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Obviously it's very dangerous to the Great British Public to mail packages to other countries.
I have been meaning to get a new chair for my desk recently, and when I saw a proper Bond Villain chair on sale recently, I thought I'd bite the bullet. The chair arrived yesterday, and wrestling it up the stairs wasn't much fun with a bad back, it weighs more than my sofa, and is certainly the heaviest thing I've lifted since I've been an old man!The last time I bought a chair of this type online, it took me 10 minutes to assemble, but with this one I have to build it virtually from scratch. Me and my Hartshead Barlow spent half an hour on it this morning. When folks say they don't use their knives, or even don't carry one, I just don't know how they go on. If it wasn't for my Barlow, I couldn't have even got started, and it's helped me every step of the way. Since I had to go out, I took out the huge cardboard box the chair had shipped in, and took it outside for my Hartshead Barlow to cut up for disposal. Then we went for a coffee, and being as the lad had worked so hard, I thought I'd shell out for a blueberry muffin
As I left Charlie's, it started raining, and by the time I got into town, it was coming down heavily. First thing I needed to do was go to the post office to mail @mitch13 's giveaway prize, but unfortunately I got some idiot behind the counter, who told me that I couldn't put a "weapon" in the post. Now, of course, you can put a pocket-knife in the mail, and that's quite clear if you bother to read the post office's own rules, but unfortunately, they have used a knife for their 'no weapons' symbol!It's not the first time I've had this happen, but I usually use the self-service machines so I don't have to deal with stupid people. However, changes in their rules means that you have to take all overseas packages to the counter. I'll just have to go to a different post office, and hope I get someone with some intelligence next time
Reckon, I'm going to be messing around with that chair for the rest of the day!
Sometimes it seems obvious that the authorities know they are ineffectual so they're trying to fake it with random displays of power.
Nice shot of the Blood Lamb 
I don't have much more to do on that chair. I've been an industrial plant fitter, a vehicle mechanic, and once volunteered for a charity refurbishing wheelchairs, and I'd say that putting the darn thing together has been harder than reassembling a wheelchair! 
No wonder Bond villains always need a sidekick or two around! 
That is an eerie sunrise. 
