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Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by Caro&Co

Caro&Co — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:18:13 +0000

Charley, how lovely. Very impressed that Valentines cards are already being sent! x

Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by Charley

Charley — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:05:30 +0000

Beautiful poem, takes me back to nose pinchingly cold winter mornings in Cornwall! I reckon everyone loves to get a letter. I save them and remember when having a “pen friend” was the in thing at school, especially a French pen friend!
My four year old recently received some drawings from her little boyfriend in the mail. She knew who it was from straigh away. She wrote him a valentines card and we dropped it in his mailbox last Tuesday.

Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by Caro&Co

Caro&Co — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:21:38 +0000

How lovely Jo. Thanks for sharing your story. xx

Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by Jo Skehan

Jo Skehan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:09:56 +0000

I love getting letters or cards and I love sending them too. My mother and grandmother were prolific letter writers and I loved coming home from school to find that lovely envelope with the big rounded writing spelling out my name and our address on the front. I saved those letters for years, and still have a few tattered and well read long letters from my mother sent only a few weeks before she died.
Now I have one surviving aunt – my mother’s youngest sister – and I love getting her letters and cards telling me all the gossip from the retirement village in Qld. I send her cards and photos often because I know she enjoys it too. I can hear the laugh in her voice as I read her letters. It’s sad that this lovely custom has faded out over the years since email became so widely used by all ages. Bring back the old fashioned hand written cards and letters – it’s the best pick-me-up ever!!

Comment on Nature as a ‘device’ by Lesley T

Lesley T — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:25:14 +0000

definately the sun the moon and mine is the beach – love Leunig. found you at EARLY PLAY AUSTRALIA and love your site ( from your newest follower)

Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by @ellies58

@ellies58 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:53:59 +0000

Ahhhh…I do Love a letter or a card in the mail! Alas….most I know have let go of the Art of Letter writing, when they embraced email! My Mother was a Wonderful letter writer too. She could set words to paper, that brought to life for Me, anything that she was describing about the happenings of home! I still have the last 5 letters she wrote me, a scant 3 months or so before she passed….32 years ago! I bring them out every so often and read them. And, they always transport Me back to that time, giving a vivid memory of her; and the events of the final months of her life!
Thank You Caro for Sharing the Lovely poem too! I quite enjoyed it!

Comment on Letters, Jack Frost and Facebook using a stamp… by Sooze

Sooze — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:48 +0000

I don’t send as many letters as I should/would like to but I know I send more than the average person based on the lovely feedback I get. It’s a dying art, and a much more personal way of letting someone know you care xo

Comment on Departing childhood – will your child pack the important stuff? by GrowingPlay

GrowingPlay — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:11:11 +0000

Great post. I would add start a club to the list (maybe I missed it). I can proudly say my children have experienced almost all on your list based on their current ages. Makes me look back on my childhood with fond memories.

Comment on Nature as a ‘device’ by Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:32 +0000

This is brilliant! So simple, but says so much.

Comment on Nature as a ‘device’ by Lyndal

Lyndal — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:54:33 +0000

This is wonderful. Very easy to forget REAL devices in our frenzied world.