Isobel in New South Wales was kind enough to send me this First Day of Issue Christmas postcard from Australia, cancelled at St. Marys, New South Wales in 2008. (You can see another 2008 Christmas maxicard in this series today at Wild Postcards.)

The 2009 version of this series is a little more abstract, but beautiful nonetheless; it comes to me from Thea in Queensland. It’s another First Day of Issue maxicard; this year they were cancelled at St. Marys, Tasmania.

My thanks to you for your visit, and my best wishes for a blessed Christmas.

This very beautiful, very posh “Flower Fairies” Christmas card from Marks & Spencer arrived today from my correspondent in Manama, Bahrain. You can’t tell from the scan, but the areas in black are actually gold leaf.

This is the second Christmas card I’ve received from abroad that’s tiny; like the last one (Dreaming of a White Christmas, from Singapore), it’s only four inches square.