Now here is a lesser known fact: I am a deltiologist. I collect postcards, or I did, when I was younger. Peter and I were framing some of our favourites yesterday. Some of them were quite I find at the height of my collecting days in the late 1970's and early 1980's and now they are treasures. Many of them are almost 100 years old. This one is my all time favourite. It was posted in March 1918, 8 months before the end of the first world war. I often wonder what happened to the man to whom it was written.
Every one of them has beautiful handwriting and old fashioned sentiments on the reverse. They really don't deserve to be hidden away in a box.
Another of my favourites is a postcard which is addressed to Sir Anthony Blunt of the Cambridge Five. What is written on the reverse really doesn't seem to make sense and we wonder if it could be a coded message.
Of course some of them are pretty boring; in fact I have some candidates for my bathroom book of boring postcards. But I do think I need to take a good long look at my collection and maybe start adding to it.
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