Don’t get me wrong, I could not survive without my GW520 through which I email, text message, Twitter and Facebook, sometimes all at once.

But there is some special, almost magical about finding an old letter, the smell of an envelope and the sentimental attachments you grow for these feather light paper messages.

Just take a look at the example of history created on paper back in 1969, by the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, sent to one of the world’s most famous artists Andy Warhol. It would most likely never have been available for us to see had it been written on a laptop or mobile phone…