kill Charlie Stubbs?” to anger: “You meant to kill him!” and then just before you could utter the words “by ‘eck, this has been rushed a bit” there was finally acceptance: “I don’t like you very much but the love is unwavering”. In the home truths that were flung across the tablecloth, Tracy blamed Deirdre’s perm and specs for turning her psycho. In return Deirdre said the only decent thing about her daughter was the kidney inside her, from Samir, the only man she’s ever loved. It’s just as well Ken wasn’t around to hear that, he was upstairs in bed, dreaming of cardigans or perhaps garrotting Eccles, the dog we never see anymore.

And so to the trial which Ken and Deidre don’t and can’t attend, well, there’s fags to be smoked in the back yard and tears to be shed on the backyard bench.  Deidre tells Ken the truth about Tracy killing Charlie and the two of them stay home as the others take the stand in the court. Blanche takes her paperback to get her through the boring bits and Norris makes a packed lunch for Emily. Up on the stand first is Jason Grimshaw, clearly having taken notes from the Joey Tribbiani School of Acting. Barrister fella in wig: “So, Charlie Stubbs was a man to share his emotions, was he, as he was mixing cement?,” Jason to fella: “No, it was me who mixed the cement”.  Next up is Maria who admits that Charlie tried to down David and finally tonight we had Peter. Evidence from the bloke who knows about such things followed, painting Tracy as a liar due to the angle of her hitting Charlie and the way his blood was splattered up the sof. The jury, sitting there like a panel from the United Nations, watches on and takes it all in, for now.

“I’ve gone into this with my eyes wide open” says Leanne to Janice of her job as a professional slapper. “..and that’s not the only thing!” replies Janice, clearly meaning that Leanne’s purse must be bulging open with all the cash she’s now raking in. Leanne’s got no intention of giving up her job and tells Janice squarely that she’ll have to get used to it, or else she’ll move out. Janice tells her she’ll watch her back for her (doesn’t Leanne offer that as an extra?) and wants to know where she’s going and who she’s doing. It’s like a soap opera version of Pimp My Car, only without the car, if you know what I mean. Leanne tries to put her money into property and tries to buy number seven (where Jamie now lives). She’s gazumped by Liam Connor who strolls over to Jamie, tells him he’s bought the place, he’s moving in and wants the fridge in their lad pad stocked with beer. Now.

Jerry’s takeaway is doing good business and as the chippy on the Street hasn’t been mentioned we can surmise perhaps that Mr Wong’s sales are low and their chips are, er, down. Jerry offers half price meals for pensioners with a special three course take-out, a Jerry Hat Trick (say it quickly, it works). One pensioner not needing to be watching the pennies is Jerry’s dad Wilf who swindles Dev in the corner shop to the tune of fifteen quid with help from grand-daughter Kayleigh. She’s not too happy living in hew new home and wants to go home to little brother Finlay and Mother Theresa, sorry, her mother, Theresa, as Jerry continues to chat up the ladies on the cobbles and amuse them with his nuggets.

Doreen moves into Rita’s flat while her own home is being done up by the council, the same people who do her hair.  Doreen’s worldly goods include a pink feather boa and a bottle of vodka. Norris can only disapprove, which he does. He even tuts and rolls his eyes.

And finally this week, we saw Sarah Platt tell Jason Grimshaw that she’d had a text from Candice saying she was getting wed in Greece and wants Sarah to be her bridesmaid. What? You mean she’s left hairdressing to the stars? What will the Quo do?

And that’s just about that for this week.

Glenda


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