John Tingey's Comments

I do hope it ends quickly, at least I am getting caught up on my mail art here in Canada : )

 

Right first time, John!

Regards, Peter the Herman's Hermit

Bonsoir!

Was the beer any good, No, it was french beer. You may well know this: wht's the fifference between making love in a punt and drinking French beer?

Now turnip art/addressing isn't something that I've previously considered, mais pourquoi pas? The French probably do this on a smaller scale -- garlic bulb art, but as I'm allergic to garlic that's something else I haven't gotten into.

Regards, Herman's Hermit

 

Bonjour New Friend John. You might be interested to know that I've managed to send a beer mat through the post to my French IUOMA mate with whom I eam engaged in a minor Bray/Tingay 'How far can we push La Poste?' project. Hope to receive something from you one day soon. Bon weekend, your New Friend Val.

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Wow! YOU ARE THAT JOHN TINGEY?!

John, I'm delighted to make your acquantaince, and to put a face (well sort of) to the man who wrote 'The Englishman...'.

It's one of my all-time favourite postal history/mail art books. One that makes you think, 'I wish I'd been able to research and then write it.' The first two chapters, especially, have been much read by me, 'cos they are great. In a way they inspired a French IUOMA colleague JF Chapelle (look him up on the site) and I to start a project called, Experimental Artistic Postage":we test the tolerance of the French postal system in seeing what we can send to each other. Items to date include wrong sized envelopes, out of date stamps, cheese box lids, 45 rpm records, CDs, beer mats etc. Most of these were unwrapped, à la Bray, but aaddressed (or sticky labelled).

I also have an on-going project called 'An Envelope a Day', & will have an exhibition here in Sigean this summer showing the 365 envelopes I have mailed myself over the course of a year: they, too, test the tolerance, or otherwise, of the local postal authorities. You can find some of the envelopes in the Photo section of my IUOMA page.

I also like the 'Postmarks' chapter of 'The Englishman...', because I'm an avid philatelist (but a poor one, who sometimes has to focus on postmarks when he can't afford to buy stamps).

I should tell you that your book is one of the most highly rated amongst the IUOMA boys and gals.

I'm not sure that I can Mentor a man of your talents. All I can say is take your time, and send stuff out when you are ready. 

Stay in touch! Regards, Val

I see we have a new member, welcome Mr Tingey!

Lorraine Kwan, Vancouver