In the Facebook era the scrapbook has a place

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Here’s one for those of you who can remember the era BC (before computers). There is a Times reader in Dorset who, after she and her husband have finished the crossword and other choice parts of their daily paper, gets to work with the scissors. Her grandson “is at an age where he wants to know about things that happened a long time ago, and we can help him. I am on my third scrapbook containing all the pictures you print from The Times Archive.

“Also I have made up a book of the Young Times puzzle section — great to have on holidays in the caravan when it rains. And I have now started a Saint’s day