{"id":1737,"date":"2025-09-26T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:07:13","slug":"i-have-hit-a-slight-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"I have hit a slight snag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Subject: I have hit a slight snag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From: trellis@welshwhelks.co.uk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Date: Mon, December 8, 2014 10:52 am<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To: zarrmm005@outlook.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cc: &#8220;Dipl. LORD PORCH&#8221; &lt;shippingagent_co@diplomats.com&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Mrs Mohd&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please try not to worry, I am sure that we will get your box delivered eventually, but I have encountered a small problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you will be aware Islay is a small island, and the trouble with small islands is that everyone knows everyone else&#8217;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 &#8220;silly old fool&#8221; (yet again) and be told that I wouldn&#8217;t be sending money to strange foreign gentlemen from Mr McInleys&#8217;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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have copied Mr Lord Porch in on this email, any advice would be welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours in struggle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mrs Mohd&#8217;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&#8217;s business. I have just returned from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/?p=1737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I have hit a slight snag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrs-mohds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}