I miss letter writing 
I have lots of letters saved from old penfriends, and *ahem* old boyfriends, now & then I read through them & go all nostalgic. I used to love the anticipation of waiting for a letter to arrive, and sometimes the envelope would be bulging which meant that there was at least a ten page letter inside!! Sometimes with poems, other times with drawings & sketches, or songs that we had invented. One boyfriend I had used to post little notes through my door, and once even posted a poem he had written & then got published in a book of poems - how romantic! *sigh*
My classmates & I used to write each other letters in the evening & then give them to each other in class the next day, and then said friend would respond back via another letter, the usual teen stuff about who we fancied, how much our mum/dad was P*ssing us off by not letting us do blah blah blah, and fill them with little drawings.
And then occasionally, you would get a little note left in your desk from a secret admirer.
I used to wite to my nan a lot, when I lived in Scotland, the usual stuff about what I had been doing at school, what I'd had for lunch, all the important things when you are a kid. I kept all the letters she wrote back too, and Im glad I did as they are pretty much all I have got left.
But - I used to dread the end of school report which was sent home in a brown envelope at the end of each year.....do they still do that these days, or is this more of a face-to-face parent consulation? 9at least, thats what my daughters school now do).
I have lots of letters saved from old penfriends, and *ahem* old boyfriends, now & then I read through them & go all nostalgic. I used to love the anticipation of waiting for a letter to arrive, and sometimes the envelope would be bulging which meant that there was at least a ten page letter inside!! Sometimes with poems, other times with drawings & sketches, or songs that we had invented. One boyfriend I had used to post little notes through my door, and once even posted a poem he had written & then got published in a book of poems - how romantic! *sigh*My classmates & I used to write each other letters in the evening & then give them to each other in class the next day, and then said friend would respond back via another letter, the usual teen stuff about who we fancied, how much our mum/dad was P*ssing us off by not letting us do blah blah blah, and fill them with little drawings.
And then occasionally, you would get a little note left in your desk from a secret admirer.
I used to wite to my nan a lot, when I lived in Scotland, the usual stuff about what I had been doing at school, what I'd had for lunch, all the important things when you are a kid
. I kept all the letters she wrote back too, and Im glad I did as they are pretty much all I have got left.But - I used to dread the end of school report which was sent home in a brown envelope at the end of each year.....do they still do that these days, or is this more of a face-to-face parent consulation? 9at least, thats what my daughters school now do).
(you took the words out of my mouth about kids saying what you said about spelling and dictionaries)
