Aden’s leaving now. Boooooo.

This one features loads of Aden crying and Matilda. I miss Matilda.

Drew crops up at one point. Poor form of him not to turn up at Belle’s funeral, or even get a mention.

Ah jaysus, after all the cribbing from Kirsty about how she doesn’t want the baby she’s expecting, she has a chat to Ollie and everything’s grand.  Don’t know why they bothered with that storyline.  At least she’s stopped her whinging.

In a mad move, Liam Murphy has moved to the Bay.  He’ll have to get rid of all his money if he wants to stick around.  The rich don’t last long in Summer Bay.  But I suppose the city is always just up the road.

Looks like Aden and Nicole are best mates – what’s the next level again?

Ah, so Ruby Leeds is trying to steal Brendan away to a community house.  Sure what harm, you might think.  But Mammy Austin instinctively returned to the Bay just in time to stop Hugo shipping his brother off.  She wants to keep Brendan all to herself.  I’d say Ruby will convince her to set him free, though.

Geoff saw Ruby in the nip.  He’s well into her.  He’ll probably have visions of her now, just like Miles did when he first encountered Kirsty’s knickers.  On a related note, the Aden and Geoff scenes are keeping the comedy scores up at the moment.

Hugo got a death threat.  It was just like in the movies, with cut-out letters and everything.  Spooky.  Was it Trey’s da?  Where’s Trey again?  Did he go to jail?

“Doing it tough” is the current phrase du jour in Summer Bay, and with good reason.

• Aden’s still doing it tough due to Belle’s death.  Surprisingly he didn’t get over it in a week.  I think the Summer Bay time warp is weakening.
• Sid is doing it tough trying to ward off Nicole.
• Charlie’s doing it tough trying to nail Grant for every rape in Oz.
• Jai is doing it tough because he can’t get his hands on Annie.
• Ruby’s doing it tough because she can’t decide between Xavier and Geoff.
• Widower dude’s doing it tough because he has a baby and no wife to help with the childrearing.  Rachel or Leah will sort that out for him.
• Hugo and Confused Martha are doing it tough because the authorities don’t like their shipwreck idea.
• Kirsty and Miles are doing it tough because they’re having a babog and only one of them is bothered with it.

Brendan is the only one having any craic; I wonder what Ruby II was wearing when he was talking to her?

Ruby’s stalking her rapist da on cool new networking site Spont Me.  What is Spont?  Is that an Aussie term or something?  It sounds rude.  Cue loads of anguished faces from Charlie when she finds out!

Morag has moved back in with Aden after Ross shipped himself off to a nursing home.  Poor oul’ Ross, he was sound.  Morag’s ruling the roost already though, she’ll have Aden forgetting his dead wife in no time.

Nicole tried to crack on to Dr. Sid (who has a lovely house), but he was having none of it.  That’ll soon change.  A bit more pouting and I’d say she’ll have him.

P.S. Xavier described himself as a “total knob” today.  Where did you learn that blue language, Xave?

Home and Away is secretly a bit holy; did you see Irene proclaiming that Belle isn’t really gone, and Flashback Belle talking about “moving on”?

Speaking of Belle, jaysis she had it all figured out. She handed out all of her worldly belongings to her mates, then drifted off. She told Nicole to look after Aden in any way she could, which seemed to be an invite for them to take it to the next level (again). Aden didn’t feel like it straight after the funeral, though.

If you “just want the pain to stop”, like Nicole, the one person you should not tell is Liam Murphy. He has a car full of drugs and nothing else to do, by the look of it. Nicole loves a bit of trouble, but at least she has flirty doc Sid to keep an eye out for her.

So, Belle is a goner. She only got married last week, yesterday she was swimming and today, she’s kaput. That was the fastest non-accidental demise ever.

Still and all when it came to it, it was touching, and nice that Belle got to go home to Irene’s. I half expected Aden to climb out the window the next morning. Earlier in the episode there was loads of messing with Liam Murphy trying to make amends, and Amanda trying to hospitalise Belle. Sound Doctor Sid sorted her out by calling Rachel in. I’m not really sure what Rachel did, but it worked.

Belle is not long for this world. It’s funny though as she seemed grand last week. Her decline started from the minute that she told people about her illness. Now she can barely stand up on her own and is getting sick on Aden. Of course her condition isn’t a laughing matter but the rapidity of it’s progress is typical of the Summer Bay time warping effect.

I wish Belle would hurry up and tell Aden she’s on the way out. No doubt she’ll drag this out ’till the wedding and tell him on the altar or something. She may as well go back on the drugs. Irene can go on the grog when she finds out and the two girls can liven the town up.

It was a busy day in Summer Bay General. Constable Risotto introduced himself as “Rosetta” to Clint Eastwood the runaway Indonesian. How did Angelo get his own name wrong? He’d want to consult with Colleen pronto.

Hugo made a hames of pretending he doesn’t speak Indonesian. I bet himself and Clint are off on a boat playing with Lou’s other hand.