General Chat

Hi RMS ......

how's the heat with you?

it's miserably hot here! The fans are blowing at full speed all the time we're in the house.

Yeah,, the Morning Star is asking for delivery people for their routes all the time. I live just out side of town so we're on a rural route. It is delivered the night before at the boxes so you can pick it up on your way to work.

RMS ........

...... I used to see the Sun being delivered to mail boxes in the area around 100M House as far north as 108 and east to Forest Grove, so someone had a delivery route there.

Not sure how many days a week.

I know that when we first went up there, the Sun would not be available in the stores in 100M until at least very late in the day. More recently, we could buy a copy at 11 am

The local paper up there was not free, but it was good ...... and that was also delivered to mail boxes on a rural route.

I would say Prince Edward Island and Vancouver Island, both Islands as you can see, really do care about newspapers and the news.

As soon as the local newspaper reached its 100th yr in business it was bought up and then shut down :-( so if you want a proper one, delivered and everything, you have to buy one from one of the bigger towns, or you can pick up a free one but those are just delivered to little boxes and you have to go and pick it up yourself. But in 39 degree heat it is not fun. but my parents are like Harry, they NEED their newspaper. No it is not any day, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, so if something important happens on a Sunday you have to wait to Wednesday to find out about it, or you can watch the news on TV. or listen to the radio

AWWW yes we are friendlier then the Americans, thanks for noticing. :-D <3 ;-)




OH Iceland is an Island too!

Rollo


quit please!

I said that I lived in a MAJOR Canadian city, not in the wide open country

Cities here are just like cities in England or France ...........busy, parking difficult, houses near each other, etc etc etc. Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver etc are very little different from London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc

you don't know it all ............... so stop trying to tell me that I'm wrong!


Yes, we used to have a newspaper boy who would walk the streets with the morning paper before 7 am and the evening paper some time between 4 and 5 pm. They had routes that covered about half-a-mile to a mile.

Now we have only a morning paper, delivery is by an adult driving a car, and the route is much larger.

If the paper has not arrived by 8 am, I phone the newspaper's consumer line (which is in another province :-) ), the message is sent to the centre in this city, and I get a paper delivered within about an hour.


and yes ............ you CAN get newspaper delivery in rural areas to your mailbox. It just usually arrives late in the day

Keep the replies coming. Many thanks to Rocky, Vera,Wise child and Rollo.
Purely for the soft hearted. No Mail's left so I had to buy the Express. Lovely to see Rupert the bear still going. I was an avid follower some 75 years ago.

Happy days

Something good comes out of every tragedy.

I get the weekend newspapers for free ...

jeez I'd need another hour a day in the gym just to lift up a thousand pages about expensive condo's in such naff places as Romford ( London ? Really, Chadwell Heath ? ) and even more expensive places to have a disappointing lunch or be overcharged in the evenings.

Fortunately my haunts in Camden Town and Seven Sisters do not figure much in the world of English newspapers though their few real reporters do as they are paid derisory amounts. Only the ad dept can splash the cash.

Then I could read all the crap from clueless commentators in print instead of skipping over it with a click. However I do sometimes make cuttings and the online site serves as quick way to find stuff of interest rather than wade through 1000 pages of dross and supplements.

tip: if you want to read the Daily Blue (Telegraph) online its paywall can easily be dismantled for a day or two by deleting all cookies containing the phrase "teleg". There, saved someone a quid.

Islands are not places where you go to keep up with newspapers and the horrible outside world. Some of my favorites are all well aware of this - Lundy, Isle of Wight, Sark, Ile de Re, Bute, Lewis, Mersea, Failakka, Kubbar, Sans Serrif, Lindisfarne, Rhode Is. Bainbridge Island and so on.
:-D

You can all think yourselves luck.y
No such thing as newspaper deliveries here (unless you subscribe to the local island paper delivered from the printers)
No newspapers or anything, either Spanish or foreign until after 10 am.
OH goes to buy them every morning. English ones cost over €2 except for Sundays when they cost over €3. If there is a hint of mist, they don´t arrive until after midday from Majorca by plane.Reading yesterday´s news is quite a normal thing.
I try not to complain too much. Like Harry, my day isn´t complete without my paper & reading on line just doesn´t do the job. :-| :-|

It would be interesting to see a man and a van trying to deliver newspapers in Camden Town, running the gamut of all day red lines yellow lines cctv high density housing street thieves on pushbikes and scooters.

rofl

The difference in urban geography / culture Canada/UK is so great that any comparison is impossible. Canada is one of the largest territories in the world yet has a population not even half that of the UK. Even then most live within 100 miles of the US border and a handful of large cities. I wonder how newspapers are delivered to Medicine Hat ? Canada is a country where air miles really mean something.

