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Car marts and dark arts

Flathead — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:04:56 +0000

Liam’s jam/biro scars seemed to clear up between the first scene and the car auction. He got a bit of a land when Bianca tried to get him to buy a family car for when they start a family in the future.Liam isn’t ready to put his rock star past behind and bought another bike, much to Bianca’s chagrin.

April is organising a list of potential take it to the next level dudes. She met a bloke called Jonathan at the auction, who asked her to go to the formal with him. Could he be the one? Apparently not, she told him she’s not ready to move on from Dex yet. It’s between Xavier and Heath at the minute. Bianca is not impressed with her hanging around with Heath. Given how she’s going through a rebellious phase I fear she’ll opt for the bad boy. This good girl gone bad storyline reminds me of when Jade went off the rails and organised a sit in.

Marilyn organised a girly lunch for Irene with Colleen and Roo. Irene thanked the girls for standing by her during her cancer trials. What did she expect them to say, “I hear you’re sick so stay out of our way until you’re better”? They decided to invoke the dart arts by doing a tarot card reading. Unsurprisingly it predicted that somebody will die. Who could it be? Colleen lost the plot and Irene looked worried, so worried that she decided to make a will.

The new doc

Ailsa — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:02:43 +0000

Mink is hanging around like a bad smell. Somehow she thinks there is loads of money in the Bank of Romeo. Indi even offered to give her her day spa voucher, and she threw it on the ground. Inconsiderate cahhhhh. Romeo later said he’d have money for her by the end of the week. But Mink isn’t allowed to tell Indi. Bad move Romeo.

Sid met new Doctor Kerrie at Irene’s and asked her out for lunch. Irene found out Roo still has eyes for the doc and got into a terrible fluster. She told Sid, who wasn’t impressed with Kerrie’s lack of opinions anyway.

Stu made friends with Sid and got Sasha’s grounding lifted. Sasha reluctantly went to the beach with The Basher. Later Xavier found her moaning on a bench, and took her to hospital. I call infected tattoo. Xave must have enjoyed that, normally he’s the patient.

Dex didn’t do Dallas

Flathead — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:01:27 +0000

Liam is staying with Bianca in Irene’s house to recover from his jam stains. Where did Liam live before this, in a caravan? How much room is there in Irene’s house? Loads by the looks of it.

Bianca and April are having sisterly tiffs over their respective love lives. Usually it’s April who has more sense but Bianca looks smarter this time, moving on from Heath to Liam. April is displaying a lot of interest in Heath, an unhealthy amount. She must be very hot, she came home at night after a day out still wearing her bikini. Xavier set her up by tricking her into going to the pizzaria where Dex was waiting. April believed him that he didn’t do Dallas but still broke up with him over his boorish bragging.

Xavier seemed happy to see Mink and vice versa. She’s not back five minutes and is already causing trouble. She scabbed a free lunch from Indi and borrowed money from Romeo. Indi is wise to her scams but Romeo is too trusting. She wants to borrow money as she’s in a bit of strife but where is Romeo going to get two thousand dollars? He’s making a fortune teaching the schoolies to surf but that won’t go on forever. Indi wants him to think of the future but he can’t see past tomorrow, poor boy.

The Virgin Slayer

Ailsa — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:54:31 +0000

Phew, Xavier got the V8 back from Stew. Sasha agreed to keep seeing him. Bad move, Sash, I’d start wearing a helmet if I were you.

April and Dex made a sexy plan but April had to stay home to look after Irene. Dex went to the party in the Surf Club anyway, where Xavier was dressed up as an extra from The Sound of Music. He was trying to lure a lady nicknamed The Virgin Slayer, who prefers the more experienced gentleman. However, she was more interested in Dex, and laid a smacker on him, just as April joined the party. Le sigh.

Schoolies and toolies

Flathead — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:48:06 +0000

Xavier is heading off on a European tour thanks to generous John deciding that he’s willing to sell the V8. So all Xavier needs to do is find a buyer for the car. Xav revealed that his target market is a “toolie”. What’s that you might ask, well I’m afraid I can’t tell you. I listened back to Xavier’s definition of a toolie three times but still couldn’t understand what he said.

