OCTOBER 8 2012
Maria and Marcus share a snog after Maria finds a lump in
her breast. Marcus accompanies her to the clinic where tests
are taken and they both breathe a sigh of relief when all
comes back well. So big and heavy is this sigh of relief that
they're sucked into each other's faces by the tornado of air
that forces them into a kiss in the kitchen. Maria's other
lump, Jason, knows nowt about this and moves his stuff into
Maria's flat as happy as can be. But, I can hear you say,
Marcus is gay, what's he doing kissing a girl? That's what I'd
like to know too, I reply.
While the Croppers are away,
Mary goes all Olé . She opens Roy's Rolls on an evening and
sets up a Spanish themed night – Cafe Olé – serving tapas and
gazpacho. Now then, I watch Pedro Almodovar films and so I
never touch gazpacho. Nick's not best pleased that Mary's
opened the cafe on an evening, putting it in direct
competition with the Bistro for those discerning Weatherfield
types who like to eat their beans on toast out instead of
eating in with a tray in front of the telly. In revenge, Nick
opens the Bistro for breakfast. Ooh, Roy won't be happy when
he comes back.
It's Eileen's 51st birthday and Paul
throws her a surprise part with balloons only to find out that
Eileen hates birthdays, almost as much as she hates balloons,
especially those found at surprise parties.
Living it
up with lunch with Wendy, Ken lies to Deirdre about where he's
going on his birthday. Deirdre's suspicious and follows Ken,
yells to Rita who's going out for a drive: "I think Ken's up
to his old tricks again!" to which Rita replies, with a touch
of Cagney to Deirdre's Lacey: "GET IN!". They drive off with
demented Deirdre yelling at Rita to put her foot down.
"Overtake that van!" to which Rita replies: "I haven't
overtaken anything in 50 years!".
They follow Ken's
cab which takes them into a posh cul-de-sac in a very bay
window part of town. Deirdre's eyes nearly drop out of her
head when she spies Ken kissing Wendy on the doormat. Later,
she threatens Wendy and tells her to leave Ken alone, returns
Wendy's birthday gift to Ken of a pair of typewriter cufflinks
and marks her card for her.
Back at home, after a fag
in the ginnel, Deirdre growls at Ken, exactly as she did back
in 1989 when she found out then that Ken was knocking off
Weatherfield Wendy. Word for word in a repeat of what happened
back then, she spat out: "I want to know where you've been,
and who you've been with." Ken comes clean, sort of, and
insists it's platonic between him and the widow Wendy but
there's a glint in his eye that wishes it weren't. "It's me or
the job!" Deirdre warns him, and on such cliff-hangers, our
soap lives are built.
And that's just about that for
this week. This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Mark Burt,
Peter Whalley, Jonathan Harvey and Martyn Hesford. Find out
more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda
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