Eric The Viking
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[edit: they've finally corrected it sometime this morning -- shame!]
So there we are, heading home on the 2145h from Paddington, in a "quiet carriage", after a wonderful afternoon at an art gallery and then a "Just A Minute" recording (start of a new series!).
She blows up a neck pillow and goes to sleep; I turn on the tablet to catch up on the world (idiot!), and go to the Telegraph home page, just to see this:
:shock: :roll: #-o
I copped it. In my defence, we'd just spent two hours laughing as loudly as possible at/with Nicholas Parsons et al.
The really funny bit is that three-and-a-half hours later, as I type, it's still up there!
Sub-editors - who needs em?
E.
PS: The article does explain that the monarch has two birthdays very year. Perhaps they've just got badly out of sync...
So there we are, heading home on the 2145h from Paddington, in a "quiet carriage", after a wonderful afternoon at an art gallery and then a "Just A Minute" recording (start of a new series!).
She blows up a neck pillow and goes to sleep; I turn on the tablet to catch up on the world (idiot!), and go to the Telegraph home page, just to see this:
:shock: :roll: #-o
I copped it. In my defence, we'd just spent two hours laughing as loudly as possible at/with Nicholas Parsons et al.
The really funny bit is that three-and-a-half hours later, as I type, it's still up there!
Sub-editors - who needs em?
E.
PS: The article does explain that the monarch has two birthdays very year. Perhaps they've just got badly out of sync...
