Death of the Scrapbook

My mum and I made many scrapbooks over the years. To find inspiring and interesting pictures was not hard And most magazines got past my mothers sense of decorum And her duty to protect me from scantily clad ladies in my formative years. My mother continued scrap booking for many years, as did I. With fond memories to last a lifetime for me and my own children. But alas scrap booking as Mother and I knew it is almost no more. The end came slowly unobtrusively, one unsuitable magazine at a time. First it was the Truck and Car magazines with more than just pictures of Cars and trucks to cut out. Until one day it came to pass that even the pictures of cute little animals Could no longer be found in many a women's magazine. Which is strange indeed to me as one would have thought that a magazine Owned by a woman, edited by women and employing lots of women and being sold to women would be The last place to find only pictures that my Mum would not want in her scrapbook. I find this phenomenon doubley strange given that playboy is giving up it's centrefold. Maybe someone else can get their head around this cause I sure can't. Not when these once child friendly magazines that gave me such pleasure on Many A rainy day are now just another something for preschoolers to giggle at And form unhealthy opinions of life in general. Thank goodness for people like my Mother who still have some examples of Child friendly magazines and books hidden away in cupboards which if you ever Pay a visit will be trotted out and you can see pictures of cute little animals While there is still time to save them and the scrapbooks.