Nom? Nom!

Now this postcard from Jean has opened up a new world of postcards to me - if only they all looked this yummy! This is a seafood platter from the Poiteau-Charantes region of France and resulted in some serious salivation my end.

Leaning tower of postcard

A lovely chap who I met through doing a private swap on Postcrossing, Raffaelle, sent me this fantastico view of the leaning tower of pizza PISA which is great because it looks decidedly less wonky than usual!

Moscow by night

Laaahve this night time view of the Kremlin - the colour of the boat, the buildings and the sky is sublime. Many thanks to Anna for sending it to me!

Moomins! Actual Moomins!

As I'm sitting here in the freezing coal hole I call home, scanning my Postcrossing cards, this ultra sweet Moomin beauty gave me a lovely warm tingle. Thank you to the lovely Finnish family who sent it to me and made an old gal happy!

Cottage in Normandy

This little gite in Normandy is so pretty and so whimsical, I almost get the urge to commandeer a little rowing boat and bob my way across the Channel right now. The kind Michel sent this Postcrossing to me. Merci!

Postcard from Texas

I always enjoy getting postcards from Americans, though I never seem to get that many :( Well, this is from Janet in Austin, Texas and what an amazing skyline! The colours are just superb, the mirroring, the lights, the sky. Janet has visited the county I live in here in the UK, both years ago and more recently. Sadly she said it was not the green and pleasant land she remembers - boo!

Winter in Denmark

I adore this postcard from lovely Postcrosser Alex. It shows the grassy plains of Denmark in winter. Frosted ground, rainbow sunset; perfect. Like me Alex is a huge Eurovision fanatic - I love the connection I find with fellow EV aficionados, it makes us instant chums for life. Like me, he often feels embarrassed by his country's entry, though that doesn't diminish the contest's magic.

Great Wall of China

Hi friends! Apologies for being in absentia for so long. The months of Jan and Feb have been chock-a-block with lashings of work, chores and other boring stuff, all of which left me with little time to blog my Postcrossing adventures. Don't let that fool you; I have still been sending and receiving postcards aplenty. Like this stunning card proudly displaying the Great Wall of China. The sender didn't say much but they did draw me a pictorial of a kitty cat. ( ~_ )

Pass the Dutchie

Apologies for an all too predictible title. This came from Kevin, an Englishman who lives over there during the week for work. Very nice!

Beautiful Beijing

Absolutely love this amazing postcard from China - it's spectacular! The sender is a young businessman who's new to Postcrossing. Welcome Yen (~_ )

Totes new year!

Greetings, Musers! A happy 2014 to thee and thou. Today I bring to you a suitable missive for such a sentiment (above). It comes from the sweet Lori of Chicago, no less! Woot! She told me her five resolutions but I've been sworn to secrecy - sorry.

I think I've just won Postcrossing! Sorry everyone but this is just too cute! As an avid follower of Hello Kitty© I was beside myself when this popped up yesterday morn. It comes from a sweet Taiwanese gal who also did little drawings on the back. I so want to visit that country because every postcard I get from there is amaze balls!

Funniest "Do not send me..." on Postcrossing profiles

I absolutely adore going to the Postcrossing website and simply spending a while perusing peoples' profiles. Yup, I'm one of those curious types - "nosy", for want of a better word - and it's endlessly fascinating to see the different ways people use to describe themselves - and what wonderful self-portraits they often end up being. Something that always makes me lol, however, is when it comes to listing what cards people would like. More specifically, the ones they very much wouldn't like. This usually goes as follows:

• Animals
• Birds
• Children
• Flowers
• Self-made cards
• Ad cards.

Ok, I kinda get it with ad cards. I've had a few myself and of course it's a little disppointing that someone picked up the nearest piece of crap that fell out of a newspaper and sent it to you, all the while in line for someone else's thoughtful card. Major suckage, I know. Then again, I'm never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so into my organiser it goes, only to be retrieved on a day of self-flagellation. 

But come on, chaps - who wouldn't like a kitten on the doormat? Or a puppy? An innocent child, a beautiful flower - or a sweet card that someone lovingly hand-crafted? Why would anyone rudely and pre-emptively reject what is only intended as the kindest of gestures? When you look at it like that, it all starts to seem a bit silly, this snobbery about "cutesy" (their word) cards. Each Postcrossing sent to you is a little moment of friendship so don't be so darned fussy!

People also moan about multi-view cards. This is quite unpleasant because not everyone has a big selection to choose from in their local shop, and anyway, multi-views are nice! They show different aspects of a place so it's always interesting.

I must give the best "Do not send me..." to myself, however. "PLEASE NO NUDITY" was the message I had to hastily add to my profile after several German Postcrossers inexplicibly sent me nakey men. I don't know what the postman must have thought.

Yo ho ho

Excuse the impertinence of such a title but I felt it only necessary, m'lud. Jennifer in Maryland, USA sent this little cracker to me today. She says she visited London in her student days and loves a bacon bap!

Tis the season

Postcrossers don't half love a vintage Crimble card. This one came from Janet in Ireland and I love it. Janet lives in Cork and said it's a surprisingly busy, vibrant place.

California dreamin'

Michelle sent me this beautiful postcard today. It shows the Pin Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Californ-I-A. Amazing! Definitely one of my best cards yet!

"Halp!"

This cute little chap came all the way from China to my doormat this morning. And it only took thrity days! I'm not mega sure what's going on in this pictorial but he seems to be sitting in a funny wicker basket while saying something into a mic - for which I refer you to my title.

Postcrossing featured on Brazilian television

Fangirls of the world unite! A Postcrossing aficionado was given a TV spot last week and you don't need a degree in Portuguese to enjoy the awesomesauce. I thought I had swapped cards with this dude one time but actually it must have been a different guy. Unless he uses pseudonyms! J/K!

Hell jah

Two Teutonic postcards for your visual consumption! The first is from Andrea in Nurnberg, a geometric smorgasbord of the town's main thoroughfares. It all looks very Brothers Grimm and I would be scared to cross a bridge in case of chancing a wicked troll - one considerably worse than the 4chan kind.

Frohe Weihnachten to thee and thou comes from Sebastian with this vintage delight. He used to live in Laaandaan Town and picked up a number of shabby chic finds while perusing the antiques shops. One of which he has kindly sent to me. Deck the halls!

Let's be friends, friends

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Oh hai

Love this postcard from Jamie (not sure of their gender, soz). They love the exact kind of films I do: Terminator, Uncle Buck, National Lampoon...you don't get any more classic than that!