I’m told that when you have nothing to write you should just
start writing. How this could possibly work is something of a puzzle, after all
if you have nothing to write, you have nothing to write and writing something
isn’t going to change that no matter what you may wish.
I had considered writing about the ITV News at Ten, or the
Tom Bradbury show as I’ve begun to call it. Just what is this new format all
about? It's all gone a bit out of focus, fuzzy even.
I like my news reported, not commented on with opinion, pathos and
humour thrown in for good measure; and I like a couple of presenters like Six
Million Dollar (Mark Austin), Etchasketch (Julie Etchingnam), and Charlie Chalk
(Charlotte White). Yes, I have nicknames for all the news presenters – Romany
Cheeks, Spud, Baggy Raggy, Trebor MacDonut, Miss Kerplunk, Jimmy Durex, Tweety
Pie, all in a Stew, I even have nicknames for the weather girls - Loosely Very
Smelly and Beaky Mountains – and the local news reporters - Lucy Meecock (who I insist on calling
Sukie, I leave that one with you).
In fact you can play the game of guessing who is who from their
nicknames if you want to, and if anyone gets them all I will award a gold star. I'm personally sad to see the demise of so many welcome faces in my living room and I know
that it’s very sad personally that I've been compelled to give them nicknames, particularly the ones so fraught with innuendo. It’s probably a throwback
from my Billy Bunterish schooldays.
Anyway, as yet I have no nickname for Tom Bradbury. He’s
managed to escape my schoolboy humour, although I’m sure ‘supercilious git’
would be quite apt, if a trifle close to the truth. All suggestions welcome.
It's odd what you write when you have nothing to write.
Most rigs these days are lab glass and will do fine with heat.
ReplyDeleteWithin reason of course. If you go heating one specific spot over
and over again, it’s gonna crack because that’s just how
physics works.