Airing cupboard 6

OK. Next week is the last week of this...

Airing Cupboard 5

... a bit stringy though.

Airing cupboard 4

This series is actually another redraw of set of cartoons I did as a teenager in 1982. It originally consisted of twelve strips (or two weeks worth, as I had the time to do dailies in those days), but I've shortened it a bit to allow for the current three a week schedule. Some of the more jejeune reflections on society and life have been excised, but this one has survived as I still agree with it.

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.

Millie Week 20, Mon 14 Jan - Wed 16 Jan 1991

Dogs were the bane of my paper round. I never had one attack me, but there was on particular house on Claremont Road with a german shepherd which I swear lay in wait for me on the other side of the door, waiting for me to poke the newspaper through the letterbox. I learned never to poke my hand through, just a couple of inches of newspaper through the door was enough. Then there would be an almighty WOOF, and then the paper would be pulled through the rest of the way by a powerful set of jaws, followed by the sound of shuffling, swearing, ripping and tearing.I'm not sure why that house ever had the paper delivered - it never sounded like enough of it survived to be readable.

Airing Cupboard 3

Airing Cupboard 2

Aha! The master plan is revealed. And I buy myself some time to go on holiday...