Lettermo continues

I haven't forgotten about this blog. I have been busy writing letters and doing other things... I have celebrated the first anniversary of a couple of correspondences started with Lettermo 2012. I hope to have more anniversaries with them. I hope to have new first anniversaries to celebrate next year with a few more Lettermo people. I will have at least 2 letter replies in the post on Monday to surprise letters. I wonder how many more I will get. One letter I sent crossed with one received. I hope mine gets there soon. Still time to sign up. Many of the new people to Lettermo have expressed willingness to continue writing letters in March and beyond.

A Month of Letters

Lettermo

It is the month of February and the Month of Letters Challenge over at Lettermo. I am keeping up and even made the morning collection from the post box on Saturday. Last year, I made a couple of penpals through Lettermo and wonder how many new letters I will receive. I have written letters to some Lettermo people and look forward to making new penfiendships penfriendships. I received something last week via SendSomething and have already written a reply to be sent on Monday.
January was quite a quiet postal month for me, I had a nasty cold and didn't feel like replying to many letters. I caught up, but only a few were written past my ideal fortnight deadline (next deadline is to send within a month of receipt). I'll try to remember to write the January stats in my next post (hopefully this month).

Happy New Year

These are just some of the Christmas and New Year cards I have received.

I received this as a Christmas present.

Belated November stats:
Letters: out  14; in 15
Postcards: out  57; in  3
Other nice things: out 19; in 8

December stats:
Letters: out 8; in 8
Postcards: out 0; in 2
Other nice things: out 4; in 11

already posting festive things

I have been making some envelopes from festive paper (not wrapping). I have sent a couple of cards with letters out in them. I hope the two I am showing here arrived safely at their destinations.

Is it too early to say Merry Christmas?!

On Tuesday of this week, Royal Mail released their Christmas Stamp issue. 

I only bought the overseas values, 87p, £1.28 and £1.90. I should still be able to buy first and second class festive stamps at my local post office. I have already received (in October) my first Christmas card from a penpal, but I only brought down the Christmas cards from storage this week. I will post today a letter to the US with a Christmas card! The first one for me to send this year.

That envelope, I sealed with one of these festive seals I found in a card shop, sold at a very reasonable price and I bought loads! Each pack has 24 stickers! They won't all get used this year! The snowflake ones I suppose I could use during the rest of winter...

Fireworks tonight!

Last night, went to a fireworks display at the local football club, nice display.

Received a nice letter today from a penpal in Germany.

October stats:
Posted 15 letters
Received 13 letters (up until 27th October)

November

I have been on holiday and came back home to 3 nice letters. I also wrote some letters while I was away on holiday. I will work out how many letters I have sent/received for last month, shortly.