“22p, 22p! But on a good day I can make up to £200. That’s after a bank holiday, if I get down here early, or when there’s been a high sea. The waves shift the pebbles, bring stuff up to the surface, rings and coins… I’m the only one that does it proper. Systematic, that’s the only way to do it. There’s others with better equipment but I’m thorough. There used to be another bloke down here, latest stuff and everything, he cut me up a few times, heard he was bad mouthing me behind my back and I says to him “any time, any time, you just say it to my face…” He’s a bus driver and you know what they’re like. He don’t bother me so much now.”