An update for the Welsh Postal Oddities

I almost forgot to mention that the Welsh Oddities pages have had an update with the first two issues of the year: The Tipi Nation Post which boasted true 3D stamps, and the Gold Mine license stamps which boasted real gold and silver adornments.

A related item, distributed only to those brave souls who I met up with at Stampex, the Working Zebras issue is not a full Oddity release. I was surprised to see the Royal Mail had rushed out their own answer to these stamps. Here is one of the issue.

More stamps from Laernu, Isle of Vue, and the Guild of Farm Scientists

Hurrah!
Colin Edwards has ended a nearly 12 month sabbatical, and we have some new great Cinderella stamps.
Foremost there is the 2014 Valentine's Day issue from the Isle of Vue, which this year features Bonnie and Bella, the Bunnies of Love. A follow-up fundraising stamp is promised for April.

Then those who met up at Stapex 2014 got a preview of the the new Laernu Quadrants, and received a postcard with a stamp showing a most remarkable creature - The Boueffon!

You can see and read about all these on the Laernu and More website

Or drop into the Cinderella Stamps Forum to join in with discussions on these stamps; and much more

Facebook page for Discworld Stamps

If you have been entertained by, or become a rabid collector of Discworld Stamps you should join These Pages

Valentine's Day Soon

And I am very hopeful that Colin Edwards will be releasing the 2014 Isle of Vue stamps soon, maintaining a tradition going back to 2006. You can see the previous issues at This Link. Enjoy!

You can keep up with topics like this on the Cinderella Stamps Forum

Sunday School Stamp Albums

My collection continues to grow and has probably exceeded 115 now. The Collection Web Page has been updated again, but I still have more to add!

Facebook

There is now a Huw Puw Caru FaceBook page , from the Caru Foundation, where anyone interested in this obscure Welsh author and all-round scallywag is welcome.

Welcome to this introduction.

This blog is unashamably published purely to help drum up visitors to the websites that reflect some of my interests.

First off is a site dedicated to the literary works of the Welsh author Huw Puw Caru. His works are being slowly released by The Caru Foundation. Recently three more of Caru's short stories have been added.

Since 2009 I have been distributing stamps to discerning collectors under the title Welsh Postal Oddities. These stamps are examples of Cinderella stamps - not valid for normal postal use. As such they encompass a vast range of types and uses, from Local Post services to advertising labels to the fiscal stamps of the Druidic courts.
The Oddities series has just hit it's 50th edition!

Other examples of Cinderella Stamps are those produced by Colin Edwards and Alan Batley, the guys behind the first four years of the Discworld stamps. Featuring stamps from Laernu and the Valentine's Day issues from the Isle of Vue, to a wide range of philatelic curiosities. Elsewhere you can find a full listing of the stamps but here is a Collector's Guide. Colin's stamps always give the collector that little bit more, and hopefully this is reflected in the website. See if you can spot all the extra bits and hidden links.

A sub-speciality of my philatelic obsessions is the Sunday School attendance stamps Sunday School attendance stamps and albums, which were diligently collected by children each week between 1906 and sometime in the 1960s. Information on these albums is very scant on the internet; the publishers are no longer in business, and archives have not been kept. This site, despite only detailing some 100 albums may be the largest resource for information and pictures.

Finally another interest is the Wild Orchids of Britain, and I have logged my trips out to find these fascinating plants and photograph them since 2006. 2013 was my best year yet.