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March 28, 2008
Musical chairs
Another busy week is comning to an end - it's always difficult cramming four days into five due to the Easter break.
We got a reasonably strong paper out this week given the constraints of Easter deadlines although for the second week running a cock up has left some of our readers fuming - quite rightly.
The pre-story to the announcement of the winners for our Gazette Top Toddler competition in next week's paper got completely obliterated by an advert.
So instead of a story about the judging of the competition and details of how the winners will be announced in the Gazette there was a nice picture of the judges, no story and a whacking great advert running into the picture!
I could spend all week investigating what went wrong but the damage has been done and I can only apologise to those readers who were left completely in the dark by the whole sorry event.
It's a case of musical chairs in the editorial department today as we are moving things around to accommodate our central features team, who are moving from one part of the building in Gazette House, to the general news and production area.
Hopefully things will go smoothly and all the computers will work when they are switched on again - luckily our IT guys are doing the move so I will not have to worry about all the technical stuff.
At the moment I am also keeping one eye on the weekend weather.
Last weekend I emabarked on doing the Thames Walk which for the record is more than 185 miles from the source in Wiltshire to the Thames Barrier.
I am doing it in stages over the course of several months and hopefully will be looking to complete the 12 mile stage from Cricklade to Letchlade on Sunday.
However, as much as I like walking my plans will be put on hold if it chucks it down with rain plus the fact the footpaths in that area were pretty flooded when I walked the first stage last weekend and I also don't like getting my feet wet!
Anyway, what ever you are doing have a good weekend.
Posted by aseal at March 28, 2008 7:58 AM