dormouse1953

That was the headline in The Independent to an editorial about the Turkish elections.  Made me laugh.

I had a letter in The Indepedent today.  Nothing  exciting.  They had an article about the history recorded sound that mentioned that Emile Berliner had invented the vinyl disc to replace the shellac one.  Berliner  introduced the disc to replace the cylinder, but vinyl didn't start to get introduced until after Berliner's death, and didn't become popular until after WWII.

The thing is, I e-mailed that letter over a week ago.  They must be short of letters at the Indie at the moment as yesterday there was a letter about women's football.  It was an amusing letter that would have been even more amusing if it wasn't almost identical to one that I mention in this posting in November last year.

I'm not a football fan, but this in The Independent amused me:

http://ind.pn/1tiRus1

Amusing misprint in the trivia quiz in today's Independent:

"Which Bafta and Emmy-winning actress is the great-grandfather of the former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith?"

The answer is Helena Bonham Carter.  Herbert Asquith was born in 1852, so his great-grandfather would have been born well over two hundred years ago.  Who knew Helena Bonham Carter was so old and transgender?

I will not be watching the series:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/a-writhing-mass-of-flesheating-maggots-doctors-find-larvae-inside-british-womans-ear-after-she-complained-of-headaches-and-bizarre-scratching-sounds-inside-her-head-8713695.html

So I was just looking at the Independent's newsfeed and tomorrow's obituaries have just turned up.  They were for people called Peter Duckworth and Anthony Lewis.