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!