Millie Week 20, Thu 17 Jan - Sat 19 Jan 1991

Of course I talked to any cats that may have been on my paper route. That was one of the perks of the job. I don't remember any hamsters but there was definitely a man with a ferret on a leash.
I got £2 for my paper round in 1976. Allowing for fifteen years of inflation, £15 seemed fair to me, if you included London Weighting. I have no idea what paper boys and girls get nowadays. I see them occasionally but I think it's a dying tradition. Newspapers now seem to have changed to a voucher subscription scheme where you have to exchange a voucher for a copy at the newsagents yourself.