It is a horrendous condition, OGF, judging by my friend’s frequent posts. She ends up in hospital in great pain, and being deaf, she has that problem to deal with as well. She really has it bad. Sometimes we need to take a step back from our daily activities/jobs, to get better. And KF is doing just that.
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Thanks for that Jazzi, she has my sympathy…
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Have a feeling that even “Corrie” has come to the end of the road as primetime viewing. It won’t end just fade away gradually.
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I never thought I’d end up being an avid watcher of Emmerdale and Coronation Street but I am now. ‘Classic’ Coronation Street is broadcast in the afternoon (can’t remember the Freeview channel number). It’s interesting to see the remaining cast in their younger days and to see who was in it but are now gone.
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Wow, is she still in it?
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She does well for 73…Same age as me… 
I think the street focuses on the more younger actors these days and highlights the problems associated with modern day situations like the internet and right wing racism issues. not to mention gay people…Which has always probably been there but kept out of the public eye.
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I shall miss Gail. Wonder if she’ll go back to Thailand, or wherever it is she went to.
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So it turns out that it was Max who did the deed and murdered Joel…Or did he?
Was he just protecting Lauren? Mind you, I don’t think she could have hurled Joel off a bridge…
It’s been so confusing just lately with bent coppers, bent solicitors, fraudulent builders and more red herrings than a Grimsby Trawler…Half of the street should be banged up for their part in Joels demise.What’s next I ask myself…David and Shona being kicked out on the cobbles for Christmas…Would Carla do such a thing?
I stopped watching Corrie about 12 years ago, just got fed up with it I suppose. Don’t watch any other Soaps, though I used to like Crossroads when it was on. 
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So I was right. It was Lauren that did the deed and Max is taking the heat for it…
Blimey, I sound like a right gangster…
Apart from the numerous flashbacks nothing much else happened tonight…
I have just got one problem…
How did Lauren get from Coronation Street to the viaduct in such a short space of time if Max took the car? especially as it looked to be a long way from Weatherfield.
Also, how did she sneak up on Max and Joel across the flat and open railway track without being spotted?
Read about Helen Worth leaving after 50 years.
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.
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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’…
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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 
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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. 
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Not watched it for about ten years now, same with the other soaps. Too many and had enough of their drama.
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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.
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