Siwan came over today to help me with booking plant. I can do this shit on my own but I’m much much better with a plus one. She’s most excellent good at being together with a person who holds the purse strings. She’s been PA to numerous arseface humans. She’s currently available and valuable.
We now have 2 tipper vans despite the predicted cold snap. And we didn’t struggle with the forklift.
Siwan and I cleared a whole large section of the living room. I’m sitting with it now. She’s been brilliant. I knew we had to book the forklift and the vans. Outside of that I just knew I wanted to get a bit more space around my desk. We have everything booked, and there’s workspace. It’s not perfect but it’s better than it was. I’m gonna wind down to sleep and maybe sample a slice of this pizza I’ve got in front of me.
I’m booking up another job full of wood and honestly what the fuck? There’s all this brilliant wood and it is all gonna have to go and get mulched for fuel while I pay for the privilege. And again I’m finding people from bonfires. From the Lewes lot they are saying it’s the wrong time of year, but last time I tried them it was literally a month before the burn and actually yeah, it’s probably got to the stage that only the “right” suppliers can bring wood. Closed loop. Capitalism red in tooth and claw. “Oh hi we are doing bonfire. Guy Fawkes. Yay. Fuck the world fuck sustainability we have business arrangements.”
Bunch of idiots. Closed loop capitalist pigs.
And nobody Lewes Bonfire wants a day of work at £200 a day where they can isolate the good stuff and have me drive it back for them for free so I’m not paying tip weight. I would actually pay someone to help with the lift and they can then decide what to take. This is how the world dies. This is why the world dies. I’m so fucking bored of it. I still want to try and give people free wood but largely after all the work and the back and forth just trying to find people who want wood… Ahhhh they can just go and fuck themselves. Send me photos. Give me clarity… They must have their suppliers in place already. They must have a desperate paucity of imagination. If I said “I’ll charge you a few hundred pounds for this excellent wood I’ve got,” they would start haggling. Clueless venal fools.
They already have their suppliers, who probably charge them. Free wood from me, a new supplier and it is immediately somehow suspect. I bet you if I tried to charge them and if I isolated pallets of good wood as I’m gonna do anyway, they still wouldn’t be fucking interested cos I’m unknown to them. Lewes bonfire, “alternative” my arsehole. Buying wood from some established millionaire. And so the world wags. So I’ll have to throw this good wood out even though I’m happy to sort it and travel it. Short sighted idiots. Apparently they don’t know anyone who is willing to work for £200 for a reasonably short day. I’m gonna wait the whole of tomorrow just in case but then I have to book it in. Idiots. Grr. Etc. Sorry. Zzz
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