Dear LPG,

With all the free time we have had recently there has been nothing but time to think back to the good old uncomplicated days that we grew up in.  When I talk about ‘we’ in this context, I mean the ‘we’ that were once the long lost children of the middle of last century. 

I was just having a bit of a personal reminiscence session over a cup of tea, something I would have done while glancing through the pages of a newspaper to catch up with the news not so long ago, but a thing that I think nothing of doing while watching breakfast television or bringing it up on my tablet today. 

While I was doing that the other day I found the internet article which spurred me on to writing this little message. 

Things change so quickly that we don’t even realise just how quickly it happens.  We oldies used to be those most likely members of society to indulge ourselves with that morning ritual of working out what we had missed while in the land of nod overnight, by immersing ourselves in the pages of one or the other of the broadsheets or tabloids, but so much has changed.

We blame so much on the pandemic which has forced so many of us older people to depend on early morning television to tell us what is going on in the world, and more and more of us are turning to our electronic tablets or phones to keep up these days.

But the internet tells that half of the paper versions of the newspapers that are read are now online and the idea of becoming a paper boy for a bit of extra money is quickly becoming a rite of passage that no longer exists for the young boys of today.   Perhaps this door to door habit has well and truly been taken over by the students and young adults who deliver all sorts of leaflets and paper adverts that so often arrive in their stead, and of course the delivery of the parcels of online shopping that are such a big part of modern living. 

 I would like to share a couple of bits I found online which present as evidence of my thoughts…  

RM, Forest Hill

RM shares what he found online…

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