31 March 2020

Homesick


Letter sent on 20 March, and delivered in the UK ten days later. Postal services rock!


I think the word homesick is acquiring a new meaning these days. I am at home but, luckily, not sick.

8 comments:

  1. Très bel ensemble ! J'adore le timbre !

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  2. Great envelope. I haven't seen you blog one of those amazing postcards in a while.

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  3. Great drawings!

    And indeed, the word 'homesick' will never be the same, anymore...

    In Dutch 'homesick' is 'heimwee', which is from very old words 'heim' (home) and 'wee' (pain, or sadness). It is a loanword from the German 'Heimweh'. And the Germans have an other word, which means the contrary: 'Fernweh', the longing for the faraway ('wanderlust', 'itchy feet', my English dictionary says, but I think 'contrary of homesick' doing more right to the meaning of this word 'Fernweh')...

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  4. We don't have a word for homesick other that 'nostàlgic'. Etymologically, the meaning can be the same.

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    1. And there's the confusion in English between, "I'm homesick" and, "I'm home, sick."

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