Sasha finally got sense and dumped Stew. While she did like him she got sick of his psycho behaviour. Her relationship motto seems to be “less bash, more pash”. Stew, being the local mentalist, didn’t take too well to his new found single status and claimed that he would hurt himself if she dumped him. He promptly jumped into the V8, which Xavier had left with keys in it, and drove off in a rage. That won’t end well.

Brax has left the River Boys apparently. Heath offered him the chance to sell drugs to the schoolies but he was having none of it as he’s on the straight and narrow now. Charlie was impressed with him leaving his gang behind and took him back, yet again. Charlie says she wants to head to the city with Ruby, maybe Brax will go with them? Charlie and Brax could set up a a business doing consultancy work for criminals, helping them to pervert the course of justice.

Traffic duty

Ailsa — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:21:28 +0000

Not traffic duty!

Well, there was a lot of police work in that episode. Charlie’s boss is back and not impressed. He kicked her off the case and onto traffic duty. SICKENER.

Charlie and Watson went for a spin with all of the evidence from the case. Sergeant Buxy slyly tipped off Brax, who bashed in a window and nicked the evo (is that a word?). The Boss and The Other Cops went around to Brax’s gaff and did a search, but found nothing. Haha.

April apologised to everyone except Dex. He was cross. Xavier told April it was because they hadn’t taken things to the next level. Cue fairy lights.

Sasha got a tattoo, the friggin’ eejit. Stew’s da wants him to be an architect. Hardly a viable career path for a River Boy. Sure they’re always too busy hooning around.

Schoolies alert

Flathead — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:05:51 +0000

Ruby is all stressed out as she’s mid exams and her fella is banged up in the big house. Then Brax got arrested and that made her feel worse. Xavier tried to make her feel better by telling her that it’s nearly time for schoolies. That makes everything alright I suppose. You can’t beat schoolies.

April was having one of her bad fashion sense days today. Good to see she’s over her drug addiction, she seems back to normal now. Is Gina getting a caffeine addiction? Luckily there’s a tai chi crase sweeping the Bay and she’s using that as a substitute for the coffee.

Brax is in deep do-do over the petrol station robbery. It seems one of Jake’s boys, Benji, was trying to set him up with a planted apple core. Brax used his criminal genius to figure it out and sort it. Problem solved, no thanks to Casey’s solicitor, Hayley, who dropped him in it, refusing to back up his alibi. That one is going to be trouble, I can tell. Brax knows that now too, Charlie told him that she’s working for Jake. But Charlie’s been taken off the case so Brax will have to make do on his own. Constable Watson is going to do her best to take him down, which should be easier now that she doesn’t have Charlie around, messing things up.

Juvie

Ailsa — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:21:20 +0000

Aww poor Casey, the best of the Braxtons, is off to Juvie for the grand total of…30 days! As we know, 30 days is a long time in the Bay. Xavier will probably have suffered four more injuries when Casey’s released. Ruby will definitely have met a new beau. Charlie will be back from wherever she is. Irene will be wearing makeup again. In short, the face of Summer Bay will have changed forever.

How will Casey cope with being an ex-con? I reckon he’ll be hardened up on the Inside, and once released, will have no interest in study or the HSC. He’ll probably fight off Ruby’s probable posse of suitors and pimp her out. Hopefully he’ll fix her hair too.

Casey, this one’s for you.

Party time

Ailsa — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:18:09 +0000

It was parties a-go-go in Summer Bay in that episode. Mr. JP was 50 and having a posh pizza dinner in Angelo’s with every local over 30. Gina was looking lovely. Harvey gatecrashed, Sid scowled, Leah moped, Miles drank and Romeo and Indi (under 30 but there anyway) crept off to consummate their marriage once again.

