A further Holby City thread

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New year, new thread! Looking forward to tonight's episode ...

Me neither!

How long has Lofty’s grandmother been in Hospital? Is that normal given how well she appears to be?

If you watch Hospital on Bbc2 (featuring the Nottingham trusts at present) people being stuck in hospital long past the date they could go home is becoming a big issue when they're requiring discharge to a suitable care facility - there's a backlog of beds and places for them to go to, meaning they're stuck in hospital until there's somewhere for them to go. Bonkers.

Gaskell is really slimy, and yup the other F1 working with him is not a pleasant lass either.

I think Duvet's past is to explain why he's an utter arse. I refuse to use his first name, he gives the name a bad rep

Gaskell can’t last long surely!

Why are the F1s & registrars living together ?

Cos they're all so poor and no other people exist for them to house share with in the whole of Holby city.

Urgh, Gaskell is awful.

Great to see more of HH again.

Poor, poor Dom :( hoping there's some better news for him by the end of the episode!

Yay!! That's better :)

Petrenko looks totally different 'au naturel'. I like how she's taken Nicky under her wing a bit too (even if she did somewhat put her in a rather dodgy position!).

I’m starting to warm to Nicky now whereas I couldn’t stand her initially.

Definitely lovely to see HH back!

I am really pleased they didn't have Dom push Lofty away like he would normally do! Also didn't Arsaac go to prison? Is that where he's written his "book"?

Thank goodness Dom's emotional wavering didn't overwhelm him - Lofty is exactly what he needs now.

So HH is now just a consultant on a ward? I'm glad to see him in whatever capacity, but it does seem a bit of a waste of his managerial skills.

Poor Dom :( Love Lofty!

Frieda looked so vulnerable without her makeup - really well acted.

I could listen to Frieda talk all day

Her voice/accent are amazing, aren't they? I love Frieda. Odd that two Ukrainians weren't speaking Ukrainian to each other though! :)

I thought that, spider. Maybe Holby has Babel fish? :-)

Duval/duvet whatever his name is is a bit of a slime ball I reckon.... bailing Nicky out in exchange for her getting Meena to lay off the mickey taking over the ad? Hmmm.....

So where is Dom?

Is Jac ever coming back?

Does anyone like the CEO?

Will we cope if Fletch goes back to senior t, gives up the waistcoats and never gets it on with Jac?

And why would duvet pay so much just to get Libby to keep Meena sweet? There wasn't even talk of paying it back

Yes, whatever Duvet is up to it is not good!

What is it with Holby staff constantly dropping out of the Top Jobs?

Jac will never be interested in Fletch if he goes back to being just a nurse again.

Exactly, it's the suit!

Is she even coming back??

I had a horrible feeling Fletch and Abigail were going to have a moment in the lift. Those two cannot hook up - we need Jac back!

I need to catch up on Holby. Possibly the fact I haven’t been says something about how I’ve been feeling about it generally though...

I had a similar dread over the lift scene.

That CEO is very strange. Sometimes pally, sometimes bossy. Seems to be making it up on the hoof.

Worried about Nicky accepting money from Dubious Duvet. That will no doubt come back to bite her.