So, Gina got herself a new boyfriend in the shape of John Palmer.  No sooner did he drop her home than they were at it.  Poor Xavier saw the aftermath.  That fella’s going to have a breakdown.

Annie and Romeo got the lead roles in Romeo and Juliet, but, “hilariously”, she’s playing the boy and he the girl.  This’ll be gas.

Tony wants to start a boxing club at the school.  Gina says no.  I think Elijah should teach them all ninja.

Annie’s back from Japan with a “Ohayo gozaimasu” for Irene who’s missed her terribly.  It’s been hard for Irene with Geoff gone and Annie away but now the younger Campbell is back, but for how long?

It seems her trip to the far east hasn’t lessened her feelings for Romeo, or vice versa.  Sure didn’t he think about her every day? Now it’s up to him to persuade her to stay in town and not head back away again for another three months. How will he manage it?  If I were him I’d ask her to join him in a prayer marathon that will last three months.  There’s no way she could turn that down.

Building on the bonza idea that Drew’s Shrew had about a cross-over Home and Away/Heroes show, commenter Sorry for being a crazy dingo has given us a deadly list of Home and Away character super-powers:

1. ALF – grows gills when he jumps in the water and swims underwater, like a fish which is kind of ironic.
2. COLLEEN – able to speak any language at will and talk to animals, that means she can gossip with anyone or anything.
3. MILES – the ability to eat food without ever getting full. (Sounds like a crappy superpower, but in later seasons he will discover he has a psychic conscience named Rabbit).
4. NICOLE – the ability to attract any person at will with her beauty.
5. JAI – the ability to be invincible.
6. IRENE – the ability to attract troubled children into her lair.
7. ANGELO – the ability to cause amnesia to others (everyone, including Martha, seems to have forgiven him for killing Jack and covering up the murder).
8. CHARLIE – the ability to change sexuality at will.
9. RUBY – the ability to screech so loud, it causes one’s ears to bleed.
10. GINA – the ability to convince people that she’s actually Tony’s sister and not his grandmother.
11. XAVIER – the same ability as Ruby.
12. MARTHA – the ability to never grieve and be constantly sexually promiscuous.
13. LIAM – the ability to be completely forgotten about only few months after being an Australian megastar.
14. ADEN – the same ability as Martha.
15. LEAH – the ability to be as sexy as Penelope Cruz but no-one in town appearing to notice.mink
16. RACHEL – the ability to heal, in all areas of medicine.
17. TONY – the ability of super strength.
18. ROMEO – the ability to to…eh…surf…REALLY REALLY WELL. (That one sucked).
19. MINK – the ability to stare at someone and kill them. What a bad ass!
20. VJ – the ability to shoot water bombs from his hands.
21. MORAG – the ability to be the best lawyer ever.
22. RABBIT – the ability to rise from the dead, be psychic and make herself invisible to all but Miles.

What do you reckon?  Do you have any others to add?

Well Alf certainly read Irene the riot act – imagine not looking after THE BLENDER in a Juice Baaa!  It’s understandable that he was irritable though; he had just spoken to Miles who was acting like a class A eejit.  Just go to bed, son.  Unless you really want the AbCruncher 2000.

Oooh will Romeo go to school or will he go around the world to surf championships?  My money’s on school, and I bet Mink goes too.  She’ll be a crook kid gone straight in no time.

Nothing major happened in episode 5000, but that didn’t matter because…Brendan’s back!  Just on holidays, mind; he’ll be going back to Ruby 2 shortly.

Liam took an overdose because he saw Nicole and Aden kissing on the beach.  People should look around before they start kissing by the Summer Bay sea.

Romeo’s sister arrived.  For a second I thought she was the imaginary girl.  She looks feisty, at any rate.  She’ll surely shake up the caravan park.

It seems that Romeo is the most popular new character with Home and Away Ireland visitors.  Well it’s hard to argue with that as he’s a very agreeable young chap.  And now he’s heading back to school as he’s sick of being a bludge.  I suppose that’s a better way of finding new employment than the method he tried today, where he just sat topless on the beach, looking out to sea and waiting for a job to approach him.

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Martha is pining after BangBang/BumBum and Hugo is really pushing the “he needs to be with his own people” angle.  What’s he at?  Maybe HIS INDONESIAN WIFE who just showed up at his and Martha’s house can explain.

Gina is very annoyed with JPIII ever since he fired Romeo.   That’ll cool his heels alright, but it’s nothing a surf and a drink won’t fix.

Geoff and Ruby have had their first tiff; he’s being over-protective and she is a big girl who can look after herself.  Luckily Uncle Tony was on hand to dole out the only level-headed advice in all of Summer Bay to Geoff.  Plus Rachel had a chat to Ruby.  The Holden-Armstrongs should open a counselling centre.  Dan who?

Wow, that was really mean of Kirsty to run off on Miles like that.  I hope she is gone for good, the moany cahhhhh.

Uh-oh Romeo was drugged.  Liam’s mate is a bit of a dickhead ain’t he?

Irene and all!  How will I cope now Annie is gone?  How will Romeo cope?  Why was Colleen bawling if they’re only going for six months?

So many questions.

Also, why didn’t Nicole set the alarm herself.  Liam is hardly the most trustworthy.

At least Leah didn’t make Kirsty sick.  The diner would have gone to rack and ruin if she had.

Martha plumbed new depths yesterday. When Romeo sloped up to her out of the surf and tried to chat her up, she cleverly observed, “you’re not from this town, are you?” How observant.

So Romeo doesn’t appear to fussy. First he tries it on with Martha and then switches his attention to Annie.  What age is he supposed to be? I would have thought there’s about 10 years between Martha and Annie.  Jai is going to have a mickey fit when he finds out his foster brother is cracking onto his ex.

On a more general note, I must admit that I prefer happy go lucky Martha to mopey Martha.  She never ceases to amaze me with her lack of brain power.  How can she be related to Morag?  Chalk and cheese.