tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post5842137703604705494..comments2024-01-04T17:36:49.381+08:00Comments on A Pocket Full of Family Memories: My Love of Writing : Family LettersRelics of Beccleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04742667063184782644noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post-52669545352769251852011-10-24T02:46:01.204+08:002011-10-24T02:46:01.204+08:00Interesting post - my sister (born 1969) has a lov...Interesting post - my sister (born 1969) has a love of old pens and collects them. I am a few years older, and so had to have an ink pen for school work (always managed to mess up the nib with lumps of paper) but I won a Top Notch Inkpen in a raffle a few years ago, and my partner will not sign anything without using this pen - I didn't make much of an attempt to get used to it. I prefer a rubber-coated ballpoint as it makes my handwriting nicer (like it used to be before typing everything atrophied my hand writing). Use it or lose it, I reckon! JoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post-81465194752527350512011-09-27T17:53:40.034+08:002011-09-27T17:53:40.034+08:00Hi Debra
A lovely post - and full of very moving ...Hi Debra<br /><br />A lovely post - and full of very moving thoughts about your family. It took me back to when my family and I left Oxfordshire for London when I was 12 - and I spent a lot of time sending letters to my best friend and reading hers to me. I now wonder whether all that letter writing helped me to develop my own love of writing. Today with emails and texts that letter-writing art is sadly lacking.Ros Botthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487796409439418340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post-84168831640787619002011-09-26T00:12:23.847+08:002011-09-26T00:12:23.847+08:00Hi Debra,
I really enjoyed this post. My Grandad ...Hi Debra,<br /><br />I really enjoyed this post. My Grandad used to write, not prose but notes and lists. He was a linguist and wherever he went he had his vocabulary ready, in his beautifully neat style.<br /><br />We would go birdwatching and he would list the date, the location and the birds observed. I used to sit beside him, watching him. Now those lists are everything to me.<br /><br />Many thanks,<br /><br />Steve GarnettAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post-52654414043449571382011-09-24T19:46:40.257+08:002011-09-24T19:46:40.257+08:00Thank you Ann, for your comments and shared though...Thank you Ann, for your comments and shared thoughts on your own grandfather. Handwriting is definitely a dying art but one which my family treasured. Even my daughter takes special care with her schoolwork, which is comforting to me! xRelics of Beccleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04742667063184782644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783214828357423938.post-21999148184111696952011-09-24T17:31:02.717+08:002011-09-24T17:31:02.717+08:00That's interesting Debra...Years ago they seem...That's interesting Debra...Years ago they seemed to take more care with their writing than we do now. My own grandfather had the most beautiful hand writing I've ever seen - each letter was exactly the same size. He said he was taught to write on graph style paper.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083678593936010786noreply@blogger.com