It's time for Christmas cards

It's time to start writing and sending Christmas cards pretty sharpish if, like me, you have cards to send to far-flung destinations like Australia and America. I picked up this design from my local WH Smith yesterday - I like the motif with the 'holy three kings' as we call them in Norwegian. The original bearers of gifts...

I always, always, buy special stamps from the Post Office for my letters and cards. I think it makes an envelope look much more enticing to open. Besides, I once spent rather a long time in a French hospital, during which time I received cards and letters from concerned friends and family (it was the 90's, before e-mail). And I remember a nurse who would ask me very sweetly if she might have the (mainly foreign) stamps for her children, as they collected them. That idea stayed with me - put special stamps on your mail, because the recipient or someone close to them might like to collect them.