Ian’s Blog 3rd November 2024

 Ian’s Blog 3rd November 2024

A few days ago I had an email from Graham Moores who has agreed to help me with the artwork for another album cover. Unfortunately there has been a delay with him helping me with this as he has recently been ill with Covid. The proposed title of the new album is ‘The Further Adventure Of’ and Graham says that he will see if he can make the album cover look like a postage stamp as one of the songs is about my stamp collecting hobby.

Here is a link to the song which features photos of some of my stamps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uohuJ1PyApY

The Philatelist

I've been to Paris I've been to Rome

With postage stamps in my home

I've flown to Oslo and Stockholm

In my stamp album that I own

I've travelled to Brussels and Cologne

With my stamp album in my home

I've seen the Archduke Ferdinand

On the stamp of a foreign land

In the days before I went abroad

But these old old stamps I could afford

Some of the stamps that I love the best

Are the older ones I must confess

Biplanes drawn in the sky

And back in time I could fly

With history in front on me

And learning lots of geography

I've seen the Archduke Ferdinand

He was assassinated so I understand

This led to the first world war

Catastrophe and so much more

Postal history philately

Fond memories of my hobby

I've been to Paris I've been to Rome

With postage stamps in my home

I've flown to Oslo and Stockholm

In my stamp album that I own

I've travelled to Brussels and Cologne

With my stamp album in my home