Birthday lunch crime
Three-mile run Friday night then nice weekend. Stayed away from the golf course on Saturday as Harry had five mates coming round and I'd agreed to take them to the cinema (Harry's birthday). Harry is film mad.
Dropped them off then went to travel agent with Lynne and Morgan, 3, who is obsessed by Disneyworld. Picked up some brochures - whichever way you carve it, it will cost an arm and a leg.
Took it easy Sunday. Wanted to watch England v India cricket but England so awful from the outset that I lost interest.
Cooked lunch - Tempura vegetables followed by Pork Chops with pears and parsnip, then chocolate mousse. Couldn't eat the tempura or the mousse for reasons of a. diet and b. cholestorol, but rest semed to like. Overdid the wine, but at least it dulled the pain of watching my beloved Newcastle beaten again - this time at home to Bolton. They looked lifeless and tactically bereft. I fear the worst this season.
Opened up some emails - one from a reader who is concerned at the amount of crime in the paper. So difficult. We have to reflect what's happening in Liverpool but sometimes we get the balance wrong and clearly too much crime in a paper is a turn-off. Yet big crime stories undoubtedly sell papers. The reader took issue with our front page about shots being fired in the heart of Liverpool clubland. Bit of a non-story, they said. No one hurt. The trouble was that we were going to press as the story was developing, the full facts were not in play.As always, it was a decision made in good faith based on the information available at the time.
We will though, keep striving for balance.
