I did one of those myself when I was an A'level student (many moons ago!). My European History teacher, who was new to the school, took rather an irrational dislike to me (I wasn't an overly inoffensive student by any means) and regularly scored me with C- (made me smile when Piper bemoaned she would probably get a C- for her English essay). My British History teacher would give me a variety of A-Bs and couldn't understand why I scored so badly in European History essays (but didn't look into it). I even had a tutoring session from a family friend who was an A Level History teacher himself. He guided me with the structure of an A grade essay, made me work on it and read it afterwards and said that was definitely an A grade essay. I got C- for it.

Then I just stopped doing my European History essays as I didn't see the point of putting the effort in. After a few months, the teacher cornered me and said he wanted me to do all the outstanding essays. So I replicated word for word (yes plagiarised) a friend's essay, with her permission, who he had given an A grade to earlier in the year, and submitted it. And received a C-. It was back in the day before computers, so he wouldn't even have had a copy of my friend's essay to know it had been copied by me. I wish I'd handled it differently at the time. I wish I'd alerted them to my plagiarism (and taken the punishment for it) but reported him for his obvious bias. I just gave up and consequently failed my History A-level. I always found it weird that the teacher actually trusted me to babysit his kids one evening, even though he clearly couldn't stand me. Very strange man.


Haha, that one makes me laugh on a daily basis - I think they were going for a wistful nostalgic expression, but to me, she always looks like she's waiting for the effects of her haemorrhoid cream to kick in!

The show is awful at the moment

No your description is much better, that made me laugh!!

I think we did the same A level. With me it was a little fat woman with horrendous taste in mohair jumpers. She overheard me say she looked like a fluffy mushroom once and that was it - bad grades. Once me and my friend used the same book from the library and she failed me as copying incorrect information. I showed her my library book with the part in that I'd used but she insisted it was wrong and I'd copied from a friend. Then I did copy someone in another groups essay - she's got an A and yet again I didn't meet the required standard. I started to skip class as I didn't see the point anymore. When she left and we got a new teacher it was even worse. She used to read from a textbook and make us copy down word for word what she said. When I questioned it as being silly as we had the book in front of us my grades were bad again. I also should have complained as she was useless and no one passed History from her class that year. We all got either an N or a U. My kids won't be going to a sixth form college after my experience in one. It was money for old rope. I'm sure I could read from a book for a lot less than she was paid.

Elly was alot more bearable today, perhaps the most bearable she has been since she joined. Mark really is a haemmoroid at the moment! He was too harsh on Ned for very little reason.

Nice to see Gary get Paul off his back and it will be interesting to see what happens with the motel

have to disagree - he is a dreadful actor !!! i love it when he stumbles over his lines, really makes me laugh...............

- You know you'll be assessing the severity of Susan's haemorrhoids every time you see that opening sequence now, don't you?!


Good grief - a plague of incompetent History teachers! Mine was a short fat man - maybe ours were related?! Had to giggle at your mushroom comment though - no wonder she wasn't your number 1 fan! I think I'd heard we had a new History teacher, and I'd been hoping to have the fit teacher to teach us at A'level. So when the short, fat billiard ball rolled through the door, my face probably fell and he must have seen me and took an instant dislike!


It seems haemorrhoids are the topic of the day today!

Mark is seriously getting on my wick.

It is that accurate that the police would drop an internal investigation if the members of the Public that reported the transgression withdraw their complaint? I know Jack and Amy were asked if they wanted to pursue it and said no but what about the other people that confessed that day? Jack said that the phone interference kept happening that day - implying it was more people than just Amy.

Even if they did all say "okay" in the circumstances - the Police still know it happened. Surely there should still be professional consequences for him, even if there are no criminal charges.

But oh no, no damage to his career and he is being hailed a hero.

And immediately practically stalking a neighbour for no reason except having a 'bad feeling'.

They really did have Clementine kill two birds. Then Shiela baked them in a pie. All treated as a joke.

My oh my.

Glad Paul's attempts to derail the race came to nothing, especially as he was bragging to Lauren before - I hope his restaurant opening fell flat!

Glad Gary has got Paul off his back but when I hope he remembers that Paul fired him!

The pigeon 'joke' was not funny. Paul deliberately introduced a cat into the cages, knowing full well what a cat will do when presented with live bait. It was incredibly cruel, and he was the means of destroying two valuable racing birds. I wish they had left him in jail. He really has no redeeming features and I hope Therese is not stupid enough to go back to him. I am surprised Neighbours made a joke of deliberate cruelty, but as they seem intent on reviving the creepy Typer and letting Paul get away with all sorts, nothing would surprise me!

After having surgery for being stabbed in the stomach, was Mark really up to arm-wrestling? Or do they have a magic potion at Erinsborough hospital - look who fast the Devil Child recovered from his spleen removal!

Mark's telling Elly she is 'too good' for Ned - come on, Mark, are you daft? Ned shouldn't touch her with a bargepole!

Hooray! Sid is back! best actor of the lot! Let's hope he gives Elly another nasty nip!

Excellent! Definitely the best actor in the programme, let's hope Sid does his best and wipes out Elly!

Couldn't agree more, I think Ned shouldn't touch Elly with a bargepole!

Gary and the whole pigeon storyline is just ridiculous, even for Neighbours.

I don't think the writers saw it as animal cruelty - I didn't think about it like that, even though it is. It definitely has a darkly comic edge, which I don't mind. I don't think it was in poor taste. Paul killing those birds deliberately by using a cat should have been treated as an act of cruelty by everyone. At least Terese acknowledged that it was his lowest act. I think they have taken this whole story too far.

