Parcel tracking is such a rewarding hobby. It’s a bit like trainspotting, but with a present to open at the end of it. Seeing it arrive at each port makes me feel like Edmond Dantes’ pal papa Morrel, the kindly merchant in Comte de Monte-Cristo, poring over the shipping news each morning for the fate of the Phareon.
Hmm, Shipping News is of course also a novel by E. Annie Proulx, punning on shipping the news. Quite clever really. And the obligatory film of it taught me how to write a headline too:
Publisher: Now, have a look outside, what do you see?
Protagonist: HORIZON FILLS WITH DARK CLOUDS?
Publisher: no, no, no. IMMINENT STORM THREATENS VILLAGE.
Protagonist: But what if no storm comes?
Publisher: VILLAGE SPARED FROM DEADLY STORM.
My parcel arrives in ten minutes! bisous
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