BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 12, 2023 at 5:13am

Thanks Heleen,

I suggest you read my very first introductry comment to Boring Postcards on page 84 of this Group.

When I find a box of postcards at a flea market, I flick through them quickly to see if there are any boring ones. It's a quick and basically non-intellectual process -- 'Is this postcard boring or not?'

Later, when I get to look at these postcards more critically I think 'Well there might be something of interest here'. And sometimes there is. But most often there isn't.

Last comment: there is a danger of over-intellectualising this and making it to arty-farty. Keep It Simple Folks. Andd Keep It Boring, too

Comment by Daniel de Culla on May 10, 2023 at 7:50pm

Season's Greetings¡

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 10, 2023 at 4:25pm

My 'problem' with boring cards is the fact that postcards, which at first sight I think boring, come to live when I put off my -2 glasses and see the nice details...

While my reptile brain thinks 'boring', my human brain concluders that 'The' boring card hardly exists... 

But I'll have a try to find cards which keep on being boring at second sight and of course I then must send them to you, Val.

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on May 10, 2023 at 2:17pm

A few more boring cards are on their way to you today.
Thanks for the reminder. 
Mim

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 7, 2023 at 5:01pm

SIX BORING POSTCARDS FOUND AT A SUNDAY FLEA MARKET IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TODAY

1. Splendid Hotel (sic), Therems, France

2. Gentiane flowers, Auvergne mountains, France

3.Le Puy de Come and the Puy de Dome volcanos, Auvergne, France

4. Le Puy de Dome volcano (again), Auvergne, France

5. Glacier (4,208m) Chamonix Mont-Blance, Haute-Savoie, France

6. Grand St Barnard Hospice, Mont Blanc, Switzerland

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 6, 2023 at 10:11am

THREE MORE FROM THREE COUNTRIES FROM THE ONE AND ONLY MIKEL UNTZILLA -- thanks, thanks, thanks

1 .Gateway of India and Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay, India

2. Salou, Costa Daurada, Spain

3. The Queen's Guard's Hall, Chateau de Versailles, France (with ceiling painted by Noel Coypel)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2023 at 9:52am

EXCAVATIONS OF SALT FOUNTAINS, ST-PIERRE-SOUS-VEZELAY, FRANCE

1. Hot public swimming Gallo-Roman baths for Gallo-Roman men

2. Ornamental Lake Worship Holy Bath, 1st century BC

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2023 at 9:47am

THREE FROM THRANCE

1. Flowery Garden (with empty red recliner), Ile de Bréhat

2. Lots of campsites at Cromenach

3. Le Pont de l'Abime, Les Gorges du Loup, Cote d'Azur

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 26, 2023 at 8:06am

LE FUNICULAIRE DU SALON DU CAPUCIN (alt:1,643m), MONT-DORE, PUY-DE-DOME, FRANCE

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 26, 2023 at 8:03am

LE CRET DE CHALAME, JURA, FRANCE

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