Image on a Times obit:
Caption:
Hilleary with his wife, Sheena (née Mackintosh), an Olympic skier. The couple married in 1952
What’s the story being told here? His wife was a bike? Rather breaching the nil nisi, no?
Image on a Times obit:
Caption:
Hilleary with his wife, Sheena (née Mackintosh), an Olympic skier. The couple married in 1952
What’s the story being told here? His wife was a bike? Rather breaching the nil nisi, no?
She’s provided a parking station for the bike – muscles like steel, these skiers – but the photo has been cropped for the sake of decency.
Sadly, it’s now been corrected and the caption reads:
“Hilleary, an irrepressible daredevil, pulls a stunt on a mountain bike at the age of 65”
The original caption is attached to a more conventional photo taken with his wife. But what a life!
I ‘appen to know one of the folks who subedits those pages and his response was along the lines of “Oh, F**k!”. Which came through an hour or two ago….