Does anyone miss weekend papers…. And what can I replace them with for a lazy Sunday

[Pizzaandcakes]

DC are getting older and I have more and more free time. I have just remembered before DC I loved weekend papers. Sometimes we would go to a pub and spend hours reading - or laze around at home with a pot of coffee.
After news I like travel and culture sections. Sometimes food.

Can you even still get hard copy newspapers?!

Has anyone for a good lazy Sunday routine?

You can still get them!

Still delivered around here. Find your nearest newsagent.

Yes you can definitely still get them! My mum & dad get one every weekend.

Yes, we get them (we get the Saturday one and it lasts us).
Used to be from local newsagent but they stopped doing it so I think we get them from newsteam group now.

Why wouldn't you get newspapers ? Of course you can although although I think my mum pays nearly a fiver for Sunday papers

Just go buy one and keep your local newsagents in business. In fact you can buy a subscription from your chosen paper and purchase vouchers pre-payment for a better price, then use those!

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There's a big bank of them by the door at most supermarkets. I'm surprised you haven't noticed.

Have you been to a garage or supermarket lately? Of course you can still get hard copy newspapers. Just go and buy them

Seriously? How do you not know you can buy papers?

Routine: go and buy a paper of your choice ( I will judge you if you buy The Mail on Sunday) Make a pot of tea, assemble breakfast of choice, read papers and eat breakfast.

It's nice to do this outdoors if the weather is good.

Ok, I’m officially an idiot who hasn’t had enough coffee!!
I must be walking past papers every time I go to the supermarket!
Clearly I’m not very observant.

Can you even still get hard copy newspapers?!

Do you never go out? Have you not been to a supermarket/newsagent/petrol station? Of course you can buy newspapers 🥴

We buy The Times every Saturday. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll read every bit and we have to complete the big crossword by Sunday evening.

You can definitely still get them! My parents still have the Times spread out everywhere on a Sunday. I remember the Funday Times from being a kid!

Can you guess their loyalties?

Paper headlines: Welby's Starmer plea and stalking calls soar - BBC News

🤣🤣🤣. Love it. Yes definitely loads of papers at supermarkets

We still have newspapers delivered one on weekdays, 2 at the weekend. 2 shops in our village have stopped selling them and we only get ours delivered by car because they deliver to a hotel, otherwise the shop wouldn’t bother.

Are you living on a small island?

Well wherever you live you’re doing a great job of promoting buying newspapers - ‘travel, culture sections. Sometimes food.’ 😂

I do love a good newspaper though. I take mine on train rides. So I can absorb the full paper and print experience while travelling.

I always add them to my picnic basket while foraging and forest bathing in woodlands.

Best of all is lounging on a beautiful beach, removing my newspapers from my hessian bag so I can immerse myself in art and culture while performing alternative nostril breathing 😊

You could enquire at your local newsagent about delivery.

We get a Saturday paper delivered usually before we make coffee and are usually too busy on a Saturday so it stands in as a Sunday paper, but we could get a Sunday delivery instead/as well it costs just under £1 plus cost of paper and we pay our bill at the end of each month.

A lazy Sunday, they don't always happen but they do, radio6 on radio, clear kitchen, we try to keep Sunday laundry free, not always possible and will of course use a line drying day if we are in and it's a Sunday but in the whole Sunday isn't for laundry, make coffee with paper until teens emerge. Give tens a bit of fruit to tide them over, when kitchen is clear make an egg dish, boiled eggs and toast is easy. Over eggs as a family we usually do newspaper crossword, offer our uneducated advice on the "problem" pages, discuss any relevant/fun/outrageous/interesting news stories.

Get teens to get homework/revision out, whilst they are doing that lead by example and do any admin or read.

Sport is usually on in the afternoon, most weekends, so I generally slowly prep Sunday dinner with radio. Today is mexican buffet, I really like soaking beans they are so pretty so they have been soaking overnight.

We have a few family favourite board games we might play one of those.

I also might do a "need the family" decluttering, like today, all of our Wellington boots, the kid's feet have grown so everyone will get socks on and we shall see which ones need to go to charity later.

Everyone has a shower, get bags, uniforms ready for Monday morning and watch a couple of episodes just before bed of something we are all watching, after the kids have had their "gaming hit".

We can also add in a walk round local woods, I take photos for portraits of the kids, nothing online, so take a DSLR with them dressed in contrasting colours if I can make them.

We also sometimes have a "modern image" jigsaw on the go, or I make them sketch.
with me, just because they aren't taking art GCSE is no excuse not to be able to draw a bit as far as I am concerned

And we are pricing up a decent electronic piano because the keyboard is small now.

The hard part now seems to be getting them delivered. I love reading them over breakfast on a Sunday but the enjoyment is lost if I have to dress and go out to shops first especially as a lot aren't open before 10am.

Is this a serious question?

In my defence, I have not read a hard copy paper in many years and I used to buy one every day and a couple at the weekend. Most people arrived at work with a paper in hand 15 years ago and spent lunchtime reading. I returned to work in recent years and I can’t think of having seen a single paper. No one I know reads a newspaper.
Everyone reads news online.
So I wondered is they are even around. Certainly their circulation numbers must be low.
I can think of seeing a big magazine stand in my local Asda, can’t picture actual newspapers but guessing they are there and I haven’t noticed.

Sounds perfect 🤩

But lots of us read the online newspaper with a subscription!

Online though you just don't come across smaller stories that you do with a paper.

I find I have a much more narrow range online, and do read online during the week, but a hard copy paper I find it makes me certainly and I think the rest of the family more broadly informed. Plus it's more communal because we are all reading the same thing at the same time.