Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Another nail in the coffin of interaction within our local communities. Everyone shut in their homes typing away on the web, downloading everything we need to be home delivered, unaware of, and remote from, our neighbours.
Can't beat wandering down the road to the library on a Saturday morning, having a chat along the way with friends from the next street, paying the papers in the newsagents- meeting the mother-in-law talking to people she knows from her exercise class and stopping off at the butchers where MissA-T's old primary school teacher introduces us to her niece who has just started teaching at the same school.... she used to be at university at the same time as MasterA_T.... turns out she knows him...
You miss all that downloading e-books...
Can't beat wandering down the road to the library on a Saturday morning, having a chat along the way with friends from the next street, paying the papers in the newsagents- meeting the mother-in-law talking to people she knows from her exercise class and stopping off at the butchers where MissA-T's old primary school teacher introduces us to her niece who has just started teaching at the same school.... she used to be at university at the same time as MasterA_T.... turns out she knows him...
You miss all that downloading e-books...
My idea of heaven, small people are removed for me and I can spend hours and hours and hours peering in the book shop choosing, smelling that book smell and stuff 
Not all progress is better... except for flushing toilets- mind, even there the earth closet had a lot going for it...
absolutely not Archie shame on you. 4 years ago i would have been packing up my library but now it's all in one place and totally portable apart from certain books, like the cookery and reference ones.