What is going on with Mark? I didn't get why he went after Ned like that. Is it a crime to have an affair? Is he best mates with Elly? No to both of those questions. It was very bizarre, very plot driven nonsense. I don't think it's a good message seeing Mark get off scott free for bugging the confessional. Police corruption is serious, and this should have been treated with some degree of seriousness.

At least Steph will get some screen time with Ari and the snakes. He's been stalking her for months and they haven't even shared a scene (bar him stalking her from a distance one day).

Oh, Ben singing... They should have had Madison sing, even if she does have a weak voice. Would have been better than Ben.

If I understood the whole thing correctly, and it is entirely possible that I didn't, it's all to do with some gang thing. Mark recognised the woman with Ned as the wife of some gang leader or something so he was warning both Ned and Elly but in a very crack handed way.

I'm all for black humour and can se the darkly comic side of this plot. I eat meat, I'm aware that cats kill birds out in the wilds all the time so I can hardly be a hypocrite and get up in arms about it.

But, what poaul did was animal cruelty, to both the pigeons and even in some ways Clementine and although they did say that, it was all treated with such levity from Xanthe's comment about Clementine not being hungry, to Piper offering to pay for the funeral, to Karl wanting his money back, to Paul's crack about counting her pigeons, to Shiela using whatever Clementine had left to make a pie, to Toadie declaring it delicious.

I just think that somebody should have been more upset about it rather than immediately seeing the "glass half full" funny side.

Leaving all that aside, how did nobody in the House hear anything - I would have thought they'd have made quite a racket as they were chased and ultimately caught in the kitchen which is not that far from the bedrooms. They must all be very deep sleepers.

Wasn't Ned's past checked out after the explosion? I'm sure he got arrested at some stage as his story didn't check out for his whereabouts between leaving Doug in the hotel room and turning up afterwards. Also, loads of people have seen him with his shirt off - he's always by the pool. Lauren immediately noticed the Gang tattoo, hard to believe mark wouldn't as well. And wasn't Ned's gang involvement in Darwin? Has this woman followed him to Melbourne (in which case how does Mark recognise Gangsters Molls from the other side of the Country) or is it just a co-incidence that a woman he meets in Melbourne just happens to have Gang connections when he used to be part of one?

Sorry, i don't think Mark has any concern for Ned at all. He said to Steph, that he just doesn't like him. Fair enough, you can't like anybody, but what you can't do is use your job to check up on, and cause trouble for them. Not and still preen around like a local hero anyway.

He might justify it as being for the greater good, but the fact is that Mark is a corrupt policeman and he is getting more and more arrogant about it by the day.

Sorry Kitkat im going to have to disagree with you on the pigeon situation. I dont feel that there is a need to for their to be a bone of contention with the pigeons. I found it quite funny and a change from the usual Neighbours humour. It wasnt done with any malicious nature and it was very entertaining. It was also something really very believable for Sheila to do!

Mark really is becoming a deplorable character. I noticed that they said he is no longer suspended but is on leave due to his injuries. I hope that they dont forget the bugging of the confessional but you somewhat sense that they will do.

I agree with you- I thought the pigeon situation was really funny!!

I thought it showed Paul in a very nasty light = if he wasn't in a nasty enough light already!

They counteracted that with no one attending his restaurant opening. If he had any sense about it he would have changed the date and just let the Pigeon racing not affect Robinsons in as big a way as it did.

His ego is what stops him from being a great businessman. Anyone with any sense would salvage something from the wreckage by rescheduled the opening, but not Paul - he's too stubborn and egotistical. He thinks he will win and doesn't entertain the possibility he may not.

I did laugh the other day when Terese sad he over did the shabby in shabby chic, and how it was just an old patio with chairs. That's exactly what it looks like. Doesn't look like an upscale restaurant that would rival Lassister's.

Would have made too much sense for Paul to do something actually sensible for a change, come to that most of the characters on Neighbours these days. And they had to find a way to keep the feud/UST between Terese and Paul going somehow I suppose.

Mark's another one who is getting harder to understand at the moment. Why has he suddenly got it in for Ned for no reason? He probably does know that woman Regan through his job but he was out of order being so personal. Ned's love life is none of Mark's business.

I did chuckle at Paul's comment to Terese about fingerprinting the pigeon and Gary's little chat to his pigeon was actually quite sweet. That's a big bag of snakes Ari had, we know it was snakes because we could SEE them so was it really necessary to add the HISSING sound effect on to that just to overstate the obvious?

Oh, but Sid hisses so beautifully!

I wouldn't really expect any of them to be that upset about the suffering of the pigeons. Its the world we live in. They probably all eat bird every day with no thought for how they were killed. I was actually a bit miffed at Susan's over the top' oh no I hope they didn't suffer' comment- unless of course she's a vegetarian- which has never been brought up before. She probably has roast chicken in the oven for her and Karls dinner!

I really can't believe that Neighbours did a storyline involving animal cruelty and then try and make a joke out of it.
Paul bringing a cat into the kitchen knowing full well what would happen was actually sick and a step too far imo and then they try to make a joke out of it by Sheila turning the dead pigeon's into pie.

Neighbours is a rated G show and they tried to make a joke out of animal cruelty.

Another thing too in real life Pipers cat may have got put down because the pigeons were valuable and worth a lot of money.

Mark is super annoying right now!