Rob's Blog

Everybody needs good Neighbours
26th Jun 2007 11:06

I have a routine. A schedule that I like to stick to. I roll out of bed, put a pot of fresh coffee on, check my emails, read any blog updates, work on active projects for a few hours, have another coffee, work some more, watch Neighbours, work for the rest of the afternoon, go for a jog, work some more. It's a routine that I've got used to, and one that works. It all flows together like a well oiled machine. The caffeine wakes me up, neighbours clears my mind, and the jog gives me time to contemplate problems away from the constraints of my computer screens. If anything prevents that routine I get fairly discombobulated. For example, if there's no coffee. That sucks, but at least it's just a case of running down to the shops to buy some. Sometimes a client phones up with something urgent and my active projects get put on hold for a few hours, but that's okay - it's just a case of reshuffling the workload. These are all problems with my routine that are navigable. But... Neighbours has been cancelled for Wimbledon. My mind just doesn't function in the afternoon without those 20 minutes of Australian mindlessness. Don't the BBC understand that my entire working live revolves around their programming?! My only glimmer of hope is that when the BBC loses Neighbours this will cease to be a problem, my biggest fear is that we don't get Channel 5 here if it's too windy. There's also been some fairly worrying speculation that there may be a gap in transmission following the end of its broadcast on BBC One and its start on Five. I'm currently in the process of writing a 5-year business plan; I think I seriously need to factor in the potential implications of the RTL Media buy-out! ;)