To read other contributions and other people's "takes", then this is the place to go:
If people haven't contributed today, check back all week...... should be interesting, and I hope they are easier to read than mine. Like I said: I don't sit down and actually write by hand very often.......
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I too have just this morni9ng come across Jackie's idea and plan to do a handwritten post later! You are so right - there is something about a real letter rather than an e-mail although I do tend to type mine since my handwriting is so awful!! Hadn't come across SWALK for years - thanks for the memory!!
Jane x
Marigold Jam: Jane, it has been fascinating..... I found this morning that I was full of all sorts of insecurities as I pressed "send".......... What would others write? Would theirs be so much more cerebral in content? Would I be the only one or the first to publish? Would people actually be able to read my scribbles?
Ahhh that's a lovely post. I only write to my Grandmama and I love getting letters back. Printing an email off to keep isn't the same as a letter - even if it is quicker & easier.
I feel inspired and shall write at least one letter this evening. Thank you xx
Oh Cathy! That has me in tears. I remember my mothers letters to me when I was at college. How I loved them all, on blue Basildon Bond and in blue pen. She had lovely elegant handwriting and they were full of news. I smiled at first to see your handwriting, giving me just that bit more insight into your personality, and now I'm dabbing my eyes. Thanks you so much. Are you looking around at everyones'? Its so great.
How do you do that ?
I'm always apologising for my handwriting these days on cards etc..
I love my mother's, grandmother's & great Aunt's handwritng - ( have letters kept from latter two & startng to keep some of mums. Rambling old lady handwriting !)
I heard piece on the radio on exactly this subject - not quite as exciting finding a memory stick as finding a stack of old letters tied by ribbon. But maybe for this greneration it will be.
When I lived abroad Mum & I wrote several times a week to each other.
Yours is the first post I've read this morning, and I'm so glad I did--I LOVE IT!! I think your handwriting is just fine--But of course I've worked with doctors for more than 20 years, and they have the worst!! You're right, e-mails are not the same, and I do love getting letter and cards in the mail--But I understand that to get them, I must send them too...Oh well!! Enjoy your Wednesday!!
Have just spent most of this morning trying to decipher my diary entry for 11 a.m.
I was supposed to be somewhere totally unreadable, meeting someone who looked a bit like Yum- how wrong can you go writing a name with just 3 letters?
I have always loved to receive a letter (especially a love letter) but I sincerely think all my message recipients bless the day I began to email and stopped handwriting!
I never wanted to be willowy and blonde, wealthy or even brainy, but oh how I've coveted the patience to write neatly!
xx
Brilliant post Cathy... and so true!
Hi Cathy that's brilliant!
My friend and I swapped letters when we were 14 for some years, and I really wish I still had them - they were full of pictures, felt-tipped pens for emphasis, stickers and whatever else we could lay our hands on. Still, we had more time back then...
I loved reading the recollections of the memories letters hold for you.
A great post, but like you, I love all the fonts, the flexibility and global friends technology can bring you.
Best wishes
Dan
Cathy, you are so right about writing (sorry couldn't resist that) and I have enjoyed reading your handwritten post and the points you have made. Will pop over to Jackie's now. Talk again soon, Lesley
It is so true, every word you write, so much 'romance' is lost with the demise of the handwritten letter. My sister has postcards exchanged between my grandmother and her sisters and cousins which are more like text messages with them making arrangements to meet and exchanging a bit of gossip.They bring their existence to life.
I shall have to take up this challenge.
Cathy,
What a great idea and you've conveyed the essence of it superbly. As someone who likes to think of themselves as an advocate for the handwritten letter or card I think this is a lovely way to make people think about how we communicate these days. And as for SWALK... it's been a long time since I saw that! Thanks for the memory and the prick of conscience. Lesley x
I love it .you are so right it's the smell and feel of it all adds to the memories .....great contribution to handwriting Wednesday thanks .....Lorna
A handwritten letter is a most special thing, something that doesn't happen often in techno age but means so much more than a text or an email!! I still love raking through the box of letters and postcards left by my grannys.... wee pieces of history. Fabulous post! :0)
What a fun post. You have such great handwriting for printing (which I know defeates the object of the exercise somewhat, but I hope you know what I mean).
I was really shocked when a friend said she couldn't understand why her two young daughters were being taught handwriting at school - surely they should be concentrating on computer skills?
I shall mourn the loss of handwriting just as I mourn the loss of local postmarks. xx
Lovely post, thank you. I have great trouble with biros these days, I can't grip them properly and they just run off with me and make my handwriting even worse!
I trump your SWALK with my NORWICH...!
Chrissie
Hey, where did my comment go? It must have been eaten by those Staffordshire dogs.
This post is wonderful - moving, revealing and fascinating. It really is like seeing a bit of you (and I don't mean those bits suggested in a certain digital illustration recently). I loved hearing about the letters you've received, and their smell. What would a letter from you smell like?
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