AKPhilately

Hello to everyone who still happens upon this blog every now and then!
The blog I sent you to, two years ago, has now been discontinued.
So, as an update to my previous message I can now send you all to my latest blog, which deals with everything concerning stamp engravers. You'll find it by clicking HERE....

Oh dear, the title sounds rather ominous, but don't worry, it isn't really.
Yes, it does mean that this is the end of this blog. But fear not: I have been invited to start blogging for Stamp Magazine, so if you like what I've done so far, I would welcome you heartily to my new blog, which you can find here:...

Ooh, yes, 2012 is going to be a great year for GB issues! And I haven't said that since 1999! We had already had the fantastic news about those great Olympic definitives, which will be issued on 5 January.
I love them and even though I'm anything but a sports/Olympics fan and even less of a sports/Olympics on stamps fan, I think these are absolutely great....

Well well well. I only recently reported on a major change in the French definitives (see here), and here's yet another one! This is turning out to be a very nice and varied set!
I'm not totally in the know but I believe that for a long time there have been green definitives, representing a slower, surface mail rate. Now, these green definitives have become properly green....