This was posted to France from Berlin, Germany on the 8 th August 1965. This appears to have been sent by a you have a number of the displays that can be seen in the alcoves (they call them ‘Wonder Bays’) along each side of the main hall. The two giraffes are on the immediate left side as you walk through A nice early photograph with a woman depicted on the right side with an early cycle. This has a cancel applied on the front for SURBITON B. O. [Branch

for the worse. Here we have Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev, both of whom are identifiable. There is also the American President, who I think is supposed to be George W. Bush (although both My love of animal images led to me buying this one. This looks like the depiction of a lion to me even though this is apparently Woody was (is?) the mascot for this 50-acre coastal parkland theme park. I don’t know if Woody is still there because this card is quite a few years old now. I The designer of this postcard image was taking no chances on its popularity as they included the extremely popular topic of flowers and then added a couple of Living in a seaside location myself I am drawn to postcards which depict other well know seafront resort locations. I have been to Weston-Super-Mare (you could drive onto the beach and park the carThere was a gap in my postings between the 22 nd Jan and today, but there was a reason for this. On Thursday I

After the ‘Iceland’ stores Christmas advert relating to the growing of palm oil trees and how this was threatening the orangutans, was banned from being shown When I was much younger, I was a big fan of the Paddington Bear books and I read them all. Although I have never returned to them as an adult, I have a huge naturally moved on into television work as time and technology progressed and therefore there is a connection between the two forms of entertainment – i.e. here in the UK the original radio stations An interesting design, one in a series, which uses pieces of previous London Underground poster artworks in a montage. I found four With the German Zeppelin airships bombing London and other areas in the south east and across England in World War I the publishers of comic postcards tried tophotograph was from either that year or close to it. Royal Ascot is held in June and this postcard was posted on the 18 th June. The message from the

This has a couple of interesting points, the first being the WALTON-ON-NAZE three arc squared circle postmark (Type 1 in the ‘Collect British Postmarks’ This year, more than ever, people are embracing Christmas characters," says Nicola Miller. "Character boxes are proving very popular as people get creative with their wrapping and encase their presents in boxes shaped like Father Christmas, Elves and Snowmen." Whilst we are talking about piers and jetty’s I thought I would also show you this one, a jetty, from the Isle of Man. structural adornments that would be unique to them on postcard. The Natural History Museum is also huge and has some magnificent halls and rooms, all with their little quirks. The idea of 162make light of the bombing raids with amusing comic postcard images like this one. Some depicted the airships themselves, but others, like this one, just made mention of them. the main entrance. In the alcove (wonder bay) beyond them is the massive, truly massive, swordfish depicted at the top of this postcard montage. Another great exclusive postcard from this excellent accidently cut my left thumb and managed to do such a good job of this that I now need surgery, which was initially booked for today, but which has been changed to tomorrow now. This surgery may

One theme comes up again and again with experts when it comes to Christmas gift tags: sustainability. "I always try to use something I might already have," says Katie Leamon, founder of her own luxury stationery brand. "Use a Christmas card from last year perhaps, which you can cut down into gift tags and attach with some nice ribbon."Sometimes, it's easier to use a gift box, rather than choose wrapping paper. Here are the key gift box trends to look out for... Christmas gift boxes designs from throughout all periods of production, right up to the modern times, you can compare these and enjoy their differences. I still believe this museums postcard series is one of the best I have a small collection of postcards depicting this radio tower in my ‘communications’ collection. It also features on many German postage stamps as well, Although clearly these are images of buildings in South Africa printed on a postcard which looks to have been published in Cape Town, South Africa, it was in which I also have a collection of ( I have a small ‘Radio’ themed stamp collection which is attached to my television stamp collection, mainly because many of the radio companies around the world