The artwork for the Beardy Issue! Want it! Want it!

By the way, is toast an option if I renew my subs?

I subscribe and then find out that it's other people that are getting free bread.

that terrible sticky stuff on the back that rips off half the cover star's beard then I'm happy with that!

Am I the only one who finds these mock covers better than the real thing recently...?!

I might also be the only person looking forward to the US Election night in the hope that Sarah Palin gets on stage wearing a Stars & Stripes bikini and machine guns down the crowd!

I need a lie down...

because he's on his difficult second century, all the fans prefer the runs he scored in his early years.
His last album ashes to ashes didn't set the wicket alight....
can subscribers get low gi sunflower seed spelt bread or maybe a bath oliver....

Don't the Beano often put a free Drumstick lolly or mini bag of sweets on the front? Or at least, they did in my day. That should solve your problem.

Or you could make the CD cases out of rice paper? Just a thought

you could use the Best Of Bread as a covermount cd.

I'll get my coat...

I can quite see how such a hard-pressed organisation as Tesco needs to do this http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/15/tesco.retail

Anyway, don't all Word readers shop at Waitrose?

We're going to produce our magazines on rice paper.

They've really got us over a barrel, as if they didn't before.

but I would probably renew my subscription with the promise of the occasional tea bag or chocolate hob-nob (dark) as an enticement.

...would look good stuck on the front. A ready-meal of "curry" or "risotto" delights, lasting many months.

at the checkout: "Oh, you want me to pay now? I was thinking of dropping a cheque in around the end of December."

...I genuinely thought that was Seasick Steve on the cover...

... a free beard with every copy?

Oh sorry. I see what you've done there now. V clever!

They're not having any of my money if I can help it. Are they not profitable enough?

Already a subscriber but even more reason to do it now.

ps - I thought the "Seasick Steve" cover was you lot out bearding everything before.

therefore wont have to go to any shop, thank god.

"Tesco said last night it had asked only 300 of its suppliers for 60-day payment terms on goods such as televisions, books, kettles and clothing."

Remind the bully boys about what happened to Brand and Ross.

to issues shipped overseas? I can see quarantine having a few issues, and while I appreciate the gesture, I'm not sure that my bread will be good for anything other than propping up the short leg of the coffee table.

...an exclusive edition granary slice rather than the ordinary white slice on all the shop bought editions?

Each slice of bread has been lovingly hand-purchased from the 24 hour garage, just down the road from the WORD offices. It has been stamped with an authentic serial number and comes with a photocopy of a terse letter that we received from the Nottingham Guild of Master Bakers, confirming that it is authentic bread that you could actually eat if you weren’t planning to sell it on Ebay.

The accompanying magazine offers detailed background information on your slice of bread and includes exclusive images and interviews with bakers.

Don’t miss your free Quantum of Solace breadbin in the next issue. PLUS! Find out why James Bond is afraid of bread!

Alternatively, you could burn the Now Hear This! CD directly onto spicy poppadoms (we have the technology, I'm sure), thereby assuring strategic in-store positioning in the more upmarket foodie section.

However, some rebranding might be necessary, consolidating consumer awareness by fusing together the twin concepts of intelligent pop music and post-colonial cuisine. Recent focus-group research among male ABC1s aged 30-55 has reported strong positive reactions to the name "Massive Patak's".

A pitta bread would be less crumbly and could double up as a handy pouch for the cover CD.

surely next months it's a kraft cheese single followed by a slice of ham with another. ready for a new year toastie

You need to get one back on the big corporates. I've seen many a small company taken down by large corporate customers, who abuse their position by unilaterally altering their payment terms.

But what response can be made? Could Word readers threaten a boycott? Would Tesco care? No!

So my suggestion is a lollipop called "Suck on this, Tesco"

In other industries the Holy Grail of the purchase ledger department is 90 days, with payment 60 days from the end of the month of invoice the norm. Any customer which normally paid my firm's bills in 30 days could practically name its price. None do.

from his hirsute of face days, case rests.

...as our Tesco hasn't had Word in for months (they have Mojo/Uncut/Q)- get mine from the independent CD shop.

My local Co-op did not stock The Word...although I never went to check the bread counter.

I hope you will take the trouble to supply different types of bread over the months - ciabatta, rye, nan - not just manky old wholemeal.

Easy, print the mag on rice paper. Therefore no extra cost of packaging and less mouldy.

A slice of bread around P32 ... yummy, yummy ... though I would prefer a slice of medium Cheddar instead. But, then, we can't have everything ... a great magazine, good columnists, occasional Bob Dylan articles and I'm still waiting for you to do something good on John Hiatt, John Prine and tell me what's happening with Marshall Crenshaw ... I shall keep watching and waiting. Cheers!

Stop this "Free CD" stuff now. I have a small mountain of "free" CDs that I have not listened to, and I will not listen to. My life is too short. (Do you want my "free" CDs? Come on over and bring a big box.)

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