Catt007

I'm going to tempt fate but I haven't seen any bad gateway errors for ages - are we ready to bring swap bot back to life again, I hope so.

Our local sorting office is understaffed and has been for ages so sometimes things are put in the postboxes aren't collected on the same day. I try to take them to the main post office when I can. I put things in the postbox on the day I click sent but sometimes the postmark won't match. I won't flake so if you haven't received something let me know, I'll always resend it if needed.

If you can I'd love it if you could put stamps on the swaps not printed postage, I keep the really special stamps for crafting and I donate as many as I can to charities that can use them to raise funds. If there's a bit of space around each stamp on the envelopes it's easier for the charities to claim for them

Please don't send me postcards that are from specific countries or places as part of scavenger hunts or postcard swaps. I won't use them unless it's from somewhere I can post from so it's such a waste. If you're sending from somewhere you live or are visiting then that's cool.

Please, please, please nothing that smells of rose, it gives me bad headaches, and no black tea. I don't like it. Herbal and fruit is cool and Coffee is the elixir of life.

Buffy, Angel, Eastenders, The Good Place, Masterchef, NCIS (Gibbs rocks) Better Call Saul Dexter CSI (Las Vegas and New York are my favourites) Recently discovered (and loving) Prison Break

Crochet, Dot Art Papercrafts and card-making Painting & drawing (I'm learning, it's a work in progress) Mixed Media Zentangles Nuerographic Art Watercolour Abstract Writing Letters Writing Stories Photography (love film photography)

A - Angel (TV Series), Animals, Architecture, Absurdity, Activism, Adventures, Alcohol, Aliens, Amphibians, Apples, Aquarius, Aquarians, Art, Alice In Wonderland, Amethyst

B - Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Books, Birds, Biscuits

C - Cats, Coffee (Black), Cricut, Crochet, CSI (TV Series, the original), Chocolate, Creativity, Courvoisier, Cameras, Cars, Chanel No.5, Crystals, Candles, Cryptids

D - Dogs, Dragons, Design, Dr Who, Drawing

E - Elephants, Eco Warriors, Equality, Eastenders, Ephemera, Embellishments

F - Fantasy (Books, Stories, Images, Characters), Feminism, F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Fridays

G - Gromit, Geeks, Gin, Groot, Gryffindor

H - Harry Potter, Happy Things

I - Imagination, Ice Cream, Instant Pot, Incense

J - Jossticks, Jokes, jack-o'-lanterns, Jam, Jaws (The Movie), Jets (The Flying Kind), Jack Daniels

K - Ketchup, Key rings, Kindness, Kisses, Kittens, Kittys, Kiwi's (The Nation, the birds and the fruits)

L - Love, Lions, Llamas,

M - Marmite, Monsters, Mandala, Movies, Music

N - Novels, Notebooks, Nature, Noodles, New Years Day, New Age, Nerds, Notepaper - patterned, especially vintage looking.

O- Owls, Orange, Our Planet, Oceans

P - Puzzles, Punk, Pubs, Pagans, Painting, Parcels, Peace, Photography, paper crafts

Q - Quests, Questions, Quidditch

R - Reading, Romance, Recipes, Rock (Music), Rocks

S - Shakespear, Sharks, Sculpture, Spells, Sinatra and The Rat Pack

T- T-shirts, Trains (Steam), Tarot

U - Unicorns

V - Vampires, Variety, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Volunteering,

W - Wales, Whales, Walking, Whiskey, Writing, Winning, Wiccan, Wax Seals, Wax Melts (nothing too floral please, definitely no Rose (it gives me a headache)

X - Xtra's

Y - Yo-Yo's

Z - Zombies, Zentangles (and anything that might help me to improve mine)

I don't want to list a load of 'do not sends' as I always think the swaps should be the sender's choice but FYI - I don't like Black tea (see - the things that never change bit), I love fruits, herbal, green and Jasmine but not black of any variety, and I hate Anchovies although I can't imagine a swap where anchovies might be included.

Roses - or rather the smell of Roses, gives me a headache and I can't use anything that smells of Rose. Please don't send Love Island and reality TV stuff or anything religious or political. Pagan and Wiccan are cool with me though.

I mentioned it at the top of the page but please don't send touristy postcards in swaps, I really don't like them. At best they'll get used in a swap for postcards that people don't like, at worst they'll go to waste. I won't send a tourist postcard unless I can send it from the country it's from so they are wasted on me. Thanks

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I've discovered Postcrossing and love it so I'm always happy to receive postcards I love quirky cards, cat-themed, Wiccan, mythical creatures (especially Dragons), Harry Potter, Art, animals, funny or just plain weird and anything in my A-Z but I'm happy to receive any postcards except for 'greetings from or tourist cards unless they are written and posted as a specific part of a swap.

Please don't send blank tourist postcards even as part of a scavenger hunt as I won't send them on unless it's a place I can post from and it seems such a waste.