What a great week to do this task. The UK is a country engulfed by a sky full of volcanic ash and is very much an island stranded from the Continent. The tube announcers are kept busier than normal. Aside from the usual 'mind the gap', 'stand clear from the doors' and 'please do not leave papers on the escalators' they are having to alert passengers to the alarming fact that there are currently no flights out of the UK until further notice. We're stuck here until that pesty cloud generated from the Iceland volcano decides to shift out of the flight path. Add this to an election campaign in full swing with Brown competing against Cameron with Clegg somewhere in the middle and the newspapers are bursting with black and white ink and suddenly very, very thick. The good news from all of this is that although the election campaign may have failed to make a dent, the volcanic ash cloud has suceeded......Katie Price has finally been bumped from the front page providing us all with a few days respite.
I have to confess my regular read these days is the free Metro paper picked up from the entry to the tube station on the way to work each day. I am completely up to speed with what Kate Moss is wearing, who Pixie Geldoff is dating, where Prince Harry chose to drink last Friday and whether Jude Law and Sienna Miller are on or off again. I try to balance this poor excuse for a newspaper out with a quick on-line scan of a serious paper; The Times. Unfortunately trying to be a grown up serious newspaper reader has failed once again when my eye was drawn to the cartoon in The Times which captured the headlines perfectly this week.
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