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Hello postcard-fans, after a few weeks off, I am now back updating the site regularly. I've been very busy what with Christmas and New Year, swanning off to Prague, meeting Mark Lanegan (yes, you heard me right) and launching a new music site, Fuzznut, so have a look at that if you get a chance!
Now, you may have noticed I am not yet married to Mark Lanegan. Well, I'll be honest, I bottled it. I just about managed to squeak "Please can you sign this" and had to be dragged back by my wonderful, patient best mate for a photograph. I have also taken a shine to his delicious best friend Greg Dulli. I didn't get to meet him, but that just means I have a new mission for next time! 'Fickle!' I hear you cry, well yes, perhaps, but who cares. Aside from my teenage-style lustings, the Twilight Singers gigs were incredible, they are my favourite band at the moment without a doubt. OK, there are a lot of postcards to get through, so I am going to list them.
-4 lovely postcards from Pat, from Istanbul, Belgrade, Aleppo and Wien, sounds like a great trip.
-2 postcards of Brittany, from Sue, with the address www.tamebay.com to have a look at.
-A postcard from Denver, Colorado, from Charles.
-A postcard from Chris, of Stafford Castle.
-A postcard of Brussels, from Swin (fellow Prague-goer).
-An anonymous postcard from Wisconsin, advertising beer.
-A postcard from Lauren of an Almond Tree (from Westchester I think).
-A postcard of Glasgow, from Heather (yes, maybe I will put the picture of me and Mark on the site at some point..).
-A postcard of the Town Hall, Ripley, from Charlotte and the people of Ripley.
-A great card from Glenn who was in Cuba drinking lots of Mojitos :)
-An old postcard from my Gran of the Cathedral in Manchester.
-A postcard from Sarah when she visited San Francisco (I spent New Year's Eve at Sarah's and a fabulous time was had by all. I managed to climb a vertical, very tall ladder to the roof, full of wine and wearing stiletto boots. Now that is impressive.).
-A lovely postcard from Stockholm from Felicia. She doesn't like the Pussycat Dolls, so we would probably get along..
-Finally, a postcard from Lisa and Adam from their recent trip to Mauritius. Yes, I am jealous! :)
So let's see, that takes us up to a grand total of 123 postcards. But I still want more! So keep them coming. You can also become my friend on myspace, and say hello, if you like. It's here anyway if you want to.
Oh, and the first person to get Greg Dulli to send me a postcard gets a prize. I haven't decided what that is yet, but I'm doubting said postcard will ever happen...
Permalink to 'And We're Back!'Postcards 103-106 are all from my friend Seb, who recently went to Tenerife to relax after finishing his PhD.
As you can see, two of them are what Seb describes as 'boring', although I don't think they're that bad! Of course, I love all postcards equally.
The other two are of an orangutan, and a very dodgy looking cactus.
Apparently, Tenerife was full of chavs and the elderly, although knowing Seb's penchant for older women, I'm sure this was pleasing for him.
I could go on about what is written on these postcards, but I think it is best for you to read them for yourselves, I couldn't do it justice.
Just don't ask me about Bunny Boiler Busters, you really don't want to know!
Seb is not only brilliant for sending me these postcards, but is also completely brilliant for getting me a ticket to see the Killers...TONIGHT!! Woo hoo!
Also, for those of you who read this regularly, I am seeing Mark Lanegan sing with the Twilight Singers tomorrow in Manchester and Thursday in London. Obviously, I plan to wait around outside afterwards. Wish me luck! :)
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Today I'm writing about postcards 101 and 102, although really this first one should have been somewhere in the 60s.
My friend Ruth who I work with sent me a postcard ages ago from her holiday in Gran Canaria. She sent it to my work address, and I got it and put it in my intray to take home. Shows how useful my intrays are! It quickly got covered up by various pieces of work-related paper, destined to be lost for the next 2 months. I discovered this poor postcard yesterday when I actually was bothering to look at things in my bottom tray. So here it is, finally, published on these pages. Thank you Ruth, I'm sorry I'm so crap!
Next is a postcard from Ireland, specifically Connemara, County Galway, sent by Miguel. Miguel, thanks for your postcard, of course I will send one in return. Although it might take me a while. I recently found 2 postcards I had meant to send to people, in my drawer at home. These were from ages ago! So very sorry if any of you were expecting a postcard, I WILL get round to it, but as mentioned above, I can be very crap.
The day has finally arrived for me to announce the happy arrival of my 100th postcard.
Before I go on , sorry for not updating in a while, I've been busy. Second, I brought these postcards to work with me to write about, but I forgot 96-99! So I'll slot them in tomorrow.
But anyway...
The 100th postcard is from Charles, who sent me a postcard of Aspen, a place I'm sure everyone will have heard of. Thanks Charles, and cheers also for all the postcards you've sent before. You truly are the Number 1 postcard sender!
FOUR postcards to go until I reach the target of 100 postcards! Will you send me my 100th postcard?
Go on, stick one in the post, if you send it today, it is likely to be the 100th, or near to it! And of course that particular postcard will get it's own journal entry and lots of praise (and/or arse-licking) by me.
