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Monthly arts and media column

Having just moved to the country with the boxes barely unpacked, I’m confessing that I haven’t seen much media lately. So I’m sitting down to write the media column with not much inspiration.

Eleanor Margesson

The problem I’m finding is that unlike the zapsville of London Bridge where I used to live, there just isn’t so much in-your-face media here in rural Surrey, particularly in the realm of advertising. I sit in the garden and hear real, unmediated cows mooing in a nearby field. I drive around through tunnels of un-billboarded overgrowth. Horses trot by and the rain splashes down without a logo in sight. Not a snifter of persuasion from anywhere.