The Letters

When Jack and I first started corresponding it was using old-fashioned means including paper and pen. I used to send Jack books of stamps - he always liked stamps. Then we moved to e-mail, considerably cheaper.

The topics were many and varied:

• the use of the English language, and especially the word 'Hullo'
• 3D pictures and films and all the associated paraphernalia
• his work down the years, including that dinosaur
• computers and why they didn't work properly
• urban myths and especially lemmings and their general behaviour
• The Prisoner
• being ill

and this only scratches the surface.

Being the hoarder that I am, all this correspondence still exists, including all the instant packs he sent. Much of the correspondence is not funny, but it is amusing and it's certainly in Jack's style. It is, I believe, pretty interesting too. There are some sketches, unpublished items, bits and pieces that can see the light of day. Some have already appeared, as comments on pages or in Jack's blogs (the blogs with all capital letter headings were posted directly by Jack) often slightly edited or adapted.

Let me share...