Out with the new, and in with the old!

In these hard times, we seem to have regressed. Back to a simpler time, when home cooking and board games were "Cool".

Well, I have always felt this way about books in particular. I would much rather be sat on the sofa with a good book in my hand, than sat at a computer on facebook all day.

I'm not hating computers here at all, I do love my laptop, and use it on a regular basis. I do however PREFER the written word. There's something about books, especially second hand books or ones from your local library. Knowing that people before you have read that particular copy makes me feel a part of something special. I love finding a little tea stain in a page corner, or a couple of biscuit crumbs left between the pages from it's previous reader.

How does your computer smell? Do you get any kind of comforting sense from a computer, like you would from a book?



I live in Dagenham, Essex. I am currently out of work and don't have alot to do, but I have made it my mission now to find books within the community of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering.

During this reccession, we should be coming together and sharing an old fashioned interest that most people can do, and it doesn't have to cost a thing! :-)

So get reading!