Objection

An email has been received. See below. And so a review of the review is borne.

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To the Chief Post Master.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to complain about the closure of my local Post Box on July 8th.

Being a gentleman of creative disposition, and indeed having been described by more than one acquaintance as "a man of letters", I am wont to unburden myself of my authorial juices from time to time in a generally epistolary vein. In this electronic age my emissions occur more rarely but I dare to say are of ever more refined and distilled wit and wisdom. When the Muse so moves me, I have found my local Post Box to be a singularly convenient receptacle for my observations on life, the universe et cetera.

Imagine then my chagrin this evening on repairing to the said Post Box, aflame with ideas and opinions, to find that it has been closed, without so much as a wherewithal or mock "stakeholder consultation", purely on the grounds of some soi-disant "review of commitment".

Was this the spirit that saw us through the Blitz, the Cold War and eleven years of Thatcher?

I beg to move a review of your review.

Your pessimistic but watchful tax-payer,

**** * * ****** (GLTA and bar, particularly the bar)

A Post Box - Closed

We agreed to run this blog for six months and to then review our commitment to it. Six months have passed since we got the ball rolling with a discussion regarding values, content and format. Now, reflecting, we feel that we have done as much with A Post Box as we can. It is a side project that served its purpose. We wanted to try something new, and so we did.

To those who have dropped by and commented, regularly or otherwise, thank you. Your responses were well worth reading. To those who return regularly but don't comment, well, er, hello. Speaking for myself, the experience of generating so many unique morsel-like posts has been enjoyable. But sometimes, that's not enough.

A Post Box is closed.

Much wellness to you.

Tell: Squirm

Tell us about an occasion in the past month that has made you squirm.

Debate: Politicians

Politicians need to spend as much time on their public image as on their public service.

Or do they?

What do you think?

Right Now: Stretched

Outline one way in which you are being stretched.

Experience: Let's Party Like It's...

Was 1999 a party year for you? Or a work year? Or something else? What was your overriding experience of 1999?

Picture Response #20

There's something a little bit different for this week's picture response post (and not just that I remembered to make the post early).

The image above is from a new novel. As yet, the novel is without a title, a storyline, plot or any characters. So, bearing in mind that it's a 20 chapter book, what's the last line of Chapter 19?

Tell: Sticky

Tell us about something that stuck to you. What was it? How come it stuck to you? How long did it stay stuck for?

Debate: Pseudonym

Pseudonyms are great. Their widespread use within the blogging community makes for lighter, brighter reading and viewing.

Your view?

Right Now: Custard Pie

Your friendly Post Box Custard Pie Operatives are standing by with big, fat, juicy custard pies, ready to splat them onto someone's head, anyone's, on your behalf, as soon as you tell us who and why.

Experience: Encore

If you could relive your experience of any live event that you attended - music concert, theatre visit, football match, protest march, festival - anything, which event would you relive... and why?

For me, it would be an Alabama 3 gig at London's Brixton Academy in December 2001. The gig was great, but 'socially speaking' (you know when you introduce people to one another and hope that they'll get on, but it doesn't quite happen?), I messed up big time with that that night and so couldn't take in the fullness of the band's performance.

Picture Response #19

Wot's that, then?

Tell: Geo-wow

Please forgive the title.

Recently, I experienced a geo-wow. In my '50 Walks in Staffordshire' book, I read of the Hanbury Crater - the result of the biggest, non-nuclear explosion of World War Two. The crater is 1/4 mile (400 metres) across, 100 yards (91 metres) deep and 24 miles from my front door. It was a bit of geography that produced a bit of a wow (with a nod to a bit of history).

Share with us a geo-wow of your own - anywhere that has struck you as pleasing and surprising - a hidden gem of a place.

Debate: Holiday

It's that time of year... so here's this weekend's subject for debate.

The essence of a good holiday is having to do absolutely nothing at all.

Or is it?

Right Now: Sentenced

To adorn the room/space/area where you're currently sitting, you are invited to write a one-sentence brief for an artist/maker who will create whatever you like - painting, sculpture, installation - or something less obvious. What is your one-sentence brief?

Experience: Birthday

A topical post: today is the birthday of both your hosts, albeit in different years. (Does that make us non-identical astrological twins?) So, after you go "whoop-de-doo happy birthday you two", please share a most wonderful birthday experience of your own from any age, any year.

Tell: Talk To The Animals

If you could talk to an animal - just one type of real-world animal - please tell us which animal you would talk to, and what you would discuss.

Debate: Roses

You are admired and loved. Whether it be from your most loved one, or two, or ten, you are to be gifted.

The fact of the matter is that there's nothing that says 'I love you' quite like a dozen red roses.

Agree? Disagree? Preferred alternatives? Do share.

Right Now: Quality Of Life

If you could take one action - only one - right now, to improve the quality of your life in the present moment, and it could be anything at all: what would you do?

Experience: Exposed

Self-effacingness aside, describe the most recent photograph of yourself at which you've thought 'I like that more than I like most other photographs of myself'. And say why you particularly liked it.

Could be from years ago, was hopefully from yesterday.