Thursday - or Twopapersday as we call it! Not only the Telegraph today but also our local newspaper. It boasts 2" headlines proclaiming "WE'RE OFF TO No 10!" Having for the past 50 years or so unsuccessfully begged for our market town to be by-passed, the citizens can no longer look-on as it is choked to death with traffic.
A quick glance at the Letters Page, more by-pass opinions. On to the pictures, - schools breaking-up for the Summer holidays, teachers and dinner-ladies retiring and being sent home in stretch-limos. Smiling folks receiving awards/rewards for their various good works, - once charity is rewarded surely it is no longer charity?
The Employment Page usually provides some entertainment! A school advertising for a "Bridge Coordinator", - would that be to teach Engineering or a game or cards? Reading the smaller print and translating it from Jargon into Plain English, seems that the purpose of the job would be to get delinquents back into school.
Then come the Property Pages, - always a subject for village chat. "I see they're asking a fortune for that little place on the corner, - picked it up for a song only a few years ago, - greed, that's what it is! I'm glad we're not starting out, don't know how young people manage now-a-days." After a short pause there will surely follow "I wonder how much our place would fetch?"
On to the Telegraph, read the Court Circular, glance at the Obits, then launch my attack on the Sudoku, Codewords and Crosswords. If there's an article that interests me, it will get my attention, however I only read what I want to know and not what someone else thinks I should know
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