Calendars 2013

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

One of the pleasures of starting a new year is to hang new calendars on the wall...

Write Me Only Once a Week

«Write to me only once a week, so that your letter arrives on Sunday - for I cannot endure your daily letters, I am incapable of enduring them.»

 

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

Gorgeous Envelope

Sent by Postmuse (the USA).

Gorgeous envelope. And inside the last postcard I've adopted. Do not you know the Orphaned Postcard Project yet?

Phrases from Shakespeare

 

Handmade postcard with a quotation of one of the less known Shakespeare's works: Cymbeline.

And collage postcard with a phrase from The Merchant of Venice.

Both made and sent by Laura (the UK).

Lovely Envelope

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Alexine Tinne

Received from Heleen (The Netherlands). Re-sent to Paquita (PC).

It says, in Dutch: "Do you join the travel?". It is a postcard from the exhibition "Alexine Tinne. Afrikaanse avonturen van een Haagse dame" (='African adventures of a lady from The Hague'). It seems that this courageous lady (1835-1869) was the first European woman to attempt to cross de Sahara (but it ended tragically).

Update: I received later the stamp featuring Mrs Tinne

Distributing Mail

Awful Drawings #228, by Matthieu Barrère. You can see more Awful Drawings here.

The Romantic

The Romantic

Sent by XX Jones (Austria).

Collage. Also published here and here.

The envelope:

Mermaid by Fiep

Sent by Heleen (The Netherlands).

Postcard related to one of my favourite themes (mermaids!) and one of my favourite illustrators: Fiep Westendorp!

Multiview Chester

Sent by Cristina (the UK).

I visited Chester last summer. The day I was in this city it rained, and rained, and did not stop the rain... Now my friend is spending some months there in order to improve her English. I was happy to receive this postcard because it is so sunny on it!

Christmas and New Year Mail (4)

Sent to Sandrine (France)

I've already shown you this collage and this one, but in fact I made a lot of collages (with washi tape, press cuttings and the rubber stamps I carved). All they are slightly different. I'm not sure which one I prefer. I hope my friends are happy to receive them and have a Happy New Year. And also you!

Sent to Ester (PC), Eva (Germany), Laura (the UK) and Lluïsa (PC).

Sent to Mercé (PC), Chi Ho (Taiwan), Ximo (PC) and Émilie (France).

Etc.!

No, Please

Awful Drawings #166, by Matthieu Barrère. You can see more Awful Drawings here.

Question

Today is not a quotation but a question... Could anybody (English native speaker) explain me what is the difference between mail box, post box and letter box? How do you use these words? Is there a difference between British and American English?

I'm not the only English learner who has problems with them, and I found contradictory explanations in different dictionaries, so I'm more confused after searching...

Thank you in advance!

Sligtly Damaged

Sent by Orlana (Brazil).

Beautiful postcard showing some pics of Porto Alegre. I have always loved the name of this city! The postcard took 35 days to arrive, and it was slightly damaged in way, as you can see...

Twaalf provinciën (II)

South Holland

Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam

Donald and Katrien (Daisy, for me) in the bollenvelden ('tulip fields').

Windmills in Kinderdijk (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

North Holland

The Dam Square and het Paleis op de Dam ('the Palace at the Dam')

Typical green/white houses in the Zaanstreek

The cheese market in Alkmaa