GB - Welcome oh famous and wise haired beast. I will let you know how things pan out.

Tom - In a way you are right but DL is more right. I knew that these geezers weren’t going to play ball but if you don’t ask you don’t get. It is better to talk and try to seek a resolution. You would be surprised how often a problem can be resolved just by talking it through. Not so in this case so we have now put my plan in place.

Minx - My gorgeous temptress of domesticity! It does get a touch scary, but I keep a beady eye out for shops offering boxer shorts two for the price of one! Jason is a more suave character than moi. Besides which he has better choreographers and script writers. The people who employ you can be more dodgey that the people you are asked to deal with!

I will keep you all posted on how the job goes. I don’t envisage any problems but you never know.

I am rivetted.
Not only by your cool, calm, cock-sure attitude
but by your Intelligence and Deliberation.
Very smart, very civilized, very threatening.

It’s all a little scary.
I imagine you’re used to that, though, aren’t you…

I can hardly wait to see what happens next.

(Mmm, I’m envisioning a brooding Jason Statham.
mmm…
I think perhaps you are The Transporter…of Pikies…
Yes, still delicious…)

Please be careful…
x

Whyever not talk to them first? It’s got to be the obvious thing to do.

It’s mimimal effort, with the (admittedly faint) prospect of an imediate result. There can be only two outcomes: either they, “Yes, OK sir. We’ll go now”,(most unlikely, I agree) and UN pockets £10k; or (most likely) they say ,”Sod off!” and nothing is lost but the two minutes spent talking to them.

If no-one’s actually asked them to go, no-one can accuse them of being unreasonable in staying there. So it’s an essential first step in the process of getting rid.

Interesting story. Eager to hear how this develops…