In hot, remote Africa the sun glares down all day and it is only cool indoors, so in our sitting room we can read the Guardian Weekly. I began to take interest in it about two years ago, but my parents have been reading since I was born: all of my 12 years.
I enjoy the Eyewitnessed pictures in the middle of the paper; they’re awfully fun and interesting to see. My family also enjoy the Missing Links on the Diversions page and we do them with friends as well. First we all wildly try to guess the answers, then Mum reads the solutions from the next page.
By reading the film reviews, we discovered an entertaining but touching film, Florence Foster Jenkins. It has hilarious singing and is a great family film.
My parents read the Guardian Weekly more than I do, but if there is an article that would appeal to me, they show it to me. One of these was The letters that make a writer by Ben Blatt (7 April 2017). I was interested to read about Vladimir Nabokov and his coloured hearing, or synaesthesia, since we have noticed that names and objects have colours for me too.
My whole family loves the Guardian Weekly, and I know I will my whole life! But being so far from Britain we normally get our papers very late, so I probably won’t see my own Good to meet you article for a couple of months.
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