Did you miss a bit? Lauren got into the car with Max just as he was setting off and travelled to the viaduct in the car with him. Max told Lauren to stay in the car when he left the car at the viaduct to find Joel - but she got out and followed him.
They have really been spinning this storyline out with all these flashbacks, involving various possible suspects.
Thanks Boot, I must have missed the bit where Lauren got into the car with Max. I remember Max telling her to stay at home, but in the event, it was a good job she was there I don’t think Max could have overpowered Joel and pushed him over the wall.
I’ll pay more attention when Mrs Fox watches the recordings I made for her while she was away.
I agree, it’s been spun out for weeks now and I thought it would go on until Christmas… 
It’s more like ‘Midsomer Murders’ meets ‘Agatha Christie’ ‘Holby City’ and ‘The Bill’…
The bit you missed was in one of those flashback scenes and it was shown a while after we saw the flashback where Lauren hit Joel with the rock.
I expect they showed it in that order to make it seem that Max was on his own and was going to be overpowered by Joel - just to keep up the suspense - so it would be easy to miss a bit in that jumble of flashbacks shown out of sequence.
To be honest, I am thinking of abandoning Corrie - it is just not as entertaining as it used to be.
I often watch the old repeats which are running on ITV3 - they are running about 20 years behind the current series - and they remind me how good Corrie used to be.
The script writers gave the actors much more entertaining characters and story lines - there was so much more humour and trivial storylines, which were woven into whatever main drama was being played out at the time.
Do you remember Fred Elliott, the butcher? He was the best butcher in Weatherfield, I say, the best butcher , Aye.
Then all the silly conversations in the Kabin between Rita and Norris and their customers.
I just watched an episode last week where Status Quo popped into The Rovers for a drink - one of the band remembered their biggest fan, Les Battersby, and ended up punching Les for some old grievance. It was all a bit daft but so funny.
This week, young daft Kirk has been challenged by Les to steal the corset of the acid-tongued old bag, Blanche (Deidre’s Mother) - He’s bound to mess it up and Blanche will make mincemeat of him when she catches him!
There were lots of comic characters in Corrie back then, for a bit of light relief from all the serious issues of the day 
I know what you mean Boot, I have been watching back episodes of Heartbeat and forgot just how good some of the stories and characters were. Life seemed so much simpler and more sincere then than it is now. I’ve been a regular watcher of Coronation Street ever since it first started back in 1960. I was just ten years old then. And I agree with you, the characters were just like the people in our street, but now of course, in an attempt to keep the show fresh, there is nobody who resembles anyone I know or relate to. Is this a sad reflection of the world as it is today? Just about all of them have served a prison sentence (even Roy Cropper) fallen foul of the law, had affairs, told lies and acted well out of character on occasion.
I can understand your reasons for abandoning it, it does tend to dwell on the seedier aspects of life with very little respite except for the odd amusing comment from Kirk. I wouldn’t trust any of them as far as I could throw them…I just simply have to watch it to see what haibrain story the writers come up with next, but we’ve probably seen the same story in the past with different characters, or on a different soap. 
Re Heartbeat - I used to manage a small branch of a Bank in “Heartbeat Country” in the 1990s - one of my favourite customers was the man who was the retired Bobby, Peter Walker (Pen name, Nicholas Rhea), who wrote the the Constable series of Books that the Heartbeat TV Series is based on.
He was a lovely friendly chap, with a lot of amusing stories and memories - although I must admit I do find the TV scripts of Heartbeat more entertaining than Peter’s “Constable” series of books - it’s the fab 60s music and the beautiful and familiar scenery that makes the Heartbeat series so enjoyable for me - and my husband used to be a North Yorkshire Bobby in the 1970s, so even the uniform is familiar!
Peter Walker also wrote a book called Murder and Mysteries of the North Yorkshire Moors, which I found very interesting.
You were very lucky to live in such a beautiful place Boot, you sound like modern day characters from Aidensfield. Most of my life has been spent on the North Yorkshire moors, and they always delivered when I needed some space and an escape from madding crowds.
I had many a visit to Beck hole and the Mallyan Spout at Goathland.
