None of my friends have ever successfully sent a badly addressed letter to me. There was that time Murtaugh sent a giant cardboard cutout of me to people at the other end of the street.
This week Caerynyvon succeeded where all the rest of my friends were too drunk to
I’ve called a brief cease fire with an post because they are great to do this.
On a minor side not this blog is in a Singapore newspaper. Which I can’t read because it is paywalled and the modern world is weird.
The third president Thomas Jefferson invented a system to make secret codes in 1795. It uses spinning wheels to make a message unreadable.
I made a wheel where the 6 disks spin to encrypt my address
This is it some sort of singularity of futility. A black hole of pointlessness. I don’t think I can imagine anything less necessary.
Thanks to everyone who read, liked and shared the blog. You really shouldn’t have been encouraging me. And thank you to An Post.
Goodnight and good luck.
PS send your friends postcards
Make people think you are a time traveller by trying to send post in China. Ask to buy stamps and they first ask if you have heard of WeChat. Then in a panic start opening draws and calling in reinforcements to try to find these legendary objects.
There is an island in the South China sea Fiery Coral Reef. Well there is now as China covered a coral reef in concrete and turned it into an airbase. I sent them a letter. I will let you know if they reply.
A Chinese article about this blog. I am told the section name translates to ‘foreigners are crazy’.
An Post sent me Valentines chocolates. How dare they try buy me off with confectionery like this.
Also the Mrs is now suspicious about the nature of my relationship with the postman.