We only had
three episodes of Corrie this week but
they were packed full of comedy, tears and a bill-a-bong. Emotions ran high in Emily’s
house, first when Ramsay bade farewell and headed back to
Australia and then when
the police came to tell Norris that his brother had died of a brain
tumour on the plane. It was too much, too
raw, just when Emily had got over saying farewell to her fella, she then had to deal with the fact he was
dead. And not just that, she didn’t half give Norris short-shrift
over his dealings with Ramsay: “You’re a silly, blinkered, selfish
little man!” So there were tears, recriminations and over a
soundtrack of Waltzing Matilda, the camera panned from Emily’s front
room to Norris laying flowers at his mother’s grave. It was a very
poignant, moving scene that almost had me in tears. Almost.
Over at Eileen’s house, she’s battling with Jesse’s other
bird, John. The parrott takes the TV
remote and changes channels while Ma Grimshaw’s settling down to watch telly with a nice spot of cake. Come on, Eileen,
you’ve battled Gail Platt to the ground in your dressing gown before
now, how hard can getting along with a parrott be?
And the only other big story of the week was the Bank
Holiday Street fete. Claire Peacock had gone into overdrive organising this, and you have to hand it to the
woman, when she puts her tiny mind to something, she really goes all
out. There was a bouncy castle, stalls, ice cream van, balloons,
streamers and kids in fancy dress and all for a good cause, to raise
funds for Claire’s DVT support group. “Support group?” huffs
Blanche. “In my day, you got drunk and bit on a shoe.”
Mind you, it doesn’t stop Blanche spotting a chance to
make cash at Claire’s fete and she does herself up as Gypsy Rose
Hunt in the front room to read fortunes for three quid a go. First
in is Kelly Crabtree and Blanche looks deep into her palm. “I see
fellas,” she tells Kelly. “Many fellas, especially if you keep dressing like a
tart”. Kelly huffs out back to the fete as Graeme comes in for his
reading with Blanche although we never got to find out what words of
wisdom Blanche passed on to the Street’s new garden
doc.
Little Joshua and Simon are dressed up as Batman and
Robin and holy bee-sting, Josh goes into shock after being stung by
a bee. Superheroine Janice Battersby comes
to the rescue, puts Josh into the recovery
position and then panics, screaming. Josh is rushed to hospital
where he stabilises in some bad pyjamas and Claire and Ashley breath a sigh of relief. Honestly, what is it
with that family? In the words of Erasure, it’s just one
psychological drama after another.
And finally,
Molly and Kevin go on a fun run together and end up in bed in a
sleazy motel. Ooh, nasty.
Coronation Street
writers this week were Chris Fewtrell and
Damon Rochefort.
Glenda,
blogging away
merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com