Month: April 2019

Garden customers who haven’t a clue – quoting for work in general

First impressions count. If you listen to them and your intuition you can save yourself a lot of trouble. People do not realise how much they give themselves away over the phone. I had a response to my advertisement about four days ago. The customer lived near me and needed his hedge cut. He was a bit abrupt on the phone and not very friendly. Nevertheless, I went round as I normally do. He told...

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Seagull’s ‘bombardements’, a magical river valley in Lynton

I went to collect my car which had been parked in a side street in Ilfracombe. Although it was not parked under a tree, the industrial sized and active seagulls had made their mark. I think they make a game out of it because around my car there were no droppings. They must know what they're doing at some level but never mind. We set off for home via the one and only Watersmeet. I must say the...

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