After my reamrks about the Dutch Dress Sense (or lack thereof), our correspondant in the city, Matty K, left the following comment There was an article in the paper yesterday saying that the latest in Dutch fashions is the Royal Mail jackets (complete with the logos), they like the orange top apparently as it goes with their national colours. What the article told us was that a market trader in Amsterdam is getting a huge supply of these things and flogging to the Cloggys for 15 euros each.. but what it didn't say was where he was getting them from - perhaps the striking posties here are selling them on and telling their bosses they have been burning them at the sorting office gates?
But selling them on for less than a tenner? No wonder the Post Office can't make any money with such a dearth of entrepreneurial spirit. Matty - perhaps you could put out a survey via the blog to see whose postie has 'lost' their jacket..
Click here to read the story in the Metro. More than anything I was facinated to see which paper MattyK reads. This sort of thing fascinates me. If I have a free five minutes in a town, one of my favourite games is to stand outside a newsagent, watching the punters go in and guessing which newspaper they will buy. Ideally I will be wearing a brown anorak when I play this game.
You see? I am a normal person with an interesting life, why aren't more people interested in reading about it, I wonder?
Maybe you should swap the brown anorak with your postie, then people would give you all sorts of nice presents, especially as we are now apparently approching Christmas again..
OK. Confession time. I only read the Metro because (a) it's free and (b) the dispensing boxes lie on the direct route from car park to platform at Grantham station; any deviation into the shop to queue up & buy an alternative daily tome would ruin my "just-in-time" bed-to-GNER seat scheduling, and probably upset my bowel movements. Besides, I only get to the gossip pages before Peterborough and the world of slumber beckons again so I'm bu**ered if I'm paying 70p a day for that.
MattyK