I used to love going to rent a video! We never went to Blockbuster, our village had a little independent one. It was like a corner shop/sweet shop and the video bit was upstairs. We'd go every Friday me and my sister, could rent one film each (think it was like £1.50 or something for the week each) and then go downstairs and get some snacks on the way out.

One thing I really miss is the whole culture of physically buying a CD/vinyl. I used to love actually having a new album to hold and read the booklet of and see the artwork etc. I remember that feeling of going into town to buy a new album that had just come out and it was like exciting to get your hands on it and get home and just sit listening to it playing.

Nowadays you just click a button on your phone... The whole "experience" has been condensed too far.

I miss Blockbuster and Woolworths.

Another thing I think technology has ruined is the art of handwriting. I sound ancient I know but did anyone else in school (Primary School and English in High School) have a rough book and a neat book to write your stories in?

The rough book would be to plan/draft your story and the neat book would be to properly write it down in your neatest handwriting, no computers and you'd get marked up/down depending on your actual handwriting as well as your story!

We also in Primary School had to learn a whole new style of cursive handwriting that everyone had to do, was a scheme from Berol with those red Berol Handwriting pens. Sadly when we went to high school this wasn't done so my handwriting and lots of others' all declined. Nowadays essays/stories/reports seem to just all be done on computers from what I can see. Shame really.

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Yes my school had to do this. It was in my last year of junior school they would teach you to do joined up handwriting. I hated it, mainly cause I was terrible at it but that step up from pencil to pen was great. :laugh:

I still can't do joined up handwriting properly. I print.

...for me a story has a completely different feel to it when it’s read from a page as opposed to a kindle...a kindle feels a bit like speed reading..:laugh:...but turning the pages of a book is something which absorbs me much more in the characters...with the last book I read, which was Dezzy’s latest release...?...I tried kindle for the first time, which I did enjoy ...but I found myself so much more engrossed with the paper copy...t’is odd but they almost feel like different stories to me...

Yes Ammi thats exactly it.