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Spelling, drugs and homosexuality: A Fleet Street sub gives forth

We at The Rockall Times are always happy to receive reader feedback — as long as it's largely positive and doesn't come from Denmark.

Happily, then, the following short missive is not from Denmark and is sort of largely positive:

Dear Les,

Hope you hate being called Les. Just visited the Rockall Times site, and have been laughing hard all afternoon.

But as a poof (see "poof") who also spent a decade as a Fleet Street sub, I think you could do with a better spell-check programme than you already have. Could I also ask what kind of drugs you folks are on, if only to avoid them myself?

Otherwise, keep up the good work.

Best wishes from snowy Andalucia,

John Gill.

For the record, we don't have time to be messing about with spell-checking programmes, prefering instead to invest the time saved in the ingestion of a near-lethal cocktail of beer and... more beer. This, we believe, is hard to avoid in Andalucia where millions of lobster-red Northerners proudly wearing football colours have displaced the indigenous population and turned every bar and bodega into a Sky Sports emporium awash with cheap Spanish lager.

Nothing wrong with that, of course. We at The Rockall Times have often wistfully mused on the possibility of escaping the tidal wave of immigrants threatening to engulf the UK by, er, emigrating to sunnier climes. Marbella looks nice at this time of year, and not a foreigner in sight...

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