![]() Going through the proofs some time later I noticed the headline had been changed to Stationery and alerted the chief sub, who told me to go to the Reading Room and get it corrected. The headline count was 13 characters max, so I settled for Stationary, which the chief sub thought suitable. I was three weeks into my holiday relief subbing job on the Daily Sketch when I was asked to sub a filler about a go-slow at Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ![]() Sir - Apropos Terry Manners' nostalgic piece about the 1970 unions, I had an early experience of the power the Readers felt they had. Has any Drone reader got any pix to illustrate this? TIA. Sir - I am writing a feature about all the unforgettable people Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother met in her long life … and then promptly forgot. Sir - What an elegantly scripted and nostalgic reminiscence about Tony Fowler rushing back to the office in his jim jams when he thought Reagan had died. What we need is someone of integrity like him who is above backstairs plotting to knife properly elected leaders in the back. Sir - The Tories are looking for a new leader/prime minister: what about Michael Heseltine, I think it is? He’s new to me but I saw him on the telly and he talked a lot of sense. And what about that Jim Major? He looks the real deal and I bet that in a shared bath he’d volunteer to take the tap end. Sir - Now that the Tories are in such a two and eight, they’d do well to go along with that bloke who suggested Heseltine might do a turn. Shame on you! I am cancelling my subscription. Now, though, your diarist employs the O word in a snide little piece (the diary item, not the Today programme presenter) about Mishal Husein. Sir - I note that the Daily Drone uses the four-letter F word quite a lot but I’ve excused that as locker room boisterousness. So you’ve given up laughing at your own 'jokes’ then? Sir - Re the reference in The Goss to everyone’s favourite broadcaster, Sue Barker, and Beachy Head: was that supposed to be funny? If so, I didn’t get the joke.
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