Persistent

Scammers Scammers Scammers

Here are the letters from one scammer in Africa whio tried to get Rebecca to ship stuff out to him.
These are up for web search reference so anyone who gets contacted by this idiot can tell him to get lost.

Hi there,
 Am interested in ordering some gift hampers and i would like you to get back to me here with the contents and pricing of those that you do carry and let me know if you do take a surcharge when accepting either master cards or visa.

Regards
Joe Curran

(Rebbeca sent back a quote)

Rebecca deʼWessington,
            Thanks for getting back to me here and am interested in ordering 60 units of the The Priory Hamper
Quality Wicker Hamper (with straps) containing

One Bottle of Lindisfarne Mead 35cl Alc 14.5% vol A
One Bottle of Lindisfarne Mulled Wine 70cl Alc 14.5% vol
One Box of Lindisfarne Mint Fudge 170g
One Heckley Farm House, The Proof of The Pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Medium
One Heatherslaw Northumbrian Fruit Cake 642g

Please get back to me here with the total pricing and let me know how soon you can get them for me soon after am through with full payments.I will be waiting to hear from you soon,

Regards
Joe Curran

(another email back to him)
Notice that now his name changes on the ship to address and the worldwide freight company has a gmail address...how boring. Of course before long we would have the "Oh my mastercard is full, I must use Western Union" rubbish.
Like anyone in business is ever going to be stupid enough to use Western Union.+


Dear ,
    Thanks for your patience. The Units I am purchasing is
for my orphanage homes in

Accra

Ghana

and i will like you to
contact a shipping company with the total weight of the Units
  and your Address and ask them for the shipping cost.The  email
for the shipping company  is Laylacfreight@gmail.com
 
Email them and ask them for the shipping cost to  the
orphanage homes in Accra Ghana.Country code 00233.Ask when they can pickup,what needs to be done before they pick up and their Method of
Payment.I was on a flight as at the time I contacted you and as
at that moment,I was thinking I could come get that Units
picked.Unfortunately I will be staying a little longer than
expected..Make sure to email them the weight and address to be
shipped from to get an accurate freight quote.Email me a total of
the freight and I will email my credit card info for payment.
Thanks and i am really looking forward to having a successful
business with you.
Regards........
Joe Curran
Let me know immediately you email them and get a price.Here is the
delivery address..
Mr.Joe Lamptey
Kanda Children  Orphanage Homes

66 Slave Street

Accra

..

Ghana

...00233.
 
May God bless you abundantly for the wonderful customer service rendered.
Thanks

The 51st State

The invasion of Iraq has been a success, the people of Iraq have embodied all that is needed of the American people, the infidel and their ways have won.

How do we know this, because a man threw a shoe at the President and ends up sueing the Iraq police. They may not want to be American, but they certainly know which of the best parts of the American culture to pick up, and compensation culture seems to be one of them.

I do wonder if the same man would have thrown a shoe at Saddam just a few years ago, and if not perhaps he should wonder at the kind of freedom that he now has that allows him to take off his shoes in public and lob them at foreign dignitaries.

I’m not saying that Bush doesn’t deserve a few well placed shoes flying in his direction, but I do think that if this particular Iraqi journalist has any concept of change he should be walking around remembering that just a little while ago with a different leader in place he would now be hanging from a piano wire and most of his family would be beside him.

No time for my hands.

I was just reading Sandy’s blog and I felt a great kinship with her frustrations.

I get huge urges to make things and see an end result. It started with the arrows then the leather armour and now the bows. I really wanted to take some me time over xmas this year and start learning how to carve wood which is something I have always wanted to do, but I don’t think free time will be available now.

I sometimes feel very silly about these urges to make and learn new things. In today’s world it seems strange to some people and perhaps even to me to have an interest in new but outdated skills.

Day to day life pulls me down into a sea of washing, ironing, feeding children and all the other family stuff, and when I get irritable and Rebecca says “What’s up with you”  it is a little difficult and embarrassing to say, I haven’t had the chance to start learning how to flint knap yet, or I want to try putting some footers on some arrows.

So I find that I end up handling a piece of flint for 2 minutes wondering how it will chip away, but not getting beyond that point of imagining, or in a ten minute space I screw a piece of wood to the work bench in the hope that just by it’s presence in the right place I can start to draw a pattern to carve later. But it always ends up that I look at the screwed down wood for weeks  as I walk past with another load of washing and another bag of rubbish for the bin.

The problem with what I want to do is that it will take many hours of concentrated effort, and like Sandy’s writing it doesn’t want half an hour here and there. The wood or stone that I want to carve, shape or give purpose to demands that while I change it I give it the worship that it is due, and I imagine Sandy’s blank page demands the same of her.

 

And so for now I can’t examine the wood to search out the secret patterns it holds, and I have to leave the flint in the back yard, coming to no harm in the winter weather as it waits for my attention, it has already waited a million years I suppose.  And again, like Sandy, if I did get a day off someone would probably have other plans for me anyway.