proper stamps

dia duit ann

for reasons best know to himself, and himself alone, look you see, my chum Spiros decided to make use of a post office. this was fairly recently. whilst you or i may well just go to the nearest, closest and most convenient one to where we are, such is not how Spiros does things. instead, off he went to use an admittedly impressive looking one in Dublin. 

yes, certainly i asked him if he was going to go in and ask if they had any proper stamps, with an image of HM The Queen on them, like what you get in London (innit). i was told to f*** off. one would assume that whatever it is that appears on Irish stamps is pretty enough. should they enable the safe carriage and delivery of a letter, or similar item of mail, then fair enough. 

recently i had reason to be in a post office in Wales, look you. i asked if i could buy some of the special edition stamps, such as the ones of the Stones and the ones celebrating the platinum jubilee of HM The Queen, to mention her again. yes, of course, a well spoken, elegant gentleman said. i explained to him that in post offices in England they rarely let you buy the special edition stamps, telling you to buy them off of the website instead. what's the point in having them, or post offices, then, he asked, and further said of it all, after some consideration, that he had "never heard of anything so daft in his life". but, it is true, the post offices in England do everything they can to not sell you stamps. 

bheith ar fheabhas ar a chéile!!!!!!!!