There was sad
news this week as the Barlows waited for Blanche to
return from Portugal only to find
out that Blanche has died. Blanche's
friend May Pen, her with the gay son who won Best of Show in Crufts,
comes to break the bad news to Deirdre and Ken as she helps herself
to their bottle of best brandy. May reveals that Blanche had
found herself a fella in that
Portugal, a chap by
the name of Arnold who'd
proposed marriage to Mrs Hunt, and she'd
accepted. This is shock
news to Deirdre, who's grieving over the news of her mum's death, it
doesn't sound like Blanche at all, not from the way May's describing
how lovely a person Blanche was. "Are you sure
we're talking about the same person?" asks Peter,
bewildered. "With the sun
on her specs and the breeze in her slacks, she was a different
person, Dee Dee" replies May to Deirdre. There's
tears, as you' d imagine, and Ken and Deirdre set off
for
Portugal to pay
their respects, bring their mother home and have a
word with this
Arnold bloke.
Audrey's loved up as
Lewis stays over and her post-coital glow lights up
Grasmere
Drive the
morning after her
dirty night before. But Lewis
isn't as charming as he seems. Rita's on to
him already, she's worried he's
going to break Audrey's heart and
no doubt, the lady will be right as Rita always
is. When Lewis
tells Audrey he can't make
a date with her because of his escort
work with some
lonely old biddy, he tells her he'll come round
for breakfast
instead. ?I'll warm
the croissants, you warm the bed.? Croissants,
indeed, and at her age, too.
Over the hills
and far away in Yorkshire, dirty deeds
are afoot. Mary's got
Norris imprisoned
in the cottage. First off,
she tells him the motorhome won't
start (it will but she's hiding a vital engine part on her
person). He tries to
go walking but Mary's taken his boot laces and he tries to ring Rita
but Mary's cut the phone cord, he reaches
for his glasses
but Mary smashes them up so Norris can't
see. Anyway, when
he finally does run away, he trips and falls and ends up holed up in
the cottage with his leg bandaged, up on a cushion as Mary fusses
this way and that and muses about married life as Mrs
Cole. It's too much
for
Norris to take
and when he overhears her talking to a picture of her dead mum, he
calls the cops from a mystery phone that Mary had kept to
herself. The cops
arrive, take Norris to the
station and Mary in for
questioning. Rita's at the
station waiting to pick up Norris and hear
all his news.
At the
Windasses, David leads Anna
and Eddie to Gary and he comes
back home, telling his mum he's a coward
for going
AWOL. Eddie rings
the army and a big fella in a uniform and bad mood
comes to collect Gary to take him
back to camp.
Gary was going to
return anyway, but Eddie says he was just giving his son a
push.
Nick and
Natasha finally get
together this week despite viewers up and down the country knowing
she could do better and he could do with a haircut and probably a
slap about the chops. Graeme moves
into the Platts this week and does his back in when he sleeps on the
sofa.
Graeme also
saves Tina this week when she faints in the butcher
shop. He makes her
some sweet tea but when he goes to give it to her, she's gone and done a
runner. He spies her
later through the window of her flat, using his window cleaning
ladder, and she's fainted again so he kicks in the
door and feeds her
tinned soup. And then he
makes it his mission to make Tina better with the help of sausage
butties fresh from Roy's
Rolls. What a
hero.
And finally
this week, as the Weatherfield Gazette shouted from its headline:
"Hopes Fade for Missing
Kitten", we can only suspect the worst. Just look
what happened to Maxine's pussy.
Coronation Street
writers this week were
David
Lane, Jan McVerry,
Mark Wadlow, Debbie Oates, Martin Allen and Jonathan
Harvey.
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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