John

Thanks to Dan and Chris for all their work on this site.

Cold, wet and windy. Max temp 11 degrees C today. Snow on the surrounding hills.

And a missed opportunity. She could be the dedicated mechanic running her own workshop small business.

This is an excerpt from Irene's character bio on the main site. Having failed to find a replacement, Don arranged for her to attend secretarial classes and the rest as they say is history. She remained the school secretary for a long time becoming very much an integral part of the school. Whilst working there part time while she attended Uni to do an English Literature degree part time. This bio can be found here. https://www.backtothebay.net/characters/irene-roberts/

Ugly. High winds!!

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. An oldie but goodie!!

Can we please keep this discussion civil and dial back on the provocative comments.

Peaked at 46.3 C

26 degrees. Very smoky.

37 degrees heading for 42.

I'm beginning to see some real potential in the character of Dean. Up to this point I've seen him as a waste of space who wouldn't work in an iron lung and was always looking for an easy buck often in crime. However recent events have opened up some real storyline possibilities for his character. We can assume that his behaviour and attitudes to life are the result of some background events which would make really interesting storytelling particularly with the involvement of Colby and Willow. If his recent signs of turning his life around prove to be genuine there are also storyline possibilities in various community members helping him out with friendship, career training etc. I wonder if the writers will go down that path. I hope so.

I have locked this story until the issue of too many current Fics in breach of rules has been resolved. John H Moderator

A 16 year old who looks like one. I'm impressed!!

Some people just can't seem to take a trick

I have an issue when I "like" a members post. I get an error message and code as follows despite the like being accepted. You are not allowed to give this member reputation Error Code 1S136/M

I know I was a member of a Home and Away site before the advent of BTTB but I can't for the life of me remember which one

I understand that the character is being written that way and I don't want her gone. But these days I'm finding Leah to be really annoying. She has become something of a bully in her relationships with both Zac and VJ. Sure one is her husband and the other is her son but both are adults and surely have the right to control of their own lives without Leah demanding to know and pass judgement on everything they do.

Many thanks to Matt who has been very willing and probably more importantly able to update things on the Main Site. In my case this has usually been the myriad airing date changes to Australian Episodes due to AFL Football issues and other events.

Posts in this thread are straying into personal references. These posts should be made to the member in question via PM and should never descend into abuse.

She is quite well known here in Oz and has been in a number of other TV productions. She is quite a capable actress. This is just a horrible pointless storyline.

The site does have adverts. I suspect that's how Chris covers some of the cost of running the site and forum. I've never had ads that come up centrally on a page and largely cover the page.

"Never the twain shall meet" is the old phrase that comes to mind for this discussion

I can't view my notifications either, so obviously a general issue.

I think the point of agreement we have here is that the whole process has been unnecessarily rushed.

I won't go into how differently I see the characters of Matt and Maddy to Red in the previous post. I've said it all before. I'm not disappointed that they are bickering now they've moved in together. I think that was inevitable. I am disappointed at how poorly the period of adjustment from the boyfriend/girlfriend time without responsibility to the couple living together with domestic responsibilities is being written. This was a real opportunity for the writers to explore the trials and tribulation of that adjustment period. All we've seen is few small bits and pieces of that discovery process. But the resulting arguing and disagreement has been given a huge amount of screen time.