The under-30s were in the caravan park, where Dexter and April discovered Sasha’s nudie photos. It’s ok, she says everyone is doing it. Casey thought Ruby was with Xave, when in fact she was only trying to catch his eye. Anyway, they are friends again and she is going to wait for him if he has to do a few long months of juvie. I hope she can stick to that promise, she’s never without a man for long.

The Next Level

Ailsa — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:16:26 +0000

For nigh on 20 years, Summer Bay teenagers have been obsessed with taking things to the next level. The most recent victim of this affliction is Dexter Walker. April’s more interested in checking out Sid’s mad doctoring skillz, though. She’ll be off to medical school in no time. Maybe she can join the Flying Doctors.

I can’t wait for Romeo to punch Harvey in his weird mouth.

Brax is trying to keep The Boys under control after they were hassling Sasha. He put in a good word for Stew with Sid. BUT Xavier has his wee eye on Sasha too. Ooh love triangle.

Absolute corruption

Flathead — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:53:41 +0000

Gina and the “save the school” crew are on the Dept. of Education. It turns out that they covered up the fact that the school wasn’t properly repaired after an earthquake in 2006. Inspector Xavier was the one who found the details in the school’s files. Now the school is going to rebuilt after all. Final score: citizens of the bay 1, department 0.

Poor Leah is in a bad way. It looks like she might have lost the baby. Veej called Miles, who was preoccupied with the school situation. When Miles didn’t answer he called Elijah who rushed over. He was there to comfort Leah, which is all well and good but wouldn’t he have been better calling Sid or the Ambos? No doubt Leah will now break up with Miles and get back with Elijah, who’s still holding a massive torch for her.

Living in a toilet

Ailsa — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:47:27 +0000

I think Felix is the first home and away character to live in a toilet; even Milco didn’t stoop that low. Luckily Veej (the stone-throwing brat) found him and brought him home. What kind of a thick is Sasha to leave her brother living there? She also cleared out the till in the Diner. Hurray, we have a new problem teen!

Xavier called a meeting in an effort to help Gina save the school. He’s fair dinkum, eh?

Disaster

Ailsa — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:54:48 +0000

For a town that has a disaster at least bi-monthly, Summer Bay is not wise to what to do in an emergency. Harvey and Roo headed out on the boat, Xavier left recent heart-attack and bashing victim JP at home alone, and Dexter and April went out into the storm looking for Sasha.

Luckily Alf turned up at the Surf Club and turned on the emergency channel. Rescue action number one. Felix and Sasha just waltzed into Gina’s and discovered comatose John. They rang Sid and he sent help to 31 Saxon Avenue. Rescue action number two. All the while there were cool montages of fake-looking rain, and Alf said typical Alf stuff like, “flamin’ idiots”.

Xavier found Sasha robbing food from his gaff and John inexplicably gone. More shots of driving rain. Alf and Romeo saved Roo and co., except for Harvey, who is looking pretty dead. Perhaps Romeo will get that mooring after all…

Xavier went straight to the hospital, as it’s his second home these days. He told Sid about Sasha the robber.

I LOVE A DISASTER EPISODE!

What a beaut bloke!

Ailsa — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:10:48 +0000

Hahaha the face on Sid at the end of that episode when he saw Sasha and Roo having a chat. He’s in trouble now.

Alf and Romeo removed the mooring after the Council said they couldn’t have it. Alf denied all knowledge of it when Harvey called over without any buttons on his shirt. However, Roo’s article outlining Alf’s attachment to the mooring was published in the Coastal News that very day. That’s two more chaps in trouble.

Gina expelled Casey because she was cross with Xavier. When Xave quit on the farm and came home, she tried to take back the expulsion. Casey was having none of it. Eff school, he said.

Heath got bashed

Ailsa — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:32:56 +0000

Poor oul’ Heath. No sooner was he out of jail than he got bashed.The being-a-bollox isn’t working out too well for him. Did Jake bash him or what?

Charlie is going to turn herself in, such is her love for Brax! Here she is thinking about the Blood and Sand tattoo she’s going to get:

Xavier’s gone to the farm, to be with Kelly. It’s fairly remote. He only has eight weeks till his HSC. Braindead.

