I love Oxford. The history. The Town and Gown. The old Colleges. The mystery of the place. I love that… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 18: “And that sweet city with her dreaming spires…” (Matthew Arnold)
I love Oxford. The history. The Town and Gown. The old Colleges. The mystery of the place. I love that… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 18: “And that sweet city with her dreaming spires…” (Matthew Arnold)
Back in 2006, illustrator Darren Di Lieto was mulling over a way to connect with all the brilliant illustrators he… Read more Mail Me Art (via Design Week)
Looking up famous people and where they write (or wrote) letters from has been fascinating. Well-known folk obviously wanted to… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 17: Say “Cheese!”
It makes me smile to share my little letter writing shed with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Horatio Nelson. He’s… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 16: Horatio and Me
It was only when I started to think back to all the children’s programmes we used to watch with our… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 15: To CBeebies or Not To CBeebies
Sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door. From: https://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/04/16/the-art-of-letter-writing/
I’m actually still procrastinating by writing this, but serendipity did a lovely thing so I honestly had to write it down.… Read more Adventures in Letter Writing No. 14: Putting the “Pro” in Procrastination
On Platform 1 of Paddington Station in London there is a statue of a World War One soldier reading a… Read more Letter to an Unknown Soldier (via BBC Schools)
During the First World War, letter writing was the main form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones, helping… Read more Letters To Loved Ones (via Imperial War Museums)
Royal Mail is the UK’s most trusted letters and parcels delivery company. We provide a 6-days-a-week, one-price-goes anywhere postal service… Read more Royal Mail | Royal Mail Group Ltd (via www.royalmail.com)