EDDIE Jones is the ex-son-in-law who has gone away and made good. Now he's back and wants to buy the big house across the road.
Every time you open the front curtains he wants you to see him driving in and out in his Rolls Royce, and he wants you to think, "we never should have let him go".
You can't help liking Eddie Jones. He's interesting and funny and gives great quotes. 
But you wouldn't want to make an enemy of him, and that's what Australian Rugby has managed to do.
During the Rugby World Cup, when Eddie had coached Japan to a win over South -Africa and was suddenly the most popular man in town, I asked him about the real possibility of his Brave Blossoms playing Australia in the quarter-finals.
"That would be fun," he said.
Fun. Yeah, right. Fun is what Eddie wants you to believe he's having right now, with his new England team taking on Australia at Suncorp Stadium tonight.
He's always smiling, always joking, always having a light-hearted dig at his former Randwick clubmate, Wallabies coach Michael Cheika.
Don't you believe it. What Eddie is planning to do to Australia is no laughing -matter. It's deadly serious. It's revenge.
When Eddie's Japan came within a Samoan try of facing the Wallabies in that World Cup quarter-final, meaning they could have been the ones to knock Australia out of the tournament, Eddie thought all his dreams were about to come true.
It didn't eventuate. Scotland got through to the play-offs instead and Eddie missed his chance.
Now he has another one. Nine years after being sent to rugby exile by the ARU, he is back and armed to the teeth.
When it was announced that Eddie was taking over the reins of England, I asked him if he would have any qualms about facing his former team on this current tour.
"Not at all," he said.
"I didn't divorce Australia. Australia divorced me." And there you have it in seven simple words. It's all about payback. Ask anyone who played with or against Eddie Jones in his days as a hooker for Randwick and NSW, and they'll tell you that they didn't come more competitive, or lippy.
There were some pretty good sledgers in that Randwick side, but none better than the No.2.
The highly personal gobful he gave one of Manly coach Alan Jones' favourite players as he lined up a kick for goal, with Jones in earshot, is legendary.
The two men remain enemies to this day.
Likewise, Eddie took a long time to forgive his former Randwick coach Bob Dwyer when he chose his club understudy Phil Kearns ahead of him for the Wallabies. Still, nothing compares to the grudge he holds against the people who sacked him as Wallabies coach after a string of losses following the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
He refused to go quietly and remained a stone in the shoe of the ARU while coaching the Queensland Reds.
He is still bitter in the belief that the rugby heavies in -Sydney made things difficult for him in Brisbane, especially in his efforts to bring former rugby league player Clinton Schifcofske across the codes.
All of which has festered behind those sparkling eyes and cheeky smile since the day he flew out of Australia.
He's had success with South Africa and in Japan, but he's never had the resources to return to his homeland and cause some pain to the people who hurt him so badly.
Until now.
If England do not beat Australia in this series, he will not be too worried. The real game is the World Cup in Japan in three years' time.Eddie has a long memory.