I know it's cheating

This isn't really a postcard and I know I shouldn't put it here but I often wonder what would be the modern equivalent of a boring postcard.

This is a disused quarry near to where I live. I find it interesting in that it suddenly appears out of nowhere on what is otherwise a very pleasant country walk. If I were designing a boring postcard today I'd definitely consider this.

I may include some photos from time to time but not too many in case I upset the purists. Come back next week for a genuine boring card.

Mersey Tunnel

There's not much I can ass to this other than to ask, once again, the question why? Why would anyone publish this and why would anyone want to buy it?

Answers on a (boring) postcard please.

From Russia With Boredom

I can't remember how I got this. All I know is that it's from the former Soviet Union which has some classic boring postcards - it's just difficult to get hold of them.

I speak a little Russian but can only translate the words 'sea' and 'tourist'. It looks like it was published by the local tourist board!!!

I'll put another Soviet card on in the next couple of days.

A Eureka Moment

I thought I'd lost this. This is the first boring postcard I ever bought. Broxbourne Civic Hall in all its glory. Shame about the crease but I'm just relieved to have found it.

This is the card that started the collection and I have to say I've probably still to better it. After 20 years I don't think I've found a duller card. Anyway, I'm just happy to have it back!

While you're here please visit my Squidoo page at http://www.squidoo.com/boringpostcards and the Flickr boring postcards group http://www.flickr.com/groups/boringpostcards/pool/

Hastings

There is an art of the postcard maker that we have yet to highlight. How to make a potentially pretty scene look dismal and dispiriting.
Hastings is a pretty town on the Sussex South Coast and it also receives the best of the English weather. So why publish a postcard with such a bleak scene as this?
Maybe it’s supposed to look arty or mysterious as opposed to plain awful. Whatever the photographer’s thoughts were, would it make you want to visit Hastings?

Civic Centre & Assembly Hall Walthamstow

I'm often asked what do you consider to be boring? After all one man's Sydney Opera House os another's Braintree bypass.

I've written a whole article on the subject here http://www.squidoo.com/moreboringpostcards but one of the first subjects I look for is Civic Buildings. They are uniformly hideous and this one is no exception.

Enjoy - more soon.

Basildon

A postcard from Basildon Town Square. This begs two questions - the obvious one is why would anyone want a postcard from Basildon Town Square and secondly has the publisher not spotted the young lad in the picture who is clearly enjoying a good old scratch of his backside? (I've blown this photo up full size and it's not pretty)

I must have bought this around 1993 and it's never increased my desire to visit Basildon.