The River Boys are back in town...

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

@SleepingStandingUp, @CurbsideProphet et al - we filled up a Home and Away thread. This is unheard of. So here’s shiny new one - I know there are only a few of us, but keep the faith.

#bloodandsand

Coco is pretty fickle. Raffy is unconscious in hospital with a suspected brain injury and Coco just keeps boasting about acing exams

Will there now be a both Jasmine and Tori pregnant storyline?

Coco was quick enough to drop Raffy when Ryder lied about her so I don't think she's that good a friend in the first place.

Hi everyone can I join? Been lurking on this thread but hadn't caught up with episodes until now. I watched H&A when younger- in the late 80s/early 90s and started again when on mat leave, I've got so into it even though I'm back at work almost full time, hence getting a bit behind! DH watches neighbours and we were just talking about the tardis houses on both soaps and he said Pippa's old house was such a tardis. I was telling him about the chat on here and he made the very valid point that they have seemingly limitless sleeping accommodation but a tiny sofa that you can barely fit 3 people on!!

Seahawk80 I hadn't thought about that before must be why Alf goes to the diner to relax and read the paper

In both Home and Away and Neighbours the houses seem to have as many or few bedrooms as is needed at that moment!

What's going on with Maggie? Is she ill, or just not bothered about being Principal anymore? Lots of slow mo shots of her walking down the school's only corridor

More of Coco bouncing around happily before her exams, oblivious to her best friend’s brain damaged and comatose state 🙄 Ryder blocking it all out with a couple of 4% 330ml beers 😂

But taking the Insensitivity Cup today has to be Black Widow Leah and Ziggy, the world’s oldest looking 20yr old. Keep going Brody! they cheer, as he relives PTSD nightmares about his mum and Raffy while dicing cauliflower 😝 Leah rubbing her hands in glee at the prospect of a misery-porn segment on her crappy blog getting her a few more followers. For shame!

I always thought the caravan park house had three double rooms and a single: Tom & Pippa, Frank & Steven, Carly & Lynne in the doubles and Sally in the little single.

But, when Leah's house burned down and her family moved in, it was Alf, Roo & Maddie, Leah & Zac (three rooms) Evie was on the sofa while VJ, Hunter and Oscar were told they'd be sharing the attic which they appeared to go to via the back door out of the kitchen - perhaps there was a secret ladder out there!

Why my brain remembers stuff like this, I have no idea!

Curbside I couldn’t work it out either. Wobble-cam is renowned for being used just before a collapse, alongside good old echo-mic ☺️ But yeah I think maybe it was supposed to (badly) convey feeling separate from the school around her 🧐

I reckon she's due a life crisis. I nearly died and. Nothing has changed except after 20 years of marriage I've finally learnt to cook healthy food and now eat whole cauliflower.
I reckon she needs more and will leave Pa Astoni to seek adventures, then he can shack up with Roo

Excellent memory user1andonly

I didn't like Dean when he first rocked up in the Bay but this storyline with his mum and how she treated him as a child, and still is, is heartbreaking.

When I forget he’s only about 2ft tall and when he leaves off the sharks tooth he becomes quite attractive too.

Cherry, the lack of Braxtons has left us all desperate!!

Bereft Princess

The golden days of 3 Braxtons plus some completely age inappropriate teen hotties are long gone.

I always had faith in Dean. If there's one storyline H&A nails, it's the bad boy with a traumatic past and a heart of gold underneath all the attitude. They never fail.

Once Ash left, that was it really. I keep squinting at Robbo and trying desperately to find a spark, but it's not really happening for me. It's the teeth...

Pa Astoni is the closest we've got, I reckon. Colby's too - shiny.

I don’t know why (well I do, he’s an awful character which is sort of the point) but I’m getting REALLY annoyed by John Palmer at the moment. I can hardly bear to watch the scenes he’s in. And considering he’s no more annoying than usual this has made me a bit . I think Marylin should chuck him and make a play for Mr A once Maggie shoots off overseas to find herself.

Colby's too - shiny

Omg yes. I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it was but the best I could come up with was ‘soft’. ‘Shiny’’s much better!

Colby also has the worst hair. That must be what he and Chelsea see in each other.

I have noticed from my tragic Instagram snooping that the actor who plays Colby seems to be a good friend of the actor who played Matt.

Puffy is how I’d describe him. Awhile back someone also described him as a man child on this thread.

I still haven't forgiven Colby for his weird pouty lips in his very first scene.

I quite like Dean. Sure, he resembles a chihuahua when he's trying to be intimidating but I'm only 5' myself so I don't need him to be overly tall. & I like the tooth necklace! He's no Braxton but he's a perfectly adequate substitute AFAIC!

Marilyn can bog off, Roo gets first dibs on Pa Astoni

John Palmer does a lot of "smell the fart" acting

Poor Brody has been dragged into Leah's blog to give her a purpose. She sounds very shrill to me at the moment.

Is Maggie making a move to leave on secondment to the outback never to be seen again?

For someone who was first on the programme as an abusive husband and father (three wives ago) John Palmer has a lot of front bad-mouthing others when they slip up.