After a good training session with Sam on a hot and humid day, having to combine campaigning with the sale of my Rolls Royce and later on did a deal on the latter.
A challenging session with our Eynesbury candidate later on before and getting tired of the physical, mental and emotional exertion that this unusual campaign is bringing.
At Diana’s session at Bodycare, she found she had lost a total of 15 inches around her waist, hips and chest.
The hot and humid weather continued without change and today was another full campaigning day. Some time with Sam who appreciated the longer walk and we went into Mill Field again and I made him steady to the hordes of rabbits around Windmill Cottage now that it is empty and unoccupied.
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It was the second week that I had advertised my Rolls Royce in the Exchange & Mart and, with an even wider circulation area this time, I was getting numerous telephone enquiries about it. The original businessman who had enquired last week had yet to come and see it and I had forgotten his name and number anyway so that I felt free to offer it again today.
What with all the calls in the morning and then canvass supervision in the afternoon and evening, all this was a bit tricky but the most interested of the enquirers, a dealer called Lawrence Kayne, drove up from Lambourn in Berkshire to view the vehicle and secure its purchase in late evening. He was trying to get here for teatime (between my canvass sessions) but was horribly delayed on the roads and so we arranged an 8.00pm rendezvous by means of our mobile telephones and he viewed it then.
I had been honest with its faults but also voluble about its qualities and he appreciated my frankness. I held out for my purchase price of just under £20,000 in view of the interest I had received but said that I would be more willing to deal after the weekend as I was determined to sell it to release the money and space.
He wanted to know the rock bottom minimum that I would accept and when I had no such figure offered £17,000 which I undertook to consider within the next 2/3 days but then he made a final offer of £17,500 to exclude the registration number YXD 1 which, considering the number to be worth £2-3000, represented my asking price and we agreed upon that and shook hands.
He left a cheque deposit of £2,000 and I gave him a receipt accordingly with the car being collected in a week's time when we hoped to have the number transferred to Daniel's car. Back to Luke Street for the close of canvassing and more keying-in of data and reviews of the campaign.
I sat and talked to Wiggly after the others had gone and reviewed things with her; finding out more about her and what she planned for the future. I had been worried to hear that earlier she was buying a terraced house in Eynesbury for £38,500 and then getting a 100% mortgage to pay for it! Whilst it would have suited us to have her resident in her ward and committed to spend the long term here, I am fond of her and would not like to see her get in over her depth.
I always seem to advise everybody on everything and have the annoying habit of normally being right. There are obvious dangers in being that close to this tall and sexily-attractive lady and, with her leather mini-skirt revealing nice long legs and lace pants when she crossed them, my self control was only just equal to the occasion! As previously advised to Nigel, nothing but tears comes of such encounters, however appealing.
Home even later that of late and getting tired of the physical, mental and emotional exertion that this unusual campaign is bringing. England were struggling at the start of the first day of their latest New Zealand Test with Gooch out for a duck but Atherton and the lower order batsmen made up for it later. Diana went shopping at Waitrose on market day and, after collecting Debbie for her session at Little Paxton School, had her own session at Bodycare where she found she had lost a total of 15 inches around her waist, hips and chest.