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Coronation Street Monthly Update
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THE ROVERS RETURN had a revamp this month. While
there was no campaign to bring back The Snug, there were a new set
of seat covers, wallpaper and a fresh lick of paint. But fear not,
for our favourite fictional pub hasn’t changed too much. It might
have had a revamp, but it still looks like the old vamp it always
was.
Corrie lost one of its favourites this month for a
short while. Roy Cropper flew to t’other side of the world to be
with his soul mate, his best friend, his Hayley. There was only one
slight panic on Roy’s To Do list before he left as he fretted over
Becky moving into the flat above the caff while he was away. Becky
moved her stuff into the flat in black bin bags, bringing in her
baggage and hanging up her hang-ups. Helping Becky serve up the
latte-dah coffees has been Ken Barlow, who might know a thing or two
about sweet-talking the customers but hasn’t got a clue when it
comes to customer service. When Becky gives Tina short shrift after
she gave some backchat while eating chips with David, she tells Ken
to think on and use the same technique at home whenever Blanche gets
out of hand. As if he’d ever dare.
Meanwhile, Jack realises that he’d put a bet on the
horses on the very day Vera died. He decided to check on the bet and
it came up trumps, with winnings to the tune of over £3,000 – but
why isn’t he delighted? Well, it turns out that he’s lost the
betting slip, which he needs to get his winnings. After pleading
with the bookies, Harry Mason finally gave in and handed over the
cash. However, Harry’s son Dan had already paid the cash to Jack’s
grandson Paul who’d found the betting slip and wasn’t going to tell
his granddad. As Jack deals with his grief after Vera’s death last
month, he handed over Vera’s clothes to Emily’s charity shop at
Weatherfield General. Jack decided it was time to go through Vera’s
things and he mused over her shoes. She had four pairs. Her shoes,
her other shoes, her good shoes and her best shoes, and Jack always
knew which ones she meant.
Elsewhere, Carla Connor’s boyfriend, Eyeball Tony
the Catalogue Man, did a spot of breaking and entering after nicking
the keys to Carla’s flat from her handbag. She thinks there’s an
intruder, and when she finds out it’s ET-the-CM, she yells at him to
leave. “I am CARLA CONNOR!” she screams. Well, I was scared. But
Eyeball Tony manages to win her round with his beef dish he’d kept
on a low simmer all night.
And this was the month when Corrie had one baby with
two dads and one mum with two sons and everyone got into a pickle.
The baby with two dads was driven away from the Street at high speed
in a clapped out orange car after Violet and Jamie decided they
needed to flee from the baby’s real dad, gay Sean the
knicker-stitcher. Poor Sean broke down and cried, as you would. A
point of note for Corrie anoraks is that baby Dylan was born in the
front bar of the Rovers (before the revamp, fortunately), making him
the first Corrie baby ever to be born in the Rovers bar.
And the mum with two sons was Michelle Connor who
was torn between real son Alex and the boy she’s brought up for 16
years, Ryan, believing him to be her true son. This storyline has
been too far-fetched and has even stretched the limits of my own
Corrie-related patience.
Over the cobbles, David’s hormones all over the
place, one minute he’s madly in love with Tina and the next he’s
sulking in the shed with Darryl Morton. David gets Tina’s name
tattooed on his arm, which was painful and a relief she wasn’t
called Elizabeth. Tina’s not fussed about the tattoo and puts it
down to David being tattoo immature for words. As David’s in the
shed with Darryl, moaning about Tina, Tina’s at Gail’s house with
Gail, moaning about being pregnant with David’s devil child.
And in the pizza place in the precinct, Dan Mason
wasn’t best pleased when his date with factory girl Kelly Crabtree
went awry after she went off with his dad Harry, the boss bookie.
Harry is older, wiser, more sophisticated and as he reminds Kelly,
he’s the organ grinder not the monkey. And there’s a lot to be said
for not going out with a monkey.
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Glenda Young
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