Day 2710
Tuesday June 30th 2026
Winchester
A slow start down at the vacant flower seller’s spot…then fiver pops in…then another one. Yippee! This is from a woman from Finland who’d (obviously) not seen me before. Then a woman who’d been clapping to the odd tune on the bench opposite, comes over and hands me a tenner – saying ‘Oh, you’re really good, you just make life better in Winchester. Just keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve got one of your CDs.’ I said ‘Oh really? Well, thanks again and thanks for coming up and telling me that. I’ll remember that for a long time. It really does mean a lot to me.’ And it does because us lot who do this, well, 99.99999% of people out here ignore us and no matter how long we’ve been doing this, you never really get used to it.
To my right there’s the usual infestation of weirdos/druggies/drunks including the legless bloke – literally, not in the alcohol way. Near the end he comes over – ‘I think you’re really good, you classically trained, are you?’
‘Oh no, not at all.’
‘Well, you’re really good. Fuckin’ hell, I can’t stand Kev. He just drones on “D I V O R C E”…he’s just…Kev, I just can’t fucking stand him. I wish he’d just fuck off!” That really made me laugh.
Total for the usual two hours was £23.80.