timehonouredghost

Hello everyone,

I joined postcrossing because I lost my Grannie to cancer in January 2015, and we used to exchange letters and cards because she lived many hundreds of miles away. When she died I stopped getting ‘snail mail’ and had no cause to send it which made me very sad. So exchanging ‘real’ mail with you is my way of spreading the enjoyment I used to get from sending and receiving post from my Grannie and every card/ envelope I send is stamped with a green butterfly in her memory – quite simply because she loved butterflies and her favourite colour was green.

<3 04/01/1928-27/01/2015 <3

I will appreciate every card I receive, so please don’t worry if you don’t know what to send! I will write a list of ideas below because when I am sending a card I find it much easier when the person has a list and I love to try and find something that they will really enjoy. However, once again, if you don’t have anything matching these ideas, please just send something you like – surprises are sometimes the best cards of all!

***Please, please write on the card – I don’t mind what you write! Tell me about your country, culture, language or just yourself! I did a degree in Social/Cultural Geography so I find anything to do with places and people interesting. Tell me what you're reading, or what your favourite something is, your favourite place, what you did today, something funny that happened - anything at all that you want to tell me :)!

I can read and write in German and am trying to learn Swedish so would appreciate cards in either of those languages!

Some ideas:

Single Views of your country
Aerial Views
Buildings/ Houses
Flags
Maps
Russian Dolls, Dutch Clogs (or something iconic to your culture)
Rabbits
Penguins
ABBA
Mice/ Hamsters - small fluffy animals
Trains - especially steam trains, but any trains
Bridges
Birds/ Ducks
Royal Families
Harry Potter – especially Hermione and Ravenclaw
Doctor Who
Dancers – especially Irish Dancers or ballet
Dance shoes
Pictures of stamps
Animals - please no Monkeys or Spiders
Touristic cards of your city/ area
Colourful cards
Dolls Houses (one of my hobbies)
Bicycles
Post boxes
Butterflies
Doors, windows, staircases – features of architecture
Books
Moomins
Christmas (all year round - my boyfriend adores Christmas)
Snow - I never get to see it for real!
Fireworks
Night Views
Cards with facts or languages
The Lord of the Rings
Jane Austen
Turtles and Tortoises
Lizards
Lamps/Lighting
Horses
Autumn themes

My hobbies/ obsessions: Irish Dance, ABBA, reading, Barclay James Harvest, Harry Potter, Dolls Houses, languages

Whatever you send, thank you so much in advance and have a lovely day :)