The last 3 months

Oh I bet that's what it is. Did Jacka's mum die did they say? Because that could mean he gets sent to jail. Maybe he'll become permanent after that if he is.

Oh that's true, but it's not to be until the end of the year, so I would think something else before then?

True, Dee is more of a next year thing, bar a couple of episodes.

I'm pretty sure she didn't die as Jacka would have been hauled back to jail if he didn't have his mother to care for.

Yes. I must admit I'm very curious how it'll all be handled and I do feel it will be a more personal storyline for Sonia after the Mayor and the surrogacy - personal as in about her, I mean.

Oh that's true, though I thought he was on the run from the police by that point anyway, but yeah, that's likely as well.

Well, I can tell you how the Dee storyline's going to be handled over here. I'm going to end up in a state of shock haha.

I think KK is heavily involved too. Plus Toadie, I assume- but it's not gonna be a street wide story,no. No doubt Mark will worm his way in, haha.

I can't remember...Dee was a kind character wasn't she? So she won't try and screw over Sonia? Not that, that will make Sonia any less insecure or Toadie any less mindblown.

I think most of us are!

Yes, I would think so. Mark likely will.

I don't know her but I can't see Toadie with anyone who couldn't accept him as he is (a bit odd but in a nice way). I can't see that happening, though, I was thinking more that no matter what, it'll make Sonia insecure but I think it could be a good story.

I'm very intrigued as to how it's going to pan out.

Dee was a nurse at the hospital (this is how I can imagine her coming back too. If you look at the nurses walking around in the background, you kind of start thinking... it wouldn't be that hard to imagine just turning up there.) From what I remember, she was very warm and down to earth, and had this slightly kooky personality. Dee in 2003 had a lot less "baggage" than Sonya, although she'd actually been married in Tasmania before which Toadie didn't know about until Darcy had unearthed it, but Dee now... is probably worse haha. Toadie will be very tempted though. I don't see why not. Just watching the old clips, Dee is just such a relief and a breath of fresh air compared to Sonya.

I didn't know that. Oh I could see that, easily. She really sounds like someone I'll like. I can't see why he wouldn't be tempted, but I'll be a little bit disappointed if he leaves Sonia if Dee isn't a long term return. Do we know if she is?

I forgot she was a nurse. She could be on a transfer, if that gossipy bitch nurse gets fired. Which explains KK's involvement.

Maybe she had concussion with mild memory loss,moved back to Tasmania with hubby No.1 and re fell in love, remarried him, and took his name.

Of course he'll be tempted and confused, but it would be a dick move not to pick Sonia.

My impression always was that he would pick Sonya because that's his life now. He's moved on. He has a family with Sonya now. And yet in this case, in my heart of hearts, I wish he would pick Dee for some reason. Sonya is just too... For years we have seen Toadie come second behind so many other people and causes. It makes you think either way!

Sonya is the ethical choice,due to family etc, but Dee is the choice of the heart.

Great way of putting it. Also, in the midst of all this, we have another "wife" on the scene as well, with Steph, who he was almost going to marry, and then married to cover up a lie. I love that added touch haha, and it occurred to me right around the time she came back.

Steph and Toadie were married? Wow. That is going to be really interesting and it adds a lot to the surrogacy story right now.

OH YEAH! Rebecchi's da man!

Yes. But I think too, I'm not as convinced of that right now because I don't know Dee, maybe.

I think it should be Sonia right now, at this point in time. It feels like it really would be a dick move to go otherwise. She does put him first when it matters.

However, I am willing to be convinced otherwise if the storyline goes that way. Sort of like the Paul/Therese/Gary thing - I could see it going either way.

That could actually work really well. I can see that.

Yeah, I really wouldn't like it deep down if he didn't pick Sonia right now. I am willing to be convinced otherwise by how the storyline goes.

It's going to be good, I think. I can't see it not being good and shaking things up a bit more.

