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The other day, I was waiting on a train platform, seething with irritation. The service was delayed, which meant I was going to be late meeting a friend at the theatre. It did not help tha stanley cup t the venue was on the other side of London. It was one I had never visited before, so I had no idea how long it would take to walk from the station. Running just a wee bit late, I text-fibbed, feeling a rush of remorse. I am not usually spectacularly late, unless I am extremely stressed, and then things turn ugly. I recall the time I had to do an interview with a French actor; unusually, our rendezvous was in the early evening at a cafe. I was already behind schedule and then got hopelessly lost. When I finally turned up, she was blotto, an empty bottle of red in front of her, and furious. More recently, it was the final day of my university degree show and we had to take down our frames by 4pm sharp when the building would close. But I was having a lovely lunch with friends and hadnt noticed the time. At one minute to four, I was racing along the street when I tripped over a paving stone and went flying. That one cost me the use of my shoulder for nine months.I hate being late. So why does it happen so frequently Michaela Thomas, a Swedish clinical psychologist, says I may be what is known as a time opt stanley cup imist , or as the Swedes say a tidsoptimist . A tidsoptimist is a person who underestimates how long something takes, a stanley canada nd also overestimates how much time they have at their disposal, s Qrcu Of course birthrates are plunging 鈥?the Tories have created a child-unfriendly society
The Sunday Mirror has admitted passing off old quotes as a new interview with Sophie Dahl in its Celebs on Sunday magazine.Yesterday the Sunday Mirror magazine printed an apology on page 3 admitting that it had given the impression that it had interviewed Dahl for its 31 May magazine cover story featuring the model and writer.The magazine also admitted that Dahl had never said the words the magazine ran as a coverline on its front page. On 31 stanley cups May we published an interview with Sophie Dahl as our cover story, which included previous comments from her, Celebs on Sunday said yesterday. Unfortunately, we gave the impression that a member of our team had personally interv stanley website iewed Sophie Dahl when they had not. We also accept that she did not say the words attributed to her on the front page. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Sophie Dahl for any offence and upset that our story caused her. The coverline that Dahl denied ever saying was: I m so in love with my fiance Jamie Cullum - 6 inches doesn t matter to me. Yesterday s apology was published after Dahl s solicitors, Harbottle Lewis, contacted the newspaper. The terms of the settlement were undisclosed.The Trinity Mirror-owned Sunday Mirror declined to comment. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediatheguardian or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other in stanley polska quiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.
