Drunken sail boat

Oh dear! Do be careful what you wish for. A quote from your Back

in the Day in AP 24 November – ‘some of the old AP covers are probably best kept locked in the archive’ – may come back to haunt you.

Why so? Look again at the front cover of the 17 November edition of AP featuring ‘Beside the Sea’. What we got was a drunken ship lying against some rotting timbers in a ‘sea’ of talcum powder. At least that’s what it looked like to me and hardly worth the archive. I dearly hope AP will still be around in 50 years’ time but I hope by then the front cover editor may have seen the error of his/her ways! Leslie Lawrence That image won a national photography competition, Leslie, and I really liked it, but I shall have strong words with our Front Cover Editor and tell him to avoid drunken ships in future – Nigel Atherton, Editor