#StampOfTheWeek #Philately India 1912, 2 Rupees After much searching I failed to find any stamps from Portuguese India so you'll have to have this one. Last night we had a group meal where the guests bought dishes from Portuguese related countries. 1/2

Bought some false moustaches as the rest of my team are blokes and there's a lot of Movember solidarity going on on the morning stand-up meeting and I felt left out :D Now I want to go to the party on the packet as it looks excellent.

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately German Empire, 1st April 1926, 1M I love this set of stamps, I think the graphic design is tip top, and this is my favourite of the set. It's not the most expensive, that's the 3 Mark one which has a catalogue value of around £100 for a used one. I just like the colours.

Oh my there are some great adverts in the stamp book I bought today. I can't help but think that the last one was incorrectly included as it was in the part that only had philatelic adverts

Went to the LPS stamp fair today and got this haul for £39 Noice! Book is from 1897 and has some brilliant adverts in it. #philately

Every ad now

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately UK 1965 These two (fugly*) stamps were released 60 years ago tomorrow so I guess it's 160 years of International Telecommunications Union now! *Reckon you can get throw out of stamp club for insulting stamps? Was looking for rememberance-y stamps but these caught my eye

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately USA 1997 Feeling at least 38% more spoopy than anticipated. Pls enjoy these movie monster stamps. Unfortunately I don't have the Bela Lugosi Dracula one - many goth tears will surely flow.

Enjoying the tiles of Porto

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Portuguese stamps from the 50s as we're in Porto for Dr Claire's 50th

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Sweden, 1983. Commemorating Swedish winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. (Couldn't find any peace prize ones in my collection in the time I had) Maybe you'd have more luck in another category Donnie? I guess you have just as much chance of winning the Chemistry one

Turnip is being a bit clingy as the weather has turned. That said she was AWOL until 22:30 yesterday which freaked us out and had me doing circuits of the neighbourhood with a bag of cat treats. Nothing makes you realise how daft your cat's name is like having to shout it whilst out alone after dark

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately USA 1967 I found myself wondering what Georgie C would make of the recent address to the Generals?

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately UK, 1996. Whooper swan Or is it whopper, Nigel*? For the non Brits, our pound-shop Oswald Mosely who pushes the lie that Romanian immigrants are eating our swans - failing to note that swans are mostly migratory.

#StampOfTheWeek #philately USA 1991 I don't actually have this stamp so I've included 2 stamps of the subjects separately. #antifa are terrorists eh? is this stamp illegal now? 🤔😉

Sterling work by @ledbydonkeys.org Apparently they got arrested for this which is a first. www.instagram.com/p/DOsVh55jC3n/ Not sure if it's available outside of instagram, it's not on their blue sky account

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Austria, 1920. I do love an over-print. This one was for the Carinthia referendum held to decide if the area should join the fledgling Yugoslavia or remain as part of Austria. Despite 70% of the population speaking Slovene 59% voted to stay in Austria. Still Austria now.

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Penrhyn, Northern Cook islands, 1982 Bit late with stamp of the week but became inspired today noticing several posts mentioning the queen of hearts on the 28th anniversary of her death on the 31st. I'd assumed it was a rounder number given the number of posts but hey.

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Australia 1995 $2.50 I've spent the last week and a bit knee deep in Dwarf Fortress. It is one of the most ridiculous games of all time. I love the gem mining and the random crap the game throws at you. I recently had a wereskink infestation. 'fun' ensued obvs.

#NotPhilately #PretendStampOfTheWeek Stamp of the week, late as I was waiting til after the vibrator decorating contest so I didn't spoil the reveal. Yes I know it's shit kerning and stuff but the rainbow was nice to do

It's been a brilliant day.

Spiky #bloomscrolling

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately UK 1963. Seems appropriate. Also I love the design work on the 2½d

Didn't do a stamp of the week over the weekend as I was distracted by creating this year's lino print stamp for the LVDGP. Some of you may be horrified to know that I organise a mostly annual vibrator decorating contest, now in it's 4th outing since 2021. Because of course I do...

No cheating post your lock screen... Mine is Dorian from dragon age inquisition. My favourite game character for the last 8 years and counting. Before that it was Alistair from Dragon age Origins. Maybe dragon age has the good Star Trek movie thing going on but sexy characters in odd numbered games

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Japan 2005 80 yen It's been a hot while since I posted a magnificent cock stamp so please do enjoy this lovely Japanese example.

Right I've finished DragonAge: the Veilguard. What did I miss? got a lot of stamp stuff to catch up on I guess :D

I have a face!

