Weekly Update from UK - February 12th, 2001
Glenda Young
and every one of you, especially you, yes, you there in the orange
top, no not you, that's brown not orange and I wouldn't fancy you if
you were the last person on the planet, no I meant you, you there in
the orange, yes orange dear, no, not blue, sorry no, not you in the
red and no pet, not you in the dress either, and you in the suit and
tie, well, have a hair cut and come back at me and I'll have another
look and perhaps you can do something about that cleft in your chin
while you're on, 'cos it's that one in the orange I'm after, yes you.
You know who you are. Happy Valentine's. And now we've got that
sorted out, without any further ado, here we go with this week's
Coronation Street update.
Sally's back from her sister's and the two kids are playing up.
Danny's going: "Sally, Kevin's hit 'us" and Kevin's going: "Sally,
Danny's trying to take me children away," and poor Sally, she's stuck
in the middle of it all trying to do the best thing for the girls.
Danny makes it clear he doesn't want Kevin to set foot in their house
again but when Sally passes on this news, she does it half-heartedly
and Kevin's not best pleased either.
Rita lets Anthony know she's not too chuffed with him over his
decision to divorce Isabelle. Demon daughter Amanda comes round to
the Kabin, reading Rita the riot act and seems genuinely surprised
when Rita agrees with her, she doesn't want Anthony to divorce
Isabelle either. Such a difficult decision, such a terrible illness,
such an emotional mess. When Anthony goes to see his wife in the
nursing home, he takes flowers, which Isabelle tries to eat, bless
her. He tells her his plans but she sits and stares, unemotionally,
ahead. Does she know? Who knows? Rita's feeling guilty and confused
and confides to Emily behind locked shutters at the Kabin: "I'm too
old for all of this, all these complications. I had no right to fall
in love, at my age."
Over at the health centre, the stench is getting worse and Doc Ramsden
calls the council to find out how to go about getting it sorted.
Duggie has a word with Steve McDonald, as the contractor, he must
surely take responsibility for a job done bad? But no, Steve blames
the building inspector at the council. Anyway, a bit of red tape at
the council means that Duggie's out of their good books and loses out
on a new contract. When he breaks this news to business partner Dev,
he demands his money back and when Duggie tries to flannel him, he
bars Steve McDonald from the corner shop. And when Dev advises you to
buy your cornflakes elsewhere, you gotta be sure he means it.
Meanwhile at the health centre, the stench is getting worse.
The Croppers are given their first foster child, 15 year old Jackie
who's mum has gone into hospital. Poor Hayley, she tries to kill the
girl with kindness, offering food, drink and hospitality till she's
blue in the face and all Jacky wants to do is leave the flat and be
with her friends. Finally, the three of them all go bowling. Armed
with his little instruction book and dressed in jeans (Jeans! Roy!),
Roy gets the hang of it and even manages a strike, eventually. But
Roy's not too happy that Jackie is making friends with the Grimshaw
boys, Sarah Lou and Candice as the gang gather round the bus stop for
snogging and chips (I heartily recommend both). "But what if she gets
pregnant?" he opines.
Max and Ash throw a dinner party for their new neighbours, Doc Ramsden
and teacher Charlie. While Ashley and the Doc get comfy on the sofa
with the football, Maxine chatters nervously to a less than happy
Charlie, who excuses herself with a make-believe headache in a bid for
an early escape. Poor Maxine, trying, as usual, just that little bit
too hard to impress. With the Doc and Charlie gone, Maxine berates
Ashley for watching the football when he should have joined in the
conversation. Ashley's not bothered and Maxine storms up to bed in a
huff, neither of them understanding the other and proving, once again,
that men are from Venus, women are from Weatherfield.
Mike decides he's had enough waiting around and wants to speak to
Susan. When he calls to pressure her to let him meet Adam, she's busy
packing to do a runner to Ireland. And then, the next thing we know
is that there's been a car crash, Adam's in hospital but Susan is
dead, Mike's stunned, Ken's in tears and both are into the whisky as
they all, including Adam, try to come to terms with what's happened.
Deirdre emotes for the England team as she hugs Ken and repeats
herself with a, "Come on, love, come on", and a "I don't know, love, I
don't know". As Corrie deaths go, it wasn't very sad, love, it wasn't
very sad.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda :-)
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Sharpey
"Glenda Young" <gle...@cwcom.net> wrote in message
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> Mike decides he's had enough waiting around and wants to speak to
> Susan. When he calls to pressure her to let him meet Adam, she's busy
> packing to do a runner to Ireland. And then, the next thing we know
> is that there's been a car crash, Adam's in hospital but Susan is
> dead, Mike's stunned, Ken's in tears and both are into the whisky as
> they all, including Adam, try to come to terms with what's happened.
> Deirdre emotes for the England team as she hugs Ken and repeats
> herself with a, "Come on, love, come on", and a "I don't know, love, I
> don't know". As Corrie deaths go, it wasn't very sad, love, it wasn't
> very sad.
I didn't think any of it was remotely sad, but then I had a pang in my heart
when Adam started crying on Ken's shoulder. Poor mite!
and I thought Deidre was about as comforting as a brick wall.
Liz
Steve Walton
Agreed, after sundays show - ending "susans dead"
I couldn't believe Ken ( after ranting toe-to-toe with Mike ),
didn't just turn round and shout "you've killed her!" at Mike - a
pretty normal reaction I'd have thought after all Mikes interventions
Only sad thing is that corrie did this just to put Ken and Mike up
against each other over custody ..
Steve
John Watson 102
>didn't just turn round and shout "you've killed her!" at Mike - a
>pretty normal reaction I'd have thought after all Mikes interventions
Or Mike blaming Linda for pushing him to push Susan which did cause her to take
the drive. Would advise Adam to contact Mark for ways to handle Step Mum
Linda!
Diane Johnston
Steve Walton wrote:
> Agreed, after sundays show - ending "susans dead"
> I couldn't believe Ken ( after ranting toe-to-toe with Mike ),
> didn't just turn round and shout "you've killed her!" at Mike - a
> pretty normal reaction I'd have thought after all Mikes interventions
They're probably saving that for a graveside rumble. ;)
Diane
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Gastropod
>
> Only sad thing is that corrie did this just to put Ken and Mike up
> against each other over custody ..
>
> Steve
Could be unintentionally hilarious. A custody battle between Barlow and
Baldwin, is a bit like a country's fate depending on a presidential election
between Pol Pot and Idi Amin.
And as for the prospective maternal surrogates - Linda's hardly
mother-of-the-year material, whilst old *Sexy Specs* must be praying that
the Weatherfield trolley dolly doesn't get a result in court.