Tbf to DesperatelyDullDan, (jeepers, what is wrong with me?), but there's no indication so far that he sees anything in Nico. She kind of lunged at him, he didn't exactly lunge back - in fact he looked terrified.

Nothing to do with who you personally perceive to be 'better looking' though.

It's Farmer Giles' ones - putting ideas into their heads

Must admit - I'd love it if Moria suddenly decided to start keeping Llamas on the farm - or Ostriches!

Beef is so yesterday's meat.

yeah but he clearly felt something or he wouldn't have a problem being around her, but I hope and pray you're right because a Dicola affair would be worse than Maurel

8) If Alan Turner was around he would do it properly
13) Then they should know what to look for know

I can see Moira keeping Alpacas

I hope she is attacked by one

Well leaving aside the fact that most men keep their brains in their trousers () it's always embarrassing when the wife of one of your mates suddenly comes on to you out of the blue.

I think this would be a very good description of it were it to happen!


And it certainly was - there has never been any hint that Nicola was looking at Dan in that way.

Personally, although I know he's 'Dull Dan' in some quarters, I always feel that Dan fills the 'nice, ordinary bloke' role in ED which you need to balance out the psychopaths who seem to be so prevelant.

He is the male equivalent of Brenda - bit bland and boring, but necessary for balance.

Alpacas are fearsome beasts - they are reckoned to be good if people want to keep free-range chickens because they scare the foxes off!

On a (semi) serious note though it would be good to see the farm branching out, as many modern farms have had to, into speciality ranges.

I disagree with that, Wendy is a horrible nasty and selfish woman Comparing her to Dan is an insult to Dan.

In what way do you find Brenda horrible nasty and selfish Mark - thoughtless and prone to putting her foot in it maybe, but I can't recall her being nasty as such?

I'm not meaning they are 'alike' - but that they both have a role to fill in the overall balance of the show - they are neither the sensational sexy (or so some people think!) Bartons, nor the old-timers (ie Sandy) but are the normal everyday people somewhere in the middle - Bob's the same.

Brenda was really nasty last year, I hated how she treated Bob and she still you throws in a bit of shade while she's serving tea and coffee.

I do agree that she fills a role on the show, I just don't think she's a nice person at all. Bob could do better.

Totally agree - of course there has to be that balance of characters, (otherwise they might just as well rename it HollyoaksLite and be done with it). But for me, the bland and boring 'everyday' characters have to be particularly realistic to counterbalance the sheer unlikeliness of the main 'dramatic' characters. I think Brenda is - she fills the role perfectly - but for me the likes of Dan would never in a million years end up with the feisty, edgy Kerry nor would he get sooooo many sls, (mostly unrealistic ones). He should be left very much as a background character imo as I don't think he's even good enough to fill the 'background comedy filler' slots either.

Brenda is one of the occasional things I agree with Mark-w heh

Still haven't forgiven her for playing the Brain tumour and dead Daughter card excuse for her stealing and shop lifting and then being holier than thou whenever anyone else commits a crime

Agreed

See I don't always disagree heh

Ok - I'll grant you that one - but in general lately she's been bland and boring and a nosy-parker (like she's trying to grow into the void left by the divine Betty - only the nosy bit, Betty was never either bland or boring!) rather than actually out and out nasty.

I like Nicola, she's one of my favourite characters and you don't know that she's always nasty to Jimmy as we only see them for a very short time - we don't know what she's like the rest of the time. And what have looks got to do with it? Do you think that people you don't think are good looking are worse people than those who are? If so who would you think is a nicer person - a good looking man who is a serial killer or a more ordinary looking man who has never committed a crime in his life?

Well from what they've shown us of Nicola she is nasty 99.9999% of the time and its not just to Jimmy. I wasn't implying that better looking people are nicer with my post, I was stating Nicola is nasty and Kerry is better looking so Dan would be stupid to cheat with her, there is no upside getting with Nicola, looks or personality wise.

I get Cain sleeping in the pub. Chas is the default person he turns too when there's s no one else. He's s probably closer to her than his Dad, for instance ( and Zak would just lecture him anyway, as well as not having a couch). Really it had to be Chas' or Lisa's s but Chas probably was the instinctive choice, although obviously if the story did not demand it he,' d avoid Charity like the plague So of course it's s plot driven but it's not unbelievable at the same time.

I used to like Nicola but I'm really tired of her nastiness to Jimmy now. It's s no longer entertaining.

Nicola's head thing annoys me, who does she think she is, axl rose?

Was it ever? Nicola and Jimmy are a bad imitation of Sally and Tim on Corrie

Sally and Tim are the imitation

I know Jimmy and Nicola came first but Sally and Tim do it better. Sally isn't a total bitch and Tim has more than 2 working brain cells.

Nicola never used to be a total bitch either, and Jimmy wasn't always this dumb