Isle of Vue stamps 2015

The Laernu and More website now has the 2015 Valentine's Day stamps from the Isle of Vue featuring, this year, Jacques Neuehaus the wellknown Laernuean lothario and the special Queen of Hearts stamps.
This year they were complemented by some collectors cards featuring Neuehaus and issued by Harborne's Waxen Chooen!

Welsh Postal Oddities

I have just updated this web site with all the 2014 releases of these most quirky Cinderella stamps. There are some truly 3D stamps, an issue saluting the Working Zebras of Wales, and even stamps for mail to the spirit world.  Click here to view.

The Discworld Stamp Collector

I found some time to put together all I knew and could find about the original 10 pence Discworld stamp from 2004. What seems to be an ordinary stamp, is actually available to collectors (well, the most avid collectors) in 13 different versions. Included is some background to the development of the stamps design. Read about it

Sunday School Stamp Albums

You know how it is when you put off a job, and when you finally get round to it it has grown a bit more, so you put it off again ... and again and again.
Well, When the pile of unsorted albums were no longer able support themselves and kept falling over I decided I really had to update these webpages, and spent a few evening scannng in all and writing up all the new acquisitions. Took a few evenings, but they are in all sorted now. Tere are now in excess of 160 of these albums in my collection. Still some work to go, but at least I am just treadingwater now, not drowning.

Click HERE to view

Laernu and More

Another month and another update.

Now that Colin Edwards has issued not just one, not just two, but three different postal labels in the last few weeks, it is time the Laernu and More site was updated. Okay, they are not full blown stamp releases, but they are avidly collected by a small band of obsessives ;)
Apart from some totally-too-soon Xmas labels, there are Black Cats and Zeppelin Race poster stamps, worthy of inclusion in any Cinderella stamp collection.

Welsh Postal oddities

I have also updated the Welsh Postal Oddities web pages with the latest three issues of the most exclusive Welsh Cinderella Stamps that exist. These issues can be seen HERE

Wild Orchids 2014

The summer is over and there are no more trips out to find orchids growing in the wild, so uts a final update to Steve's Orchids for 2014. It was a busy year with over 40 site visits and 13 new species and varieties ticked off my sightings list. But that still leaves some for the future.
The hardest to find was the minute Bog Orchid. 80 miles each way, and we managed to find 2 specimens in a rather damp bit of wilderness.