A big clearout at Royal Clarence means selling trash and dealing with the public. Two things that will tax me today!

Facebook Marketplace Hell and Fancy Dressing at The Royal Clarence Costumiers.

hello gorgeous people of the internet welcome to royal clarence radio and the wonderful marina sun's just starting to shine i'm here with my romeo romeo is my persian cat he's been quite quiet hmm i wonder why anyway i have been very very busy because we're setting up the royal clarence dress hire shop and i slowly slowly i'm not rushing because i get so very distracted and there's so many other things to do as you know i'm a musician so there's a lot of music things going on my lunchtime recitals and what have you um now then because i'm a member of the a fellow of the royal society of art and a very keen eco i won't say warrior because my days of warrioring are well gone um but i'm a bit of a i suppose i i do i am still an activist i would consider myself an activist and uh just before lockdown we were due in the marina to have a wonderful eco fashion show and everything was going to be recycled and it had to be cancelled because uh it was in the june of the first wave very very disappointing um but consequently i have you know lots of things lots of clothes that were going to be used for the fashion show so this all fits in very nicely with carrying on the eco message and the education even part of being a fellow of the royal society of art is about enabling and educating and mentoring and really being a decent manufacturer or inventor or user all of these things they they all um you know they're they're all part of the ethos of the the royal society so i really like this idea of a fancy dress because not really it's it's a bit more than fancy dress i suppose it's a more of a costumier costume higher i mean my target audience is not so much the hen party as the photographer who's doing a shoot or a tv film uh crew you know a director or something who wants a costume because i'm very good at putting these things together so i can do all that i can style it so that's my target audience anyway i've been very very busy now the thing with arranging all this so that i can have people come to my showroom at the marina um is i have to have a big clear out and arrange everything either in alphabetical order or sectional order at the moment i'm doing things in decades so i've got the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s and even 90s yes i have um it's really good fun but um anyway i'm digressing the the consequence of all this organizing is that i have to get rid of stuff so i've just filled the music room with stuff now of course my commitment to recycling and eco-friendly services and opportunities means i can't throw this stuff away and there's loads of it so i'm selling today on uh marketplace now facebook marketplace the sort of local selling um kind of what do they call it the grey economy basically you sell your trash okay and the thing i the thing with what do i like about facebook marketplace absolutely zilch i hate it just it's just such a god-awful thing you have to take photographs that's boring boring boring boring and it's not like the photographs that i'm taking for the costumias which are photographs that are beautifully set with a backdrop and in character and um you know photo edited etc you're not going to do that for facebook marketplace you're going to take a few snaps and put them up then you've got to measure things people always want they ask questions like how how big is it well of course they do they want to know how big something is don't they but then the other thing is they have to come around and get it and the security here at royal clearance wonderful because no one can get past the gates which that means i have to go down and you know make contact now there's nothing wrong with making contact but as a radio presenter the contact that i tend to make is uh audio oral as in a you not o.r...