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There was an all day gig taking place today that I wanted to attend but couldn't bring myself to in the end due to the combined elements of mood (I simply couldn't motivate myself) and the dodgy weather. Motivation was the thing I lacked the most today as I just couldn't be arsed and spent most of the day feeling as though I was wearing Wellington boots filled with custard, such was the effort to do even the slightest distance such as from sofa to kitchen to make a cup of tea. As soon as I was something resembling awake I took Jack for a walk and got changed back into my tracksuit bottoms and 'indoor scruff' before cooking breakfast; a bit of a pig out as I had fried egg sandwiches with a side order of pancakes and croissants (a bit of Mandi's healthy option breakfast as she doesn't like my frying method because I use too much fat) and sat on the sofa watching some none-challenging television. Mandi was watching the Food channel where old episodes of programmes by Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver were alternating.
If I am ever going to get the Saturday Breakfast pilot filmed I suppose I should have a look around some of the cookery shows to see how they are made, because although there is nothing new about the idea of cooking on camera (the frightening Fanny Cradock being recognised as our first one in 1955) it all seems to be in the angle in which the presenter takes. It doesn't seem to be enough to just stand in the kitchen making something anymore, you have to have some kind of gimmick like Jamie Oliver's (no relation) market trader cockney persona or Nigella's soft porn erotic spoon licking. Cooking on location has been done to death as has the involvement of a motorbike so there isn't really anywhere else to take the idea.
Maybe we have reached the stage where an original take on a genre is virtually impossible to achieve. My ideas for alternative versions of Come Down With Me could be spun out into lazy cookery show pitches but the end result will be just another cookery show. I am just as guilty of this as everyone else because Saturday Breakfast is just a music and cookery show that will exist purely as a way to show off my breakfast recipes, there are programmes on at the weekend that kind of follow this pattern but I like to think that my informal little podcast won't alert the lawyers on Sunday Brunch to anything untoward.
No podcast this week.
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May housekeeping
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