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DEADLINE Please don’t miss the deadline! Last It’s Not Latin …
month’s newsletter had a birthday
Readers trained in the classics may be struggling to
greeting added at one second to midnight translate the words in our cover image.
and two other items that have had to Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
and typesetting industry. It has been the industry's
wait until July. We try to make it easy standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an
unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled
for you — things could be a lot worse — it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not
only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic
here’s a real horror scenario from the typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
distant past that hopefully you’ll never experience. However, diligent academic analysis revealed that
the text is not entirely random but does have its
Back in the early 1990s when everyone was buying their roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from
first viable Windows computer, PC magazines were the 45 BC! Read all about it at www.lipsum.com
size of an old London telephone directory — they catered where you can generate yards of the stuff online.
for the burgeoning market for buyers of hardware and
ancillary products. For many years we advertised our Geek Information Service
software in about eight titles each month — it created an
administrative nightmare in itself because of the Forden & District Bowling Club
publishers’ timetables which all varied.
Entries are invited for the Open Two Wood Pairs
Competition was fierce and technology was advancing (John Roberts Shield)
daily so any computer magazine still at the newsagents competition to be held
with the present month on the cover was actually out of on Sunday 14th August.
date. For a longer shelf life most magazines still publish a The entry fee is £3 per
couple of weeks before the start of each month. But the player with £100 of prize
boom in the computer press was such that publication money to be won.
dates kept getting earlier as different titles tried to keep up Please give your team
with each other — first by a whole month and then by six names to David Griffiths 01938 555458 or Mike
weeks — July issues ended up being on sale in the middle Compton 01938 580348 by Saturday 6th August
of May. To have our adverts appear in a July issue we
might have to send our copy in around the middle of April!
Return to the sane world of the Leighton newsletter and
you only need to do two things: 1. Let us know just as
soon as you think there may be a function or announce-
ment for the next issue 2. Set your phone/alarm clock, etc.
for the middle of the month and send us your copy. We
aim to get each issue out on the 25th of the preceding
month — but we need six days for editing, printing and
assembling… and a few spares to allow for things going
wrong! Next deadline 17th August for September.
Steve Patricia
Sat. 23rd July 2:30 pm
FUN FOR ALL
In the Church grounds — Admission FREE!
DEADLINE Please don’t miss the deadline! Last It’s Not Latin …
month’s newsletter had a birthday
Readers trained in the classics may be struggling to
greeting added at one second to midnight translate the words in our cover image.
and two other items that have had to Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
and typesetting industry. It has been the industry's
wait until July. We try to make it easy standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an
unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled
for you — things could be a lot worse — it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not
only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic
here’s a real horror scenario from the typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
distant past that hopefully you’ll never experience. However, diligent academic analysis revealed that
the text is not entirely random but does have its
Back in the early 1990s when everyone was buying their roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from
first viable Windows computer, PC magazines were the 45 BC! Read all about it at www.lipsum.com
size of an old London telephone directory — they catered where you can generate yards of the stuff online.
for the burgeoning market for buyers of hardware and
ancillary products. For many years we advertised our Geek Information Service
software in about eight titles each month — it created an
administrative nightmare in itself because of the Forden & District Bowling Club
publishers’ timetables which all varied.
Entries are invited for the Open Two Wood Pairs
Competition was fierce and technology was advancing (John Roberts Shield)
daily so any computer magazine still at the newsagents competition to be held
with the present month on the cover was actually out of on Sunday 14th August.
date. For a longer shelf life most magazines still publish a The entry fee is £3 per
couple of weeks before the start of each month. But the player with £100 of prize
boom in the computer press was such that publication money to be won.
dates kept getting earlier as different titles tried to keep up Please give your team
with each other — first by a whole month and then by six names to David Griffiths 01938 555458 or Mike
weeks — July issues ended up being on sale in the middle Compton 01938 580348 by Saturday 6th August
of May. To have our adverts appear in a July issue we
might have to send our copy in around the middle of April!
Return to the sane world of the Leighton newsletter and
you only need to do two things: 1. Let us know just as
soon as you think there may be a function or announce-
ment for the next issue 2. Set your phone/alarm clock, etc.
for the middle of the month and send us your copy. We
aim to get each issue out on the 25th of the preceding
month — but we need six days for editing, printing and
assembling… and a few spares to allow for things going
wrong! Next deadline 17th August for September.
Steve Patricia
Sat. 23rd July 2:30 pm
FUN FOR ALL
In the Church grounds — Admission FREE!
