“You’ve missed a bit” mouthed the passer by at the window. I had started painting a red strip, stripe, around the walls of shop unit 15. First coat finished 30th June, back today for second coat. Bought 2 globe lamps from Preston covered market. I saw one and logged it, saw another and asked how much “£5”, I’ll go back to the first one and see how much they want. “£3” and they’ve got another, I can have them both for a fiver. BOGOF, beautiful. Back at the shop cleaning one of the windows an old guy asks what’s it going to be. I start to talk about art and he says “Tomatoes?”. I correct him and say something about art again. He says it used to be a cafe but they couldn’t afford the rent.
This morning, whilst I’m driving, my phone rings. Withheld number, I answer, hypocrite. I had a feeling it would be Berrys, the timber merchants. The sales guy says for collection and I have to correct him and say for delivery and then he says can’t get the lengths I want and would charge for cuts(30p per cut). I explain that the reason why I’m using Berrys is that I was advised I could have these lengths (1.8m) and that there would be no charge to cut as no need because these lengths in stock. He asked who I spoke to, damn. I work in a call center and that’s gotta to be a golden rule (ownership). He said he’d ring me back, I asked if he could ring me back in 10 minutes (giving me enough time to get home and out of the car). A minute later, withheld rings again. He asks if it’s rough sawn carcassing that I want, yes I agree. Delivery will be this friday. To the Harris? No to Old Vicarage off Tithebarn, like it says on the order form. I ask him to ask the driver to ring me ten minutes before hand.
