I have not managed to upload any postcard pictures this last three weeks. I am, amazingly, now sixty cards behind. I cannot believe that I have received so many cards in just three weeks. That is an average of over three a day. It makes me wonder if there is any chance of getting this blog up-to-date and, perhaps more to the point, keeping it up-to-date in the future without sacrificing the need to do various other things, like wash my face and drink my morning tea.
And yet some of the cards are so lovely that I really must share them with the blogosphere. So in the future I shall endeavour to do a compromise. This will mean some cards don’t get very much research or description. That doesn’t mean they are any less valuable additions to my collection – they are simply the sacrificial lambs to being able to continue with this blog. Any way, here goes….
Card no 550 – Bryony and Mark
Dove Cottage, Grasmere
Country Card Sent From: England, GB
Place that Card Sender Lives: Sheffield
Date Received: 8th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 77 miles
Time Taken: 1 day
It seems strange to now be the recipient of family cards from the Lake District having been the sender of so many from there in my youth. Dove Cottage was once the home of William Wordsworth. I suspect a great deal has changed there since I visited it forty years ago when a few visitors a day was all it received. Nowadays it has a major Visitor Centre.
Card no 551 – Xiaowen
Hong Kong Metro map
Country Card Sent From: China
Place that Card Sender Lives: Fuzhou
Date Received: 8th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 5,970 miles
Time Taken: 29 days
Postcrossing i/d - CN-911638
This stylised version of the Hong Kong Metro is based on the idea of the London Underground map by Harry Beck (1931) one of the greatest designs of the twentieth century.
Card no 552 – Ashlyn
Hong Kong Metro map
Country Card Sent From: Singapore
Place that Card Sender Lives: Singapore
Date Received: 8th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 6,834 miles
Time Taken: 7 days
Postcrossing i/d - SG-102214
Isn’t this a delightful Panda stamp.
Card no 553 – Martine
Le Ferry-boat, Marseille
Country Card Sent From: Corsica
Place that Card Sender Lives: Piedigriggio
Date Received: 10th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 942 miles
Time Taken: days
Card no 554 – Dasha
Russian Revolution Campaign poster
Country Card Sent From: Russia
Place that Card Sender Lives: Moscow
Date Received: 9th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 1,618 miles
Time Taken: 14 days
The stamps included one of Russia's Winter Olympic's mascots.
Card no 555 – Maaike
Letterboxes
Country Card Sent From: Netherlands
Place that Card Sender Lives: Roden, nr Groningen
Date Received: 9th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 388 miles
Time Taken: 6 days
Postcrossing i/d – NL-1849420
Card no 556 – Jo
Rubens the Cat
Country Card Sent From: Belgium
Place that Card Sender Lives: Schoten, nr Antwerp
Date Received: 9th May 2013
Distance Travelled: 342 miles
Time Taken: 4 days
Postcrossing i/d – BE-207987
That's all for now...
