please empty your brain below

Me too. I tried reading the paper online for a couple of days when it was too icy to go out but it's just not the same. Here's hoping they find some way of making online content pay, so that they can continue to subsidise the paper version for us stick-in-the-muds. And anyway, it's very hard to light a fire with a web page.

And exactly what am I going to use to cover tables when doing arty things, and in the bottom of my hen house?

Nope.

Could've said the same thing about radio and TV. You'd have been wrong.


Nothing like the feel of a proper paper when you have got the time and space to do it justice. I think they will hang on in there for a few more years and hope that the iPhone generation grow to appreciate them too.

I've been following your blog (via RSS feed) for a while now and enjoy a lot of what you write about.

For me the saddest thing about the possible demise of the newspaper is that our descendants won't be able to touch the newspapers of our day in say 100 years time. I have a 1903 "The Times" and an 1859 "Illustrated London News" and just love reading these, touching them and wondering about the person that first bought them.

Perhaps the papers will share the fate of vinyl records...











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