- Subject: I have hit a slight snag
- From: trellis@welshwhelks.co.uk
- Date: Mon, December 8, 2014 10:52 am
- To: zarrmm005@outlook.com
- Cc: “Dipl. LORD PORCH” <shippingagent_co@diplomats.com>
Dear Mrs Mohd’s
Please try not to worry, I am sure that we will get your box delivered eventually, but I have encountered a small problem.
As you will be aware Islay is a small island, and the trouble with small islands is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. I have just returned from the Bowmore Post Office where I had hoped to be able to transfer the money without interference from Mr McDonald. I bid Mr McInley a cheery good morning only to be called a “silly old fool” (yet again) and be told that I wouldn’t be sending money to strange foreign gentlemen from Mr McInleys’s Post Office. It seems that Mr McDonald has been speaking to Mr McInley and warned him to expect a visit from me. What is the matter with these people?
I am beginning to think that my only option for getting this money transferred is to take a ferry to the mainland and then a bus to Glasgow where my doings might not be so closely watched.
I have copied Mr Lord Porch in on this email, any advice would be welcome.
Yours in struggle,
Ethel.