Here’s a very quick one, the following story I found on a local site and concerns a woman who sent seven vintage battery wrist watches to vintage cash cow and was informed they had no value and they would return them, which I’m not unduly surprised about unless they were expensive designer watches they would have very little value.
However, when the parcel arrived back from vintage cash cow there were only two watches in it, with a note to explain that the parcel which vintage cash cow received was open when it arived and five of the watches were missing and they would investigate. Eight weeks have now passed and the lady has had no luck sorting the problem.
Now, I have never sent anything to vintage cash cow but one has to wonder if the postage label in any way advertises that the parcel is going to vintage cash cow or whatever company they use to deliver the parcels has operatives who are not entirely honest. I have no idea but it’s fairly obvious that a parcel going to a company like vintage cash cow may well contain something of value or there’s no point sending it.
It is a rather sad reflection on modern life that one feels that even if they try to minimise the risk by using a post office box number for delivery in a plain box, there is always some unscrupulous person who will get to know which parcels are worth opening whilst in transit.
It would be so nice to be able to write something of a more cheery nature but no luck yet again today!
I am a retired actor, although to be honest I only retired because I wasn't getting any work due to losing my agent when I became a full time carer to my mother who had dementia. and the option of becoming an unemployed actor/waiter at my age was ludicrous, especially as my waiting skills are non-existent.
Having said I’m retired, I don’t think there really is such a thing as a retired actor for I am still available for work, I just don’t have an agent or any connections with regards to obtaining any worthwhile work.
I have over the years done student films when there is nothing else available, always low paid (if at all) the only incentive was always the promised copy of the finished film for your show reel which nine times out of ten always failed to materialise.
I spent many years looking after my aged mother and shortly after her death I was lucky enough to run into an ex-girlfriend of many years ago and our romance blossomed once again, resulting in us getting married in 2013.
My move to the countryside inspired me to write The Diary of a Country Bumpkin which tells of my continuing dilemmas in dealing with the rigors of the countryside from the unexpectedly large number of pollens, fungal moulds and hay products waiting to attack the unsuspecting townie.
I enjoy writing, see my play Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori on The Wireless Theatre Company, The Plays Wot I Wrote and The Battle of Barking Creek both available on Amazon.co.uk and am very fond of classic cars so my ideal occupation would be acting in a film I had written set in the 1930s/40s, we live in hopes.
I am delighted to say that since venturing to the countryside where space is not quite the premium it is in town, I have due to the availability of two double garages acquired more classic cars to form a small collection the pride of which are a 1947 Bentley Mk VI and a 2000 Bentley Arnage.
My various blogs and websites are continually evolving and I’m sure that by following the appropriate links you will find something which will edify or amuse.
I have written a number of different books all available on Amazon, so don't be shy should you feel the urge to purchase. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Joe-Wells/e/B06XKWFQHT/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
