5 episode catchup

Ok, this daily blogging thing sems to have fallen in a heap. Sorry. I am finally shaking the flu feeling, so a bit more energy there, and the boss is away from work today, so I can do it now, but it's been hard to find the time/effort, so sorry to James and anyone else who didn't mind reading this each day and then kinda got into the habit and then there were no updates, cos I know what that's like, and it's like annoying but here's a VERY short update to what happened over the past 5 episodes, just so when the CHANGE happens on Monday (oh god), James and Suse know what's been happening.

Last Friday was one of the biggest episodes in recent history, but I've spoken about it to most people who read this page at length, either irl or sms or gchat or whatever, so just the basics. Janelle, Bree and Steiger all left, gone up to Cairns, and it was a lovely send off, even though they were three of teh best characters on the street. They had a party in the street, and most of teh Neighbours were there, and then tehre was a surprise from Steiger (he had a few), and a celebrant rocked up, and Janelle & he got married! It was beautiful, and Janelle made a wonderful speech to everyone there, called Susie Q her 'Yoda', and Karl hassled her about a Best Of The Easybeats record she'd borrowed, and it was so sweet, tehre were tears everywhere, not just on screen. Then they had their bridal dance, and Daryl Braithwaite steppe out of teh crowd!! Best cameo ever, and Janelle fainted, and Daryl and his band mimed terribly to One Summer, but it was very very fun and a great send off. Then in his last surprise, Steiger took them all down the sportsfield and they left in a helicopter, with an aerial view of Susan, Karl, Zeke, Rachel, Harold, Lou, Ned, Pepper and Janae all waving, which was great. Janae obvioulsy stayed, at the last minute, pushed out of teh chopper by Janelle who told her she's got a month to find out what's going on with Ned, and then she could come up. The fact she's appearing in the Queen Street Mall tomorrow will give some idea of how that'll pan out in the future, but at this stage, they're still both "... I ain't sayin nothin".

So onto this week, and I'll just give a truly brief rundown on each plot.

*Ned, Janae & Mickey - as I said, they're still not together, although the amount of people telling them they're stuipid for not being is growing. Mickey's been in a bit of shit, cos he was vey worried about going to school after the childcare bullyig, so Janae gave him a peptalk about not letting the kids push him around, so now he's put another kid's arm in a sling, unprovoked. Mickey's the bully now, and a bit of a shit one, cos he's the shortest 8 year old ever, although if you're reading this DAVID TAYLOR, my bullying friend from Yr 7, I can relate. Ned and Janae to get together this week, surely. The grossness has now worn almost completely off, since at least we got our girl still here.

*Oliver's been one of the biggest plots this week too - he's found his real mum. It's Jane Hall from All Together Now, not that James will know a poor 1992 Australian sitcom, but the point is, I doubt very much that Jane Hall is 10 years older than Oliver, let alone old enough to be a non-scandalous mum. Anyways, she's Alan Napier's kinda-estranged daughter, and Oliver tracked her down, went to her house, she told him to fuck off, because she's got a son called Declan (lol, shit name kid) who doesn't have to know about her dirty little secret that was Oliver. You see, she didn't just put him up for adoption, she put him on Ebay, and sold him to the Barnses, who then raised him as their own, and nobody knew the truth except the Napiers. Anyways, she's not like a crazy unreasonable lady, just scared or something, so she's met with Oliver a few times now, just hookin up at the General Store n shit, and they've both had a coupla "You abandoned me!!" "I have a family to think of!" "I AM YOUR FAMILY!!!" spackouts, but they're gonna keep meeting, on Rebecca's (that's her name) conditions that she contacts Oliver, not the otehr way round, it's all by her rules. Elle's not pleased at any of this, and confronted Rebecca at he house about it, which was a bit stupid, but hey she and Oliver and kissy kissy and in love, so fair enough. Except it's not, cos guess who we're getting hints at is Oliver's Dad... Anyone around who can't remember who he rooted about 20 years ago, and didn't know it turned out as a baby anyway? the final A CHANGE IS COMING ads contain a few plot spoilers, including "Brother + Sister = Lovers", so unless they're talking about Zeke's ceiling-wanking phase over that titty mag with Katya in it, and I don't think that one of the CHANGEs they'll make, then Oliver and Elle doing it just got incestuous.

*Rosie and Frazer's wedding has ben pushed up by a few months just in time for teh CHANGE, or rather, because the venue has decided to cancel its bookings and close for a year to do major renovations. Therefore, teh wedding is next week, and Rosie's been a shrieking stressmonster, and Frazer's been very funny taking the piss. Theirs is a fantastic relationship, and if I may say, I relate to it very much. I'm Frazer. He's doing extra exercises for his legs, and last night he wa lifting his legs in the chair, still a bit cripped, but definitely getting better. Can someone smell a walk down the aisle? The groom just stands there anyway I suppose, but yeah, he'll be back to normal after clearing up all his family shit pretty quick. F&R have been the week's frantic funny plot, and they do it incredibly well. Pepper and Adam are back together too (he arrived back outta nowhere on teh Timmins goodbye show, sorry), and are pretty sweet together.

