That's what I keep thinking. also, given Hope's illness wouldn't they have been able to cancel it under the insurance?

Don't think Ty took out insurance.

Not a Tyrone fan but the entire storyline is nonsensical. Why would he get himself £10,000 in debt in order that "Hope can have a Christmas"? She could have had a good Christmas at a fraction of that cost.....there can be very few people anywhere who would spend £10k on Christmas.

He could have made his case to the travel company that his daughter was seriously ill, they may well have given him a very sympathetic hearing (they wouldn't want the associated bad publicity).

I've got a question about Tyrone's debt, don't him and Fiz own their house free and clear? I'm assuming Jack and Vera left the house to him right? So how on earth do they have money issues, they should be banking at least one pay check a month each with no mortgage or rent to pay.

What is apparently obvious is that Corrie writers don't care about the kids on the street or the pets. Kids go missing for months on end without barely a mention. The parents on these kids can seem to go to The Rovers or Bistro or wherever they bloody well like gallivanting around without a care in the world. How may time has David and Kylie's youngest been shown or talked about? She would be walking and running around and surely be in most scenes that they are in. I can't even remember her name off the top of my head and she must be two years old now or close to.

I guess because it is a pain in the backside to get child actors in and try to get them to act (Hope Stape being a good example) but it is very lazy writing all round. If they can't get around this I would strongly advise that they stop writing in the script that every affair or one night stand ends in pregnancy. I doubt little Jack Webster even remembers that Kevin is his dad as he is always either working at the garage or going to single nights or having chance meetings with Anna with Roys Rolls or the kebab shop.

And as somebody mentioned poor old Ozzie, his owner has gone to look after a sick relative and nobody appears to be feeding him (or walking him but he very rarely got walked even when Maria was there). Will she come back to an pile of bones when she comes back off maternity leave?

Surely Tyrone would have had to have spent more than £10,000 to build up that amount of debt. They weren't living paycheck to paycheck before because as previously stated, financially they have a lot going for them. And I imagine even stupid people have some savings so how has he spent over £10,000 and as it looked so cheap, how exactly did that Christmas day set cost over £7,000?

Also yet again another child has skipped school just so that they can interact with the adults on the street. On Wednesday it was Amy, wonder who it will be tonight.

Tyrone's debt. No doubt we'll have endless scenes of Fiz whining about how she's going to feed the kids. She bitched on about it forever to Tony when Ty managed to injure himself during the attic conversion.

So get ready for another annoying few weeks/months of 'How am I going to feed the kids?'

Agreed, and he didn't even try.

Mind you, didn't he know about the cancer before he booked the holiday?
If yes, he has no moral grounds for a refund at all.

Even so, the whole point of a trip to Lapland is for the benefit of the child : a child being too sick to travel because of cancer would be an unusual case for the travel company and they may well have offered a full refund.

Possibly not if he was aware Urrrp had cancer when making the booking.

If when my son had cancer I had been told that he was definitely going to die, I would have gone into debt if necessary to make his final days as enjoyable as possible, so I can understand the basis of this story line but it's not been done very well at all, which sadly seems to be the norm for CS these days.

And would render the entire storyline moot .... which would've been a good thing of course.

Not one of the current s/l's has an ounce of credibility. It seems everyone is a delusional amnesiac with obsessive behaviour traits and are subject to complete personality changes at the whim of the scriptwriters.

We are the mugs still watching it though

I believe all of this is a plot device in order to see Tyrone go off the rails or something : it's definitely noticeable that the show is plot driven these days, not character driven.

Can picture it now.........

Fiz trying to jungle three things at once, managing to burn the toast (soap cliche for not having things under control)!

Meanwhile at the caf....
Ty: "Fiz will come around, blah blah blah, I don't know how things spiraled out of control, blah blah blah, Can I have a bacon barm please Roy?"

And then when Fiz and Ty confront each other, she'll be all guns blazing, row and snap "You should've thought of that when you blah blah..."

Weren't Fiz and Tyrone told before their Xmas Lapland spectacle that Hope had a 90% chance of survival too? I know there's still a tiny chance of the worst happening but with those odds in their favour, it made the £10k Christmas street bonanza all the more excessive and unnecessary.

Tonight's episode must be one of the worst for people overhearing other people's conversations and the character being talked about 'pop-up' routine.

Jason just walked in the caff as Kev was talking about quotes.



Zeedan wasn't around when the camp headhunter was there so how did he know about it to blab to Robert.

What a load of shite that was, some restaurant owner comes in to tell a competitor he's there to offer the resident chef a job! Who writes this diabolical tosh?!

Why is Steph upset that Jamie got bail? On what planet does she think that there is any reason to hold him in custody?

Giving away 20% (which Nick casually dismisses as "only 20%") of your business to keep a 2 but chef??

These two turn my stomach.

Lilly is nearly 2 and a half and still looks like a baby

you think that is bad Doc Martin's son has been a baby for the last six years

Did she really think that he'd been locked up for the past couple of months?! Surely if she was that upset she would have wanted to know?

Has the existence of Jack Webster been completely forgotten about? When Anna mentioned having to think about Faye's reaction if she told her about her and Kevin, surely Kevin would have mentioned his son as well??

Why did it seem to take Tim, Sally & Faye about 2 minutes to walk up the steps to Anna's flat? Apart from signposting their arrival in order for Anna to hide Kevin and everything else it should take 10 seconds tops to walk from the bottom of the stairs from the main entrance to the door at the top.

Robert the Spruce managed to become a partner in the Bistro in less than a day. What about the paperwork? Did Robert even pay any money?

I thought that camp bloke was Rory, the gay son from Mrs Brown's Boys.

Btw the end credits mentioned it was in memory for someone, only caught the surname 'Bain' I think it was. Anyone know who it is?