Catching up

I've been away on holidays, so a Corrie marathon for me. Hooray!

Now, how could Deirdre be cold-calling Tracy's customers at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as she's making a pig's ear of blabbing away to Hayley in her real job.

How come a bookie doesn't have a float of over £2k? What if each of the random extras had won £20 or so each, one average win at normal odds over that would have floored the business.  Also, how come he's never open in the evening when loads of horse-racing and greyhounds are on?  No wonder he's going bust.

Also, has lovely Dr Carter been sacked because he lacks the gravitas to give Hayley bad news? We've all seen him dancing about in his pants, after all, that's not befitting of someone who might have to steel us for waving bye-bye to Hayley.

I'm not talking about the Paul racism storyline because it is so ridiculous. One minute Jenna is a serious professional taking steps towards regaining her professional pride, next minute best friends are at each others' throats over the use of a phrase of dubious provenance to protect her innocent little ears from possible racism.  I have some issues with it being Lloyd being a bit uppity about the hint of malice in an expression when he continues to refer to his unseen colleague as Fat Brenda, but that's probably just because I'm a sensitive person of above-average-weight, and I'm white.

Also grrr stupid storyline nonsense: Norris getting Emily's house. Or no-one noticing David's evil skulking, or twigging that his odd behaviour towards Kylie and Nick might be because he suspects something's up. Two weeks ago they were all paranoid he'd find out, he suddenly starts acting odd and no-one thinks he might have found out?

Also, what's happened to Dev's investigations? I presume Karl needed some time off so without him looming in a what-passes-for-menacing manner, there's no point in Dev dusting off the Columbo mac.  Two weeks ago you couldn't move for irritating mannerisms and wailings of "my Suniiiittaaaa", now it's all forgotten about as we all fail to give two hoots about whether Chesney will get back with Katy or whether Sinead will continue to not notice that he's completely horrible and self-obsessed and capture his stupid gormless heart.

I did properly laugh at "Think of me as Switzerland in glasses" though. And I don't even like Deirdre very much.  Still, at least they've written Ken out.  I knew his legion of forgotten children would come in handy one day.