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Libya 1989 2 of a strip of 5 Gaddafi era stamps really are delightfully batshit. (On a train to Edinburgh for the weekend so I had to find a stamp I'd already photographed) Will also post a screen grab of the full strip

'Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said “the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama must adhere to the principles of domestic search in China” and “approval by the central government”.' I mean okaaay then... A somewhat bold demand I feel...

I just realised that I didn't let the good people of Bluesky know about my epic new flap. I dropped a pile of cash on an OnlyCat cat flap to stop the little shits bringing in mice and not only has it worked but it has also provided me with a stream of short cat videos of them coming and going

#StampOfTheWeek #philately It's been a cat sort of week even though I was out with Pa Orange's dog harem on Weds. I have this beautiful FDC but I just noticed this stamp has a cat near some lilies which is a big nope as lily pollen can cause kidney failure in cats. Nice drawing and cancel though

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Tonga, 1942 I have eschewed politics for another week and gone with this pair of stamps from Tonga because I love how visible the watermarks are on the reverse. It means I can tell this is the 1942-9 version not the 1897-1934 version.

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Japan 2000, 80 yen Politically the year continues to be a dumpster fire. So this week I've been soaking Japanese stamps off paper as a form of brain relaxation. There are a fair few Dick Bruna stamps (but no Miffy which is boo as she's 70 this year)

#philately Stamp soak Sunday! Been ages since I soaked stamps. I remembered I got a big bag of Japanese stamps on paper for £3 from the club auction. It's relaxing apart from forgetting my technique.

#StampOfTheWeek #philately As I finally have one please enjoy my penny black (with red Maltese Cross cancel*) I got this via @philatelovely who runs occasional raffles for lovely stamps and also sell stuff at very reasonable prices. It's a very nice stamp. * That's a postmark to normal people

90% chance I'm going to call someone this next time I'm drunk

Ooo Canada have a set of Pride stamps - unfortunately not available for delivery outside of North America but hey nice work - you can read about the meaning of each stamp on the store store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutiq...

Sometimes you just gotta have eggy bread for tea. I was so ashamed of how basic this was that I added 2 tomatoes as garnish 😂 Been craving it for a week or two. Probably not @theblueststar.bsky.social's fault

#stampoftheweek #philately The Syracuse coin stamp was the Italian equivalent of our Machin (queen's head) stamp, used for years with different colours, values and sizes but the overall same design. It was Italian cheese last night at homage2fromage. 8 wonderful cheeses. Burp.

I've previously mentioned the enormous Russian and USSR collection I bought for 50 quid from someone at my stamp club. Here it is in all its glory. All the albums (apart from the black one on the right), the booklets on top and the catalogue were included. Spasibo comrade! #philately

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Bohemia and Moravia, 1940, 50h This week I have mostly been romping across the countryside of medieval Bohemia whilst playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I've been having a great time and have stealth-learned some history whilst I've been at it. Yay! Double win!

Yesterday I was inducted into the Leeds gothic hall of fame at Leeds museum along with 16 other people / things including the central pillar of a nightclub. Living the dream, kids, I'm living the dream. That's me, top row middle. Having an ex who is a professional photographer certainly helps 😂

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

just had to do the scoootle of shame to the outside recycling bin with a dye and a plastic bag on my head as the inside one is full. In the same week a neighbour posted doorbell footage of me on FB thinking i was a rando stealing his post. I am singlehandedly destroying the neighbourhood :D

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Qatar, 1 Dirham, 1969 Wonder if this will be refitted as Donnie's new yacht? Actually he doesn't seem the yacht-y type. Maybe he fears the orcas?

@philatelovely.bsky.social does a 'show me your stamps from X" post most days. He did Hawaii the other day and I admitted I had no Hawaiian stamps at all. Well I do now as he sent me some. How lovely! Nice covers too!

#StampOfTheWeek #philately 2 stamps! A blue 1867 5c from the Papal State and a 6L Vatican City from 1949. Personally I like Vatican stamps, they're well designed and printed if a little dry. I'm glad to hear the new pope is a protégé of pope Francis rather than another jump towards the authoritarian

#philately Exciting post day! I ordered 2 copies of the new Ukrainian souvenir sheets directly from the Ukrainian post office a couple of weeks back. Wasn't sure if I'd get charged import duty but apparently not. It was cheaper than the resellers on eBay so I figured I'd test the process. 1/3

#StampOfTheWeek #philately Every time I see a Cayman Islands stamp my thoughts eventually ends up thinking about how the EU legislation that would have made it harder to hide cash offshore eventually lead to Br**it. Not any of the things they pretended it was about. Just greed and tax avoidance.