Ah here.  H&A is way too sad these days.  First was the whole Miles/Rabbit scenario, and now today Leah and VJ visited Vinnie’s grave to say goodbye.  That’s enough sadness now, I thought.

Elijah didn’t think so, though.  He threw in a tragic story about his dad dying on a fishing trip.  I’m not able for this.

Aden’s stupid brother had a flashback and now thinks he killed their da.  It looks to me like the dad was drink-driving and had a crash.  If only they hadn’t buried him, they’d be ok with the cops.

Romeo set up a romantic date with Annie in the gym.  Possibly inspired by Ruby’s seduction of Geoff using fairy lights, he lit a load of candles.  The Campbells are suckers for small light sources.

The drugs don’t work, apparently.  Miles was given some psycho drugs which were supposed to stop his delusional visions of Rabbit.  At first it seemed to be working as there were no sign of her, which caused Miles much consternation. He was running around the house like a mad yoke, looking for her.  But then he went down to the beach and found her there which is a bit odd. Does that mean that she’s supernatural rather than a figment of Miles’s imagination?  Ghost or illusion?

Poor, poor Miles.  He doesn’t know what’s going on with Rabbit.  Is she a ghost, an angel, or just a mentalism that he dreamed up himself?  In any case, it looks like the braindoctor will put him right.  About time too, as Rabbit is upping the annoying levels very quickly.

Yahoo, Xavier is going to find out Hugo’s alive and all hell will break loose.  I can’t wait.

I wonder if the H&A cast had a good time at Punchestown?

RTE have a story saying that Alf is leaving Summer Bay for a six month break.  Ray Meagher is heading to London to take a role in Priscilla in the West End.  I’m sure he’ll be fabulous.

But what will happen to the Bay in his absence?  Who’ll look after the bait shop, the surf club, Noahs, Surf Rescue, the emergency response squad with the orange outfits and all of the other functions that Alf performs?  The town will fall to pieces without him.

AT LAST Marilyn and Alf confronted Miles about his mad behaviour.  He admitted to seeing Rabbit but denied she was a figment of his imagination.  He reckons she’s real and is some class of ghost.  He’s turned into a proper basket case now though.  So the intrepid twosome called in some backup in the form of Rachel.  She wants to medicate Miles but he’s having none of that.

I love these crazy storylines.  At the beginning Miles was a solo madser, but then Marilyn dreamed of Rabbit and Byron, so maybe Rabbit is a ghost oooooh.

Alf, of course, is no stranger to hallucinations and visions.  He advised Miles that it might be a brain tumour.  Thanks Alf.  Just because you turned into an Aborigine and then into your own sister on account of a dicky noggin, doesn’t mean Miles has.  I hope Rabbit starts haunting other people too.  Maybe she could attend Summer Bay High.

Sound man.

Romeo can be pretty persuasive, especially when it’s young Annie Campbell that he’s persuading.  He’s convinced her that it would be great craic to break into the School hall, so they could practice their lines.  Annie was worried that they might get caught but eventually succumbed to Romeos’s powers of persuasion.  No doubt they will get caught and get in deep trouble.  What would Pop Campbell say if he could see her now?  He’d probably say “I didn’t raise you to trespass on school property, no get out of that school and come back work on the farm as my slave labour.”  He must be spinning in his grave.

Oh, Colleen is on rare oul’ form these days; in that episode she was giving out yards about the “graffiti bandits” aka Mad Miles terrorising the caravan park, and ensuring she is living in a “psychedelic nightmare”.  I think they’ve assigned Robert Robertson’s scriptwriter to her.

Xavier told Ruby about the cash he’s sitting on.  How did he keep it for this long?  He’s lucky Mink didn’t run off with it, or Romeo didn’t tell Annie.  Anyway, now that Ruby knows, it’s only a matter of time before Charlie aka the cops find out.  He should just buy a flash car and be done with it.

Tony, in a stupid move, has started to teach Xavier boxing.  Gina has already expressed extreme disgust for the sport.  Duh, Tony.  Don’t cross the headmistress.  Everyone knows that.

Poor Elijah got an earful from Colleen when he visited the Diner.  She decided to ask his advice about her Marilyn doubts but used aliases to protect the innocent and guilty.  Colleen told him of her friend “Collette” who knew a floozy called “Sharilyn”.  Collette was the only one who wasn’t taken in by Sharilyn.  Collette recognised that she didn’t care whose life she ruined and whose heart she broke.    Elijah suggested Collette ask herself “what would Jesus do?”  Colleen recognised that Jusus was kind to Mary Magdalene but she “had given up her life of debauchery, I doubt that’s the case with Sharilyn”.

Classic Colleen.

Plus, Marilyn was visited by Rabbit in a dream.  Rabbit introduced her to Dead Byron, who didn’t look like Flathead at all.  Rabbit also led Marilyn to Miles, who was mid-graffiti.  How will Marilyn break the news that he’s a nutter?

Wowee, did you hear Ruby and her amateur-psychology speak in that episode?  She nearly sounded like she knew what she was talking about.  She told Annie that Romeo needed to get in touch with his feminine side.

However, her follow-through wasn’t as good.  The resulting plan consisted of Romeo wearing a dress to school.  He looked well in it, all the same.

I was glad to see some good old-fashioned Home and Away humour there when Elijah discovered a face-masked Leah waxing her legs.  Who leaves it till an hour before a date to wax their legs anyway?