XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

There have been three new issues from the Channel Islands this week as Guernsey, Sark and Alderney all released new sets on Tuesday. They are very different from each other but they are all from neighbouring islands and they're all focused on island life (and wildlife!) I thought I should review them together. GUERNSEY: Bailiwick Jellyfish First up is this set, which shows local jellyfish. All of these are native to Guernsey and the photography was taken by underwater photog

It is my birthday today (I'm now 14). I wanted to write something for my birthday about stamps and I knew about some of the Greetings stamps Royal Mail created in the 1990s and of course the Smilers stamps. Very few of these were actually about birthdays, but I really liked this set from 2025 (the year my sister was born). There were also happy general celebration stamps like this one from 2006... ...but there is something special about having the words "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on

The next issue from Royal Mail will be released on 9th July. Normally Xanthe reviews all the Royal Mail stamps but I am doing this one as the theme is moths. I love moths and I know quite a lot about them. Moths haven;t appeared on British stamps very often although an elephant hawk-moth appeared in the Brilliant Bugs set of 2020. And there was also this one, which was in the 2008 Insects set. This is the first set that Royal Mail has totally dedicated to moths. We have ha