3rd month of 5 Questions 5 Letters challenge

Over at A World of Snail Mail forum, there is a monthly challenge 5 Questions 5 Letters. The first two months have been great, with quite a few people taking part. November has some questions up already, but I'm still thinking of what to ask - any suggestions? Or better still, ask your own.

There is a thread on the board about laconic penpals, those who barely say anything of consequence or personal - I don't think the ones I've received from knew what to write. What can you write about in letters? Almost anything within reason, for example - the weather, what you've been up to, books read, music listened to, television / films watched, gone somewhere nice, food (although try to be considerate if your penpal is a vegetarian or vegan) or perhaps, mentioning overhearing on the bus a conversation about dunking biscuits - to dunk or not to dunk...

Post wet again

I have just come home from a few days away visiting my mother, to a pile of wet post. Some of the envelopes became see-through and getting the letters out was not the easiest task. Some of the stamps also peeled off easily. There are also wet postcards, one is panoramic and is curling at the ends. I have the letters drying on a clothes airer although I am eager to read them. A couple of letters escaped the damp.

Postcrossing postcards, stamps and an envelope drying on a towel....

On a happier note....

Look at my new toy!!

Weather, letters, ....

This winter, I don't think this Mailbox Gritbox has had much use.... but....

2013 didn't end well and 2014 didn't start well either due to the weather. Storms and wind together with high spring tides caused flooding in December along the east coast of England, and heavy rain flooded many parts of the UK over Christmas, and also the wind caused havoc. We were away when we returned to storm battered Wales and the battering wasn't over, with January high spring tide + storms affecting Wales and south-west England. February high spring tide + storms have affected Wales a bit, and England's south-west and south coasts... 

Post had been delivered in the rain while we ere away over the festive period and was a little bit on the damp side... I tend now to use ballpoint pens for the address, for fear fountain pen ink would run in the rain.  Luckily, these made it to me...

The paper crinkled from the water... but the letter was still readable.

One of my presents was To The Letter by Simon Garfield... I have started reading it. I intend to write a few comments about it for this blog. Maybe for my birthday, I could ask for Shaun Usher's Letters of Note.

Another quiet mail week

I didn't receive much post this week, though I did get a few letters, 4 from the USA, 1 from the Netherlands and one from across the border in England!
I did post some Postcrossing postcards though, but due to a small threat of rain, decided to post them in an indoor postbox (we don't want our post to get wet!).

Most items of mail I post are posted in my hometown though they probably are not postmarked from here.

Quiet week

Last week, was a very quiet week for mail, only receiving a couple of letters and postcards. Also, I didn't write that many letters, and the weather was also not nice. For times when it rains, if I brave the weather, I post my letters in a postbox in a supermarket,

like this rather shiny one.

Rain

I like to buy a daily paper, but it was raining. Still, I fancied some fresh air so wandered out. I bought my paper and went to a cafe to read it and then write letters, relaxing with a cuppa.

It is a bit wet out there. The rain still coming down....

Then it was time to venture back out... I took a rest in a bus shelter... With all this rain, I was in no rush to actually finish a letter today - I wouldn't want to post it in a postbox in the rain, and what if a gust of wind blows when the postman retrieves the mail from the postbox to put in the bag but takes it from his hand and it falls onto the wet, maybe puddle-strewn pavement..... So, I'll wait until Monday probably to post.