harrietjames

Josh West...

Josh did feel responsible - he thought he could have saved her, if he had a defib

It strikes me as the sort of thing that Alf wouldn't have hidden in the house he shared with Ailsa - it was a secret he was kept from her and he would have kept it elsewhere...

Yeah, but that was always meant to happen - they even go by the same name - the first syllable of their surname....

They just cut scenes AFAIK - for example they may have embraced and kissed, but we just saw the hug - something like that. Damn Celia Stewart types....

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Lots of kids have bad home lives for a long time before someone realises...

That is the age they turn during the year and depends on when their Bday falls.

I don't think there's ever been a cat?

Shannon and Curtis had a dog when they came to the bay too.

We haven't heard he's not returning either... There hasn't been a list that he's not on....

There haven't been any rumours posted about folks returning at this point

Judgement based on purely on physical appearance. (I'm answering your question not expressing offence)

Nathan went to jail in 94 and returned to the Bay after he was released in 2002. I suppose he could have done more that one stint and been out to knock up Matt's mum then back in. For the man we saw as Matt's Father to be the Nathan of 2002, would negate all the character development. Nathan left the Bay a reformed man. For him to have been a part of Matt's back story, would have destroyed his growth. Ironically, it would have worked if the 2002 stint on the show hadn't happened - but that was the time Craig Ball played Nathan. Agreed, that sort of connection to the past can be good (Ryder works better than Ric in that way) and there were parts of Matt's story that were badly written, but having Nathan as his father wouldn't have really helped

The oft quoted statistic is that 10% of the population is same sex attracted. There are about 20 characters (so theoretically 2)