What an all-round farce that turned out to be.

Firstly, PayPal extracts an uncomfortably large fee for accepting credit card payments. Secondly, eBay requires a similarly bloated fee for any sort of reasonable item listing. Lastly, Parcelforce managed to A) turn up three hours before the booked collection time; B) fail to come back for the actual collection time and C) crack one of the pickup covers through inept handling once they did finally arrive.

I’m now left having to buy an entire pickup unit (I should have guessed the covers don’t come separately – it’s been that kind of experience) at a cost of around £45 to placate the understandably irate buyer.

All this because some idiot chucked a bass labelled “Fragile” into his van with inattentive gusto. Seriously, Parcelforce suck. They failed to collect on time and just plain broke the fairly robust item they had to transport. Claim form, here I come.

Oh yeah: Thank You For Smoking is excellent, as is mountain biking. That is all.