Penfriends: Better than a letter!
PENFRIENDS who live 10, 000 miles apart met up in Swindon after 50 years of writing.In an age dominated by emails, phone calls and text messages, the art of letter writing is in decline.But Sheila Woodman, 64, from Wroughton, remains a firm believer in putting pen to paper.She's still faithfully corresponding to her Australian penfriend Jenette Cram to whom she's been writing for more than half a century ago.So when Jenette, 64, turned up on...
Penfriends: Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK): Write on for NE boost
A NORTH-east MP has helped deliver a boost to a good cause.Sir Robert Smith teamed up with Royal Mail manager Mark Hunter to hand over Pounds 2,000 to the charity Write Away. The money will help to find penfriends for 100 children and adults across Kincardine and Deeside.Write Away puts people with disabilities and special needs in touch with each other.Lib-Dem Sir Robert said: "Having penfriends is a great way to develop communication skills, exchange information and...
Penfriends: Harvey lost in a world of words By PAULINE CLARK
A MAN of letters has sealed plans for a holiday of a lifetime.Harvey Hopkins, 27, of Rock, is to spend a week in Florida in December celebrating the millennium with 30 American penfriends.Sadly, he cannot be with all the 229 people he corresponds with throughout the world but no doubt he will be writing to most of them with best wishes.He regularly corresponds with all his penfriends, spending most of his spare time when not at work at his writing desk - except when he is on his...
Penfriends facing an emotional meeting
A WEYMOUTH woman is set for an emotional first meeting with her pen- friend of 45 years.Vivienne Boissé, 58, of Overbury Close, wrote her first letter to Kansas City resident Nancy Guyer in 1956, when the two were just 13.Now at the end of the month they will come face to face for the first time, after a lifetime of sharing their most intimate secrets.It was a love of Elvis Presley that bonded them back in the Fifties. Now it's the shared experiences of divorce,...
Bromyard penfriends
FACES have been put to the names of 39 German students visiting their English penfriends at Queen Elizabeth High School, Bromyard.The two groups of students spent a day working on dance, drama and music projects as well as eating together so the German students could experience a typical English evening meal.This is the second time the German school has visited Bromyard. A return visit by QE students is planned next autumn....
