{"id":1957,"date":"2009-08-04T23:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:26:32","slug":"muddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"muddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been a bit stressful, boys fighting, screaming, being horrid, and more than I could bear to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1958\" title=\"blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/08\/blog.jpg\" alt=\"blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other stuff mounting up needing to be done, and then the Folksy forums, to be honest I have never encountered such bitching other than at school!<\/p>\n<p>Last night I was trying to find a card for an anniversary and I wanted a nice letterpress one, now I knew this was going to be tricky as Letterpress is certainly more popular in the US and Australia, so it was a long shot!<\/p>\n<p>Instead of getting maybe a couple of items back in the search, I think there were 76 pages! None of which were letterpress! I tried the search again, and got the same result, so I felt that the search must be broken, went to the forums and wrote this;<\/p>\n<p><strong>searching&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>for a letterpress card, so why are at least the first 20 results nothing like a card, let alone letterpress!!!???<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why people go elsewhere \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>From that original post ended up with a seller on Folksy basically slinging as much mud at me as possible, and then personal attacks on me, the way I choose to sell etc.<br \/>\nIf you want to read the sorry state of affairs it is <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.folksy.com\/forums\/6\/topics\/3877?page=1\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now maybe I took it all too personally, but I don&#8217;t think I did.<br \/>\nI was looking to buy from a UK seller, got loads of crap in the search, and so I HAD to go elsewhere, and found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=18210673\">instead<\/a> (I know it isn&#8217;t letterpress! Couldn&#8217;t find anything to get here quick enough that I loved!)<\/p>\n<p>But I feel much more positive about it now, the boys are asleep, it is quiet, and I&#8217;m listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grizzly-bear.net\/\">Grizzly Bear<\/a> &#8211; Veckatimest which is perfect \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>ps see Mum, it is flowering!<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been a bit stressful, boys fighting, screaming, being horrid, and more than I could bear to be honest. Other stuff mounting up needing to be done, and then the Folksy forums, to be honest I have never encountered such bitching other than at school! Last night I was trying to find a card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[126,289,332,370,462,488,585,771],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-sales","tag-bitching","tag-etsy","tag-folksy","tag-grizzly-bear","tag-letterpress","tag-man","tag-pathetic","tag-stupid","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}