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No idea - but Rocky Point was also the venue for Finlay’s ill-starred weekend away with Randy.

Yes, Sally was bizarrely absent - as was just about anyone else from Y12. The party seemed jam-packed with parents, staff (well, only the ones we know), and little kids... why was Nick there?

After slating David Dixon I have now learned I am very distantly linked to him: apparently my father-in-law's ex-partner is his mother-in-law…. tenuous I know.

I do wish Alf would stop asking where Pippa (or whoever happens to be around at Summer Bay House) wants his box of groceries to be delivered. It's always on the table, Alf...

What episode is the party?

Fin's hotpants in 1358 didn't arouse much comment from the guys in the Bay...

Yes, this is a weak storyline which really stretches plausibility to breaking point - and makes Sarah a far from credible character. Also weak is

Also, David Dixon's teeth (I'm remembering and have recently seen a couple clips)... Man! Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who find DD's teeth vaguely repellent. He just looks vile. I can't work out why most people seem to be accepting him courteously, when he's clearly a stereotypical thug, with an ongoing criminal record.

I was so impressed by Angel's enthusiasm for the ballet that I went out and bought the complete Swan Lake on SACD...

Not just a criminal, but an inept one - why would he take a photo on the stolen camera when the rest of the film would have the owner's christening photos on it. And why on earth was everyone, e.g. Pippa, and to a lesser extent Irene, so naive when an item is stolen from the caravan park within an hour of convicted criminal Nathan arriving there? Irene doesn't do herself any favours when refusing to believe her son is a tea leaf...

They should never have brought Nathan in at all. Just a loathsome cartoonish character with no redeeming features - very poorly written. I'm all for drama in the show but to introduce just a two dimensional pantomime villain to create a few feeble storylines was a poor decision. I just cue through the show whenever he appears.

I thought Alf always drove his beige/caramel Range Rover - he is at the moment anyway.

Well, Tug is probably better out of school as he's clearly, ah, academically challenged - he should take Luke's advice of TAFE/Tech college though, to learn a trade of some sort. Seems like Fin has left school as well: Tug and Sarah rock up at the diner in their lunch break (well her lunch break - his 'break' is now permanent) and are immediately waited on by Fin (in one of her foxy outfits) - or does she treat Summer Bay High like a drop-in centre?

Poor Sam! Greg's got to realize he's the not the only one to have lost Bobby. Taking it out on Sam won't help anyone. I didn't like the way Roxy yelled at Alf for being racist. He forgave her too easily. Er, shouldn't she be forgiving him?

Sad to see Fin has reverted to that vile purple smock - I thought she'd palmed it off on Sally a few episodes back...

I was hoping that when the doctor said that both Angel and Shane had to be confined to bed, Nick would chip in 'separately?' just to wind up Don... Actually Don makes that exact crack himself bitterly, an episode or two later, rather risque for him...

I was hoping that when the doctor said that both Angel and Shane had to be confined to bed, Nick would chip in 'separately?' just to wind up Don...

Actually, she has two lines in her first scene.But I take the point that she was just there to use up her episodes.I did like her big sister scenes with Sally though. At least Fin has now got rid of her dreadful heavy fringe...

Yes, Luke's cheesy 'your chariot awaits, madam' comments and similar fuddy-duddy language just make him look sad, when I think the idea of his casting was to make him the town stud.

When Bobby shouted at Sam 'Go to your room' - it got me thinking: presumably Don's house has at least six bedrooms as he, Nick, Shane, Angel, Bobby and Sam appear to have their own rooms? Or maybe that recurring external long shot of the property is merely the east wing...

Well, the ambiguity was necessary for comic purposes, so they could keep talking at cross purposes (about ironing/sex). The script was rather mediocre here, as I recall it required Angel to talk in a convoluted and totally unnatural way to keep the ambiguity going. That is a bit of a strange way of putting it...... What's "comic purposes"?? I thought comics were those sequenced drawings in books and newspapers, like Garfield etc. Why do they have to be ambiguous? How does that make the show more enjoyable?? Comic purposes = comedy purposes. The brief scene relied on Donald coming home and catching Shane and Angel grappling (actually for the iron, so one of them could scorch Donald's shirt) while he assumed they had their arms around each other in a romantic clinch as a prelude to sex. That was the point of that brief scene - I can't remember the exact dialogue but better scriptwriters could have done much more with it: Donald: What on earth is going on? Angel: Oh, sorry - we didn't know you were going to come home early. We were just... Donald: I know exactly what you were doing - and I'm outraged. Angel: Oh. Well, it's no big deal, Just a bit of fun. Donald: Well, you might regard it as a bit of fun, but my generation thinks otherwise. Presumably you were just going to head for the bedroom? Shane: Bedroom? No, we were going to do it on the counter, but we thought it might get damaged - so we were going to use the ironing board as usual. Donald: I doubt it would take the weight...AS USUAL? I assumed this was the first time. Angel: Oh, no - a few times a week, normally. Donald: FEW TIMES A WEEK? Good God... Etcetera, ad nauseam...

Well, the ambiguity was necessary for comic purposes, so they could keep talking at cross purposes (about ironing/sex). The script was rather mediocre here, as I recall it required Angel to talk in a convoluted and totally unnatural way to keep the ambiguity going.

Plus they also own two vehicles - Bobby's little red runaround and now Greg seems to be driving some vile-coloured ute (where did that come from?). Doubtless he has a mattress in the back...

Ah, she's a sweet character (as well as easy on the eye) - and she has had the pill-popping storyline plus she will have a couple of relationship stories soon. Apparently she goes through a carwash with the windows down, but I've never seen that sequence.... Matt really never did anything, did he?

Well, it is a close community - it is only the Ross's circle who are in mourning, fairly naturally. Entirely reasonable for Sally to weep over the death of effectively her infant stepbrother, wouldn't you say? Mr Fisher was in mourning also. He changed his mind about the encyclopedias because he didn't care anymore. Mr Fisher isn't even part of the Ross family! Dale her infant stepbrother???? Oh my god....that is drawing a bit of a long bow isn't it?? Ultimately it really should only affect the mother because it is the mother who had the baby in the first place. Yes, you're quite right - the episode was totally unrealistic. In the real world close family and friends would barely have noticed that the baby had died, and would have been totally unconcerned about it if they had, as only the mother would be affected. It would have been totally natural for Michael and the rest of the family to complain that the ambulance had blocked the driveway and that their evening meal had been unreasonably delayed, especially as Pippa no longer had to care for the child so could have fixed them a more lavish dinner - to celebrate that the costs of Dale's upbringing had been removed so their financial worries had been somewhat eased. Trebles all round!