Where's neighbours gone?

[Willabywallaby]

I thought it was having a fortnight off for Christmas but not on today

[IsThisAGoodIdea]

I don't like Toadie's character at all these days.

Did anyone else cringe when in the old opening sequence he used to point at his cheek for Sonya to kiss him.

I hate that.

[GibberTheMonkey]

You're right,big brother not I'm a celeb

[Asheth]

I thought Steph looked really happy when talking to Lucas about his cancer. There was one smile in particular that looked not sympathetic, but gleeful!

Glad that Lucas told Vanessa, so that now Steph can stop the sympathetic partner act. All the same I did feel sorry for her when she was talking about how she'd lost everything. But she blamed the wrong person. (sort of - i seem to remember the defence case was a bit of a mishmash of she's not guilty, but if she was there were mitigating circumstances or something!)

[decaffwithcream]

Also I think I know which house the Willis family will get - completely forgot Paul is meant to move into his penthouse at Lassiters and rent out his own house.

[decaffwithcream]

Thank you AnneEyth! They need to make Toadie into an airline pilot so he can disappear to fly when Ryan Maloney does. If the producers have any sense they will be trying hard to facilitate him to keep him as he must be one of the most popular characters.

I heard Brennan is back for the eclipse so whenever they start going on about that again we know he's due.

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I cannot abide Kate.

[KittyMcAllister]

Ooh thank you, really liked Mark. Although that does mean more screen time for Kate which is not a good thing!

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I don't get out much, Kitty! I love Toadie too, I really hope he stays. I feel I've watched him grow up!

Mark Brennan is due back in the next few weeks I think?

[KittyMcAllister]

Loving that piece of trivia Anne! Toadie is one of my favourite characters & I wouldn't want him to leave altogether. Anyone know when Mark Brennan is coming back?

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I think he goes off to do his flying when he disappears. He's training to be a commercial pilot apparently.

[decaffwithcream]

I assumed he was locked up in the Big Brother house during his "trip to Chile" But he has come and gone at least twice since that

[GibberTheMonkey]

He was I'm a celeb during one of the longer gaps

[decaffwithcream]

Didn't a great deal of Steph's "defence" rest on getting Libby to lie about the state she was in when she went off on the bike? I don't know if that was Toadie's idea or not. But I seem to remember lots of angst in the Kennedy household as Susan was best friends with Lyn, Libby was intending to lie and get Steph off and Karl was furious as he had been close to Ringo.

Toadie keeps coming and going a lot these days - they seem to write him out for awhile and next thing he comes "back early" again.

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Agree she is definitely trying to split Vanessa and Lucas.

I think it is only a matter of time before Karl & Susan cave and let her move in too.

She didn't even ask Lucas about Adam, he told her how he was doing. She seems seriously messed up.

[qazxc]

I was at how she went off at toadie. talk about completely deluded! Shes definetely after Lucas, the way she kept saying don't tell Vanessa, it was as if she was trying to coax him into being emotionally unfaithful.

[Asheth]

She may not be able to. If Charlie is in Fiji and Adam is in New Zealand then it
might break her parole conditions to leave the country.

[alemci]

yes I agree Anne. Also wouldn't Steph want to see her kids and be near them even if the dads have access.

[TwllBach]

So maybe steph will take Nellie to get back at toady?

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Yes, I really wanted him to say "well if you didn't want to go to prison maybe you shouldn't have got pissed and killed someone".

[KittyMcAllister]

Also laying it on thick with the guilt with Toady - you knocked down & killed someone because you were drunk! It wasn't his fault you didn't get off!

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Oh Steph is a piece of work, isn't she? Trying to stop Lucas telling Vanessa. What a cow.

[decaffwithcream]

Karl and Susan are unable to leave their spare rooms empty.

Susan will come back and find Steph living there and Karl will be embracing Steph to comfort her just at the moment Susan walks in and misinterprets it. Neighbours loves doing that setup...

[ShipwreckedAndComatose]

Yes, that was it! Thank you..

It's a bit of a slap in the face to have ex boyfriends move quite so far away

[TwllBach]

Ahh, at least I can see an actual purpose for Rhiannon's bizarre appearance now!

[Katz]

She'll end up at the Kenndys almost certainly causing conflict between the newly reunited Karl and Susan.