Ken Barlow

Yes, and if anyone's made homeless there's always a vacant flat to rent over someone's shop or business!

And in Walford, nobody seems to own a washing machine!

I thoroughly dislike Jim MacDonald (and Liz) and how many times can Jim say so it is or so you are in one sentence - why oh why do they have to keep wheeling out the MacDonald parents!

For me, Ken is like Norris, irritating as heck but I would miss them - there'd be no-one to tut at (well, apart from Deidre, Gail, Audrey, Maddie, Karla, Michelle, Leanne (and her new chap), Nick ... )

I think the writers are trying too hard to make Deirdre a replacement for Blanche. Some of her lines about the missing dog this week were cringeworthy. I think they need a bit more subtlety but have the potential to be very funny in their own right.

I agree - she doesn't come across so much as funny but as though she's gone a bit 'simple' (they do the same with Gail sometimes). Coronation Street humour is best when it is subtle. I love the banter between Steve, Eileen and Lloyd - now that is Corrie magic!

I have to agree Holly. The line about Steve's vasectomy still makes me laugh. "It's a vasectomy, not a vasectoyou" Classic.

Seeing as I watch Emmerdale, Corrie and Eastenders, I'm going to try to keep a tally next year of hatches, matches and dispatches. Especially the murders. You really wouldn't want to live in any with the crime rates, would you?

And I agree about the jobs, or the flat/house shares. How many people do they get into some houses, like Eileen's. There's about six of them in a two bed. And the relationships, they don't tend to be able to date anyone further than 100 yards away or shop other than the corner shop. And all in the pub at lunch time, even Edna. (although Edna was the Inebriate, for anyone who remembers the Patricia Hayes play, lol).

You are quite right rubylady - I wouldn't live on Coronation Street for all the money in the world, death and destruction lurking around every corner and behind every dooor

I also agree about the size of the houses and how many people they seem to comfortably fit in - take Gail's house: Gail, David, Kylie, two small children and Nick - all manage to sleep in a bedroom in a very small 3 bedroomed house (I'm assuming it has 3 bedrooms and not two!). No-one is ever unemployed for more than a few days and, as you have said, there is always a vacant flat miraculously available in a very short time!

I still love the programme though