Sid is a spunk!

Ru thinks Sid is a spunk, but he's Marilyn's spunk, so she wouldn't dream of acting on it - or so she says and so she has Marilyn believing, maybe.

Romeo is going even more off the rails, what a meanie he is turning out to be. And Angelo could be on heat. First he tries it on with Ru, but to no avail, and now he seems a bit starry eyed around Nicole.

Thank the world for Miles, who tells Marilyn no she's not being over sensitive, Sid and Ru were the ones who were out of line. Poor Marilyn, desperate for Nicole's baby and now Sid is making her feel like she's a comfy pair of old slippers.

Blood and Sand

Charlie is uptight, that wasn't very nice throwing the cake Leah made in the bin. What about the people at the homeless shelter? They could have had it. She seems to be very confused about what she is doing with Brax, leading him on, then dropping him, nearly as bad as Romeo!
Marilyn is also uptight, and feeling even more insecure now. That has to be the most cringe worthy moment, when she starts to attack Ru over Nicole, only to find out everything is all sorted and fine and she's putting her big foot in it. She's starting to not trust Sid, at least where Ru is concerned.
So Brax's tatoo on his chest says: Blood and Sand, the mind boggles. It's difficult to see the other one properly on his lower back, we only get quick glimpses, what does it say? I think we saw it once.

Charlie and Brax - love or lust?

Charlie finally gives in to Brax. Before that though he couldn't believe she would fill out the form incriminating her own daughter. Loyalty is very important to Brax, so to what extent is he using Charlie to keep the eye of the law off his possible criminal activities? We still don't know what those are yet either.

So Nicole rubs fake tan into Angelo's chest just for him to cover it up by wearing one of her outrageous surf wear designs. Indi could have put a bit more effort into the model thing, she looked a bit half hearted. Classic John Palmer comedy moment followed though. He did not like the pink or the "Victorian" designs. Did Angelo's outfit have to be so high in the neck - oh well we'll see what she comes up with next.

Bad boy Heath ruins the party!

Everyone is lying to everyone. Xavier fancies himself as a great philosopher, or rather fancies that Miranda thinks he's a great philosopher, but John Palmer sees straight through him - wise up Gina.

April may never recover from being thrown in the pool by the wayward Heath and his mates. She was already on the verge of a nervous breakdown because there seemed to be 20 people at the party instead of 12.

At least Ruby seems to be over Romeo now and is totally absorbed with Casey. But she can't help getting into trouble. Everything was all fine with mum Charlie making a cake for the Braxton's barbecue and trying to make an effort, but now that's all ruined because of HEATH! And of course because of Ruby lying again and breaking and entering and trespassing big time.

What's it going to be? Dex and April? Dex and Summer? April and Xavier?

Charlie gets un uninvited to the Braxtons and Colleen gets the family tartan out.

Colleen gets all dressed up to go and serve food at the soup kitchen, but oh no wait a minute perhaps it is going to be a date after all...they're off for a meal, what is this Keith playing at, is he interested in Colleen or just being friendly?

So Brax uninvites Charlie to the family barbecue then un univites her, he likes to flex those muscles and is up to something with Angelo's. We're still not quite sure where he gets all his money from, importing furniture was mentioned. What sort of underworld activity could it be? This could all be heading for disaster, what with Casey and Ruby breaking and entering.

Elijah is being too gruff with Leah. Get over yourself already Elijah!

Oh dear, Romeo is suffering because of Indi

Romeo is now suffering the consequences of his stupid actions with Ruby and he is in pain, poor boy. He will have to think more next time and show a bit more self control, if he knows what's good for him.

Nicole seems to be taking things more in her stride and just smiles when a country farm type compares her to cattle. How nice to be asked ''you're not going to drop now are you.'' At least he got her a chair to sit on.

Marilyn is feeling a bit insecure, but Sid reassures her. Sid and Marilyn have often struck me as a slightly unlikely couple. A case of opposites attracting maybe. There's not the chemistry there between them, not like you can see the chemistry between, let's see, maybe Brax and Charlie, or even better the chemistry between Bianca and Liam.

Nicole doesn't want to keep her baby, end of story.

Morag always says it like it is. Thabo died despite coming to Australia and Grace is married to a man who is in love with someone else, and she will soon be in a detention centre. So Grace also sees the light and sets Elijah free.

Nicole announces she doesn't want to keep her baby, end of story. Angus thinks Nicole is in a messed up situation and he can't deal with it. And he doesn't even know who the father of the baby is.....yet. Will he be back on the scene?

As for Liam and Bianca - why are they living in separate houses? Is the tent just left there as it is, empty, strange. Watch out for Ru, still can't decide what's going to happen with her man-wise.

Head to Head, Nicole and Marilyn.

There could be trouble ahead. Is there anything significant about the 6 inbetween Nicole and Marilyn? It looks a bit strange there, what is it exactly? A message from Penn?

So Marilyn had to sit through the ante-natal class without her `birth mother,' clutching her handbag, and then birth mother appears and goes and sits somewhere else to do the exercises with new guy Angus. How odd that he would leap to join in an ante-natal class like that.

So Ru is not interested in Angelo, even if she did want to see his amenities. But I think he has bitten off more than he can chew in this new partnership with Brax.

Why do people tend to go mad when they move in with Irene? First Will went bonkers and smashed the place up, as well as killing someone. And now April looks like she too is going into la la land.

New Club for Love Rats, first members: Elijah and Romeo..

And we can throw Xavier in there too for his pig thick attitude towards Ruby. Actually it's all a bit silly, little boys saying it's all Ruby's fault, not Romeo's, very old fashioned and Victorian.
I like Ru's advice best, I understand how you feel, but I won't give you any advice as that will just make it worse!

Will Nicole decide to keep her baby?

OK so Ru (or should that be Roo?) only slept the night in Miles' bed so she could be on his comfortable orthopaedic mattress, we can believe that. So who will she take a fancy to?

Well Ru seems to have helped Nicole to maybe think for herself a bit more. It's Nicole's decision alone whether she keeps the baby or not. I was a bit shocked to see another side of sweet Marilyn the other day, she is always just so nice, but she was definitely putting herself before Nicole's needs about the baby. Nicole just wanted to go on a date, but oh whoopsie the date boy seemed all interested in babies and raising children, panic stations for Marilyn.

Will Ru find a man in Summer Bay?

So will Ru find a man in Summer Bay? Who will she go after? Miles? Angelo? Brax? John Palmer? Seeing as she seems to be so on the look out.
And what deep water Elijah has got himself into, and he's getting in even deeper. I would have thought it would have been against his Christian principles to marry someone you don't love, no matter what the reason.
This seems strange, a River boy who was brawling in Angelo's a few weeks ago is now in charge there. Angelo really rubbed him up the wrong way by failing the loyalty test. (He could have at least been a bit more devious and pretended to pass the test, and then sneaked around behind Brax's back in a less obvious way.) But no he was a sucker and Charlie came screeching up in her police car at just the right or wrong moment to be made to look a complete fool. Sweeties, not drugs.

Angelo fails the loyalty test

So what is Angelo playing at? Either he trusts Brax enough to be partners with him or he doesn't. I don't like all this one minute he's all pally with Brax and the next he thinks he's up to some drug deal and he's calling the police. Make your mind up time Angelo and if he's in partnership with Brax it looks like he's decided to trust him - unless he's living in a fool's paradise and he knows it.
Do we trust this new guy, Angus? The situation reminds me a bit of when Nicole first met Penn. Oh well Marilyn seems determined to put a spanner in the works.
As for Elijah, what a self absorbed wuss. Totally into himself.