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poliphilo Remember penpals?
Well, you will if you're my age, though even then- when I was growing up- the thing had a slightly musty, 1930s, do-gooding, Enid Blytonish feel to it. One was encouraged as a child to strike up a correspondence with some person or persons who lived at a distance- by preference in another country- and.... and- I dunno- nurture international understanding. Obviously it was a good thing.
And your pal would stick colourful foreign stamps on their envelopes- little miniature artworks representing things of significance in their culture- and if you were so minded you'd steam them off and conserve them in an album....
Remember stamp-collecting?
But who needs any of that now we have the Internet....
Well, you will if you're my age, though even then- when I was growing up- the thing had a slightly musty, 1930s, do-gooding, Enid Blytonish feel to it. One was encouraged as a child to strike up a correspondence with some person or persons who lived at a distance- by preference in another country- and.... and- I dunno- nurture international understanding. Obviously it was a good thing.
And your pal would stick colourful foreign stamps on their envelopes- little miniature artworks representing things of significance in their culture- and if you were so minded you'd steam them off and conserve them in an album....
Remember stamp-collecting?
But who needs any of that now we have the Internet....
