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?

I used to get a Sunday Times and it would take me almost a week to read it. Then on Saturday I would tear into squares and put them on a nail in the outside toilet and read bits of it again over the next few days. It's surprising what you miss the first time around (reading that is).

I love getting The Times on Saturday- it's the right size to read comfortably, the Sunday one becomes a bag of snakes within 5 minutes.
I enjoy it because it is good impartial journalism, often particularly incisive on issues such as the university landscape, which I'm interested in as an academic and with a son who will hopefully go into higher education. Lots of great articles, financial advice and holiday ideas.

I definitely read less of a variety of articles when reading online. I’m going out soon so will be checking my nearest source.
There is a chance I’m fondly recalling Sundays that were about a different life stage rather than the actual newspaper reading! We’ll see.

I buy a paper at the weekend, sometimes one in the week (sometimes more), pay a monthly subscription for the news I read online, get a weekly roundup magazine delivered and get a younger reader weekly news magazine delivered for the kids, they are too old really now but it has feel good stuff and a weekly debate that not only they love their friends love it as well so we have to save it for when mates are around now!

I don't want our news and journalism to be beholden to media moguls and their advertisers. A free, independent press is essential to a healthy democracy.

It costs money yes, but not that much and there are, in my opinion, many more useless things to spend cash on.

H agrees, he has said he would give up his sports TV subscription before our news subscriptions, I mean it's unlikely to be challenged, in this case it's the thought that counts.

@Pizzaandcakes occasionally you get a dud weekend copy with fuck all in it, if that happens today don't give up try again.

I was surprised at the OP asking such a question but to be fair you do have to search a bit more for them in the shops.

I get the Sunday Times, but only every few weeks now.

When our local Co-op first opened around 15 years ago there used to be big piles of them stacked near the door, now there's a small perspex rack at the end of one of the aisles. More than once if also buying milk etc I've walked out the store forgetting the newspaper as I didn't see them!

@frozendaisy I read the one which is literally the paper copy put online so it's just the same. The Times has the choice of several options of how to read.

Love the weekend papers. The Saturday Guardian is full of good stuff, and the FT is always thought -provoking, although shorter on actual news than the others.

Of course you can still buy a newspaper 🙄. I get an Observer delivered every week (and our local newspaper).

Although I've just popped to the shop for the Times as I want to scowl at the rich list.

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.

The cryptic one? We give ourselves a week!

I didn't know you could do this I tend to read online news on the phone which would make it quite small.

I would guess, and it's just a guess, but the majority of people who read news online don't use a hard copy paper format. But I might be wrong. And, certainly for me, online formats do mean I cherry pick more what I read.

The big one at the back that has both cryptic and non. We’re too thick for the cryptic so do the ‘easy’ ones.

One of the things that attracted me to my husband when I met him was that he used to complete the telegraph cryptic crossword every day. Now he can’t do them for toffee - out of practice.

We get the weekday paper and Saturday's delivered as it does us for Sunday as well. I love it - I have access to the digital edition as well but I much prefer the physical paper and DH likes the puzzles. I have noticed that I tend to read more of the physical paper, where as the digital one I tend to flick more - I've also noticed that some of the smaller articles don't make it into the digital edition.

I love the comments on the digital edition though, they are often a brilliant combination of insightful, hilarious or just plain wacky and I find they give me a really good view of how different people think and react to something rather than just seeing the reaction in my social media bubble and remind me that other opinions are available, even if they are just plain wrong at times.

It will be a sad day for us if they stop publishing physical papers.

Are you seriously saying that you have not seen a newspaper in any of the shops?