Hello to all my fellow Slania collectors! It's been quite a while since my last blog. The ear condition that I mentioned in a previous blog has started to go away, but I have to say I've had quite a few horrid days in the last three months, hence the small number of blogs. One thing I have learned about the ear condition is that I mustn't let it rule me and I have to get on with life as normal, which is why I'm sitting here right now with the noises screaming in my head - it'll settle again by tomorrow. But anyway enough of that stuff!!
In May I wrote a very excited blog sharing the news that I had purchased a beautiful Slania catalogue. Click HERE to view the blog. I purchased the catalogue from Canada so I expected a bit of a wait. What I didn't expect was an epic comedy of errors spanning some three months! It all began when, after waiting for two months for the catalogue to arrive with no responses from the seller (I purchased the catalogue on ebay), I had to get a refund on the catalogue. This was massively disappointing, as the catalogue I found happened to have postage that I could actually afford. Generally, the postage for this particular catalogue runs in the neighbourhood of $50-70. This on top of a book price of $60-80 made the catalogue impossible to get. After a few dejected days (not helped by the noises in the noggin!) I recalled a conversation I had with a stamp seller from Poland, a lovely fellow named Andrzej. He had offered me a catalogue at a reasonable price. I didn't know what constituted a reasonable price to him. So I wrote to him to find out. He got back to me straight away with a price which happened to be less than what I had paid for the one from Canada! I was stoked! So I purchased the catalogue from him.
Then a few days ago the story came to an incredible conclusion. First the catalogue from Canada actually finally arrived - after only three month! The day after the postman delivered another package. What was it? You guessed it - the catalogue from Poland! So now I have not one, but two Slania catalogues! So if any of you out there is hunting for a Slania catalogue, drop me a note and I'll let you know how much the catalogue + postage will come to.
I have probably already bored you to tears with my ramblings, but just as a final note I want to let you know that I'll be working hard on blog updates over the next few weeks. I have received quite a few Slania stamps and banknotes, so I have a lot of material to cover. Fun, fun, fun. And now that my Slania catalogue has finally arrived I think I'll do an extended review of it with some pros and cons that might help you decide if the catalogue is for you. So...
Until next time...
Stay Slania Crazy!
