It's all going off in the salon this week
and Audrey's had enough. What with Kylie's fakey reiki she's doing
her customers' heads in, and putting their noses decidedly out.
Audrey decides to tighten the reins, books David on a business
training course and puts Kylie back on nails where she can do least
harm.
Over at the Rovers, it's Stella's birthday
and Leanne delivers a card, which she gives to Tina who passes it to
Eva who rips it up and chucks it away. Stella strops at Leanne for
not giving her a card and then blames Eva for being a mardy cow when
she finds out the truth. Stella's too brittle for my liking, I'm not
warming to her just yet. And was Corrie deliberately
playing "Isn't She Lovely?" on the Rovers jukebox when Stella came
on screen, hoping it'd help us win our struggle to warm to the new
Rovers landlady?
Meanwhile, Julie goes on her date with Brian.
Wearing a gorgeous red and black dress (available here: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2011/08/get-look-julie-carps-red-and-black.html ) Julie surrenders herself to love in the
shape of Mr Packham. "I'm offering you the full English, here!" Unfortunately for Julie,
nerves get in the way and she has a few drinks before the date, and
then a few more. And one for the road and then another, just in
case. And by the time the two of them are nibbling at Nick's bistro
Julie's drunk and jealous of Brian flirting with Eva and Julie's
date of fate goes a bit Pete
Tong.
Elsewhere this week, Chris and his brain
tumour move into Lloyd and Cheryl's house. With nowhere else to go
and no one to look after him, Lloyd does the (far too) decent thing
and allows his partner's bully-boy, wife-beating fella to move in
while Maria bleats across the cobbles as another of her men decide
to die. Mind you, it's got to be preferable to living with her, she
doesn't half go on about nowt. Liam died. Tony Gordon died. And now
Chris will die too. She's the kiss of death, that Maria one.
In the pub, Frank gets down on one knee and
proposes to Carla with a mahoosive ring and a smirk on his face.
Carla's less than impressed. "This is a farce," she snarls at him.
"Get up!" And get up he
does, determined to find out why Carla's turned him down so when he
hears from Dev that Carla's been arguing with Peter in the shop, he
knows that Carla's still got the hots for Peter Barlow and that's
why she turned his proposal down. When he puts all this to Carla,
she denies everything, even though it's true, and agrees to marry
Frank, saying it's him that she loves, even though it's
not.
And finally this week, Fat
Brenda's gone to Zumba, which apparently is a dance class, and not
an island off the coast of Tenerefee, which I thought it was.
And that's just about that for this
week.
This
week's writers were David
Lane,
Mark Burt, Martin Allen, Jan McVerry and Peter Whalley.
Find
out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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