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Hello Everyone,
I’ll be totally frank – this has not been a good week for Summer Bay. It had begun on such a wonderful note as Kit finally gave birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. After all the false alarms, her waters finally broke and it was action stations! Kim bundled her into the car and they set off on the well-rehearsed route to the hospital. But irony played its part when, because of a fatal road accident, they had to take a shortcut and ended up stranded in the bush after the car got a puncture…
Of course, Tony and Alf soon began to realise something was wrong when Kim and Kit failed to arrive at the hospital. Thanks to his local knowledge, Alf knew which shortcut Kim was likely to have taken and drove to find them. He arrived just in the nick of time as poor Kit, having just given birth, had begun to have a seizure.
He rushed them all back to the hospital where Rachel and Hugh leaped into action and whisked Kit and the baby away for urgent medical attention. Thankfully, both mum and baby were doing fine and Kim was clearly ecstatic to finally step into the role of the proud father. We were all so relieved to finally get to see them both, and Mattie was thrilled to be an Auntie.
Tragically, an unthinkable disaster burst the bubble. Tony had left to meet Beth and to give her the news that she would be a grandmother very soon but came across the same fatal road accident that Kim had. Jack was on duty at the scene and insisted on being the one to tell his father that the driver of the car was Beth, although he didn’t need to say a word. Tony knew. The poor guy – that moment when you realise someone you love has been taken from you is excruciating and it stays with you forever.
He came to the hospital and had the heart-breaking job of breaking the news to Beth’s girls. Little Mattie just broke down in tears but Kit went onto auto-pilot and began gathering her things together to leave hospital so she could start organising the funeral. Maybe it was her hormones as she had only just given birth or maybe it was a way of protecting herself but she wouldn’t listen to anyone’s protests that she should rest. It wasn’t until later when Mattie accused her of not facing up to the fact that their mother had died, that she really let it in.
Tony too is, understandably, a wreck. Jack tells me that his dad visited the lorry driver who caused the crash and confronted him. It must feel like he’s reliving his worst nightmare – his first wife Kate was killed in a drive-by mugging – so all of those painful emotions must be resurfacing. I hope he can keep his family together at this agonising time, I just wish I could do more for them.
I went with Tony, Mattie, Colleen to the funeral in Adelaide, it was terribly sad. When something like this happens, it makes you take a step back and be grateful for what you have. I’m so glad to have Brad and my children in my life, I don’t know what I would do without them. Ric Brad and I went to the Diner so Matilda could have some privacy to open a present Beth had sent her from Europe. I hope it helps her to deal with the way she’s feeling at the moment.
Someone else whose life seems utterly devastated of late is Amanda. She’s really been struggling to cope with the recent events in her turbulent life which in turn has caused her business to suffer. Alf tells me a gym member injured himself after following Kelli’s advice on the machinery and wants to sue for $800,000…
The problem is, Kelli’s not a qualified instructor and Amanda’s insurance policy ran out a few weeks back. Things are looking pretty grim for her so I hear she has signed everything she has over to Kelli to declare herself bankrupt. This all sounds a bit suss to me but to be perfectly honest, I have too much on my plate to be that concerned.
We’re still not any closer to getting our Martha back – Jack’s plan to get Cam busted for drugs fell through and he’s now feeling the heat from his superior regarding the missing evidence. Let’s just hope that Cam slips up at some point so that Martha can see him for what he really is.
Cassie’s expressed her concern to me about this new guy in town, Jules. It turns out that he’s been cracking on to Lily – even buying her some lilies! I think it’s quite sweet really and it might do her self-esteem some good and help her to move on from Kyle.
Although on the other hand, Irene tells me that he ending up smashing a cookie jar at the Diner after a confrontation with Cassie. It may just have been an accident but I hope he is able to keep his temper in check. I also hope he doesn’t go getting any ideas from Drew’s recent behaviour. Fancy taking Alf’s whiskey! I would’ve thought Drew would know better than that – Peter was certainly very disappointed in him.
Well, I reckon the coming weeks are going to be pretty difficult but here in Summer Bay we’re a tough bunch. I’m sure we’ll pull through if we stick together and help each other out.
Love, Sally.
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