Just been battling through the weekend papers.
Always a hard one, isn't it: deciding which papers to read. There's not time to read what's in the one you do opt for, so choosing which one to buy in the first place becomes even more of a conundrum.
Sundays are a no-brainer for me: it's The Observer. Saturdays, however, present me with more of a dilemma. I quite like The Guardian, although having been brought up a nice lower middle class boy, I can't help but worry if reading it makes me "a leftie".
Often, I go for the Telegraph: they have some interesting rural-related articles and columnists. Today, for example, there is a piece about truffles in the Weekend section, and the irrepressible Robin Page is writing about butterflies.
For those of us who are interested in writing, there is also the fascinating A Writer's Year column by Louise Doughty.
The difficulty I have with the Telegraph is that one of favourite bits of any paper, the book reviews, are always full of military and historical stuff (or more likely and worse still, military history) which I can't get excited about.
Today, for example, what are the first two reviews I come across? Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India since the Great Rebellion and An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. I'm feeling sleepy already.
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