Belinda Bennett provides a round-up of South West illuminated carnivals
I'VE always considered it a perk of my job (being the editor) to be able to suppress any unflattering images of myself from publication.
I was in my element when I first spotted THAT photo of me looking like Ena Sharples, following last year's Honiton Christmas Carnival.
"It will never see the light of day," I chuckled to myself as I buried it deep in the Herald's archives.
I'm not chuckling now! When the Herald was delivered, hot off the press to a town council meeting last week, my heart missed a beat. There, on page 24, was THAT awful picture.
You'd think, being the editor, I would have seen it before the paper was printed. Nope! Adverts appear as blank squares when I put pictures and stories in the spaces between them. They are added later, by my namesake Belinda Dickens.
Wait till I get my hands on her!