XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

During my time in Glasgow watching the Commonwealth games a lot of new stamps were issued so I'm catching up with them now, including this one from Royal Mail. I've been quite positive about recent Royal Mail issues but I'm not so sure about this one. In focusing on military jet aircraft Royal Mail is going over old ground. There have been so many stamps showing fighter aircraft and we have already had the Concorde issue this year. Some of the previous Royal Mail issues on a

Apologies to everyone for the lack of updates in the last few weeks. I have been doing all kinds of things in the summer and last week I was in Glasgow watching the Commonwealth Games. Later this week I will be at a Scouts camp, and then next week I will be on holiday. I am always busy when I'm not at school! When I was in Glasgow last week Heidi and I visited the Glasgow Stamp Shop. Some of you might know about it but, if you don't, if you find yourself in Glasgow you should

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