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Jude Lawson was studying for a Law degree, I assume he may have qualified off screen.

Maybe because she wanted to be a ghost.

I noticed the Palmer house has a screen door now, the door itself seems the same. The Diner flat front door has changed, it now has windows - it’s has more detailing like Bella’s bedroom door (which differed from the rest) and it seems there’s now a corridor behind the kitchen wall.

The Diner flat has had some more changes. The front door has windows and it seems there’s now a corridor behind the kitchen wall.

Does anyone have the interview with the Summer Bay House set designer? I think it was around the time of the 20th Anniversary.

I was so impressed by Maggie’s professional attitude towards Simone, she showed her contempt, but was restrained in any other emotional reaction.

I was confused as hell with Ben’s big news that there’s a storage area in the Pier flat that was blocked up when the fireplace was put in as the floorplans he showed suggested there’s a room to the left of Colby’s room with an access door before the front door, but there was no sign of a blocked off room behind the fireplace. Not to mention that the flat clearly overhangs the Diner at the front.

I assume from Martha’s comments about the Blaxland that Alf must have owned the boat at some point prior to Snapper McCracken, so then he was buying it back off Don. I presume she also missed the big landscape painting of it in the hall at Summer Bay House.

Does the Caravan Park ever have any short term guests? It just seems to be an overspill residence for regulars. All the villians that would have stayed there previously are staying in the motel these days.

I think Debra’s Pippa was definitely more Mumsy, but then that could be seen as the character’s development, Pippa had become a mother to her own child and then lost her husband, that’s quite a lot to go through physically & emotionally. Personally, if I were a foster children who had never had that safe, loving environment like Fin & Damien, I’d want Debra’s Pippa, but if I were someone who’d had loving parents who’d died like Steven or Sally coming into that environment, I’d want Vanessa’s Pippa, as you’d be less receptive towards a new mother.

I’m not entirely sure what that would be for Marilyn as being single would just be another 39+ female which is a role Leah, Roo & Irene fill also. I think the show is scared to get rid of any of them. John would just be the same character, but actually he’s really just Alf 20 years ago.

Nice use of the Summer Bay House set today, not only seeing upstairs but a scene shot from inside the pantry, I can’t remember the last time we had that. They also seemed to confirm that Alf has the attic room as there was a sound of him coming down some stairs to Roo on the first floor landing.

Marilyn used the burger phone today!!

Friday’s 5* Episode oddly went into the Australian combined promo/grey credit bar format for the promo and then played the International closing credits. I wonder if the same will happen on Channel 5 on Monday.

Thanks for that, bless her! I just read some of the interviews she gave on it, it must have been really hard for her to film the scenes in the sinkhole set with all the bending etc...

Roo is off again? She’s only just come back! Is Georgie Parker doing a lot of other work?

I could understand the locations being restricted to just the immediate Palm Beach area because we now have the Farmhouse AND the Summer Bay House/Caravan Park location (with the garage), but if we’re not seeing those so often (or the less oft seen Palmer & Morgan houses) that doesn’t make a great deal of sense unless the random scheduling means the budget is less because of reduced advertising revenue or something. From then recent UK episodes though, I’d say even the main beach scenes were limited, there’s been more at the Pier or outside the Surf Club, the beach scenes have been limited to the spot closest to the club.

Brax - Beach House scene in 5595. Summer Bay House - search You Tube for Brax & Ruby or Brax & Leah

I really hope the fostering is here to stay, there’s so much drama in a new foster kid arriving, especially with other kids in the household. Straight away with Raffy & Ty I was having flashbacks to Tiegan & Shannon/Sally - I think she was crisis care too originally.

The hospital helicopter establishing shots always look a bit too built up for me. I guess the problem is changes in location scouts & the studio moving from Epping to Eveleigh.

I know sometimes changes of location can’t be helped, but things like four high school locations in 10 years really don’t help make Summer Bay feel small. The rebuild after the roof caved in would at least allow for a new location once, but not the other three.

Thanks for that. Which high school location did they film Sally’s farewell concert at? Or was it a different location?

Completely off-topic, but my brain is obviously working hard to block out the Braxtons & Barretts as when I saw Josh killed Charlotte, I was thinking Josh West & Charlotte Adams and thought, ‘no Charlotte drowned!’

It’s not just bedrooms, it’s beds as well that appear & disappear. VJ’s room had one double bed, but now it has two singles as a second bed appeared when Hunter moved in with Ryder.

So Colby thinks Martha’s letter is a hoax, quite honestly I think that would have been the better story, if Alf had kept this secret all these years and then Roo turned around & said that she’d sent it to try to break up he & Ailsa, which would have been her style back then. When Alf didn’t mention it, Roo never gave it another thought, but he’d held the secret for 30 years thinking it was true.