Sunday Canadian Corrie Comments, February 26

Ken is 72 this week and Deirdre is still making her sad little pots! Tyrone has told Kirsty about Molly and Jack. She seems quite supportive. Sophie wants to go on holiday with Sian so she's doing housework to suck up to Sally. She says it's an educational trip. Sally should let her go. It's quite obvious she's left school. "I need to lend some money" ?? No dice.

Sally has put Kevin well and truly in his place. Again. Well what did he expect? She's done that before, have a one night stand with him but having no intention of more. She fell into old habits as she said. After what he's done, there would be no trust there ever again if she knows what's good for her. Kevin always thinks a simple I'm Sorry will do the trick. And maybe a shag. Ok, ok, by letting him stay there long past when he needed to, he did assume she was giving him signals but he's single minded and saw what he wanted to see. Back to square one Kev. And wine and flowers aren't going to sway her. Now Jeff is back in the picture and Sophie doesn't like it one bit.

Chris is lying about his condition which seems to be improving. Is anyone surprised? He might not be violent about it but he's just as manipulative as he ever was. He's counting on Cheryl's sympathy and he wants to rekindle the old magic. He just might manage it too. Cheryl might be trying to push Chris towards Maria but why is that i wonder? Didn't work though, he was rather rude to her in the pub wasn't he? I do wonder though. Even if radio therapy has reduced the tumour, it's still there isn't it? Isn't that like a ticking time bomb in your head just the same?

Anyway, Lloyd is starting to really kick back. Chris' presence is getting more and more in betwen them, just as Chris hoped of course. He's scuppered their holiday.

Eileen's decided to try an online dating site and Rosie has decided to help her. Unfortunately, she wasn't a lot of help, putting a photoshopped pic and false information in the profile and the bloke that turned up was quite rightly annoyed that he thought she was 40 as per her profile. He didn't stick around. It didn't help that Eileen got her head stuck in the factory railings trying to take down a birthday banner!!! But looky who rescued her! Fireman Paul from the tram crash (he was the one that was helping to rescue Molly!) Always thought he was a bit of all right. Sally remembered him and came over all previous and even Eileen thought he was lovely. It's true, what Eileen went through is pretty humiliating but it was pretty funny, too.


Eileen's nerves got the better of her after Gail made fun of her but Paul had other ideas. Is he too good to be true? It was a laugh seeing Gail trying to flirt with Paul and then seeing her face when she realized he was waiting for Eileen, and even better when Eileen busted Gail's lies about her being the owner of the Bistro. Cute scene with Jason, Sean and Marcus spying through the front window! Paul had to duck out of the date a bit early and Eileen decided to return his phone to him at his house. (How did she know where he lived again?) Ah but there's more there than meets the eye.  Eileen does put herself down too much. I think she's lovely and i really like the hairdo she's had lately. It's very flattering.

Paul's discomfort at Eileen arriving on his doorstep has nothing to do with a brother who's just left his wife and is too proud for people to know. That's bull$hit. So he takes her out on another day...to the Rovers. His story is just too perfect and as Marcus soon found out, there *is* a woman in the picture and Marcus caught them looking pretty friendly

Steve is at a pretty low point after his father's sentencing. Jim blames Steve and Steve blames himself. Becky is put out that Tracy is behind the bar and still can't seem to move on. Tracy is suffering lethal morning (all day) sickness and no, i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy) Now we've discovered that she's having twins!!! She seemed genuinely scared at the idea of trying to cope. She does have flashes of it when she's not scheming.  But it seems like Steve's so vulnerable that he was willing to take on Tracy rather than her have a termination and mark my words, that's the biggest mistake of his life.

Tracy taunting Becky in the bog made it very clear she's not changed. As for her barbs about Becky not knowing what it's like to be pregnant, she does. She's been pregnant twice, and miscarried twice. Poor Becky is heartbroken. But she's got Hayley and, it seems, even Sylvia with words of wisdom. Now we get to watch Tracy lord it over everyone smugly, especially Becky and the slap line forms to the left.

