Powers of persuasion

Today I tried to convince the nearest tattoo artist to Exmoor to contribute to the Exmoor National Dress project -with some difficulty!
I don't usually cold-call people I'd like to work with, I much prefer to meet in person, but circumstances mean that's hard for me to do at the minute so phone it had to be.
Neil at Under the Gun in Minehead sounded great, but he tried in vain to dissuade me as I listened to the sound of his needle on the go (tell me thats a hands-free set Neil) but I did my best to talk him into tattooing a pair of nice leather gaiters I have - maybe with an Exmoor pony I suggested. After a lot of 'no' I asked if he'd tatoo my arm with an Exmoor pony, when he said of course, I had found the chink in his armour! We left it that I could pop in next time I'm down to see what he can do with them - which I will certainly take him up on....

Posted Tuesday 9th September, 2008 at 12:58 pm by Karen