Rachel and Kim are always moaning that each of them never listens to the other. How we wish we didn't have to listen to either of them. "We keep having this same argument over and over again", Rachel moans, when Kim reheats the reasons why he doesn't want to be the sire of her screaming brats any time soon. Will they ever reach a compromise and put their problems behind them?Well, the fact that Kim decides to organise a poker game for that evening - rather than make time for an understanding heart-to-heart - doesn't go a long way to help matters. "We're in the middle of a marriage crisis," hoots Rach. Kim has a fair point to make, though. "We're always in the middle of a marriage crisis", he replies, as somewhere Morag clears her diary in preparation for thrashing out a divorce case. The grounds that Kim will probably cite, for your information, will probably include adultery. Because, that evening, Rachel ends up in Hugh's bed - where she indulges in a very different kind of moaning indeed. Tart. Scuppered Breaking news: Tony is still about as popular as a turd in a picnic hamper. Matilda is not amused by the fact that he's moving back in (if you're just joining us, you'll need to know that she dislikes him because he slept with another woman while her dead mum's urn's back was turned). And down on the beach, Lucas doesn't exactly greet his father with a bear hug.There's only one thing Tony can do to save his relationship with his son... and that's, erm, buy a rowing boat that has more holes than a Hollyoaks plot line.He sees restoring the decaying dingy as something that he and Lucas can bond over. Will he manage to patch up his family as well as his new vessel?

It doesn't look like it. "Dad, I get what you're trying to do", Lucas sighs. "But buying a half-rotten boat isn't going to make things right between us." In fact, it'll only make things sink faster.

City limits Normally, when Summer Bayers decide to go to the city, they have their bags packed within five minutes and are nothing but a cloud of dust within ten.

But Kit is still hanging around as she obviously quite fancies making her decision to move as painful as possible for all concerned.

The only thing that could stop her and baby Archie from leaving would be an admission of never-ending love from Kim, but this is about as likely as Irene not giving a home to the next teenage prowler that upsets her bins.

Mattie takes it upon herself to give Kim a talking-to. "How can you bear to let them go to the city?" she meeps. "Kit has feelings for you." And? "And the truth is," she finishes, "I think you're in love with her too." Later, we see Kit becoming possessed by her mother's self-righteous spirit.

Although she gives her sister a rollicking for interfering in her love life, she refuses to finish filling her suitcase...

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