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"since" is a nice touch.
Ham | Homepage | 12.09.07 - 2:15 a.m. | #
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Getting to the middle is easy, there is a system, but it doesnt work for getting back out unless you cheat and use the gate.
Debster | 12.09.07 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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I hope they paid you for your original word count and not their edited one?
It's lost a lot in the cutting.
Whenever I have to edit down something someone else has written I always end up wishing I'd just written the damn thing myself to start with.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 12.09.07 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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Forced to hack it down? Didn't they give you a length to write to in the first place - or was someone just hedging their bets?
dg writes: The front of Time Out's had a revamp recently, and shorter articles are now the norm.
Mother of the bride | Homepage | 12.09.07 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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I used to play in Hamton Court Palace grounds and nearby Bushey Park in the 1950's as a lad.
The maze cost 3d (three old pence- a threepenny coin) in those days. Was easy to get to the middle.
You could walk through the Palace courtyards for free.
Nowadays Hamtpton Court Palace is too commercialised, even charging people for the gardens.
John | 12.09.07 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Yup, getting to the middle is easy. It's continually returning to the middle that seems to be the problem.
The gate is there to taunt you.
walter | 12.09.07 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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Personally I didn't enjoy it all that much, I don't know if I had higher expectations or something. Plus the random sounds/conversations that they play over speaks in different areas of the maze I just found annoying.
Was rather chuffed when I got to the middle and hidden somewhere I have a silly photograph as evidence 
The Divine Miss M | Homepage | 12.09.07 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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Certainly it doesn't looks upto the taste. I don't know if I had higher expectations or something. Plus the random sounds/conversations that they play over speaks in different areas of the maze I just found annoying.
nick | Homepage | 12.09.07 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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Just in case you though otherwise
How much do Time Out pay their sub-editors?
Rob | 12.09.07 - 7:44 p.m. | #
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Going round the Hampton Court maze is something I've had on my To Do list since the age of 8 or 9. The maze at Chatsworth House is a good alternative, though - a similar size, and pleasingly difficult to crack.
Sympathies re. the heavy sub-editing. I'm used to being pruned from, say, 300 words to 200, depending on that day's space requirements - which is traumatic enough, as they always take out the best bits - but my lot leave the longer pieces almost entirely untouched...
mike | Homepage | 13.09.07 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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Be grateful you didn't get subbed even more! I remember going in about 20 years ago and finding photocopied instructions someone had dropped just inside the entrance. It said something like:
Hampton Court Maze:
Enter
Left
Left
Right
Right
Right
Right
Right
Left
You are at the centre.
I tried it, and sure enough it worked! (I've forgotten the exact instructions, but it was something as simple and short as that).
I didn't notice anyone looking for lost instructions, so I didn't feel too guilty.
Andrew Denny | Homepage | 14.09.07 - 2:47 p.m. | #
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I tried it, and sure enough it worked
Sai BPO Services (Uk) Ltd | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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