XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

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 now 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

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