Jigging all over the place right now. I found a place in Herne Bay where I wouldn’t be on top of everyone. My previous sleep was shite just as it was like staying in someone’s spare room, but the daughter had moved back in and hated the fact I was there so the whole thing was awkward where all I needed was a discreet place to sleep. Plus I had to check out by half seven.
This morning I had a lie in and then I took a load of cables to Whitstable Metals Ltd. “We call these pluggie cables,” he told me. Didn’t get the best deal by weight but he knows and I know that they aren’t great big fucking cables. He tells me how they’ll be broken down. I also gave him some old appliances that pretty much certainly have interesting metals in the circuits. Some of them had great big coils of copper built into them. He absolutely gashed me on those. I’d have been better tearing them apart by hand before going in and working out what was what. But… this is business, I’m still piecing it together, it’s like the dump fucking me even though I’d sorted the wood, just as they knew I didn’t have an alternative option and I was under time pressure. “Ah sorry mate we can’t take that wood as wood it has to be general,” for two loads, where given time and space I could’ve sold much of it. I didn’t have dickhead charging £650 a day this time so I was able to try and get what things are worth.
I didn’t want to drive around all over the place looking for a slightly better scrap deal generally so I let the scrap metal guy take those big old circuits for his lowest rate as then they were gone. I’m just trying to move things on right now. Better by far to him, he’s a decent guy and clear about things. If I can find an old book dealer half as efficient and straightforward as he is I’ll be a happy man. I’m cutting back on the units but I’ve still got two – that needs to become one, and it can pretty quickly now. I’ve made my list. Until the list was made it was never about shifting things. Now the list is made it is ALL about shifting things.
I’m back with the cats. Had a good dinner, I’ve been chilling out. Not as early a bed as last night but working on it.
AlBarclay 