Stationery

I still have lots of writing paper but I rarely write letters. If I do, they might be typed on my laptop on A4 paper as I find it hard to hold a pen for very long. Just occasionally I write a letter but more often it is a scribbled line or two in a birthday card.
My cousin wrote to me twice recently as he doesn’t do email or texts. It was quaint, as it was purely transactional, giving information which could easily have been texted.
I do have a few letters from my mum and two special people, no longer with us, and lots from my husband written before we married.

I'm also someone who writes letters. I bought my last writing paper from our local post office. I've also bought some beautiful writing paper with matching envelopes from Amazon.

Tesco apparently stock Paperchase stationery, although I never bought any so I don't know what that is 😁

I still write and receive letters. Some are just 'how are you' letters and some are 10 pagers, discussing all sorts of topics. Our postman gets a kick out of delivering them, he says he never sees a real letter anymore.

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Amazon does sell goods from British companies
You just have to do some homework.

Did I just mention Amazon 😲

Waitrose, Tesco and John Lewis are all British companies with stores (just about, with John Lewis!) on the High Street where you can walk in and buy stuff.

They are not to be compared with Amazon- there I go! I mentioned it myself!!!

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Yes I mentioned Waitrose and Tesco. And even John Lewis. Would love shares in all 3.

I do have shares but the company is american and no one would know it or even be interested. Not Tesla sadly. Oops theres another company mention.

keepingquiet

cornergran

A friend sent me some as a gift (from Amazon) along with a new pen for a lockdown birthday. I just wish my handwriting lived up to it!

Here we go again! Why do we need to know it's from Amazon!! I think Gransnet has shares...

I think someone mentioned Waitrose too

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I love receiving letters but it doesn’t happen much these days. I still send letters but type them as my arthritic hands have made my writing quite illegible.

Funnily enough my DH has just asked me what it is I have written on the shopping list and neither of us can decipher it!
What will historians refer to in the future with no written communications to refer to? Will our e-mails still be saved?

I lived abroad for many years and some of my weekly letters to my mother have survived, it is so interesting to read them. I wish I had kept hers, so neatly written and full of love. Also my son’s weekly letters from school, even if the main content was rugby or cricket scores. We should get out our pens and write to loved ones, I am sure they would appreciate it, even if not written on the best Basildon Bond.

I still have some Basildon Bond writing paper and envelopes that I've had for years.

This year I'll make an effort to write some letters to put in Christmas cards. 🎄

This reminded me of when I was a child. I used to love my Christmas Stocking but used to make my parents laugh because I would tip it out and scrabble through looking for a gift that could possibly be a stationery set! That, apparently, was all I really cared about and wouldn’t open any other presents until I knew there was one in there! I still remember the thrill of using it for the first time. It even made writing thank-you letters enjoyable! I was a strange child!

I print my own on A4 or A5 as required. Mostly for letters of sympathy and condolence.

Ryman used to sell Basildon Bond. I use A4 pad or notepaper. It's such a pity letter writing is dying out. I also love getting a card.

...I don't expect cornergran is a Gransnet "plant".
I'm not.

cornergran

A friend sent me some as a gift (from Amazon) along with a new pen for a lockdown birthday. I just wish my handwriting lived up to it!

Here we go again! Why do we need to know it's from Amazon!! I think Gransnet has shares...

Amazon sells Three Candlesticks writing paper (which my dad liked) and this company definitely sells another brand:

cultpens.com/

Crikey. Checked on the J Lewis website. Good selection of their own paper, but click and collect is for goods totalling 40.00. Free delivery is now for a total of 70.00+. I will check on the waitrose website and see if they stock it on line but not in store.

That increase for click and collect was a surprise. I am sure last time I had used it the threshold was 15.00. And I am sure it was 8.00 or thereabouts some time back.

Well that was interesting. That well known on line service sells several different sizes and 2 colours of Basildon Bond paper, white or champagne. With or without envelopes. And in the last month several 100s of people have bought them.

Still can't remember the brand name of the deckle edged paper. I don't think it was B Bond.

I mostly email or ring friends, but a letter needed to be written as there was too much to say for a card. Sometimes I put a shorter letter on a sheet of paper in a card.
I remember the onion skin paper for overseas. And the blue letter/envelopes. I agree with the PP above no doubt they would get lost now and found 50 years later.
I do find my hand writing is losing definition now probably with lack of use. Shopping lists are not long enough and too rushed and scribbled. I shall try harder.
I expect a larger department store would sell stationery sets in their starionery and pen department unless that has disappeared as well.

A friend sent me some as a gift (from Amazon) along with a new pen for a lockdown birthday. I just wish my handwriting lived up to it!

John Lewis have A4 pads and envelopes in stock on line.
Click and collect from Waitrose?

I write letters still, and my family knows my penchant for nice stationery, so often buy me lovely paper when they see it.
I have some from Venice, some customised, some deckle edged. I suspect that I will be the last in the family to do this.

I used to be an inveterate letter writer - letters home to parents; letters to DH when he was away for long periods - mostly on forces air mail “Bluey’s”, but sometimes on lovely onion skin writing paper that I used to buy from a stationers near to where it worked in Berkeley Square. That was a wonderful shop - I used to haunt it in my lunch hour! And always written with a fountain pen. I passed my last one on to GS a couple of years ago, having had it refurbished and his initials engraves on the barrel. I don’t think he uses it, but no matter. He will keep it.
I have to admit I hadn’t noticed that writing paper was becoming a thing of the past. My handwriting is so shocking now that I now write long rambling emails to friends instead of letters.

Could you buy a pack of A5 paper and find a design you like on line and print your own stationery? Or, perhaps just the A5 paper?

I'm beginning to think that letter writing is a lost art.
I use sheets of office paper and a packet of separately bought envelopes so that they don't really match .
My handwriting is awful and deteriorating.
I often send short letters on cheaply bought
cards . I was buying them from The Works .
I don't know if they still produce them .
At the moment I have a lot of their make your own cards with matching envelopes.
A set of old fashioned deckle edged paper and envelopes would be appreciated .
Perhaps they are available on line.

Do you have a Spar shop near you? If so, try in there.