state coroner places

State Coroner is definitively a Melbourne (well, Victorian I guess) show but the names have been changed. They're mildly interesting, only mildly, I'm not going to write to the newspapers about it. 

There's no Grey Hills in Victoria. THERE'S NO GREY HILLS* OK (later in the show someone is told 'A motorist was killed yesterday morning at Spring Hill', presumably a continuity error no-one gave a loose root about).

This show was made a few years after the Royal Southern Memorial Hospital was amalgamated with various Alfred Hospital-related institutions. If that means anything. 

There is a Bass Valley, kind of, near Corinella but certainly no Airfield. 

'Glenview' is an odd choice for a name because Glenview High was the name of a Grundys soap of the seventies. Presumably the absolute genericness of the name made everyone forget that. 

How this was anyone's idea of a High Street, I do not know, but a lot of streets have weird names for historical or other reasons. 

There's no Mount Pyramid in Victoria, so probably not an access road either. In reality it goes to Grey Spring Hill Glen Valley. 

*There's a place in New Mexico called Two Grey Hills. Don't write in. 

neighbours 2012

Last night we went to dinner for Elizabeth McCarthy’s birthday, I twas really pleasant, Le Bangkok. So I didn’t get to watch Neighbours. So now I’m watching it this morning. It’s not as great in the morning as it is in the evening. That said, this is a great scene between Sophie and Corey (back in his spiderboy outfit) in Harold’s. As for Andrew the junior magnate, who cares. Rani and her Bollywood thing geez Neighbours is still like some old person who can't help trotting out the stereotypes, it's like seniors reading out signs on the road. Speaking of stereotypes Callum’s (aka Fatty Finn) ‘cool new milkshake flavour’, ‘7% choc, 20% caramel, the rest is malt’. How about Priya quizzing Michael Williams on why he ‘chose to deviate from the syllabus in Year 9’ ON THE FIRST DAY. He is so going to quit in the next week or so, and go on a killing spree with Freya Stafford like the old days. Where’s Tash going to stash her earrings. Speak of the devil (Freya Stafford) she brought an apple for the teacher, that’s so Glenview High.