Neighbourhood Watch

Please let it be so.

I was doing some serious research (reading the Neighbours page on Wikipedia), and saw that a new character coming up is named “Pepper Steiger”. Quite apart from sounding like something you’d pay an awful lot for, never use, but be sure to wave it around in front of guests at a dinner party, she shares a surname with everyone’s favourite finger toting police officer.

Could Pepper, or “Pepsi” as I have already decided I will call her, be a crazed-lunatic wife who steals people’s babies and burns down an old farm shed ala Blue Heelers? More likely, Pepper is going to be a new kid on the block, struggling to fit in to school, who must undergo a series of taunts and bully sessions about her father being a policeman (and a deluded one at that). Alternatively, she might be the pet dog of a lonely, Susan-hunting (who wouldn’t?) Constable Steiger, and Neighbours is finally taking the small step into post-modern expression that I’ve always wanted it to take.

Neighbours, I’m watching you, don’t go stealing my ideas (or at least pay me). And isn’t it about time Karl and Susan broke up again?