What a great little store -- I think I'll buy the whole shop. And my beard will be a white one, for Christmas.
I know we're in the run up to Christmas because ROYAL MAIL ARE THREATENING TO STRIKE AGAIN. It is getting to the stage where it would not be Christmas without a good old Royal Mail strike. I can no longer think of Christmas without thinking of Royal Mail striking -- it is now a Pavlovian response. First hint of Jingle Bells = Strike.
I don't have anything against posties -- they've no doubt got some justifiable grievances -- and I have nothing but praise for the postman who delivers to us. But have a heart, guys. Couldn't it be after Christmas? You know -- the time of year that I and other online traders do around 70% of our business? The time of year that may help keep us in the black after bursting our ass all year trying to survive. During a recession. With retail taking a severe pounding. With the possibility that taking industrial action may just fit in nicely with management's long-term plans? Ah, life is such a sodding vale of tears, don't you think?
And on that uplifting note, here's the Crimson Joy necklace -- latest piece of jewellery to go in our store:
The piece of poetry is from William Blake's Sick Rose
Blake was a bit of a mad genius, it seems. Not only a poet but talented in so many other areas. I wonder if we got a bunch of genius's together -- from a number of sphere's -- if they could come up with solutions to world problems. Everything is just too fragile and dangerous to leave to politicians and management types. Blake may have been able to come up with a solution to the problems at the Royal Mail -- or, at the very least, he could have wrote a poem about it.
