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July 3, 2008
Exotic holidays
Long gone are the days when reporters used to take their summer holidays in Brighton or Blackpool.
Reporter Charlene Mitchell is off to Borneo tomorrow for a well earned two week break - a far cry from her usual news patch of Ruislip and Northwood.
Returning to the newsroom on Monday will be our Uxbridge reporter Libby Jones who has been holidaying in Slovakia.
And I was interested to read the latest travel blog from our former Hayes reporter John Hugill in this week's Gazette.
He has now reached Nepal so amazingly still seems to have some money left!
John writes:
"Every driver seems to beep excessively.
Let me elaborate on this one.
It seems because the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, are so crowded with people that all drivers tend to do is speed down the smallest of alleyways while giving a little toot on the horn to warn the 300 or so tourists and locals in front of them they are coming through, whether they can get out the way or not.
At first, I just assumed the beeping was aimed mostly at me, on account of my fairly useless road sense. It happened when crossing Uxbridge Road in Hayes every week during my patch sessions, so I merely thought it was a case of history repeating itself. But no.
Next stop for John is Thailand and you can follow his travels in the Gazette or on the website.
The news agenda is still quite slow - I am putting it all down to the recent sunny weather - so the forecasted change over the coming days to rain might perhaps liven things up a bit.
And with our news editor Chris Longhurst off for a couple of days I am hoping for some strong stories for next week's edition.
I will not be able to blame the newsdesk if next week's paper is not up to scratch because I will be the 'newsdesk' along with some much needed help from my production editor.
The latest sales figures for the Gazette have put a smile on the face of everyone in the newsroom because they were one of the best week's of the year - so they might be a hard act to follow. I will keep you posted...
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Posted by aseal at July 3, 2008 7:34 AM