Memories

 

There may be different ways of entering the New Year but something very much in it's past, over one hundred and ten years old with that sepia, beloved at the time but today often in black and white greyscales.

Uniform reflected the Edwardian era of Scouting in its infancy and not how the neckerchief is fastened too.

Sending wishes, the old school way by Postcard, in Twenty Twenty Six and endangered species and yet the fact we can see it is something that with current trends in 2126 we may not as sd's cards fail and file formats drift.

We can read a lot too into how it is written by the handwriting.

There is something to be said for us sending a Postcard even if we post updates  from our tablets and smartphones while we are visiting places: A truely permanent memory.

Sending a postcard

Something in the time since starting this blog in late 2018 I hadn't talked a little about is postcards which pre-social media was the way we all let people know about what we were doing while away.

I sent loads as a boy on various trips and even as a an adult did send postcards whenever I was away and so it was little different if you were at Camp with the Cubs or Scouts

Here we have a postcard from Italy actually features a scout resting an a river bank in his uniform as a rowing boy passes by which is really rather lovely.

No doubt he's thinking about what he's done and the other things that are lined up to do.

I always valued my time away for that.