Been working on a watercolor image recently and finally reasonably happy with it. Of Prague it is, which is a city I like very much and whilst I have done this particular scene before, this I feel is my best effort to date.
But today was one of those frustrating days. Expecting two deliveries from two different Couriers. One was supposed to have been here yesterday, but did not arrive. I called the tracking service and was told, “Oh he left a card as you weren’t in”, to which I replied “But I was and he didn’t. Ooh she said, he must have stuck it in the wrong letter box”.
Happens all the time what with these country Post Codes. Ours covers 8 or sometimes 10 different properties depending on whose database they use at the time. Trouble is these properties are not sitting in a row – oh no – they are easily half a mile or more apart and hidden away up field tracks and sometimes right over the hill and quite hidden from any road. So they all end up at the local school, in the car park I mean and scratch their collective heads and often say, “Oh bugger it” and go home.
If you’re lucky the Courier company in question allows their guys to actually use the cell phone (many don’t) – call me and I give them quick directions and within 3 minutes they’re at the door.
The one that did turn up today did that very thing but then – oh yes there’s a but. He jumps out of his van and says, ” I know I’ve got a parcel for you, but I can’t find it at the moment. Do you know who it’s from?”
Well I had to think as I was expecting two – do I tell him it’s a box about 2 feet by 2 feet or the other one which is flat about 5 inches and nearly 4 feet long?
Well he ended up finding it after about 3 minutes of rummaging about and I have to say I wasn’t sure which box it was! It was crushed almost flat on one end and the heavy corrugate cardboard was soggy, as if it had been standing in the corner of the depot in a puddle of water for a week. Obviously I was hoping this was my second parcel – but alas no – it was the 2 x 2 foot one – or it wasn’t any more!
As I say - just one of those days!
