Waiting rooms

A snap from one of the National Geographic's noticed last November. About to be moved to a new life on a downstairs coffee table. Shall I donate them to my doctor's waiting room next time I happen to be there? Would any of the other patients appreciate the change of diet?

I seem to remember that when I was young, dental and medical waiting rooms of the better sort were always equipped with the National Geographic and the London Illustrated News - with my father taking out a subscription to the latter for that very purpose. I don't suppose he ever made any attempt to recover the cost - at least I would be disappointed to learn that he had.

It is a while since I have seen a current number, but I imagine it is much slimmed down, rather in the way of the Scientific American, in the face of the onslaught from the Internet. A once proud magazine, fighting for its life, now offering 12 issues for as little as 12USD.

A quick peek at this number, turns up various items of interest. The quaint advertisements, the very ancient colour printing, the interesting ladies' fashions. A picture from a place called New Glarus in Wisconsin of a young lady in full-on national costume from Switzerland sitting in the middle of what looks like a pile of emmenthal cheeses, with a fine set of holes in one of them on show. Whereas I have not seen an entire emmenthal on show since Paxton & Whitfield in Jermyn Street stopped doing them, what must be years ago, in favour of better paying tourist stuff.

Perhaps I will get to read a bit more during the advertisement breaks on ITV3.

PS: old Lumia struggling with this sort of close-up. Hopefully the new Lumia will return from the menders before too long.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/new-season-at-ri.html.

Reference 2: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.swisstown.com/.

Reference 4: https://www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk/.