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Aimlessly Wandering
For some time now, I seem to have been aimlessly wandering around my various blogs and social media streams in search of order, purpose, a...
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Y ou can spend too long sat inside reading old newspapers and cataloguing old postcards. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he s... -
The Lad is back. He had been skiing in France and got stuck for a time when the ports of Calais and Dover were closed by the snow and cold....
Sort of like a chain post card!
ReplyDeleteI like it!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good thing to be doing!
ReplyDeleteI rarely send postcards but being a radio ham do exchange QSL cards with other radio hams around the world, acknowledging contacts made. These are "specialist poscards" if you like, usually with pictures on one side. These are not generally sent directly by post but sent to a national "QSL bureau" where volunteers sort the cards and send them off to other QSL bureaux in other countries. Radio hams lodge a stock of SAEs at their own bureau, which are sent to them when filled. Which reminds me, I've got a pile to sort out and send...
I posted some examples a few years ago:
http://dominicrivron.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/fun-with-short-wave-radio.html
Even better, just google qsl card and click on "image".
ReplyDeleteA fine initiative, Alan.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, and a great card. I'm a fairly regular buyer of post cards (new and old) but a never never sender. I buy them because I like the images.
ReplyDeleteHave you just pioneered a "Postcard Sending and Receiving Circle"?
A fine plan indeed!
ReplyDeleteGreat Idea and I love seeing your handwriting!
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