I want to stay forever home and away with you each day. Let me be the one that you turn to. Someone you can rely on. Closer each day, home and away. If I, like some five year old, it's about time you grew up. And if you don't stop this right now, you're going to be the sorriest kid beside of a black stump. What are you going to do? Hit me? I'm going to send you to boarding school. That's what I'm going to do. Fine. Send me then. See if I get. Well that's it. You've done your dash kid. Until you can behave yourself, I don't want you around here. You're going to boarding school. Sometimes the world can get you paid. And you can be a friend and there's no other way. But you're not alone when you're part of this town. Living in summer pain. Living in summer pain. Living in summer pain. applause just think will you Floss please once more think what you're doing I've thought I've thought you haven't thought taking a job looking after your own grandson change the record will you Neville I'm the one that'll have to pick up the pieces and I'm the one taking the risk I pick myself up if I have to hello girls hey big day today isn't it yep are you sure they won't know who you are not a chance our son's overseas and none of their friends have ever been allowed to meet us I think that's terrible sounds like a real jerk to me oh well he thought he had his reasons and sometimes things work out for the best anyway you know it's fate like me getting this chance to meet Ben did you see it in the cast no it wasn't like that you don't need cards to see a flaming disaster I am not changing me mind Neville so you might as well save your breath business is picking up good for Tom and Pippa yeah you girls going somewhere oh we're just gonna go and help Mrs. Pappas out a bit on the farm oh you want a lift yeah sure well now how are you gonna get home I don't know it'll be okay how's the band going well it's gone off the boil since Friday night we had a couple of practices this week but it's just gone a bit dead I thought you were really great so what are you gonna do next don't know maybe some local gigs if anyone wants it with Pippa Lance and Martin are pushing for her to front the band full time Pippa thinks it's a bit of a joke oh what do you think oh she could do it she's got a great voice I just don't know whether anyone would be bothered making it work well you're really full of cheer today aren't you wouldn't have anything to do with the absence of a certain young person would it she's not in permanent exile you know only boarding school everyone will get over it including Alf yeah I don't know else can you start trusting someone again once you've stopped I don't know depends on how much you think they've changed I suppose oh hello Celia hello Elsa Frank well I guess you were discussing Ruth that'll be it thanks Elsa correct me if I'm wrong but I had the impression that you and Ruth were rather close $13.20 thanks remember if you need anyone to confide in thanks a sympathetic ear an objective viewpoint okay I'll see you later I'm a good listener oh that was a supersonic exit well done I offered a compassionate ear what's wrong with that? I'm as qualified as anyone to understand young people's problems in fact truth be known more qualified than most I'm closer to them in age than you are Elsa dear oh well perhaps another time perhaps another time oh wow look at that hello mr. Fisher what are you doing? very much what it looks like miss Morris carting fowl manure it's excellent for feeding the soil as you may or may not know you're helping mrs. Pappas too is there any reason why I shouldn't? no well it's hard for her to manage without Nico look I realize you regard me as partly responsible it may interest you to know I feel partly responsible well um we'll shut your mouth miss Morris fowl manure attracts flies you both just come to look at the scenery or you planning to help oh we'll help I'm rather enjoying this so am I well I wouldn't want to do it all the time but well once in a while it's rather pleasant come and help me with the fence last chance what? to change your mind listen I'll just turn the car around and we'll drive straight back we'll grab some fish and chips on the way and everything will be just like it should be no it won't but this is not us it's got nothing to do with us my grandson's in there then it's on your head floss coming up tonight on Hinch at Seven a special documentary on a so-called Australian super baby a baby that sleeps underwater and communes with dolphins an extraordinary method for raising a child welfare workers are not impressed we try to keep him in water up to six hours a day expect the unexpected send in the label from a 50 or 100 gram tin of international roast coffee and you could win one of 10 luxurious fully imported Daihatsu charades entering I must say you're looking particularly handsome today. 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I'm not worried about you. no no it's more... well look whatever it is just don't worry. I can handle it. here's my phone number in case you have any trouble. thanks but I'm sure I won't. yes well if you do I'm there in the evenings and thank you very much for coming mrs. Neville. hello Ben. Ben I'm mrs. Neville. mrs. Lacey told you didn't she that I was coming to stay for a few weeks. aren't you gonna say hello? if you wait five minutes I can give you a lift as far as the school. no it'll be all right we'll just hitch or something. what did you say young lady? don't you have any idea of the dangers involved in hitchhiking? if I didn't he's about to tell me. apart from the normal risks which are considerable in any case have you forgotten that someone with a distinctly twisted mind is at large in the district? no but I... are your foster parents