I read yesterday's paper in the bath today and as I'd predicted I threw most of it away quite quickly. I got the Daily Telegraph, for free as there is an offer on newspapers at Waitrose, as a change from The Guardian which I usually read. I had read much of The Guardian online so thought the Telegraph's Saturday special edition might be better and have a different set of crosswords.

When I reached the Review section I became really intrigued by the well written articles all of which seemed very interesting to me. I also found the design of the Review was much more modern and surprisingly full of unusual imagery, which I particularly noticed. I've now added a couple of books to my must read list, especially 'The Best of Times, the Worst of Times' by Michael Burleigh, published by Macmillan.

Whilst lying back in the bath I considered that it would be fun to blip the Review and this double page spread caught my eye, a preview of the imminent V&A exhibition called 'Ocean Liners: Speed and Style' which opens on February 3rd 2018.

I liked the writing which was fun and informative, the graphic style and the selection and layout of the associated images. I love the 1932 poster advertising the ships 'Rex' and 'Conte di Savoia' that were newly sailing from Genoa to New York. Next to it is the photo of the 'Queen Mary''s Verandah Grill. Beside that on the left hand page is a photo promoting the 'Pop Inn' for teenagers on the new 'Canberra' in 1961. The 'Pop Inn's walls were apparently designed and decorated by a young David Hockney, then a student at the Royal college of Art in London, who was 'paid £100 to sketch burnt images with a hot poker into its soft pine walls'.

I also noticed the adverts for the ENO, which bookend the article. An old friend of mine joined the ENO as their graphic designer in about 1987 and I think he may have been involved in their simple corporate logo, which they still seems to be using today. Laurence had previously just won a D&AD graphic design award while he was at college.

Finally I must add a comment about the lead article in the Review which caught my eye immediately. It was titled 'Dynamite for the imagination' and was a personal view by Katherine Rundell captioned thus: 'A children's book should do more than educate or amuse, it can blow open their world'. She is the author of 'The Explorer' (Bloomsbury) which won the 2017 costa Children's Book Award. Helena will love it.

Please excuse the photography, as it was done under three different lights sources, and the paper had been through the bathing experience earlier in the day.