Home and Away, fancy a pizza and a beer at Salt? We can set the Bay to rights on the balcony...

[SleepingStandingUp]

So Zig and Dean have left, leaving lonely Mack with just Mali to walk in on in the bathroom. Remi loves Bree and Cash loves Eden, Tane married Flic and Leah hasn't dumped Justin yet. Kirby loves Theo and that's about it.

But who'll love who by page 40....

Yes definitely team Felicity. Haven't always liked her but I'm totally with her on this. Tane is so unreasonable. I also preferred Ari and wish they hadn't killed him off, it was so sad.

Yeah Bree seems to be getting some kind of OCD over Remi and him getting an infection. I hope Remi recovers ok.
Not sure what I think about the latest Dr.

@BadMotorhomeParent I'm sorry things are strained with your father, I also have very strained family relationships. Family can be very hurtful

💐 for you both

Thank you @Rummikub - and @strugglingwithlife --- I hope you are all right. I have never really had it any different from him - a few flashes of hope but it's too late now, And if I, the eternal dumb optimist, think it's too late, it is. Sadly.
Families can really f--k you up can't they? You have my sympathies; it can be so hard. I think there is a book of that title. If you aren't as old as me, please don't let it tailgate through life if you can help it. But that is so much easier said than done. And is of course, not something I have succeeded in doing myself 🙄

Now - back to Home and Away - I really didn't mean to derail the thread... But sometimes, life really does imitate art, I think - even in the truncated way it is, of necessity, portrayed on TV. And Home and Away has always been about interpersonal relationships of various sorts, so can occasionally tug on the heartstrings or cause us to reflect on our own experiences.

(I am inconsistent with my spelling of Brie/Bree, I have noticed; I am sure it's not the cheese spelling.) I agree that she is so overwrought regarding Remy, and someone really needs to talk her down, before it goes badly wrong.

I will have strong words to say about Tane if he carries on this way. and I now feel like rewatching some of the Ari storylines as a bit of a palate cleanser. Wasn't there a pregnancy, and something really really sad - on top of his death (which I think he knew was coming) - that involved Mac? I remember feeling heartbroken for her at the time, but not why.

(This is the only soap that I watch (and Casualty 😲) and I wasn't even sure I would come back to it after the Christmas break, but am pleased that I did. Great to discuss it.)

The only soaps I watch consistently are home and away and Neighbours. I was so gutted when channel 5 cancelled it. But enjoying the reboot

I stopped with Neighbours years ago.... But have seen that some of the originals are still there!
The last time I watched it Barbie/Margot Robbie was a schoolgirl😶

Ari and Mac. He was getting back with the blonde ex, Mac found out she was pregnant and then had a miscarriage if I remember correctly. She really struggled because she'd lost Ari and the baby and he was just all loved up. They did reach some peace but only after some alcohol abuse. I loved Ari, thought the way he treated Mac at the end of their relationship wasn't very him and so glad they made up. I'd take Ari bod over Tane bod any day. I need to catch up tho

@SleepingStandingUp Right! I remember (mostly) now... So, at the time, I was a bit disappointed in Ari - and it was so so sad for Mac. His dying trumped everything my memory, I guess.
Tane/the actor is just too muscular around the neck and shoulders - which themselves, are weirdly sloping. I have never liked him so much anyway, and now he has shown what a (despite the muscles) puny character (or lack of...) he is.

so i skipped a few episodes to try and catch up.

Flic and Mac got into it and she had a heart attack, then she came home. What happened that landed her back in there for so long and are her and Flic ok again?

Yes they are friends again. Flic went to see Mac to
apologise. Mac said it wasn’t her fault that she had a heart attack.

The second attack - I don’t know what caused it. Possibly that she left hospital against doctors orders. She had googled there was a 1 in 4 (?) reoccurrence rate. And I think she was reluctant to leave hospital again.

Thanks @BadMotorhomeParent and @Rummikub families really can mess you up, I completely agree 💐

I haven't watched Neighbours for years, I used to watch it in the 90's, can't remember why I stopped watching it. Wish I had kept watching it now although I always preferred Home and Away.

Hospital Eden with minimal make up is so pretty

She is. I can't help but wonder what she would look like without the blonde/white sections at the front of her hair. All the one colour - preferably dark/-ish would suit her.

So it's breakfast time everywhere, and Mac summons the others for a boozed-up Girly Day 🙄
Unimpressed with the Dr Levi storyline. Both he and Mac are in my bad books now; and he is obviously married or living with someone.... as if the ethical line-blurring wasn't bad enough 💔

Curly-hair sister is close to a wardrobe malfunction in her swimwear. Not body-shaming; I would have the same problem!

I reckon it's more secure than it looks, bra top under a top but no suprise Banjo's heart was racing lol

Does Xander like Felicity do you think?

No, I think he disliked her immensely for her behaviour towards Mac and her foul mood. Now warming to her as she's seen the errors of her ways and apologised etc but not like that!

Yeah, I was gonna say, haven't seen anything about them being a couple so.

Didn't see that coming with Felicity and Tane

I think he does.

Yes I think so too.

But it’ll be too messy rn with flick and tane. Didn’t see that happening!

I did! I think I predicted it a while ago, so not a surprise - and not a surprise that he is running off to NZ, which I also foretold. Poor Felicity (I did exactly the same with my husband; sometimes the separation is a process rather than an event).

And of course, now there will be heartbreak for Mac. That Dr is such a drip. (I didn't think so at first, as his medical expertise was excellent).

Oh God, so much sex.
(Boring.)

😂😂 too much for tea time!

Yes I guess going to NZ makes sense for tane. thats all the Parathas gone now.

Yes, and so unsubtle as well (and was it the morning time when F and T were at it ---- I lost track of what time of day it was). I just wish he had gone (to NZ) before this happened - as we all know it was a guilt reaction due to kissing the blonde sister, and a (last ditch/"desperate") attempt by Felicity to prove that he cared about her, more than anyone else When of course, Little Tane had taken over! The wriggling out of what he had done was laughable and predictable - to me, at least. But poor Felicity has just slid right back to Square One in her Getting Over Tane progress.

(I was going to say she had slid back down a Snake - as in Snakes and Ladders. But it sounded so wrong!)

Yeah she was doing well before that. Now she will have start again. Unless she goes to NZ too?

Are we supposed to feel sorry for Mac? Because I'm starting to not.

Also Harper going on about Tane she is going overboard with her concern for someone she hardly knows.

Tane is such an arsehole