Coronation Street Blog interview with The Sun

(This post was originally posted by Flaming Nora on the Coronation Street Blog March 2017, reposted to this blog with permission.)

Our sister site, The Coronation Street Blog, has been featured in The Sun this month. Glenda Young is the founder and editor and says:

The article calls me "Corrie's biggest fan" - which I know I'm not. I'm just a fan who likes my Corrie.

Also, the article says that I've made "a successful business" and "a career" out of my love of the soap.  Again, that's not correct. The Coronation Street Blog is a labour of love.

Apart from that, it's quite a nice little read and recognition for all of the hard work that we do here as a team.

You can read The Sun interview here.

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This blog, the Bluenose Corrie Blog goes hand in hand with the Coronation Street blog, republishing much of the original blog posts here as it pertains to the Canadian timeline for Corrie (currently two weeks and a bit behind the UK air dates). We strive to avoid spoilers wherever possible though it isn't always possible on the really big storylines. Even actors leaving or arriving are not blogged here because it could be a possible plot spoiler, especially leaving actors.

One thing to note, though. If you follow us on Twitter, be aware that you may see tweets from ITV or the Coronation Street blog  or one of the Corrie actors that we follow that might spoil things.

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Coronation Street Blog - The Book!

Our sister site, Coronation Street Blog, recently celebrated its 9th birthday online and we have some very special news.

Drum roll please... as we bring you Coronation Street Blog – The Book! It's an unofficial Coronation Street companion book.

The book is an exciting mix of some of the best writing from our team of writers that have posted to our blog.

Each member of our team has picked their favourite pieces of work and we've put them all together in a great little book.

Written by fans for fans, this book presents some of the most incisive, funny and engaging, writing about Coronation Street from fans that you’ll ever read.

We pay homage to current characters and say goodbye to older ones. We rave about things we love about the show and rant about some of the things that we don’t. In short, it’s a love letter to Coronation Street.

We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we’ve all enjoyed writing it!

The book is available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook from Amazon.ca (If you don't have a Kindle device, you can install a Kindle app on your computer or smartphone)



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Fat Brenda coming to Bluenose Corrie blog

Over the years, you may have heard the occaisional reference on Coronation Street to "Fat Brenda". She's one of the switch operators at Streetcars, often doing the night shift. We've never seen Fat Brenda, she remains an unseen mystery but over on the Coronation Street blog, she's been writing blog posts every so often. Her introduction is here. She brings a unique slant on the goings-on on the Street and we'll be reproducing her posts here as they pertain to what's going on here on Canadian screens. We hope you enjoy her!

Dual timelines, other blogs and sites

As you know, this blog is for the Canadian timeline for Corrie. I don't or rarely post spoilers but i do keep up with them. In fact, i have to. I write for Corrieblog which is a UK based Coronation Street blog and i couldn't do that if i avoided spoilers. I also post the upcoming spoilers for Corrie.net and with the advent of figuring out how to download tv stuff from the UK, i am now writing an episode update once a week for the UK timeline. Because i was downloading Monday night's episode for that, i started getting into the habit of downloading all the Corrie UK episodes as they are broadcast. So there i am, watching UK Corrie and Canadian corrie and trying to keep them all straight!! We're now seeing shows in Canada that aired in the UK in March i think and seeing shows that i have written the updates for.

I don't really have a problem keeping it all straight, i was just joking. But what is mildly frustrating is the fact that i can't break my own rules and blog about what's going on in the UK now and then, when a particularly funny or sad or annoying episode/storyline airs. Oh i can sometimes blog it on Corrieblog, for sure, and i do. If i ever stop writing for Corrieblog, though, i expect i'll start up another general Corrie blog on Blogger that's not restricted to Canadian timeline, just general thoughts and rants and news on my own. Glenda Young, who writes the weekly updates from the UK has her own Corrie blog and it's fab, but of course, full of UK spoilers so don't go there if you don't want to know. Otherwise, indulge yourself!

Another new blog that's started up is called "Back on the Street" and is all old Corrie history and trivia, news articles and photos and it's really good for long time fans and fans that want to learn more about the show.

For Canadian timeline episode updates, which are more detailed than what I do with my Sunday comments, check out Corrie Canuck. Their team of writers are always sharp and funny!

Those are the sites that really stand out and the ones i check regularly. Of course you can always have a look at my own website that has a Corrie section but the content doesn't change a whole lot. It's mainly a portal to other sites, and talks about my own personal Coronation Street experience. There's also links to write-ups for the Corrie star event shows we've had here in Halifax. Next Halifax show is March 31 at the Halifax Marriott, by the way and we don't know who's coming yet, but someone definitely is and the show is always good!