so, your starter for ten audience. is this a 'genuine' demand for two quid or a scam? please vote below.
horsemouth would have expected some kind of code number which ended up identifying you, your house etc. . not a fill in the form, name, address, date of birth, (hell why not ask for my NI number while you are at it).
it could be genuine. if it is a scam they've copied the entire of the royal mail website (including the welsh bits).
horsemouth has instructed his housemates to pay if anyone appears with a parcel (after all it could be a CD of robert lawson's excellent zither music).
here we go. the return to the frankly archaic 'suspicious parcel from abroad for a 'mr. foreigner-lover' of unpatriotic street, traitor land' . sign this, and this, and the sex offender's register and...
if someone shows up at his door with a CD then he'll pay. (OK he's asked his housemates to pay).
horsemouth assumes this is what it is like getting food into northern ireland.
the irony (of course) is that, if it is a CD, the CD is a freebie (a gift from a fellow musician) but horsemouth has no idea how you would go about proving this or even arguing it or even if it makes any difference to the state's strategy of discouraging contact.
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horsemouth supposes that in future he will have to fly to the EU and post off his CDs from there (or vice versa) and wow the wonders of modern technology. what it is to live in a global economy eh? you didn't realise there was something worse than globalisation? Or he'll have to arrange some kind of digital download thing for people. (should be possible).
of course at some point some kind of lend lease might be established where and underground network of musician/enthusiasts within and without the EU agrees to hold stocks of the others musical productions and post them off to locations within their own block.
last night a busy social whirl - first zoom beers with howard (after which horsemouth had a headache) and then mike from sunny texas messaged him. horsemouth proposed lady snowblood (which howard said he'd watch - late night text review 'this is a heavy movie'). horsemouth himself watched zatoichi monogatari (which he thinks is the second in the series - in black and white (and before arterial spray came to be a fixture). horsemouth genuinely can't remember how the topic got onto samurai movies. (ok now he remembers - howard had been talking about kurosawa after they'd discussed rondo hatton).
it looks like horsemouth is coming back to the wen because he has work - he has a face to face booking on the 18th. he will have to check the possible travel arrangements.
he will have been away for about a quarter of the year.
this is ok. it's nice to spend time with his parents and the dog and to wander round the countryside. there are (of course) reasons why horsemouth would wish to be back in the great wen, his life is there, it is just that at the minute there is not much more he can do in the seaside towns that out here (that is one of the discoveries of the pandemic).
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