Coronation Street

Blirmeh.

DIY Liz McDonald impression: Press hard your two top teeth on your bottom lip. Purse your lips tightly. Speak with an Ull accent and repeat:

"Uuur nuuur-- dawn't staaart Steve. As fuuur that Michelle, she's a reeight slapper"

So the factory is closed and Mincemeat is complaining of being skint

How can that be! He works about 15 hours a day!

It makes me laugh when characters complain about being skint, when they are always down the Rovers boozing it!

Bet getting those tans and hair styles/colouring aren't cheap either. Smokers must be even more out of pocket

re: the Post Natal Depression storyline.

I'm finding Corrie's quite obvious really and think Hollyoaks did a much better job with Mandy, with possibly alot of it being due to the viewers knowing the characters back story, something we don't really know much about with Claire.


And back to the factory, I'm sure when Adam sells it on the new owners will be in their the next day - never mind the weeks of legal red tape that affects the real world!

How they can afford to drink and booze when they are so short of cash I dont know! Not to mention boozing during their lunch breaks and then operating a machine in the afternoons!

And just how many staff does the Rovers need at the moment - last night we had Betty, Liz, Michelle, Violet and Sean all behind the bar.

Good episodes tonight though, the storyline with Claire is very well written and its obvious she is doing all she can to avoid contact with the baby.

How about a DIY David Platt impression?

Flare your nostrils...
Slacken your jaw and half-open your mouth...
And now talk through your nose, reading the following...

"You broought a seerioll killoh into ahwer horrm!"

Any others?

DIY Blanche: A large intake of breath, and in a 'fire-and-brimstone' voice say forte: " In my day , this sort of thing wouldn't have happened"

DIY Ashley: Swig helium, and do your best Orville voice and talk about "likkle Joshwa"

DIY Fred: Easy... just do a stenorian Lancastrian Brian Blessed, with plenty of "I say" repitions and "now see"s.

DIY Audrey: Shake your head loads, and say "actualleh" and "eh?" loads.

DIY Jack: Employ a really gruff voice, and address female firends as "swampduck" or "my sugar-winged sparrowhawk"

DIY Vera: A shrill laugh that goes "haha ha !"

DIY Sean: Mince into the room, and shriek "hiiiiiiiiiya!". Camply open your eyes wide, or say "aaaw"/ gasp loudly showing off your pearly whites.

DIY Janice: Talk as if you have sticky marshmallows in your; with slow, sneering Luhancashurrrr diction

Do you know what annoys me with people who do Fred impressions

Many people do them like "I say I say Ashley"

He doesn't talk like that at all. There's never more than "I say" next to each other

How about Cilla impressions? or Dev? or Danny?

Dev just starts off quietly and then talks louder and louder.

Can anyone do a Reet impression?

How about a Jim Mcdonald impression, so I should !

"you're takiing drugs across the water. Is that the crack?"

"Stephen, you'll end up in the big house, so you will !"

I can do a Mavis impersonation and a good Deirdre one, but, methinks it would be wasted on an internet forum. It's not the same in print.

DIY Ken: Stand proud. Remove glasses and nibble at the end ot one of the arms - if you don't have glasses, use thumb and clenched fist. Speak in a monotone slow posh Lancashire accent: "You're a cheat Baldwin", or "Hmm, yes, sounds good to me" Shake head making sure fringe wobbles!

DIY Deirdre: Strain neck, make a stare, move jaw from side to side and say: "Tracy love, I-I-I didn't do any..thing!"

Anyway....