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Delivering the News<br />
Did you deliver<br />
newspapers when you<br />
were younger? Chris<br />
Laude spoke to one man<br />
in Beauchief who has gone back<br />
on the rounds a little later in life...<br />
Hello – it’s good to meet you!<br />
I do hope you don’t mind me<br />
remarking on the fact that you’re<br />
hardly in the first flush of youth –<br />
so, why and when did you decide<br />
to become Beauchief’s oldest<br />
paperboy?<br />
Well, some years ago I had an<br />
accident and had to have an<br />
operation on my right shoulder.<br />
Afterwards I had to spend weeks<br />
with my arm strapped to my body<br />
so I couldn’t do much apart from<br />
walk – it was so frustrating. One<br />
day I went past Alison and David’s<br />
newsagents on Hutcliffe Wood<br />
Road and saw the kids getting<br />
ready to go out on their paper<br />
rounds – and it gave me an idea.<br />
I went inside and asked Alison if<br />
there might be a job for me. She<br />
said “Yes” and, ten years later,<br />
here I am still doing it.<br />
Excellent! So what time do you<br />
have to get up each morning and<br />
how many houses do you deliver<br />
to?<br />
6.30 – I suppose I might deliver<br />
to over 50 houses, but I’ve never<br />
actually counted them. Monday<br />
to Friday I do a walking round but<br />
on Saturday and Sunday I use<br />
the car because that round takes<br />
me much further afi eld and the<br />
Sunday papers are very heavy<br />
and bulky.<br />
Have you ever had any<br />
unpleasant experiences on your<br />
rounds?<br />
Once, in the winter when the<br />
pavements were very slippery, I<br />
fell and damaged my left shoulder<br />
so I had to have another operation<br />
and time off.<br />
Oh dear – and any funny ones?<br />
Not so much funny, more touching<br />
really. One day I could hear<br />
someone following me and when I<br />
turned round, a lady asked me if I<br />
was frightened of birds. Apparently<br />
a baby bird had fl own inside her<br />
house and she just didn’t know<br />
how deal with it. Although she’d<br />
never met me, she invited me into<br />
the house and, when I’d helped<br />
the bird to fl y out, she gave me a<br />
box of chocolates, bless her!<br />
What’s the best thing about your<br />
job?<br />
Being out and about and saying<br />
“Good Morning” to people – it sets<br />
you up for the day.<br />
And the worst thing?<br />
If I couldn’t do it anymore!<br />
What a wonderful thing to say!<br />
– if only more people felt like<br />
you do about their job. Do you<br />
actually have time to read a<br />
newspaper yourself?<br />
Yes – I get home about 9.15, feed<br />
my chickens, have my breakfast<br />
and then I settle down and read<br />
The Star and The Express from<br />
cover to cover.<br />
Newspaper & magazines<br />
delivered to your door...<br />
364 days a year – whatever the weather!<br />
Eggos, Hutcliffe Wood Road<br />
Call 0114 220 9243<br />
or 07954 263576<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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email: offi ce@stchads.org<br />
website: www.stchads.org
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