By rights, I should be a serial killer by now...

...what with all the training I've had over the years.

As all my evening classes - the ones I teach and the ones I do - have all been cancelled and I've been working as fast as I can waggle my fingers over a keyboard until tiredness sets in, I've been working my way through all 10 series of Death in Paradise in the course-free evenings these last few weeks.

There's  one murder - sometimes two - in each episode and there are around 80 of them. All of them are very cleverly committed and then explained by the detective inspector - who also helpfully points out where they went wrong and what made him realise that the death was a murder rather than a mere accident or case of suicide.

When I look back over the years, I realise I must have seen thousands of murders. Thousands of them in all sorts of TV series. To be more precise...Jason King, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Quincy, The Streets of San Francisco, McCloud, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Charlies Angels, Columbo, Hawaii 5-0, Ironside, Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files, S.W.A.T, Vegas, Hart to Hart, B.J. and the Bear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, Bergerac, Bones, The Bridge, Cagney and Lacey, Castle The Chinese Detective, CHiPs, Cracker, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and some CSI: Los Angeles, Dalgliesh, Dalziel and Pascoe, Dempsey and Makepeace, Diagnosis: Murder, Endeavour, Father Brown, Foyle's War, The Gentle Touch, Hamish Macbeth, a bit of Heartbeat, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, the marvellous Hill Street Blues, In the Heat of the Night, Inspector George Gently, Inspector Lewis, Hinterland, Hidden, Inspector Lynley, Inspector Montalbano, Inspector Morse, Inspector Wexford, Spiral, Jonathan Creek, some of Judge John Deed, Juliet Bravo, some of Kavanagh QC, the absolutely magnificent Law & Order (US) and some of the UK series of the same name, Les petits meutres d'Agatha Christie, Luther, Lucifer, McDonald & Dodds, McGyver, Magnum P.I., Miss Marple, Matlock, McMillan and Wife, The Mentalist, Miami Vice, Midsomer Murders, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (from Australia, Monk, Moonlighting, Murder She Wrote, the excellent Murdoch Mysteries (from Canada), some of The Mysteries of Laura, my beloved NCIS, New Tricks, The Bionic Man, The Bionic Woman, Petrocelli, The Protectors, Psych, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Remington Steele, the fun that is The Republic of Doyle (from Canada), The Rockford Files, Rosemary and Thyme, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Saint, Scott and Bailey, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Sherlock, Shetland, Silent Witness, Simon & Simon, the series that meant I held my breath for an entire episode... Spooks, the great Taggart, The Mentalist, A Touch of Frost, Van der Valk, the wonderful Vera, Waking the Dead, Whitechapel, Wire in the Blood, Wallander, Wycliffe, and Zen.     

I've probably missed a couple of series.. and then there are all the films, books, audiobooks and radio dramas on top of them.

They were all immense fun, some completely absorbing, but I often wonder how I turned out to be so normal after all seeing all those deaths?😀