During the week we try to pick up the i newspaper. For a ridiculously cheap 20p (30p on Saturday) you get a cut-down but decent version of The Independent. We are huge fans of the i.
On Saturdays we are regular Guardian readers but the Guardian is sooo expensive these days (£2.30 on Saturdays). Interestingly, if you spend £5 at Waitrose supermarket you can pick up selected newspapers for free, including The Guardian. But there’s a dilemma here because this sales technique could seriously damage the local small shops which will find fewer customers for their fruit & veg, bread and newspapers.
This weekend we broke our routine. On Saturday we bought The Times and on Sunday we took a free copy of the Sunday Telegraph with our big Waitrose shop. We wouldn’t normally get a Sunday paper.
I’m pretty sure we’ll return to The Guardian next Saturday! The Times was ok, but just not good enough to break a habit of a lifetime. The Sunday Telegraph is not us! What’s with their obsession with knocking the BBC? And the magazine is awful.
We’re looking forward to next Saturday’s Guardian. We missed you Lucy Mangan and Tim Dowling, and we missed the book reviews, the money section, the magazine, the quick crossword. And we missed the left-leaning slant on the articles! Oh, and we missed the Guide, hugely.
things change 
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