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    From glenda.sunderland@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 14 02:15:06 2020
    Corrie weekly updates from 1995
    All the wit and warmth of Weatherfield
    None of the waffle - and all for just 99p
    Available from https://amzn.to/2IUn7bt

    Greetings and welcome to another week of words from Weatherfield. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

    In this week’s Corrie, you know there’s going to be few laughs when the announcer warns you that the programme you’re about to watch contains “some scenes which viewers may find distressing.” Yes, the main focus this week has been on Steve and
    Leanne as they struggle with losing Oliver. There’s a court case and a verdict that every fan was expecting, even Leanne and Steve too, but Leanne’s unwilling to accept what’s been ruled. It’s not in Oliver’s interests, the judge decides, to
    keep him alive on mechanical ventilation. And so, Leanne and Steve’s son is set to die. I’m sorry, but I feel more empathy for Nick’s son Sam that we’ve seen for all of five minutes on screen than I ever felt for Oliver. I simply just don’t
    care. As in past weeks, I’ve whizzed through each and every hospital scene and have no idea what’s going on. Don’t hate me. I’m finding life in the pandemic hard enough without subjecting myself to more misery. I know from what I see from fans’
    reactions online that this has been a highly emotive storyline with some wonderful acting and real raw pain on display. If you’ve engaged with the storyline so far you’ll probably continue until the bitter end, but I’m afraid, on this one, I’m
    out.

    I wish I could say there were more happy things to report on this week but alas it was all rather dour. Over at Underworld, Sean wears peacock feathers while Todd struts around pecking on Paul’s nerves. Paul feels he’s on dodgy ground with Todd back
    on the scene, afraid that he’ll lose Billy to Todd. He just might be right, for we can see Billy wavering each time Todd turns up. Paul gets drunk and heads back to the flat where in good old farce style, the Bishop is visiting and on the toilet as
    Paul strips off for Billy. Bishop comes out of the loo, spots semi-naked Paul and makes a quick escape.

    There was a bit of love in the air this week, or if not love then lust of some kind. Alina and Adam make eyes at each other in the factory and on a team-building night out for Underworld a Speed Daal. And in the ‘taking coals to Newcastle’ scene,
    George brings a bunch of flowers for Mary, who’s not in when he calls, so he chats up Eileen instead. Eileen warns Mary that George isn’t the man she hoped he might be.

    In the Rovers, Carla and Peter return from a sailing holiday. Carla rushes back to work at the factory while Peter mopes about the back room with Johnny.

    And that’s just about that for this week.

    Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly/subscribe.htm

    This week’s writers were Carmel Morgan and Steven Fay (Monday); David Isaac (Wednesday) and Owen Lloyd-Fox (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online
    http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

    Glenda Young
    --
    Blogging away merrily at Flaming Nora
    Author website: glendayoungbooks.com

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  • From GordonD@21:1/5 to glenda.s...@gmail.com on Fri Nov 20 10:30:25 2020
    On 14/11/2020 10:15, glenda.s...@gmail.com wrote:
    Corrie weekly updates from 1995
    All the wit and warmth of Weatherfield
    None of the waffle - and all for just 99p
    Available from https://amzn.to/2IUn7bt

    Greetings and welcome to another week of words from Weatherfield. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

    In this week’s Corrie, you know there’s going to be few laughs when the announcer warns you that the programme you’re about to watch contains “some scenes which viewers may find distressing.”
    I keep hoping that the announcer at the end is going to say, "If you've
    been affected by tonight's episode - for God's sake, pull yourself
    together, it's only a bloody programme!"

    Also, whoever writes the previews for the Sky programme guide needs a
    lesson on how to avoid spoilers. The one for last Friday's episode said
    "The judge gives her verdict in Oliver's case." So far, so good - but it
    goes on, "Leanne vows to appeal." Hmm, I wonder what the decision was?
    --
    Gordon Davie
    Edinburgh, Scotland

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  • From kat@21:1/5 to GordonD on Fri Nov 20 11:09:18 2020
    On 20/11/2020 10:30, GordonD wrote:
    On 14/11/2020 10:15, glenda.s...@gmail.com wrote:
    Corrie weekly updates from 1995
    All the wit and warmth of Weatherfield
    None of the waffle - and all for just 99p
    Available from https://amzn.to/2IUn7bt

    Greetings and welcome to another week of words from Weatherfield. And so
    without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

    In this week’s Corrie, you know there’s going to be few laughs when the >> announcer warns you that the programme you’re about to watch contains “some
    scenes which viewers may find distressing.”
    I keep hoping that the announcer at the end is going to say, "If you've been affected by tonight's episode - for God's sake, pull yourself together, it's only a bloody programme!"

    Also, whoever writes the previews for the Sky programme guide needs a lesson on
    how to avoid spoilers. The one for last Friday's episode said "The judge gives
    her verdict in Oliver's case." So far, so good - but it goes on, "Leanne vows to
    appeal." Hmm, I wonder what the decision was?

    Not entirely unexpected? :-)


    --
    kat
    >^..^<

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  • From Calvin Henry-Cotnam@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 20 10:19:26 2020
    GordonD (g.davie@btinternet.com) said...

    Also, whoever writes the previews for the Sky programme guide needs a
    lesson on how to avoid spoilers. The one for last Friday's episode said
    "The judge gives her verdict in Oliver's case." So far, so good - but it
    goes on, "Leanne vows to appeal." Hmm, I wonder what the decision was?

    The guide writers must have gone to the same school as my company's HR department.

    While I'm mainly working from home, I do occasionally go into the office
    and they have COVID procedures in place. Occasionally, someone tests
    positive and they do a deep cleaning of affected areas, and send out a
    bulletin to anyone who was in the office around the last date they were
    there.

    For privacy reasons, they understandably cannot say who it was, or even
    their department, and they cannot state whether the person is male or
    female. They do indicate what parts of the building they were in on that
    last day they were in the office, including saying something like, "used
    the women's washroom on the fifth floor".

    But, they do not say whether the person was male or female. ;-)

    --
    Calvin Henry-Cotnam
    "Unusual or extreme reactions to events caused by negligence
    are imaginable, but not reasonably foreseeable"
    - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, May 2008

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  • From kat@21:1/5 to Calvin Henry-Cotnam on Fri Nov 20 22:18:29 2020
    On 20/11/2020 15:19, Calvin Henry-Cotnam wrote:
    GordonD (g.davie@btinternet.com) said...

    Also, whoever writes the previews for the Sky programme guide needs a
    lesson on how to avoid spoilers. The one for last Friday's episode said
    "The judge gives her verdict in Oliver's case." So far, so good - but it
    goes on, "Leanne vows to appeal." Hmm, I wonder what the decision was?

    The guide writers must have gone to the same school as my company's HR department.

    While I'm mainly working from home, I do occasionally go into the office
    and they have COVID procedures in place. Occasionally, someone tests
    positive and they do a deep cleaning of affected areas, and send out a bulletin to anyone who was in the office around the last date they were there.

    For privacy reasons, they understandably cannot say who it was, or even
    their department, and they cannot state whether the person is male or
    female. They do indicate what parts of the building they were in on that
    last day they were in the office, including saying something like, "used
    the women's washroom on the fifth floor".

    But, they do not say whether the person was male or female. ;-)


    These days it could be either!


    --
    kat
    >^..^<

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