All the news that's fit to print

I am addicted to newspapers. Not online but the real paper and ink thing. I am interested in the news, I love the features and I really have to read all the bits and pieces.

That means finding out what the Royal Family has got up to. Has the Duchess of Wessex really opened another nursery school and whose hand has Camilla shaken yesterday? I have to know. But it's not just the Royals. Who's has been hatched, matched or dispatched? Do I recognise any names there? Probably not but you never know.

And then there is Whose birthday it is today. By order of seniority and, of course, the only young ones are sportsmen or women. But there is that extra bit which I relish. I mean, I bet you did not know that it is Julius Caesar's birthday today. For your information, he was born in 102 BC. So many happy returns, Julius.

 But wait a minute - don't we use the Gregorian calendar today and wasn't that introduced in 1582? (No I didn't know but I just looked it up). Before that, everyone was using the Julian Calendar, introduced by Julius C. himself.  So how can we be sure we are celebrating the right day? I would hate to be lighting two thousand, one hundred and fifteen candles on the wrong day.