For well over a year I have had repeated complaints concerning a man who has for several years collected for a famous charity. The complainants say that he has not been paying all of the money to the charity concerned.
This complaint has been investigated and I will report the details for you the reader but in particular to the people who took the trouble to tell me about this unscrupulous person who is BARRED from any of my Car Boot Sales. More to follow on Monday.
Geoff
Good weather forecast so put some sun block on your husbands don’t forget the kids then it’s your turn!
If you are selling do not be too expensive otherwise you may well take it all home again?
Watch out someone may try to steal from your stall (especially innocent looking boys, little B’stards!) If I catches you ………………?
Special picture of liar of the WEEK!!
Jeremy Corbyn!!
Did you know that he supported the IRA when they were bombing England? The B’stard!
The worst thing that has happened to Car Boots Cornwall in all of its 27 years is the dog’s issue which has escalated our operating costs completely out of all proportion with threats and abuse from dog owners who disagree with our policies. It is nothing personal to anyone in particular, rules are rules (voted by the majority) but this type of friction towards members of our teams does nothing to enhance the Community Car Boot spirits and atmospheres. It also makes me feel like throwing myself in front of some old grannies and their Zimmer frames and end it all once and for all FFS! But, I do seriously believe that very soon DOGS will NOT be allowed to come to Car Boot Sales at all in the interests of Public Health & Safety. To those who own dogs (I also am a dog owner) and they do not agree with this policy (of course they won’t) then you will have to suck it up babes, you don’t take your dogs to Marks & Spencer’s nor Morrison’s nor Tesco’s nor Lidl’s nor Sainsbury’s nor the dreaded Asda do you? You are the pack leader in your household so tell your dog to stay at home and it has no other choice other than to shut up be shut in the house and then you can have some ‘ME time’ Be the boss!!
My mate Paul is the owner of Pauls Car Boot Sales in Taunton. He runs his sales more or less the same way as CBC but they do have a total ban on dogs at their Car Boot Sales “No Dogs Allowed” Paul’s business has suffered NO LOSS as a result of the ban supported by the majority of his customers of which I admire very much. Paul charges £1.00 admission to his sales to meet the high operating costs of running Car Boot Sales. I absolutely support the £1.00 charge or a Car Parking Charge and I do predict that we will have to change our admission and parking charges at some of our locations for our 2017 main season. Paul is a good mate he would like to buy CBC I wouldn’t mind a swap maybe. Taunton’s lovely? But then, could I desert all of those lovely regular sellers and buyers and their kids and Bee dogs? In a word! YES!!!
We, that is CBC and our customers, that is you our loyal (to yourselves) sellers and buyers have all had a dreadful season so far this year due to the rotten weather and the most disappointing holdups at Newquay contributing to some up-country sellers avoiding Cornwall this year. We have lost several Market Traders for the season due to the serious delays with Newquay. Lots of our young mums were affected by the problems and delays to the start of our season at Newquay as they were unable to do as in previous years.
Once they had got the kids off to school in the morning they could come to sell at Newquay for a couple of hours, make a few quids then back home in time to get the kids back from school! Happiness is! But with the 8 weeks delay then with the piss poor weather it has all taken its toll on people who rely on earning money at our Car Boot Sales. I am sorry for all customers especially our special Mumsies. Go for it ladies we have about 8 weeks before the end of the season at Newquay, or so the Landlord assures me, haven’t we been here before dears?
Landlords are paid their rents and are not seen in most cases, all they have to do is just leave us to make ‘our own business’ decisions and we in return will leave your location clean and tidy and secure and pay an exceptionally good rent in cash in return for using their lands prepared and ready with ‘public safety’ as a priority for our Car Boot Sales and our customers. Your land could earn more money in half a day than it could earn in a month?
Interested? Give me a call
078 078 078 88
Geoff
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Geoff
No point in dwelling on about what happened with Mitchell yesterday the event was drizzled off with about 60 sellers and crowds of buyers who went home. The earlies had started to set their stalls up but the driving drizzle drenched their efforts.
New Ruling;
In the event of rain interrupting a Car Boot Sale I reserve the right in the interest of buyers and sellers who have arrived to delay the start of the Car Boot for ONE HOUR later at all locations!
In short, if you are queuing for the sale starting at say 12.00 noon and it is either raining or drizzling the start of the sale will be delayed to 1.00pm in the hope that the drizzle stops! We will keep all concerned advised.
At TRURO we will keep to the start times as the Car Boot will be held in the under cover cattle pens if it is raining.
Wadebridge;
We were advised by the management of The Royal that the Religious Festival (God Squad) people were at Wadebridge and that we return to our Saturday afternoons this coming Saturday.
A couple of complainers advised that ‘you should put it on your website’ We did, you just didn’t read it! Sorry for the disappointed buyers and sellers and the kids. Sunday weather looks good!
PAR Market 03/08/2016 our lovely Amelia is in charge of PAR and the sale is well under way when a woman buyer in some distress tells Amelia “I have been stung by a wasp or a bee” Amelia gives the lady an antiseptic wipe from the first aid kit and some antiseptic cream but Ms Iva Bin-Stung is not satisfied, Amelia offers a plaster to stick over the wound but Ms Iva Bin-Stung is still not satisfied and tries to complain to the Market Management that we have not done enough for her cos she was attacked by a quarter pounder Bee Burger FFS! Initially, we all had sympathy for her but the sympathy is wearing a bit thin. We are sorry for her but her attitude is wrong.