*Ringo, on the other hand, is having a bit of a shit time with his feelings for Carmella, and she's not making it easy on him. They're undoubtedly attracted to each other, and he's putting the huge moves on her, and she's saying no, then turning around and almost kisssing him, then telling him he's too young... but it's dangerously close to getting it on. It's all a bit gross, and also a bit meh, cos you don't really care about either of them that much, especially when Ringo's being a bit pushy and sleazy and omg zitty, so it's been secret talks about their feelings, and denials, and living in the same house forcing them into tempting situations, and whatever. Last night was the peak of it, as Ringo came into Carmella's room to chat, then chat up, and she was all "No, too young... *wants*" but then Rosie came in to rabble on about flower decorations or napkin folding or other wedding emergencies, so Ringo dived under the bed. Frazer came in too, giving this bedroom its longest scene ever, and they talked forever, dropping things and picking them up without discovering the hiding under his paws Ringo, but finally they spotted him, and oh boy, was it on. To protect Carmella, although not sure against what, Ringo took the blame, and Frazer and esp Rosie think he's a total perv, hiding in Carmella's room to sniff her bras or something. Frazer was about to send him home, and ther were all sorts of excuses, but finally Ringo apologised to Carmella, she forgave him, and they're all staying. It was prety fkn mean of Carmella to put him through all that, cos now they think he's dirty gross, but anyways, we'll see where that goes. The interesting thing was on Wed or Thurd night they ran with the whole "My sister and your brother are getting married - we'll be like brother and sister", in what I reckon was an attempt to throw people off the advertised spolier of Brother + Sister = Lovers. Anyway, the plot's a bit creepy.

*Tom has been a MAJOR focus this week, driving the street a little bit mad hoarding everyone's newspapers and mail in the garage like a magpie, and taking Zeke down the pub for a beer (Zeke tricked him with a ginger beer, and Boyd glared at someone pretending to break the law while pouring it, in what may well have been his only scene this week!) so Susan decided to get a nurse in to look after Tom each day while they're at work. The nurse was a bloke, and Zeke, who's developed a really strong bond with Tom, pretending to be Karl and all, hated him from the start. It was a bit unreasonable really, cos the guy had just rocked up, but then, whattya know, as soon as teh door was closed, he was a total fkn arse. Like, a real prick. He just kept telling Tom it was nap time, locked him in his room and lounged around teh house eating ice-cream out of the tub, and it was that nice Hudson Homer ice cream or soemthing too, and he's just dipping the spoon back in so a K-K can eat his slag later. Gross. Come lunchtime, you could tell he was a total prick, because he ate the steak sandwich Susan had left in the fridge for Tom, and gave Tom baked beans. Fkn hell, whatta ya think it is, bush week? Susan and Zeke arrive home to check during big lunch, so the nurse swapped the plates back, and when Tom told Susan what was going on, the nurse basically just did the loopy finger movements near his head, went cross-eyed and pointed at Tom. He also said $100 had gone missing from his wallet, so Susan was apologetic and gave him the cash back (she only had $40 on her at the time), but Zeke wasn't fooled at all, defended Tom and had a big bond with the old guy. It seemed like the start of a big plot, where the nurse was gonna become the latest Terrence/Guy Sykes evil dude to hate, but Zeke was too smart to even let the shonky nurse get a foothold in, cos for teh second day there, he got hold of a video camera from Toadie, and presumably set it up to Long Record or soemthing, and taped the day's happenings. In some lucky angling of the camera, it caught shonknurse stealing Susan's earrings, and Tom catching him doing it, and the nurse being a prick back to him, so when Zeke showed Susan, teh nurse did a runner. Gone! Rachel called the cops and Susan apologised to Zeke and Tom, so it seems like that plot was quicksticks wrapped up thanks to Zekester: Teen Detective, but there'll have to be more Tom shenanigans. Karl wasn't there for any of this. Maybe he's gone back to visit Holly, unsure. Love this family.

*Steph started running for council for real this week, and her and Toad's in-fighting about her campaign got out of hand (with some little bit gross passionate make-up sloppies along the way), and when Steph did the good ole throwing-away-the-pre-written-speech-and-speaking-fropm-the-heart-to-raptuous-applause bit at her launch, Toad cracked it and so he's running for council himself now, to prove he can do it better. Steph's all about being real and sticking up for the community, and Toad's political cynicism is beautiful. His campaign poster is a picture of him, Bob and Frazer in his wheelchair, holding an Aus flag. Fkn brilliant. A local journo (chick) interviewed both candidates together, and obviously favoured the chick (chicks), and so went for the whole sordid dirt after Toadie, like he's a mysogyinst ex-wrestler wifebeating Liberal candidate, so he's gonna get pummelled, proving that politics really is a grassroots system powered by the people or something. I dunno.

*Who else? Paul? He's been searching for stuff to do basically, and Oliver lost his shit at him as he's trying too hard to help out with decisions around Lassiter's, even though he's technically only the Dad of the owner (and the owner's bf), and I don't really remember what else. He's being nice to everyone, and no more talk of Gail. Harold's been a bit quiet too I think, oh no, not really... He's a bit upset that Sky and Caleb are going on a trip together. They're going to Sydney maybe, to see some art exhibition expo lecture collection portfolio thing, I dunno, and I really don't fkn care, and would she just fuck off? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! So yeah, soemthgn going on there, you'll see when you get back I guess.

Last non-CHANGEd ad this evening, promise I will write it up before the CHNAGE happens. Must go! Work n real world stuff, bum.