How Times Change
After C and I did our Sunday morning shopping, one of the first things I would do on return, was to remove the sections of the Sunday Times, we didn’t read.
I still do it, except that the sections I bin are different.
One of the first to go is Driving, as I have little interest these days.
My Times Wasn’t Folded Properly Today
As my father was a printer and bookbinder, I don’t like poor quality printing, even in a newspaper.
My Times Wasn’t Folded Properly Today
I did try looking for a good one, but all the copies I could see were similar.
Metro Gets On The Crossrail Bandwagon
If you have a freesheet like the Metro or the Standard or even a newspaper like the Sun, you need good pictures and stories to fill the pages.
A week or so ago, it was the Sun and today Metro gets in on the act, with this set of underground pictures of Crossrail.
Crossrail is proving to be an excellent page filler for popular newspapers.
A Glimpse Of The Morning Star
A few days ago, I saw a lady reading The Morning Star on a bus. I hadn’t seen a copy for many years.
The lady was reading the television programs and I wondered whether they carry the information for channels not very well disposed to the left.
Perhaps the funniest story about the paper, was that many years ago, their racing tipster was doing very well in the naps table carried in The Sporting Life, that gave a prize for the best tipster after the season. Their sales went up a couple of notches.
Death Of Someone Who Could Write
The death of Lord Rees-Mogg was reported over Christmas and today the newspaper that he edited has a two page tribute to their former editor.
In a piece by Anne Spackman, the Comment Editor, which describes him as an editor, who knew the value of editing, there is this final paragraph.
When his wife rang just days later to say that William had been taken into hospital, she said he wasn’t afraid of dying. “It’s going to be so very interesting,” he had told her.
If we could all be as brave and dignified, when the time comes.
Bang Goes Christmas Television
For some reason, my Sunday Times today, didn’t have a copy of the Culture section. So I won’t know how to avoid the total crap on the television over Christmas!
At least as I only watch BBC1 to 4 and Sky Sports1 and 2, I can probably find out what’s on, by just flicking channels.
Is This Sudoku Solvable
The fiendish Sudoku numbered 5373 in the Times on Friday seems insoluble.
I’ve made a couple of copies for next year.
Sunday Bloody Times
I’ve read The Sunday Times for years and got a copy at Stansted.
Why oh why, haven’t they changed to a tabloid size, as it is not the paper to try reading on a plane? Especially, as the newsprint they use today, seems to be incapable of folding and sticks together all the time.
A Sikh On Guard At The Palace
This story, of a Sikh in the Scots Guards, who wears a turban instead of a bearskin is reported in the Daily Mail. I think what is extraordinary about this story is not the story itself, but the comments from readers. Not one is anything but approving and supportive. Something that doesn’t seem to fit the stereotype given to the average reader of that newspaper.
One could also argue that these days, his headgear may be the more ethical.
Did Leveson Use Wikipedia?
The Times today is saying that some passages of Lord Leveson’s report were copied from Wikipedia.
Surprise! Surprise!
Aren’t we all guilty of that. I know, I regularly point to the articles of others. But I try to give the source.
The Anonymous Widower 