When I was ten, we did a project about newspapers in Mrs Beeston’s class and I was so excited by the whole experience that I went home to make my own newspaper. I made about eight copies and hand-wrote them all, and made a potato print logo that I stamped on each page.

Not sure my business acumen was quite there; It took me a whole weekend to make eight twelve-page copies and I only charged 2p each. I’d learnt about how big the New York Times was, so drew a Garfield-style cartoon of a small dog struggling to pick the enormous newspaper up off the doormat. And the headline story was about our new kitten.

If I’d been twenty years younger, I would have been an obsessive teeny-blogger no doubt. (A couple of years later I started a photocopying bonanza with the more ambitious ‘Bunny Times’ and then moved on to elaborate psychedelic cartoons for the Sixth Form magazine Jism. But those are not seeing the light of day!)

26 January 2008 | Journalism |