Not that reading yr newspaper is top concern in Canada. Contrary to rumours put about by Americans it is far from boring, lots of interesting places to see, things to do, safer (than the USA) and the Canadians are very friendly and mostly can cook tho' my rellies are a bit taciturn and def. cannot cook anything except steak.

I am very pleased that Joni Mitchell is getting better after her recent stroke.

Altogether now, I'm a lumberjack ...

There is a lot more to a newspaper than "yesterday's news". I am aware that the articles, editorial comment, letters etc are available online and my subscription to my preferred paper allows me to access it online as well as have it delivered, but I don't much enjoy reading it online. Online I am much less likely to comment to OH on something I've read and so get a discussion going, but that often happens when I have the newspaper in my hands.

I also find newsprint more restful on the eyes than a screen.

Surely it is horses for courses. One way isn't necessarily any worse or any better than the other, just different. All the time I can I will continue with my physical newspaper. :-D

Twiddling my thumbs sans newspaper, thought I should reply. (a fly is bothering me and no paper with which to swat it).
Rollo has a point re the shape to come but for me as an oldie, Sylviain makes better reading. Also thanks to RMS for the interest.

Happy days

Read your bible to find out what people should do. read the newspapers to find out what they actually do.

As a young person I had my share of delivering newspapers in all weathers very early in the morning. I don't think it was very good for my education though the money was handy.

Today in the UK there are restrictions on when young people can deliver newspapers before school such that it is more or less impossible to deliver a newspaper before people go to work. This has nothing to do with digital technology but everything to do with 'elf 'n 'safety for young people. It is ez enough in most of the UK to walk round to a neighbourhood shop for most of the population given the very different landscape to Canada!

So there you go in the UK if you want yesterday's news and a hand crafted crossword puzzle no problem it can be delivered (for a fee) before mid morning or picked up from a cornershop/coop/Tesco/OneStop etc from 7am.

For now at any rate. Here is a link which fairly clearly illustrates the stress than newspapers are under as the advertising spend moves on line.

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-seneca-cliff-of-newspaper.html

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww well, I know its not the same but as my Mum no longer needs 9it I will gladly send her book of crossword puzzles to you. :-D

we live in a major Canadian city, and have always had a daily paper delivered ...........we subscribe through the newspaper's office, and they have paid delivery people. They used to have paper boys, but for the last 15 or so years, they have adults who drive cars

Our paper is almost always here at 5:30 am Monday to Friday, about half-an-hour later on Saturday .......... unless there has been a problem at the printing plant.


To answer Rollo .............

not all of us are wedded to tablets, computers, etc etc

some of us much prefer to have paper in our hands and "feel" newspapers, books and magazines.

I do wish you would stop denigrating those of us who do not think as you do, and pretending that you always know better.

All extremely kind and interesting replies.I am grateful to you all, and will do my best to act on some of the ideas expressed.

I pre-date Elizabeth and always smile when people make fun of the banality of some front pages.. When I was a child , the headlines were always about some tragedy of the war. May that never return.

Very best wishes Happy days :-)

Dear Harry

Hello

Since I was a young teenager (many years ago now!), I have always had a very keen interest in newspapers.

With so many of the new events that took place over the years, I remember the newspaper headlines.

Also, the old fashioned black and white print before colour was ever introduced.

Newspapers will always hold a fascination for people and its often something that people save.

I do hope you can something sorted out very soon.


Take gentle care
With my very best wishes to you,
Love Elizabeth, EOS
xx

I like this one no wasted space

http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/common-room/crossword-%E2%80%94-june-2015

Online crosswords any good to you?

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords

seems to be a pick of types.

I like cryptic ones.

My neighbour has a subscription with the Times, which is delivered to her daily by courier

Rollo, old habits die hard with my husband. Like Harry, he looks forward to the newspaper dropping through the letterbox each morning. He reads the print off the sports pages and glances at the general news pages. There are four crosswords too each day which he loves completing. Keeps his old brain working!