Stella gets back from holiday and is a bit taken aback to find Tracy behind the bar and doing staff rotas. Well she's put her foot down and her dukes up, she's a match for Tracy on the insult front, i must say. And i chuckled at Sylvia, tipsy, watching the exchanges and adding her two pennies worth in. Stella is back, boys and girls, for 5 minutes at least. Then she was off to council Carla. Again, someone she barely knows and she's dishing out sage advice. Carla was right, no matter. it really wasn't Stella's business yet the powers that be seem intent on pushing Stella into every storyline as Mother Advisor who has all the answers.

Carla is managing to get along and who's sniffing around yet again? Peter of course. For someone that says he doesn't have feelings for her, he sure can't stay away. She's in a pretty sad state and the factory is running amok. Frank gets bailed after all and it's panic stations! Frank's mother is back and sticking her fingers into the pie.

Now Carla has to contend with Anne who's not going to make things easy. I can't imagine the hell Carla is going through having to put up with that woman and knowing Frank is not behind bars. She's hanging on by a thread and meeting that client who got a bit familiar on top of his questioning her about Frank was just too much too soon. The flirty old ways have come back to haunt her unfortunately. And it's Stella to the rescue again, or St. Ella as we're calling her on t'UK timeline.

Anne seems to have had a flicker of doubt but Frank used his bully boy ways to push it away.  And can you imagine him being able to cook creme brulee? She really knows how to push Carla's buttons and is doing a great job of playing "good cop" and making Carla look like a raving lunatic. AND I think Frank came by his oily manipulative personality quite honestly. Frank didn't last long with his mother in the factory. Two days in and he's setting up elsewhere and taking his 40% of everything, equipment included. Now *that's* pressure!  God his mother's awful isn't she? What a great character and a smashing actor!!! Carla really shouldn't have run after Frank and shouted at him. It only gives his case more credence, showing her up as unreasonable. They'll say she's not really afraid of him like she says she is. I've got a good solution for Carla's lack of machines, start two shifts. Daytime and evening. Sorted.

Instead, she's had to lay off people. Becky and Eileen as last in first out and neither of them were overly upset, they know it's Frank's fault not Carla's. And Becky and Eileen ended up warring over the cab job and Lloyd was firmly in the middle. Really though, if anyone should get the job it should be Eileen who has masses more experience. Sally was next on the block but she didn't take it well at all. In fact she turned very bitter because Carla laid her off because she knew Sally had some financial support from the money she got from Kevin. But to be fair, she should have kept on with the seniority list but the rest of the staff that probably qualified are extras, not main characters.

There has to be some conflict after all and Sally is the perfect one for it. And her whining about her job giving her something for herself was just annoying. Sally makes it sound like she'll never get hired back on once things start looking up! She's snapping everyone's head off including Sophie and Kevin.  If she continues to insult Carla like that, she won't have to worry on that score. As i said, there has to be conflict and it's turned Sally so bitter that she doesn't even believe Carla about the rape anymore.

Amber took Sophie to a gay bar. So is Amber gay? or Bi? It's given Sophie something to think about at any road. And why wouldn't she want Sian to know Amber took her to a gay bar? Sylvia's radar went up when she overheard the prize that Norris and Mary were going for in their latest competition and she nicked the entry that Mary threw away. Uh oh. You can see where this is going can't you? What's the legal form on this? Finders Keepers? I really love Marcus and Sean together. They're so natural aren't they? I think it's because Marcus is such a lovely bloke and is the anchor...dare I say it? The Voice of Reason ;) that Sean needs.



Wait...There's a warehouse in Underworld? that must be that little bit on a "balcony" over the shop floor we see sometimes. It's not big enough for a proper warehouse. Tommy is still drooling and turning pea green with envy over Tina from afar who is revelling in having a nice fella for a change.