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Vivienne Dunstan<p>Been waiting for a new built <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accordion</span></a> to be delivered. It should hopefully finally arrive tomorrow, which will be 35 days after it took off from France. It spent 29 of those 35 days sitting with first French customs then (and especially bad) with UK customs. I've just finally been able to pay the customs fee and arrange final delivery. All of this extra delay is due to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>. Without it the box would probably have reached me in just 5 days, not 35. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotProjectFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotProjectFear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BrexitReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrexitReality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Squeezebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Squeezebox</span></a></p>
Vivienne Dunstan<p>Today's discovery is that there's a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> code just for accordions. Actually there are two: one for normal ones, another for amplified boxes. Finally got a letter from Parcelforce asking questions about my French <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accordion</span></a> that has been creeping here (dratted <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>) since the start of May. Still a way off me getting it in my hands, but progress. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/squeezebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squeezebox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BrexitReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrexitReality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotProjectFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotProjectFear</span></a></p>
Vivienne Dunstan<p>There's a Sylvester the Cat Looney Tunes GIF that sums up how I'm feeling while waiting for this snail paced delivery due to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>. In it he is pacing backwards and forwards, paws clasped behind his back, in front of a door. Waiting. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotProjectFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotProjectFear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BrexitReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrexitReality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Parcelforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parcelforce</span></a> <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/looneytunes-scared-bored-2uwZ4xi75JhxZYeyQB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">giphy.com/gifs/looneytunes-sca</span><span class="invisible">red-bored-2uwZ4xi75JhxZYeyQB</span></a></p>
Vivienne Dunstan<p>No letter yet from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Parcelforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parcelforce</span></a> re my <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accordion</span></a> in transit from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> since the start of May. So phoned them up. Looks like it is stuck sitting in the Parcelforce "High Value Store", not even cleared for me to pay <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> yet. Aarrgghh! At best guess it may be several more weeks till I can even pay the customs fee. It might be well over another month. So yup not coming any time soon. And if we didn’t have <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> it would have arrived in early May … <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotProjectFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotProjectFear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BrexitReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrexitReality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Squeezebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Squeezebox</span></a></p>
Vivienne Dunstan<p>My accordion's very slow journey from a neighbouring country continues. It is now with <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> authorities. It was sent 2+ weeks ago from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, and has spent almost all that time sitting being assessed in two countries for customs. Thanks <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> voters. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/accordions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accordions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/squeezebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squeezebox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NotProjectFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotProjectFear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/realityOfBrexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realityOfBrexit</span></a></p>
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