The featured image is one of the robin Christmas stamps from 1995. I have looked them up and can yell you there were five of them. I can’t recall any of the other designs – this is the only one we seem to get.
We also have a fine selection of Scottish mini-sheets.
Off to Australia
It seems, looking at the prices charges by stamp dealers, that we are being awfully extravagant in using these stamps for letters. In fact you can buy lots of stamps in the trade for below face value. There are even companies that specialise in this sort of thing – search “discounted stamps”if you want any.
Much of my working day was spent packing parcels as we kept getting orders through the day. We also had phone calls and a few customers actually visited the shop, despite the boarding.
One or two mentioned the boards with questions like “Have you been robbed?”. To which, after a few polite answers, we started replying “No, we’re just going for a shabby chic look.”. A few more and it was “No, we’ve joined a Blitz re-enactment society.”
If anyone else had asked there was a danger, by the end of the day, of the answer being less than polite.
There’s only so much to be said.
The rest of the day was taken up with moving stock and furniture round in preparation for our new security precautions. It appears we are not allowed to dig pits and line them with spikes.Or use guns and tripwires. Or train rottweilers to attack people wearing hoods and concealing their faces.It’s the nanny state gone mad, I tell you!
The spell-checker wants to remove “rottweilers” and substitute “erstwhile”. I originally spelt it “rottweillers” and the suggested alternative was “steamrollers”. I’ve often wondered how these things work. I’m definitely no wiser after this last selection.
I’ve given myself the night off tonight and watched TV with Julia instead of trying to force the writing. I’m not sure she’s grateful.
The robin stamp is quite lovely, and cheerful!
Oh, that robin stamp! Utterly adorable. After all that has happened, I would say that a night off is just the thing. Maybe several nights off.
Nights off? But then I might have to listen to Julia listing my faults! 🙂
One of my problems with WP is that we can’t put our own words into the dictionary. Have you been robbed?
Yes, twice in two days. I was able to put a cold caller off today by mentioning it, so it has an upside. 🙂
How polite of your reply to my question I put in to get you going again 🙂
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The way the spellchecker thinks is quite perturbing sometimes. I am glad that you were able to get back to something like business as usual after the unwanted excitements. I hope that your curse is working and that the police are keeping an eye out for unsavoury characters scratching their scrotums a lot in the manner of the Jackdaw of Rheims.
It’s been about 50 years since I last read that. Very enjoyable, and very appropriate! 🙂