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Posted: 11-09-2013 23:26 Post subject: FT 306

What's this? An FT arriving on a Wednesday?! Fortean indeed. Have just had a quick look through and it seems to be crop circle-tastic, though be warned there are a couple of distressing pics featuring children in Strange Days.

Posted: 12-09-2013 02:04 Post subject:

I thought it odd that no-one had mentioned their copy arriving earlier than this. People comment on that a week before its release date...

Posted: 12-09-2013 07:10 Post subject:

The milkman used to bring mine! Laughing

Posted: 12-09-2013 07:49 Post subject:

There has definitely been a delay with subs getting their copies of this issue; folks on Twitter reported getting it Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. No idea why.

If they're selling off the Royal Mail this morning, who knows when the next issue will arrive?

Posted: 12-09-2013 18:32 Post subject:

Had a proper look at it, sounds as if the Stonehenge crop circle wasn't so mysterious after all, though the forum piece seems a bit like point scoring. Taxidermy stuff is something I always find quite eerie, especially when made into artworks, but I can't deny it has its fascination (not the bottle opener in a deer's arse, I can live without that).

Good crop of biography weirdness, I've heard the Alec Guinness warning to James Dean before, the John Simpson one is interesting, though, might have been a prank, yet still sinister. Liked the weirder IHTM too, the weirder they get the paradoxically easier they are to believe: e.g. aliens under the bed, why make that up? That said, I wish FT would print a paragraph saying yes, that message from the future really was an advert. If only it was on YouTube...

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Posted: 13-09-2013 10:31 Post subject:

I had no idea Potter's Museum was in Bramber, that's just down the road from me. I might go and see if I can find the building, at least.

Posted: 13-09-2013 18:22 Post subject:

Anyone think Sir Benjamin's big black cat might be one of his big black dogs?

Posted: 13-09-2013 20:23 Post subject:

The Walter Potter museum article was fun as it triggered a memory for me which I had to double check with my mother. I had never been sure if my memory of seeing these stuffed animals was actually real or falsely remembered through seeing photos in books or papers when I had grown up a bit. Turns out that the collection had indeed made an impression on me aged about four! I had been to the museum in Arundel while we were on holiday down in Worthing. I think that the white mice and kittens were particularly memorable. Mum remembers them as being a bit badly stuffed (some of the animals were not easily identifiable!) and that it was all rather dusty!

The crop circle article left me a bit cold and I'm yet to delve into the bits and bobs at the front as I tend to read the main articles first then work towards the back of the mag, then back to the front and into the middle! Laughing

Am I the only one who reads FT in a certain way?

Posted: 14-09-2013 12:09 Post subject:

Tilly, I read FT like a book. I start from the beginning and work my way to the back. I can't cope with reading it any other way.

Mine arrived on Monday BTW, I just haven't got round to posting about it!

Posted: 15-09-2013 21:01 Post subject:

I nearly missed my copy this month! Found it on the living room chair under a pile of things. Turns out it had arrived on Wednesday, but on that day I had a splitting migraine, so Mr. Urvogel said he put it out of sight on the chair because 'I knew it would make you sad that it was here but you were too ill to read it'.

Bless :3

Posted: 18-09-2013 02:47 Post subject:

Any word on what will be in the 40th anniversay issue? Let's hope it's better than the 300th issue!

Posted: 18-09-2013 08:11 Post subject:

Mine turned up yesterday. Yay! Very Happy

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