aware that you hitchhike? well I haven't done it. stay there stay right there five more minutes you can afford that surely. and he went on and on all the way into school. well he's right you shouldn't hitchhike you know that. yeah but he doesn't have to say the same thing 600 times. I mean it's not as though he cares about us or anything. he's never wanted us here. he certainly wouldn't want to see anything happen to you. Donald is a teacher through and through and you're one of his students and his book he has to care about you. she's right you know. he's got to be cracked. look it's Saturday afternoon and where does he go back to school to work? well there's probably a lot to be done with while Bertram's still away. do you think mr. Bertram will ever come back? oh who knows he's pretty near to retiring he might not think it's worth the trouble. you never know where you are with Fisher that's the problem. I mean one minute he's almost nice and then he's all... well he's had a lot of unhappiness in his life. has he? yeah. go on. it's personal. come on you can't stop now. how do you expect us to understand him if we don't know? you'll have me as bad as Celia if you're not careful. okay he was once married you know. yeah to one of our sisters wasn't it? mmm Barbara. what happened? she wanted to be a musician. she wanted to very badly actually but marrying Donald put an end to that. did she have to marry him? we won't go into that. anyway she couldn't settle down the marriage went bad so she left taking their daughter with her and he's been his lovable self ever since. funny you never think of him with a family. maybe he's getting better. he was nice today for a while anyway. nobody's all bad. oh who knows he's got a long way to go but maybe the human being's starting to surface again. lunch is ready Ben. I said lunch is ready it'll get cold. starving yourself won't prove anything will it? 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French. then I'll have Vienna. it's not too much travel. why have ordinary coffee when you can now have the international flavor of Jarrah coffee mixes in an instant. coffee machine. Jarrah instant coffee mixes. turn your kettle into a coffee machine. mmm delicious. thanks. hmm well I think I ought to tell him. hmm I think I ought to tell mr. Fisher I'm sorry I thought he poisoned Derek and Nico's cow. why for heaven's sake? well you heard Al so maybe he's not so bad. he didn't even know you thought that. he did I told him I did so I should tell him I don't anymore. Frank will you deal with this I'm busy. I should tell him shouldn't I Frank? I suppose so. don't say that. well there's nothing wrong with telling someone you made a mistake. there is when it's old flathead. well I'm gonna find him now before I get cold feet. you just want to get good marks. I'll let her do it if she wants to and maybe it's a good sign. of what? you know the way she decided God was a bit of a dead loss for letting Nico cop it. she wasn't the only one. yeah but it didn't bother you that much did it? I mean it's important to her God and all that stuff. since then she's been thinking the world's a pretty lousy place. and you think she's starting to see it really isn't so bad after all. yeah I hope so. Summer Bay High School Don Fisher. Walter how are you feeling? I've been wondering how you've been managing. ah I see and and and when? ah two weeks. yes yes yes right of course yes. no no no no nothing nothing at all. it was I was just engrossed in some work that's all. well I'm sure the whole school will be glad to welcome you back. yes yes till then goodbye. what are you doing here? well I just wanted... you left something behind have you? well get it and leave and please hurry up. mr. Fisher. yes. I'm sorry for what I've been thinking. and what exactly have you been thinking? I don't think it anymore. oh well that's a relief. now I mean I used to think you might have poisoned Derek and Nico's cow. did you? was this a fashionable opinion? well anyway I don't think it anymore. thank you mr. Avonport. from among my many faults you can safely exclude poisoning animals. now please find whatever it was who came for and be on your way. hello Donald. mind if I sit down? be my guest. what's wrong? is that obvious? not really. you want to talk about it? good old ale sir. everybody's mate always understand. oh well if you're in that sort of mood. I didn't mean it. I've been drowning in my sorrows that's all. yeah so I gathered. not like you. you haven't heard have you? about Paul Bertram. no what's happened? he's fully recovered. this afternoon. oh that's terrible. he's decided to come back to school. he's only a year off retiring. why bother? he knows I do a better job. why can't he just bow out gracefully? perhaps he cares about him too. he's gone now. I could have just stepped in. fate accompanied. they would have confirmed the postman. if he hangs about sets a retirement date they'll look around. I'll be passed over yet again. well you can't assume that Donald. anyway what does another year or two matter? it won't hurt that much will it? it all hurts. it hurts like hell. I'm too old. too old to be supervising school yards. telling dumb kids to pick up papers. that's all I am. it's all I've achieved. I wish you'd stop this Donald. it's not doing you any good. why not? other people get to feel sorry for themselves now and again. why not me? I tell you I'm not gonna take it much longer. what do you mean? I'm not gonna be the mouth that always gets passed over. I'll quit. you what? I'll threaten to quit. yes but you wouldn't actually do it would you? I don't see you raising cabbages on the doll. is that all you think I'm worth? oh can't be so stupid of course I know. 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