ergotia and
lilithmagna heroically joined me in my journey to Wimbledon to sort out my worries over my stuff; my Mum's partner Chris also crossed London to join us, but mobile phone problems meant he missed all the fun.
We got there about five minutes early, but the Men with Ven were already there! But the guy from the storage space hustled us all to our locker and said "OK, you can start unpacking now" so they did, no questions asked. After we'd found the correct locker (two false tries from the storage place) they unpacked everything into it, with my and
lilthmagna's help, before mentioning money. They asked for an extra GBP 115 over the GBP 150 they'd originally asked for. I said very politely that I thought that it was unfair since it wasn't my fault they'd been late and we'd missed the storage. They looked uncomfortable and said it wasn't theirs either. Then
lilthmagna said "Split the difference?", they looked very relieved, and they accepted GBP 200 for the whole thing. I'm pretty confident that all my stuff was there and I'm very glad to have it all sorted out. Thanks all for the advice!
Saw Big Issue journalist about poly today (with
gemoon,
spikeylady,
babysimon,
trishpiglet), seemed to go well but very rushed. No more lunchtime interviews I think.