First Mailing

I've just began working on the content that is shared through our networked objects, and this is what Margery recenty sent Pablo. I plan to put his reply up as soon as I can, but this may be later in the week.


This is an example of a postcard that Margery recently sent Pablo after a visit to Perthshire. As Margery had already spoken to her grandson, Pablo, about the trip on the phone (and knowing that Pablo undoubtedly would have heard more about the trip from his mother who was with her) I find it interesting that the card she sent him was brief and informative. I feel this contrasts something one might usually expect from the casual medium of a postcard.

“This is Queen Victoria’s favourite view – she loved Scotland and so did Prince Albert whose castle I visited in Germany – Coburg Castle.”

Margery is inadvertently passing on her knowledge of an area of Scotland, but doesn’t go into any detail. It is like a line of thought, captured on paper to pass on to her grandson. This style of communication has caused Pablo to search the Internet for more detail into this topic, and in so doing he is being taught something of Scotland’s history.

This postcard was sent along with another in an envelope, to prevent paying for two stamps. The second postcard was in reference to a belonging accidentally left at her house, so the content of this card is not important; however in both cards Margery has written over the full of the back - over the space for the address. This demonstrates how Margery uses this medium to write on, and shows that the typical format of a postcard is unimportant to her, it is the sending of the image and the conversation that she finds most important- not the idea of a stamped, addressed postcard.