Just to return to the O/P …Naughty of David to gaslight Shona… 
And I worry about Tim and Sally after Tim grassed up Masons brothers…I can feel a new storyline coming on…
After 60 years of viewing Coronation Street I finally succumbed last night and switched it off…
Watching a passionate lesbian embrace and kiss, I decided that it wasn’t for me. I have nothing against two ladies getting it on, but It’s not really what I call entertainment at 8 o clock on a Friday night…
Not watched it for about ten years now, same with the other soaps. Too many and had enough of their drama.
Television drama gone woke, the acting appallingly amateur. Corrie declined massively, due to an endless repeat, of issue based stories and serial killers and too many episodes. Great actors get into their characters making them credible.
I am currently watching the “Classic” Corrie series on ITV3 - it is broadcast in the afternoons but I watch it on Catch Up TV in the evenings.
I think it is about 20 years behind the current series but many of the current characters were in Corrie back then -
Those were the days when Les Battersby and his awful partner/wife Cilla were the Street’s biggest bugbear - he left the Street years ago but I think in the current series Les has just died.
Then there is Leanne, punishing her sister and her ex-partner / ex-husband for having an affair - when you re-wind 20 years, in the series I’m watching, Leanne is gaily two-timing her fiancé, Jamie Baldwin, with his own Dad,Danny Baldwin, who is married to a woman he first got together with when she was a teenage babysitter to his son Jamie.
I wonder if the 2024 Leanne ever thinks about those old days and what a hypocrite she is being now! 
I have a feeling there is some shocking revelations about Jamie and his young Stepmother, Frankie, on the horizon too - talk about keeping it in the family! - Corrie has always had its fair share of scandalous liaisons and gossip!
My gripe with Corrie nowadays is there is still to many old-timers in it, who should have retired by now, and not enough new youngsters coming in to take their place.
Also, there is no real “central hub” for them all to congregate anymore - the pub has become less believable and less important over the years, so has the corner shop.
What would be more believable would be for that Community Hall which Yasmin started to be revived - up here in the North, I have noticed more and more Community Hubs have had a new lease of life since the energy crisis and cost of living crisis have hit home.
Every time I walk past our Community Hub nowadays, I notice that every table is full.
Folk are there doing jigsaws together, playing chess, having knitting groups and doing all sorts of stuff to keep themselves occupied, whilst the Volunteers there provide them with endless cups of tea.
I think they all go there to keep warm, so they don’t have to put their heating on at home during the day.
Most of the folk in Coronation Street these days seem a lot more affluent than the folks which Tony Warren envisaged in his first Coronation Street episodes!
Yes Boot, Coronation Street has changed a lot over the years but I suppose it’s just a reflection of society, I just find it hard to accept things that I have always been led to believe are wrong.
It was easier to accept a bit of adultery, than love affairs with people of the same sex. At the end of the day they have to try and keep up their viewing figures and justify their existence. I remember the first televised lesbian kiss, on Brookside I think it was, it just seemed a bit daring and promiscuous at the time, but it wasn’t dwelled upon and quite acceptable.
I’ve been watching Heartbeat, as you know, and I’m enjoying the storylines. I’ve also lapsed into ‘Midsomer Murders’ which I find intriguing after all these years, and I was well entertained by old editions of ‘Doc Martin’ both of which I was never interested in at the time.
I was reading a book about Yorkshire earlier in the year and my attention was peeked by a quote from an old Sheffield Rock musician who said…
"The older I get, the more I recognise the world is becoming a place for people who aren’t me.
I used to be all over innovation, but nobody is making anything with me in mind"…
Howard H Smith.
I think this sums me up perfectly…
Coronation Street…Murder - deceit - knife crime - drug use - fraud - robbery - perversion - bullying - deception - Kidnapping and subterfuge (whatever that is 
)…
A long running series about the lives of everyday city folk…
Bring back Crossroads…
Those were the days Chilli. I’ve been watching ‘Heartbeat’ recently and realised how refreshing and interesting the stories were, and I keep getting nostalgic when they play bit of sixties music.
I just have to go onto youtube to hear the full version. Do you remember this one from Simon Dupree and the big sound…? Haunting!
It’s like terfuge but under water. 
I love sixties music to bits Foxy!
Yes I remember kites, ironically it’s on my echo dot speaker favourites playlist.
Foxy ,have you seen the latest Famous Five GWR add
We should have seen the future when Enid wrote “Famous Five go to Camp” 
I’m very selective when it comes to Enid Blyton…
I probably have Spitty, but the adds are full of the stuff these days. My Grandad would have been turning in his grave…
I’m turning in my grave
