Did
you know there's a Deli in Weatherfield? A Deli? In
Weatherfield? Well, it's on Inkerman
Street and
apparently they do a lovely roulade. A roulade? In
Weatherfield? I know! We all know now because Sunita told Steve who
was up to his eyes in flour and baking powder trying to cook a meal
for Becky when he
could have nipped round to this newfangled Deli place
instead. Steve also
books a cheeky weekend in Newcastle for him and the
missus to cheer her up after all she's been through but just when
they're about to set off for a bit of
why-aye and stotty, Becky doubles over in
pain. Steve rushes
her to t'hospital and the poor girl's only
gone and had a second miscarriage and this time she didn't even know
she was pregnant. The
consultant tells Becky she may never be able to carry a baby
full-term and although tests will be run, she may have to accept she
will never be able to have a child of her
own. There's
tears, as you'd expect. Steve's
gutted and confides in Liz that he's distraught although he doesn't
reveal all this to Becky and does his best to
support her as much
as he can. And that's
when his thoughts turn to adoption. When Steve
suggests it to Becky she snaps and tells him he's being insensitive
but when Hayley suggests it too, it gets Becky thinking that it
might be the right thing to do. The McDonalds
browse a website of kids who need adopting and Becky muses on her
past life wondering if she can give an unwanted child a better
childhood than the one she had? it was the
words from Pulp's
Mis-shapes song that Becky used: "Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken
biscuits?"
Over in the
Kabin, Mary's reading Wuthering
Heights while
Norris accuses
her of taking liberties with his peanut brittle balls and Rita
taking liberties with his bottom line. Oh, if
only. Rita tries
not to get involved and reads The Lady
magazine. I didn't
realise Rita was so posh, but there you
go. And inside
the magazine is an advert for Lewis, who
you'll remember is Audrey's
escort
fancy-man. So Rita books
herself in for a night at
the theatre and enjoys Lewis' company at Whistle Down the
Wind. Unlike
Audrey, however,
Rita's under no illusion that she's paying
for Lewis' time,
attention and charm. So when Rita
books Lewis for a night out
at the Chamber of Commerce Easter Ball Dinner
Dance and they
bump into Audrey, well,
Audrey's not best
pleased and reckons Rita's trying to take Lewis from
her. And that's
when Rita and Audrey, who are old
enough to know better, argue over men and money up in Rita's
flat. In two
wonderful episodes written by Jan McVerry, we had some classic
Corrie dialogue
between the two old friends when Audrey accused Rita
of never respecting her marriage to Alf. "He
adored you," says
Rita. "And I knew
you loved him too."
And then there
was a pause, the calm before the
storm. "But you
loved his money more! At least
Lewis is upfront about charging by the hour, perhaps you should have
done the same!"
Audrey lost her
temper and slapped Rita hard across the chops
for that one, it
was really good stuff. Norris
comforts Rita,
giving her sweet tea for the
shock. "What shock?"
Rita asks.
"Audrey
Roberts' has always
been a cow!" and he offers her a job in the Kabin after she admits
she's lonely and her life has lost its
fizz. Over in the
salon, Nick hugs his Gran, who knows she's been a fool over a
fella. And she
wonders where Gail gets it from?
Down the
Street, Kirk reveals he's being made homeless as Maria's decided to
sell the house. And who
should be looking for somewhere to
buy but Dev and Sunita so there's an easy
storyline if ever
there was one. When Dev and
Sunita go to view the house, Kirk's not keen to let them in at first
because summat's burning inside. "I've been
baking bread, like they tell yer too, to make the place smell nice,
but I think I should've taken it out of the wrapper
first."
Dev's not keen on the house
and reckons it's too small. "You have to
go outside if you want to turn a sweet round in your mouth," he
tells Sunita but she's keen on the small house and you know she'll
get her way.
Meanwhile,
Janice has gone on a diet as she thinks tasty
Trevor the trash-man
might be interested in her if she loses a few
pounds. So while
she's on the lime and soda instead of pints of beer and she's eating
salad instead of pie, Trevor's eyeing up
eye-candy Carla who invites him out on another
date.
Up in the
flat, Tina's locked herself away after dumping
Jason. She's in a
bad way, is Tina, and no-one's noticed
yet.
Jason gets drunk
and falls down the stairs at the builder's yard, knocking himself
out. Bill calls
Roy who attends with his first aid kit and his shopping bag and gets
Jay-boy to th'ospital but when he comes to,
Jason's lost his
memory and can't
remember being dumped by Tina in the first
place. Oh
?eck.
Love's young
dream turns sour for
Sian and Ryan this
week.
Sian, you'll
remember is the blonde haired girl and Ryan the dark haired boy,
teenagers both of them, hormones
everywhere, all over the place. When Ryan
won't remove a girl's number from his phone, Sian dumps him and
then he tries it on with Sophie.
Sian updates her
facebook status to ?single' and skips along the cobbles arm in arm
with Sophie.
And finally
this week, Rosie bids online to win a
Weatherfield
County vintage footy
shirt for her
footballer boyfriend Kyle Dmitri. Kev's pleased
her daughter's got a new fella but after a visit to the footy ground
to see County play, he's a big confused when no-one seems to have
heard of this Kyle. "I was
born to be a
WAG," gushes
Rosie. No, Rosie
dear, you were born to be a
slapper.
Coronation Street
writers this week were Julie Jones, Jayne
Hollinson, Mark Wadlow, Jan McVerry and Simon
Crowther.
Find out
more about the
Coronation
Street writing
team.
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda
Young
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