Cheese Ploghmans

Sent by Laura (the UK).

Highland Cow

Highland Cow. Picture: Colin Baxter
Sent by John (UK)

Cowfriends

Sent by Laura (the UK).

Sent by Maria (France).


Both postcards, sent on 23 July and 11 August, arrived the same day in Morocco.

Dip & Crunch

Sent by John (the UK)

In Glanstonsbury

Sent by John (the UK)

As early morning mist rises above Glastonbury Tor cattle stand and stare, says the back of the postcard. I would write they are thinking.

Mini Cravings

Sent by Laura (the UK)

Doubt

On one John's postcards back (the UK)

Metal Cow

Big metallic cow sent by John (the UK).

A real surprise, and also with a lot of cowstamps on the back (with perfect cancellations, in my opinion).

Extra Light

Sent by John (the UK)

I am glad to add another variety to my collection. I have never seen this before. It seems that the number of calories is decreasing and decreasing...

What an envelope!

How many cows can you count on this non-birthday packet sent by John (the UK)? I wonder how it arrived with all the stickers in their place.

Oh, and wait: you have not seen the back yet!

I enjoyed some details:

Where do you park your cow?

Friesian cow tethered to a parking meter,
1964-1974, John Gay.

Postcard sent by John (the UK). We both wonder if the dairy man put money in the meter. John wrote that the cow would have got a good laugh if the owner got a ticket for illegal parking...

Hereford Bull

Received from John (the UK)

Cowpostcard (I mean, bullpostcard) sent by John. It shows the Hereford Bull and reproduces a stamp designed by Barry Driscoll ARCA, and issued by the Post Office in March 1984. The stamp, along with others from the same series, is stuck on the back.

I can't help to show it, because is very artistic and cowfriendly:

You Make Me Smile!

Sent by John (the UK)

I like the sticker. I guess Pony Brown has just bought some boxes of cheese...

Stampfree VQR

Big envelope sent by John (the UK)

It seems that the sender put the stamps and they were postmarked... and then lost in way (?). The back:

Cheese postcards

(Don't look at this post if you are hungry)

Emily doesn't eat the VQR cheese. But it happened that she attended  the Bath Cheese Festival last year and, besides eating a lot of cheese, find these nice postcards...

Well, not exactly a cow...

Laughing Cow-bird

Sent by Stripygoose (the UK)

Cheesy jokes

I received this collage. The sender was sorry (she said) for not sending something cheesy... But wait: is this not a cow? Or maybe a cowstamp, as it is among all this queenly stamps?

And I cannot help copying here the cheesy jokes written on the back:

What do you get when you cross a smurf with a cow? Blue cheese, of course!

What cheese should you use to hide a horse? Mascarpone!  

Just pretend

Wot? No cows?

Well, when I started this project I couldn't imagine that one day I would be publishing no-VQR mail (I have another blog for that). John (the UK) send me this cowless letter with a suggestion:

Just pretend they're cows!

Ok, but look at the left stamp... Riding cows?!?

Cowstamps

Multilingual cowstamps sent by Alan (the UK).

VQR truck & old VQR

Sent by John (the UK)

Collage made by John. He added in the back the picture of the old boxes. The cow was slightly different, the portions were just 6 in each box (so bigger!) and what I love is specially the slogan: Bel et Bon (='Beautiful and good', but Bel is also the name of the brand).

Ah, and don't forget to look at these cowstamps!