This can happen. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >
And here's how:
- you decide to cook up some grapes because they're about to go off
- you put a bit of water, sugar, and cinnamon in with the grapes
- you wander off to have an orange while you wait for them to boil down
- you get talking to your flatmate (who also has a cold and a blocked nose)
- you forget about the grapes
- you can't smell them cooking and, then, burning
- you don't remember until your other flatmate (who can currently smell) wanders in and asks who has been eating muffin splits
- it is too late
Secondly, I was talking to my flatmate about how Rachel Smalley was leaving Firstline- which is my breakfast programme of choice.
He went to that article I've linked to, and read out some news that worried me even more.
TV3's plans for Firstline are not clear, but parent company MediaWorks is in receivership and has been looking to develop a more commercial format...However it is understood that new owners at TV3 are aiming to make the channel's lineup more commercial, and have been looking at returning to a light breakfast show format to compete with TV One's Breakfast.I watch Firstline because I don't like Breakfast. I know I'm not your average news consumer now that I'm studying journalism, but I like to be informed at the start of the day. I'd rather hear the headlines than watch the presenters race to see who can put up a tent fastest, or the poor weather presenter being sent on all manner of missions, from pet expos to sugar factories.
Please, MediaWorks... don't do it.
