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FEBRUARY 25
This was the week when Corrie had one baby with
two dads and one mum with two sons and everyone got into a pickle of
sorts. First off, let's talk about the babe with two dads. Pregnant
Violet decides to do a runner darn sarth with Jamie and they plan
their escape. Unfortunately their plans to get away from Sean before
the baby's birth are scuppered when Violet goes into labour in the
bar of the Rovers. Jamie's on his way to a mate in London in the
discrete getaway vehicle they'd hoped would take them away from the
cobbles without anyone noticing. But a bright orange, clapped out
banger of a car might not have been such a good idea after all. So
as Jamie's driving off, Violet's giving birth in the Rovers with
Sean supporting her head and Marcus at the business end. After the
regulars had been thrown out and the birthing process started
proper, there was panting and screaming, hyperventilating and
clenching of teeth and Violet wasn't much better. At the bar, Eileen
and Liz looked on, awed by the wonder of the womb while Vernon came
over all peculiar and had to disappear for some mixers. As Marcus is
a trained midwife the baby was brought into the world safely and
then bundled off to t'hospital. Sean's loving being a dad, has taken
paternal leave, wants his name on the birth certificate and dreams
of teaching his new son, Dylan-James-Wilson-Tully-Barlow, show tunes
to his heart's content. But Violet and Jamie have other plans and
while Jamie still wants to leave the Street and Sean behind,
Violet's starting to feel that she wants to stick around. Oh go,
just go.
And now for the mum with two sons. Yes, this is
Michelle Connor and she hasn't got a clue. Not content with the son
she's got, she takes it upon herself to offer a home to Alex, the
son she's just found. It's a plan that's not going down well in the
back room of the Rovers. Steve rolls his eyes, tuts and expresses
his exasperation. Ryan stays out of the way and feels
disenfranchised (I have no idea what that means but I wanted to use
it). Steve does his best to like Alex and asks him to look after Amy
but when Amy skips off down the ginnel, Steve loses his temper with
Michelle's golden boy who locks himself in the Rovers. There's a
crowd of thirsty regulars wanting a pint but they can't get in as
they've been locked out. In the back room, Michelle tries to get
through to Alex while Steve searches for Amy. Norris turns out to be
the hero of the hour when he finds Amy wandering the Street with her
dolly while Alex turns out to be the villain of the piece. Boo hiss,
etc. However, mum Michelle asks him to stay in the Rovers for
another week. “And then he's out, I promise,” she tells Steve, who
rolls his eyes, tuts and expresses his exasperation once
more.
Elsewhere this week, LiaMaria returned from honeymoon
in Venice. One minute the new Mrs Connor is sipping a champagne
breakfast in a posh hotel alongside a canal, possibly watching
pigeons from her window, and the next she's got her hands in rubber
gloves in Audrey's salon, cleaning hair balls from the sinks, and
possibly watching pigeons from her window.
Emily's charity at
th'ospital got a bonus load of clothes this week. The Friends of
Weatherfield General have never had it so good. First off she was
given a load of Violet's old clothes when Vi and Jamie have a clear
out in the flat and then a tearful Jack handed over Vera's clothes.
With Molly's help, Jack decided it was time to go through Vera's
things and he mused over her shoes. She had four pairs. Her shoes,
her other shoes, her good shoes and her best shoes, and Jack always
knew which ones she meant.
Meanwhile, David and Tina make
Gail's life even more miserable than it already is. They move in,
take over, mess up and leave Gail to clear up after them both, which
she stupidly does, so really, ladies and gentlemen, she's only got
herself to blame, I'm sure you agree. When Tina told David that she
was still mates with one of her ex-fellas, David went into a strop.
“I'm not in a strop,” he said and then regaled Tina with tales of
his ex-girlfriends, like, um, ooh, who was it again… oh yes, Tracy
and Maria. He's mental that David.
Over in the Rovers, the
pub underwent its big revamp this week which left it looking like
the old vamp it always was, just a bit cleaner. Builders Mick and
Sam did the job in no time at all after drinking tea with five
sugars and a bit of encouragement from Vernon with his “bish, bash,
bosh”. I don't know what that was but it seemed to do the trick as
the two builders were in and out of there quick-sharp.
Also
this week, Carla asked Eyeball Tony the Catalogue Man to move into
her flat with her, so he did. He's too scary for my liking but at
least it takes her mind off brother-in-law Liam and his new wife,
the other Mrs Connor.
And the bookies had a bit of a
storyline this week when Dan the Bookie Man paid out Jack's win of
over £3,000 to Paul. He knew Paul hadn't told Jack that he'd found
the missing betting slip and blackmailed Paul to give him a share of
the cash. Later, the older and wiser Harry offered Jack payment as a
gesture of good will but when Dan found out, he told Paul he wanted
all three grand of the cash back that he'd given him earlier. Both
of them squared up to each other on the Street, both of them less
threatening than squaring up to Amy Barlow. “I want me money back.
So there.” said Dan, trying to be tough. “Shan't!
Nah-nah-ne-nah-nah” replied Paul before sticking out his tongue and
skipping away, a bit fey.
Coronation Street writers this week
were Martin Allen, Damon Rochefort, Chris Fewtrell, Jan McVerry and
Carmel Morgan.
And that's just about that for this
week.
Glenda -- Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com/
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