I originally started this blog as a way to document my city
and guild embroidery course and to meet fellow students, and it was pure happenstance
that my 100th blog post should come around right at the same time
that my C&G certificates arrived.
How’s that for timing!?
I can’t begin to explain how I feel at the moment. Getting the certificates was the final icing
on the cake – it all feels real now. But
even that last little thing didn’t come easy.
I don’t know what the postman/post office was doing but my
certificate took 4 weeks and 3 days to arrive by AIR MAIL from the UK. Why is it that your bills can arrive within a
day of being posted yet it’s always the really important urgent stuff that gets
delayed.
I have a constant battle with my post office – my post man
doesn’t understand what DO NOT BEND means.
He drives me to near rage. I subscribe
to the Inspirations magazine, which as many of you know, can only be purchased
through subscription now, creating a roller coaster of anger and frustration
between me and the postman. On the label
of the magazine it clearly states in big red letters DO NOT BEND about 3cm
above my name and address, yet what does he do?! Yep, he bends it. But when its bent the magazine is then
thicker than the opening in my letter box, so he forces it through, which in turn
scores the magazine and leaves every page with a jagged crease mark down the
centre. If he lent over off his motorbike he could
open the flap in the back of my letterbox and place the magazine inside without
damage, but this is too difficult.
The first time it happened I complained and got a refund
from the PO, although it took 4 months!
The second time I complained the PO told me they don’t do refunds. I suggested a newspaper tube on the side of
the post box but the PO said legally they weren’t allowed to put mail in there,
and the same applied to just laying the magazine on the top of the
letterbox. So apart from lying in wait
every day and ambushing the postman, I’m afraid I’m beaten.
And this problem led to much panic about my long strived for
certificate. I couldn’t bear it to be
creased and damaged, so I requested it be sent in a tube, which SofST kindly did,
so what does the PO do this time – make me wait, anxiously, for four and a half
weeks to get it. Aaarrrgghh!!!!! I was at my wits end by the time it arrived,
but now, at last, I can finally relax, take a deep breath and contemplate whether or not to
tackle the Diploma. What do you think?
