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By 5strings1

Les 3 petit cochons. The 3 little pigs.

I found these interesting(to me that is) at the indoor carboot. There were about 2-3 hundred so although there were mostly fairly modern, I didn't have the chance to have a good systematic root through the shoe-box. Mrs.5, no 1 daughter, and no 1 granddaughter were with me, until it got too cold in the fridge they call the Dryden Mill. It's always colder inside that it is outside, and a lot of the stalls were already packing up by the time we arrived.My browsing time was cut short, and I picked up the rather sinister looking three little pigs because of the very neat writing/printing on the correspondence side. It was written to grandma and uncle Les, and was the usual diary of events from a holiday to the La Rochelle area in 1992. The card was originally addressed to Whitby, and then 2 pieces of gummed paper, were placed over the original destination, to re-direct the card to a caravan park at Levens in Cumbria. Now the curious person inside me, wanted to know who had gone to the trouble of doing so. Was it perhaps a very considerate postie, who had an idea where grandma and uncle Les were staying? Was it perhaps uncle Les deciding to himself take advantage of a week or two of relative calm without the omnipresence of "grandma." It was posted in La Rochelle on 04/08/92, and was stamped again at York MLO on, it could be the 12/08/92. Any road up, as they are wont to say on t'other side of the hill, (Yorkshire) it arrived presumably at the caravan park in time for "grandma" to enjoy reading about Helen's hols in La Rochelle. Otherwise it may have been bouncing around from pillar box to post office. I am addicted to these bits of ephemera,particularly those from the Victorian and Edwardian period, and really enjoy the idea, that of their time, they were the equivalent of the telephone call or text. As to the 3 pigs, it was only afterwards I noticed how sinister these blighters were.
Adios.

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