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todayiamadaisyOh, John Nettles, you're old and portly now, but you and your twinkly blue eyes used to be Bergerac and you and your twinkly blue eyes used to solve crime in the Channel Islands, so I'll forgive you anything...
For readers who aren't John Nettles: Imagine you're, say, a cleaner, a middle-aged lady who works in a cosy little English village. Imagine also that you arrive at work one day and begin to clean the house, only to discover the body of your employer lying prostrate on the study floor.
Do you:
(a) gasp in shock, go closer to see if there's anything you can do, phone for the ambulance and/or police, and possibly get out of the house if you suspect that (i) it's murder and (ii) there's a chance the killer might still be there; or
(b) drop the vase you're holding so it shatters photogenically, stand rooted to the spot and scream in horror for a good thirty seconds leading in to the ad break?
My goodness, option (b) irritates me. I don't deny that some people might do that. Just not every single person who finds a body, and particularly not if there's no reason to suspect foul play at all. Perhaps they just want sympathy from Elderly, Portly John Nettles and his faded twinkly blue eyes.
For readers who aren't John Nettles: Imagine you're, say, a cleaner, a middle-aged lady who works in a cosy little English village. Imagine also that you arrive at work one day and begin to clean the house, only to discover the body of your employer lying prostrate on the study floor.
Do you:
(a) gasp in shock, go closer to see if there's anything you can do, phone for the ambulance and/or police, and possibly get out of the house if you suspect that (i) it's murder and (ii) there's a chance the killer might still be there; or
(b) drop the vase you're holding so it shatters photogenically, stand rooted to the spot and scream in horror for a good thirty seconds leading in to the ad break?
My goodness, option (b) irritates me. I don't deny that some people might do that. Just not every single person who finds a body, and particularly not if there's no reason to suspect foul play at all. Perhaps they just want sympathy from Elderly, Portly John Nettles and his faded twinkly blue eyes.
