Corrie women have sadly become superficial.

Gone are the days when the barmaid woke up, slobbering over the couch looking disheveled. They look practically perfect in every way now, layer upon layer of make up, hair combed with a pork chop and overdressed. Too much time spent dressing them up, little care goes into acting and rehearsing.

No wonder Julie Goodyear was aghast when she returned.

The same way Roy managed to get one. Didn't Cathy only visit hers because it belonged to her late husband? They've both given them up now so it seems, so Sally must have got in there quick. Aren't there some places where you have to wait years on a list?

Roy was there on Friday or whenever it was that the archaeologists were there.

Sally said she'd pulled some strings to get it.

I was confused/astonished by this too. One minute they are having to have an extension built into the loft space because they don't have enough room for them and 2 small girls. The next minute they have a series of lodgers. I was also astonished that Tyrone said he was missing Freddie's rent. He stayed there 2 weeks at most and was invited to stay because Tyrone felt partially responsible. I assumed that when you invite some, who already has a home, to stay that they are a guest not a lodger.

And how come Alya is sleeping on the sofa but they have room to take Freddie in as a lodger? One bathroom - 4 adults and 2 children - that'll work.

Lastly I am 60 and I have never in my life known any neighbours, friends, relatives, work colleagues or even just random strangers who take in lodgers. Yet in Coronation street every household seems to have either lodgers or different generations of grown adults and children living under the same roof.

Why the need to bring them into the street? We've never seen either Freddie or Ayla in situ in Dobbs towers.

Can't we use our own imagination with Freddie still in the house he shared with his late wife and Ayla renting a flat elsewhere?

Looks aghast.

No and No. It's completely against the law.

I'm sure Robert kips in the Bistro kitchen too.

Plenty of room down in the cellar that suddenly appeared a month or so ago.
Although I doubt it will ever be mentioned again.

but they confined their 'dig' to just one allotment and one afternoon just giving the top soil a quick turn over. have they watched time team.

what a load of horlicks, neither funny nor plausible, as if the young archaeologists were likely to be deceived by an illiterate window cleaner, although one who seemed to know all about the good life programme which was screened when he was a toddler.

I'm younger than Tim and I know what The Good Life is. It has been repeated a fair few times since the 70s

The only one to have seen 'Alya in situ' has been Jason, and that was only a notch on his bedpost.
Perhaps Freddie will have more luck!

yes but i daresay that your background and circumstances are better than nice but dim tim whose own family circumstances meant that he could not even read a few months ago . somehow i cannot see him watching a series like that.

it was yet another of the 'clever' out of character remarks that he or even more dim kirk gets to utter every now and then.

I agree with every word ! As you say , Tyrone first asked Freddie to come and live at their hovel of a house for a week or two to recuperate after his accident, and he had the cheek to charge him rent. Unbelievable!

Like you, I dont know anyone who takes in lodgers these days, can remember when I was a kid one of our neighbours used to let their spare room to holiday people from Glasgow, as we lived at the seaside, but that was years ago.

Why can't Corrie have regular characters living away from the Street like they used to, is it to save money on the sets, we don't even see Audrey's house any more?

It's very annoying and presumably done to give more interactions.

It would be more realistic if they had these spare people move into some of the other flats in Victoria Court or the couple of houses we sometimes see the front doors of, near the shops (Roy's Rolls etc IIRC).

Why can't all the VC flats have occupants that are in the show? Even when they did the fire in Carla's flat, there were barely two or three extras representing all the other occupants.

It's usually reserved for the older matriarchs like Gail and Yasmeen when they need to give their family some alone time

Was pretty convenient. And of course he put his foot in it later with Sally, never saw that one coming a mile off.

I thought they were trying to turn Tim into a Jack Duckworth-type character, always up to some wheeze of other, and always getting found out. It's a shame because Tim is funny in his own way, and doesn't need these contrived escapades.

I miss his bromance with Kevin, they need to return to that.

It would have been more interesting if they had organized a dig in fiz's stove. I bet you could chart what people ate in the early 1840s. Right up to the present with Alya and Freddy.

Yes indeed, the greasy fatty gloop that is in Fiz's stove is very similar to the primordial swamp that the first signs of life emerged from, it also contains bacteria that is a miracle cure for cancer as proved when little Urrrp miraculously recovered from hers.

I don't know why people find it so hard to believe that people don't take in lodgers anymore.

Two of my friends have lodgers, to help pay their mortgage. And another of my friend is a lodger.

I was wondering that as well. I had a job move back in the 60s, and needed somewhere to live. My new colleagues told me that the Citizens' Advice Bureau would have a list of likely landladies - and so it did. I wonder if it still does?

My friends who take lodgers in aren't really landladies as such. They just rent a room out in their house to help pay the mortgage/bills.

How does Alya who being a Muslim cope with the bacon fat laden air in Fiz and Ty's hovel?

Fiz is very paticular about her appearance and toiletries. Every morning before Alya and Freddy emerge from the sofa, she showers and dresses, then uses a very inexpensive dollar store musk to set her on her way for the day. Not only does the musk overpower the smell of bacon, it would knock a pony out in a coal mine. Very paticular is Fiz, and sensitive to the cultural rites of others. She doesn't give a shit about ponies but there you have it.

Like so many people these days, they keep to their old beliefs and customs, when it suits!
There is a lot of hypocrisy about in present day Britain, in all faiths and religions.