Just please don’t make him a client of his own workplace!!

Hi Eva Maria – no you are quite right …I have to write Bernard up more when I go back. For eg there will be a scene with a work email sent to Fran which includes a thread between Bernard and Duncan where B tells D in no uncertain terms that he’s behaving appallingly towards Fran and some other subtle (or not to subtle ) hints at his being…[Read more]

Haha Thanks, Marijo – Fran has been a little blinded by her obsession with Duncan…

Thank you, Marijo!

Vintage Seyi …Loved it!

Hi Ben – I was listening to a great radio convo the other day about labelling relationships – when is a relationship just that, when is commitment real commitment. we can love someone and not be in a relationshio with them and vice versa and so for me this story falls into that kind of category. Does it need to have a label (except of course that…[Read more]

Hi Sudha I’m seriously late to the party this week and can’t say more than everyone has commented here. Gary really is a douche bag. And Jen will be furious if/when she sees pics of their ‘happy family’ posted online – all together a fantastic scene. Super well done.

Hi Nina I can’t add much more to the other comments except to echo them re the beauty of your writing. Alden comes across as clueless and awkward – the reminder of the sloppy kiss enforces that he really isn’t an adept seducer…just his money has seduced – until Clarissa came along. The end of the marriage is just so poignant – it’s so hard when…[Read more]

Nope, Becky – Fathers’ Day is the same all over the world! UK celebrates Mothering Sunday in March, Mothers’ Day eslewhere (including in SA) is in May !

Hi Susanne – I was also sorry John came home – that time just sitting and going thro old photos and letters is so transporting…I also felt transported whwn Lilli drove home on ‘auto pilot’… how often have we all done that?

Hi Becky
I’m v late to the party this week -I loved the ‘independence vs loneliness’ thoughts – this is v real when we break away from parents/families – with good reason – but still miss everything that is familiar about them. Will Coly turn out to be a complete red herring or indeed Colleen’s daughter… nice cliff hanger then Kenji took me on…[Read more]

Hi There – the 12SS was about Duncan but everyone here wanted to know moe abour the enigmatic bernard- hence this ‘filler’ scene! Thanks for keeping up xx

Hi Michael – there’s a turn up for the books…I agree with the others re making more of this – I want ululating women and maybe Ethan and Madsion are actually embarrased by the end – they get escorted, lifted aloft to the marital hut – all expectations on them for consumating the marriage (I wondered re Adam’s ‘shag’then realised he was referring…[Read more]

Hi Anne – fantastic character volte face – from meek and weepy to clever and in control – poor Melanie has had her mind fucked with too many times (and if the subtext is anything to go on, also her body – Uncle Mitch…George?) I loved the physical responses from Barker and Colville – that they can still be shocked by such a cold hearted…[Read more]

Hi Adam this felt a little contrived, not as fluid as your scenes are usually. The whole segment of the new mother and pram could go, it added nothing really to the scene, but the plot is all there – just needs a tidy up. The dodgy officer needs apprehending sooner rather than later before he can do any damage…what’s his beef, I wonder? Glad…[Read more]

Hi Jan I dont know if I feel better or worse about Vivien and Robert’s relationship after this, but the HIV mystery deepens if Robert isn’t confessing to an affair and he’s certain V wouldn’t have had a sexual relationship with someone else…and the text…very perplexing – who could have heard that convo about her forgiveness (interesting V is…[Read more]

Hehe writing the scene as we speak….

Hi Nonie – another scene full of wonderful visuals – although I’m worried just how much you know about guns!! The things we learn in the name of research!! Loved this but the sense of foreboding is there…

Hi Lionel – chickens coming home to roost – debts collected – scores being settled – you’ve got it all going on. Excellent.