In 1965 I was introduced to The Guardian Weekly by an engineer from Manchester who was also working in Oruro, Bolivia. I have been a subscriber ever since.
The Guardian followed me to Cochabamba, Bolivia; Cuernavaca, Mexico; to Toronto; and on to Sydney, Cape Breton Island, where my wife and I moved in 1972. In Cape Breton the frost-free date is June 15, and our first summer I planted some tomato sets on that date, only to have them destroyed by a blizzard on the 17th.
Your coverage of events from one end of our earth to the other turned out to be very practical. In Cape Breton I found employment as an editorial writer for the local newspaper. By that time I had been reading The Guardian Weekly for seven years. And while I can hardly say that this was the only source of my international copy, it provided a background for my own thinking.
Now retired and living in Ottawa (the second-coldest capital city in the world), we read the online Guardian daily, but still treasure the Weekly paper edition. We shall continue to subscribe to The Guardian Weekly; the new edition of it is even better.
