Card of the Year

I've told you before that I am one of those old-fashioned people who like getting and sending Christmas cards of the snail-mail hard copy variety. Thankfully, I have many friends who think so, too, in particulary those of the Anglo-Saxon persuasion (well, most of those anyway, *hint, hint*, BoB). These are all the cards I got this year:

Much as I love cards with photos of grinning kids (I really do!) my favourite is a card that only arrived this week, New Year's greetings from a Japanese ex-boss. I love the ukiyo-e type image of a geisha on skis (a similar image is on the reverse side):