BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Patricio - The Celestial Scribe on June 28, 2020 at 7:33pm

I´ve boring stuff for this collection but the Brazilian Post Office Service navigates the new unchartered times poorly.  There is no information available when the old normal service is going to be in place again. 

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on June 28, 2020 at 3:59pm

I’ve seen an article about the shoes in Hungary. Very moving. Not a boring card at all.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 28, 2020 at 12:02pm

FROM DAVID VALENTINE HERMAN (the son of....you guessed it)

'Petani', 'A working farmer' in Bali, Thailand

My son and heir reckons that this is a Thai guy water-skiing in a paddy field behind some buffalos. (I wonder from whom he gets his strange sense of huour?)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 28, 2020 at 11:58am

TWO FROM THE FATHER OF DAVID VALENTINE HERMAN

1. Memorial at Duna-Parton, Hungary

I thought that this was a Boring Postcard, until I researched it and found out that it was a memorial on the east bank of the River dDnube, Budapest Hungary, to the Jews who were shot by the fascist militia in WW2. The Jews were ordered to take off their shoes, and then shot -- their bodies fell into the river.

It might be Boring as Postcards go, but I find it moving.

2. Harald Husse is square, man

In the early 60's, when American jive culture was arriving in the UK, terms like 'square', 'cool' and 'man' abounded. To use them was considered 'hip'. Here is a Boring Postcard by the German artist Harald Huss, who may or may not be square, man. But it's cool. etc

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 24, 2020 at 11:12am

AND NOW..... 2 MORE FROM KATERINA

Thanks yet again!

1. dAdA & FLUxUS

It's in German. No, it doesn't mean dAdA is a sausage -- it means dAdA is a word.

The Postcard was printed in York (England), a town I used to visit often, and in which i never heard a word of German spoken (Ich habe nie ein wort Deutsch gehört). Culinary-wise, and back to the non-sausage, Yorkshire (the county, of which York is the capital) is famous for it's Yorkshire Puddings

2. Christmas Pantomime Dame

This is a postcard-size reproduction of one of the British Post Office's set of Christmas stamps for 1985.

(The17p stamp in the British Films series of the same year featured Peter Sellers --  who is my 4th cousin once removed.)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 21, 2020 at 7:26am

One day, some day, they will arrive in Sigean, during the Covid Era there just are not many planes flying, thus "air mail" is slooooow. A few more boring postcards sending off tomorrow, too:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 21, 2020 at 4:57am

Hello Katerina,

Thanks for the Pepsi/Coke info -- I hadn't realised the digestion=pepsi link.

As to the cards you sent me 20/25 May, alas, almost one month later, they haven't arrived. (I post here everything that people are kind enough to send me within a day or two of receiving them.) I fear that they might have got lost. If they turn up, I will let you know...and post them here, too.

Bestest, Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 20, 2020 at 5:47pm

HELLO SAILOR! GOODBYE KARL!

1. Hello Sailor!

This is from an exhibition by Albert & Verzone at the Regional Center for Contemporary Art, in Sète (France) in 2012.

I find it not-too-Boring because it's in Polaroid format (although not to Polaroid scalel).

2. Goodbye Karl!

The quote on the memorial comes from 'The Communist Manifesto'  (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (The latter was cremated and his ashes scattered off Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, England).

I've never thought of buying a postcard in a cemetery. In fact I've never seen a cemetery that sold postcards. Or had a Gift Shop. Or had a tea Room. etc.

If you are interested (thought not), the other six 'Magnificent London Cemeteries' are: Abney Park, Brompton, Kensal Green, Nunhead, Tower Hamlets and West Norwood.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 20, 2020 at 11:22am

Bravo! Good to see mail arriving in Sigean from Greece, finally!

Now let's see when these come, sent 20/25 May?...sigh:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 20, 2020 at 11:10am

TWO FROM KATERINA....plus One from Val and a Limerick Challenge

But first.... Thanks yet again Katerina!

1. Los Angeles

"Heart of the City: Spectacular downtown LA at Night"

2. Welcome in Hamburg

Katerina writes: "Boring? I don't know German"

It seems to be about some locally baked bread, which you can buy at Niendorfer Strasse 25, Hamburg, if you are passing that way.

Guten Appetit

And now, on the subject of bread, here's a Postcard from the French bakery chain...

La Banette

Their baguette 'La Banette 1900' is "Without doubt the tastiest in the world"

Although Katerina's German bakery might challenge this claim to boulangerie fame;

Now here's a challenge for you....to write a limerick including these three words (in any order you like):

1. Annette (the lady holding the bread)

2. Baguette (the type of bread she is holding)

3. La Banette (the specific baguette [with or without '1900'])

Over to you, gang...

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