Kelly quits

Flathead — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:57:09 +0000

Kelly said her goodbyes to the bay and returned to the farm. Why is it that whenever somebody leaves the bay, they have to do it immediately? Nobody ever says, they’ll hang on until next week or next month. No time like the present I suppose. Xavier is crestfallen, another failed romance but this time it’s not down to his compulsive lying. He used both of his two brain cells to come to the conclusion that the solution was to run away from the bay and move to Kelly’s farm. Genius.

Brax told Darcy that he’s not her dad. Poor girl. She seemed let down. I feel sorry for her, having two mental cases like Teegan and Heath for parents.

Miles popped the question but Leah turned him down. Denied. Leah adopted a fairly unusual mindset for Summer Bay and said they should wait until the time is right, rather than rushing into a hasty decision. Never thought I’d hear anybody in H&A say something along those lines.

That is sick, man

Ailsa — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:59:12 +0000

Poor Brax. Poor Darcy. Tegan has them thinking they’re related and they’re not. Brax has called off the DNA test, the fool. Casey is Brax’s chauffeur at the moment; chauffeur and DJ by the looks of it. He overheard Tegan admitting to Ma Braxton that Darcy isn’t Brax’s. Unsure why Lady B is going along with this.

I wasn’t sure about Irene’s new dark hair but it was looking well today. High five, Roberts!

Xavier got April to help cheer Kelly up. She was understandably upset because of her rapey brother. She met Bianca on the beach and the reaction wasn’t great, so Bianca’s off to see a shrink.

Kelly’s conundrum

Flathead — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:26:11 +0000

Dean had an eventful episode. Not only did he run over Bianca, but he fought with Liam, was dobbed in as a serial sex offender by his sister and got arrested by the cops. Xavier should have taken the opportunity to say “I told you so” to his family. Not often he’s proved right.

Alf tricked Roo and Marilyn in to making dinner. Good trick Alf. They made loads so he won’t have to do any cooking for a week. Miles will be happy, expect more scenes where he’s stuffing his face.

Romeo set up his romantic cruise business with some fancy cutlery and lights but made the classic Summer Bay mistake of telling Coleen how well things were going. Cue a disaster where the borrowed silver was robbed and the boat wrecked. He should have kept his mouth shut.

Nightmares

Flathead — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:19:00 +0000

It seems like Bianca’s nightmare might be coming to an end. In a dream, she saw a bull, or at least a tattoo of a bull on the back of her attacker. By strange co-incidence, she then saw the same tattoo in real life on the beach by the end of the episode. Time moves pretty fast by the bay. It belonged to none other than Kelly’s brother. It was pretty obvious that it was him as there weren’t any other genuine suspects once Heath was ruled out.

Xavier’s gut instinct is proving a reliable character guide for once, he wasn’t impressed with the bloke from the start, despite John trying to stick up for him. Kelly will be devastated when she finds out but maybe she’ll head back and run the farm.

What’s going to happen to the river boys now? The fearless leader Heath has been locked up for drug possession and will go down for a long time, unless YCPD mess up the arrest, which is a distinct possibility. There’s a power vacuum in the surfie gang. Maybe it’s Casey’s turn to take over, following in his older brother’s footsteps. I could see him walking around town topless, harassing Colleen in the diner and saying “Come on boys” when they get kicked out. He’s already pretty good at loitering in the surf club. All he needs is a bit of drug dealing experience and he’s a perfect fit. Maybe he’ll want to stick on the straight and narrow and finish his HSC. If so, maybe Old Ma Braxton will take over. Keep it in the family.

Reality check

Ailsa — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:55:48 +0000

Poor Roo, she was playing the part of the doctor’s wife way too soon. Between feeding his children and having dates cancelled, she decided the best thing to do was to leave the farm and assume the position of girlfriend again. Looks like her da gives good advice.

Xave told Gina and John about his tryst with Kelly. They were impressed at his maturity and gave them their blessing to take it to whatever level they like. Very progressive.