Paper Monitor
11:42 UK time, Tuesday, 12 October 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Outside, it's autumn - season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and picking out a nice big chunky coat for the winter ahead.
In anticipation of bright, chilly mornings, yellowing leaves and switching on the central heating, Paper Monitor switches on Radio 4, settles down with a pot of tea and toast with marmalade to see how Fleet Street welcomes in those lengthening nights.
In the Daily Mail, none other than David Bellamy assures us that, this year, the "richness of the autumn colours" is "set to last well into November".
He adds:
The experts at the National Arboretum say that some trees are turning much later than usual because of the mild weather, their green leaves contrasting beautifully with the reds, plums and oranges more usually associated with the season.
All this surely makes any right-thinking person want to go for a nice, long walk, draped in a scarf, Thermos buried in rucksack.
Even the Guardian, that most metropolitan of papers, is in on the act, too. On its is an image of a deer nestling inside some browning foliage. Its is given over to an image of another one having a nice sit down in the sharp October sunlight.
However, Paper Monitor's favourite nature story of the day comes not from these autumnal shores but from the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia.
The Times shows a photograph of a king penguin on one of the islands' beaches [Subscription required].
Photographer Robert Fuller offers a frank eye-witness account:
Several seals had just come out of the surf and were lying on the shore blocking the penguins from getting to the water. This young penguin was very annoyed and just went up and slapped the seal.
Paper Monitor resolves to beat the crowds by taking a flightless bird on that impending winter coat-purchasing expedition.
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