15 July 2008 - Posts

Brain teaser

Got the mag off to the printers last night without too many problems, though one of the cover lines did leave us scratching our heads until right at the eleventh hour.

One of our features this month is on the Cranleigh Show, which is always a popular event, so naturally we wanted to make sure we had that mentioned on the cover.

The problem was coming up with a line that worked.

What we really wanted to say was something like this...

"Cranleigh Show: Celebrating the best of rural Surrey"

OR

"Cranleigh Show: The very best of rural life"

... Except, we couldn't because we had already used the words 'best', 'life' and 'Surrey' in other cover lines.

Hence, there we were at 7pm last night still trying to come up with a nice agricultural style line that conjured up the idea of food, farming and country pursuits in Surrey, but in less than eight words and without using any of those we'd used elsewhere.

Suffice to say, it started to feel a bit like some weird game of scrabble after a while (though rather less fun, given that unless we came up with something quick pronto, we were going to miss the print deadline).

Anyway, I won't tell you what we finally settled on (that would be far too easy!) but answers on a postcard to the usual address or let us know your suggestions below!

posted by Caroline Harrap with 0 Comments