Over the last few months it has struck me, with increasing frequency, that I - who am (oh, how silly it sounds when spelling it out!) one of the last to remember the time Before e-mails and Internet, am also about to loose the ability to perform the art of writing a good letter. All these things we write, good or bad, are short-lived.

I write a lot which is stored in computers - I try to carefully make a back-up every time I change it, but still, my most reliable storage for ideas are the collection of notebooks in my bookshelves. Actually, I think that is the one think written that I have at hand covering the last ten years... Which is a shame, as my unfinished ideas aren't exactly my best work.

Anyhow. There's only one solution to the problem of unreliable digital media: to also use pen and paper. After all, letters on paper or equivalents of paper have worked the last thousands of years, so why not a few more? But it's hard to write to those you talk to every day in real life, on phone or msn.

So therefore, just for the fun of it: someone out there who has had the same thoughts? As a bonus, we could, if corresponding in most civilised countries, evade the everseeing eyes browsing through our e-mails... Post me! It could be fun, even if we are busy people with time to write every six months or so.