Number 95 today is a postcard from China- my first ever!- from Jennifer. Of course I remember you! Which is quite rare actually, I'm really terrible at remembering people. I so now want to go to China after finding out that a cup of coffee and a room for the night costs the same price! I hope this means that they are both the price of an English coffee and not the price of a room! :)
Number 96 is a Halloween Ebay postcard, sent by....I have no idea! Any suggestions? :)
Thanks for these latest additions, and keep sending to get me up to 100!
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Here are two more postcards from my friend Sarah, who, whenever my back is turned seems to be legging it to an airport to go somewhere fabulous. She's sent quite a few to the site and is much appreciated!
The first one is from Strasbourg, and was sent the day before I last saw Sarah. I had a few friends round last Saturday, for what was meant to be a few drinks but turned into many many drinks. And Sarah arrives with luggage having got back from somewhere. It gets better. She then, after a quick nap, at 4am went back to Manchester Airport to fly to San Francisco!
The second postcard, from Amsterdam airport, was sent mere hours after I went to bed that night. Don't ask about the ANALDOGMAG.org.ie thing...scrabble tiles plus beer plus drinking games equals strange things...
Greetings postcarders, I have here in my hands 4 postcards from Malaga, Spain.
They are from two of my uncles, Steve and Pete, and one of them if of a town I went to a few years ago called Ronda. It seemed like a tiny place at the time, but the picture makes it look quite big. It's a beautiful place, but I don't remember there being many places to drink! I remember it has a Cheese and Ham Boutique though, which surely makes up for the lack of cerveza.
The other three postcards feature black and white photographs, two are representing Flamenco, and the other is three men struggling with a pig. The latter is apparently from Antony Worrall Thompson. Usually of a gullible nature, I decided to make some checks before doing the usual thing of reading the name of the sender first, then thinking excitedly that my site had caught the attention of a dwarflike ginger chef. Spanish stamp: check. Familiar handwriting: check. Aha! I'm just waiting for the day when someone sends me a postcard pretending to be Mark Lanegan. I'd be going 'Ha, as if, nice try!' whilst secretly smelling and kissing the postcard and sleeping with it under my pillow.
Yep, I have four more postcards from across the pond to write about.
The first two are from Charles, sender of more postcards to this site than anyone else. Can anyone else beat Charles? I doubt it. Much appreciated :)
The first is a cool picture of Independence Pass, which is a road to Aspen- looks high up and scary, but very pretty!
The second is of the balloon festival in Colorado Springs, where Charles is from.
Third to write about is a card from Misty, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Lake Waskesiu to be precise. Now there are some names spellcheck won't work on! Thanks very much Misty, this is definitely my first one from your town. It looks really nice here but apparently it's ugly in the winter. Better than Manchester I bet!
Finally is a postcard from John, from (near) Seattle. Yay! Seattle is one of the places I have always wanted to go to...I even have a guide book and have planned out all the bars and places I am going to go. Why do flights have to cost so damn much? Oh well I'll just have to look at the postcard and dream. The bad weather really wouldn't bother me, I'm from the north of England, it rains here a lot!
I have a postcard here from my globe-trotting friend Sarah and my Marillion-obsessed friend Lee, from their recent trip to Russia.
I actually had to rescue this poor postcard from death- i have no idea why but when it came through my letterbox, it was wet through and bordering on disintegration. I was so busy with my concern for the welfare of the postcard, that I failed to notice it had a picture of Rasputin's penis, in a jar. Nice!
What the hell kind of research work is that? :)
This is my first Russian postcard, which makes it extra special, so I'm giving it it's own journal entry. That, and I'm scared Lee will kill me if I don't do it after I failed to appropriately acknowledge his last postcard...
Go to www.marillion.com to see what all the fuss is about.
Permalink to 'Ok then Lee, I'll put this one on it's own'I'm sure you've all read the title of this post and are wetting your pants with excitement at the news I have to give you. Well, I'm going to make you wait until the next paragraph.
OK, suspense over. Remember the postcard from Andy in Fleetwood who said something about two people called Liam and Dan who he didn't know? And neither did I? Well, Liam has come forward to say hello, and put an end to all your sleepless nights. Here is his postcard, featuring an evil filing cabinet, a haunted television and a demon refrigerator. Our TV in my 4th year at uni (that's my MA year folks, I am not a dosser) would sometimes go to showing static, a la The Ring. Thankfully, I hadn't seen the film at that point. If that happened to my TV now whilst I was alone in the flat I would probably die of terror. Anyway, going back to the postcard, Liam also mentions his co-enigma, Dan, who he seems to be rather fond of.
Next in line is a postcard from Glenn from the Indietron website. If you haven't already, look at it here: www.indietron.com
You can see that the postcard is an advert for Indietron, so if you're in the Preston area (the best place to be from) and you fancy listening to The Smiths, Radiohead, Pixies, Manics et al, then it's where it's at.
Finally is an artistic masterpiece from my friends Heather and Elaine. They recently went to Newcastle for an all-expenses trip to see Deacon Blue which Heather won. Not only that, but they got chatted up by Bolton Wanderers! They didn't mention if either of them are planning on becoming footie wives after this encounter.
In case you're in any doubt of what they got up to on their trip, they have drawn a pint of lovely Staropramen on the front. Mmm Staropramen. Only 50p a pint (half litre, whatever) in Prague!
So that's 83 postcards so far...keep them coming!
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