Judging by how I'm feeling at the moment, I think it's going to be good too. Because I'm really liking Toadie's side to this story at the moment with the surrogacy. They showed a clip of him somewhere breaking down in tears about it. I don't know when that happens and who, but I just saw it in a preview somewhere, maybe on the site. You feel for the poor guy. And I'm liking all of that as a viewer, and wondering just how much he can cope with before he snaps. And then along comes Dee, and I'm already seeing "the clues" (she could use this with Sonya, if you think about it.) I think it's going to be OK?

I think it will be and I agree, this is all setting it up in part. That's so sad, poor guy. I think it will in the end, however it all goes.

So annoying we're gonna have the Christmas break in the middle.

Yes. Two parts to this story:
1. Elle had done something to Max (can't remember what it was) and he more or less lost his mind and left Erinsborough. After that, Steph and Toadie ended up getting close, but Max turned up again right as something was about to happen. Max had recovered, but too much had changed and they decided to split up. Steph and Toadie got together and Toadie ended up proposing to her. Steph was reluctant but agreed to it in the end. They made it all the way to the altar and Steph hesitated so Toadie called the whole thing off. Fast forward...
2. Libby and Dan had broken up after Susan lost the baby (the surrogacy they were talking about recently) and Steph and Dan ended up sleeping together for one night. Steph got pregnant with Adam, and even worse was the fact that Libby couldn't have anymore children. Toadie and Steph covered the whole thing up by pretending that Toadie was the father (or something like that?) and they got married. Eventually it all came out and that was that. All of this happened right around the time Toadie met Sonya.

Wow! That's interesting. I knew they nearly got married, but didn't know all the backstory.

Wasn't Adam given to Libby and Dan to raise?

How come Libby ditched him?

I almost can't bear thinking about that. THAT is going to SUCK. Still, I'm glad the UK has caught up now. Some consolation!!!

It could be worse - I'm finding the split seasons of the US shows really annoying lately. At least this is just a break and we know when it is.

Steph gave Adam to Dan to raise by himself. Libby and Dan had split up by this stage and Dan had left the show (we saw him that last time when Steph gave him the baby.) Steph was also dealing with post natal depression, and Libby goes to speak with her. She's starting to come around by this stage. Steph walks out on her though and ends up tearing away on her motorbike. At the same time, Ringo (who married Donna who was played by Margot Robbie, who did "Wolf of Wall Street" and "Suicide Squad") was planning his one year wedding anniversary to Donna, and Steph accidentally ran into him. But Ringo had thrown Kate out of the way. Ringo dies. Steph goes to prison and THAT'S where she went off the deep end.

Wicked cheers,it's fun to find out the back story via here.

If I do it on wiki, I just end up opening more pages and get addicted to reading way too much stuge.

Or you get overwhelmed by mountains and mountains of paragraphs. More than mine, that is :-)

So Libby was devastated that Steph had slept with Dan and gotten pregnant by him (Adam) (after Dan and Libby had broken up after Susan miscarried Libby's baby.) The last time we saw Steph and Libby in a room together was the trial where Steph was sentenced. Look up that trial btw. Lyn makes this hysterical noise. When it was on TV and we were watching it, it was all like really tense and then Lyn makes this noise. My brother and I just cracked up laughing. You've got to try and find the clip haha.

Haha, cool. I'll look it up.

That's how I feel too.

Wiki is such a time sink. I do the same thing. I think it's worse some days than TV Tropes.

I do it with petfect blend and You Tube too.

Max is Charlie's dad, and that would be the mental problems they talked about with the custody case?

And that's all so interesting. No wonder Sonia was a bit jealous of Steph at first.

That's right. And Max's mental problems had been "caused" by Elle spiking his drink or something. I don't remember specifically. But she was poisoning him. She was retaliating to Max being inadvertently responsible for killing her brother. Max thought Robert had broken out and kidnapped Katya so he tried to save her and ended up kind of running the guy down, from memory. But it was really Cameron all along who ended up dying. And Robert had gone to prison before that because he'd put a bomb on the flight going down to Tasmania, which practically killed the whole Bishop family (with Harold losing BOTH his children.) Robert then pretended to be Cameron and tried to kill Paul... This happened like eleven years ago now haha so my memory's a bit rusty.

For a second I thought you meant Elly there. But that does sound awful, no matter what. Poor Harold! Only on a soap, right?