Please stop me now!

Goodness, is Michelle still in it? I thought she'd left years ago, but then I haven't watched myself since the baby-swap hoo-haa...

I did like Nick Cotton though. Might have to have a look just to check - see what you've now, phoenix! My Corrie addiction is manageable, but if I get hooked on anything else...

done now

Michelle has not been in it for years - they often go to visit her in America!!

The one with the adenoids is Sonia, who had Martin Fowler's (Michelle's brother) baby about 15 years ago. She gave birth after not knowing that she was pregnant.

I am one of those who have watched it for nearly 30 years!!

BTW Nick Cotton is now married to Mrs Doyle from "Father Ted"

Oh, Sonia - yes, I remember her all right. Used to play the trumpet?

Re Nick Cotton. Do you mean in Eastenders or in real life?

Oh yes, of course it's Sonya! I was getting a bit confuddled with that thing of all the offspring of one family having names beginning with the same letter, i.e. Michelle, Martin and err umm..............

They're still scowling all these years later than?

*rosequartz

At the list of going all *doo lally"

Ana I mean in Eastenders!

I love my Eastenders, have not missed a single episode since it began in 1985, even if I have to record it.

I hate these soaps- I wonder how much they are responsible for social mis- behaviour these days?

Why do you want to be stopped? If there is a chance you might get some pleasure from watching - why not?

I watch both Eastenders and Corrie - can't quite work out Emmerdale and all the different families who suddenly happen to live in the Big Hoose! Up here we have a really good soap called River City - well, I think it's good, anyway!

I used to teach an Access course on cultural and media studies, one module of which was 'soaps and society' - very popular! I had to watch soaps for that and have hardly watched any since I retired, though I still miss Brookside.

I am fully emotionally extended by my adherence to Corrie, Eastenders and Holby. I couldn't cope with caring for any more characters!
I even find I have to watch them at the "right" time. Oh dear

When I was doing social work in Manchester I realised very quickly that not having a TV disadvantaged me with most of my clients. I borrowed a small portable and used to watch Coronation Street and Eastenders enough to follow the storylines and talk about who, what, where and when. I thought Eastenders was horrible, but Coronation Street had sort of day to day stories that were (at least in the world of soaps) more realistic. What did concern me is that no matter how far-fetched a storyline was, my clients thought it mirrored 'normal' real life.