JuniorMint, I like to think Fallon talking to Emma has sown the seeds. But these things can take ages. After Knob shafts them over the tea shop, they MUST have another talk - and include others. I was jsut sitting thinking about a friend and her abusive ex - it took years from when she decided she should leave him, before she had the impetus to leave/chuck him out. Even before he began hitting her, she knew it was wrong for years (5 at least) - it took him hitting a child (witnessed by someone else's child who went home and told HER mother) before she went to Women's Aid. I think various friends were scared to approach her with their concerns. I know from amutual friend the black eye was discussed in the playground (my children not at that school)but not with her. My DH met her on the bus, saw the eye, told me, I invited her for coffee (before mobiles, I didn't want to speak on her phone at home), asked her about it, made it clear we, DH and I, were on side, she could phone us ANY time. It was still a year before she left. Not sure how it plays out legally, but, here in Scotland she left the house, took the children to a WA hostel, then an exclusion order was slapped on him, so mother and DC moved back to family home. It was rahter delicious, when visiting, to see him standing outside waiting in all weather when collecting the children for contact visits!
Right, SWs, there'sa bit of script for you.
I must say i am sad about the Grundy developments. I think Eddy and Joe must be gutted over Grange Farm - again. I feel sorry for Charlie too but Imust say I am hugely relieved Friday did not drift into Sunday and we never did find out what happened chez Adam and Ian.