Last week a sewing club in Paris, this week your Roving Reporter brings you a letter writing club in Vancouver. It’s based in an alt. stationery store, called The Regional Assembly of Text (I guess in Canada that doesn’t have the same Welsh-Parliament ring about it). They invite would-be letter-writers to drop in on the first Thursday of every month and get busy at the array of vintage typewriters.

Picture by Mocking Bird

The picture above, and a more fulsome report, can be found on the blog of local photography devotee Mocking Bird. The idea of writing to someone on a typewriter is lovely. My friend lugged a ten ton monster over to Poland with her for that very purpose, and I treasure the wonky-type annotated missives she sends. I write back, when I’ve got a spare hour or three, on my prize Valentine.

One last letter writing note. Another friend of mine, artist Lenka Clayton, has written letters to all 467 residents in a single town in Ireland. Haven’t had any nice, personal post lately? Check out her letters and feel comforted.