I am at Newquay, Amelia phones me to tell me about the disgruntled lady’s complaint and tells me what she has done for the lady who is now complaining that we should be able to ‘give her a shot of something as a painkiller’ I mean she is screaming her head off cos a fricking wasp has stung her WTF is she gonna do if Amelia ‘gives her a shot’ of something? God I wish I had been there! I’d of sat on the grass on my arse rolled up a spliff and said “wasp your problem? deal with it woman instead of acting like a baby so you are” By now the woman is getting stupid over the entire incident, we have established ‘she is not ill’ other than the sting, she is acting like her shoe size demanding professional first aid but Amelia draws a line by refusing to call an ambulance so the stung woman just goes away eventually to catch her buzz home! Show some sympathy Geoff, I do I do but I have just gotten over our JoJo complaining for a whole week about her stubbed toe then the following week her got bitten by a horse fly (the little B’stards) and she went on relentlessly about it but I do know the agony and misery they can cause. Kill em!!
Well done Amelia, but we have never had kids who have been stung acting like that before FFS. The best sting of all stings is when your dog gets stung chasing wasps and stupid DOG gets a thumping geet sting on its upper lip and the lip it all swells up and DOG can’t eat FFS! Hilarious fun. Good time to play ‘catch the ball slobber chops’ Apparently if you rub nettles into a Bee sting it hurts even more FFS!!
I wonder what Ms Iva Bin-Stung meant by ‘giving her a shot of something’ to kill the pain of the wasp sting? My Louise was stung by a huge massive (of course it was dear) Bee two weeks ago on her bum, was it a ‘Bum-blebee’ dearest? Truth to tell she hardly complained but the poor Bee died almost immediately of blood poisoning FFS! I offered her my special massage and medication and ‘a shot of something’ but she declined my generous and genuine concerns and offer by basically telling me to sod off!
Mitchell Car Boot Sale; 7th August;
Large white van pulls into sell at Mitchell seller pays his rent and sets up his stall with his wife which is mainly furniture. We do not know the seller he is not a regular. A lady impressed with a ‘double bed settee’ asks how much and does a deal with the seller for £35.00 plus the delivery cost of ten pounds. The lady tells the seller ‘I do not have the full amount of cash may I pay a deposit please’ Seller says “Don’t worry about that my love you can pay me when I deliver”
Buyer gives seller her address and buyer is delighted, goes home redecorates and makes various changes to her room in readiness for her guests coming to stay today for a few days (on the settee) and for the delivery of the settee at the arranged time of 10.00 am on the Monday morning. Happiness is. Guess what?
By 2.00 pm she decides to phone to check what the delay is asking ‘Where is my double bed settee?’ seller says “Sorry love my missus wanted more money for it and sold it to someone else, sorry love! The B’stard FFS!
All of a sudden ‘happiness isn’t’ alas the very upset lady whose plans for her guests were now in ruins telephones Louise to tell her what had happened.
What an absolute B’stard thing to do that is ‘rude and dirty dealing’ at its worst. If the seller arrives again to sell at any of our locations a serious bollicking awaits him and then it’s my turn!
The buyer however missed out on this deal because she should have absolutely insisted on paying the deposit she had offered and ‘Can I have a receipt please’ also take the vehicle’s registration number and finally ‘take a picture’ of the item, but you are on your own on this one darling Caveat Emptor ‘buyer beware’ You haven’t got a settee leg to stand on my darling, Ha-ha. We must give a thought to the guests who has just arrived from Poona Woona Land knackered ‘where TF am we gonna to sleep tonight? Poor sods.
Footnote; Kick the seller’s arse!
This may be slightly rude and confrontational frankly ICGAF my lovers! Welcome to CORNWALL!!
Amongst my emails I got a stupid email from some dog fanatic last week saying that I was betraying ‘man’s best friend’ the DOG simply because we are not allowing dogs (which in non-negotiable) at any of our Sports Rugby Clubs Car Boot Sales at either Penryn Falmouth nor Perranporth nor at Trethvas Horse Stud Farm at Mitchell. His prediction was that all of our business is falling apart because dog lovers are avoiding all of our Car Boot Sales which is a whole total load of dog’s bollocks! Mr Arthur Brain might have noticed that we have had some pretty piss-poor weather recently but today for instance at Mitchell we had up to 3000 men women and their kids (NO DOGS) the perfect Car Boot Sale with no hassle! Some people were walking around the sale with ‘poo free’ flip flops on their feet (where else FFS) others just walking through the grass with nothing on their feet and without the threat of squelching slurping smelly pooey brown runny stuff DOG shit through your pigging toes and yer feet FFS! “The fields are alive without no dog-shit la-la-la-la-la” (is it 4 or 5 las?) Mental dear boy mental!!
Basically all dogs are incontinent because you cannot take a dog out to a piece of grass and say to DOG “sit and shit there DOG and don’t waste my time-do it NOW DOG” cos DOG will tell you to FRO, GAFY FFS! So, instead of our Alice’s recommended Butt Plugs I reckon the answer to all of these dog shiddy problems is compulsory ‘Doggy Diapers for Doggy Do-Doo’s’ free to all unemployed able Mable’s in the over 75s aged groups (for their dog you understand) Imagine the designs on the diapers dogs with floral undies or advertising ‘hot dogs from our catering’ imagine the humiliation for the dog when you have to de-diaper them once a day FFS! Out with the doggy-doo-doo changing mat “It’s your turn to change the doggy doo-do diaper darling it’s definitely your turn tonight” Open all the windows OMG I thinks I am going to throw up, wretch, and belch followed by a good old fashioned puke in the bog where the last person to use it did not have the decency to pull the chain FFS!!!
Now then, let’s examine this crap line about ‘man’s best friend’ referring to the DOG! A dog is an animal, it licks its own bum and it licks its own balls,’ it scratches its fleas into your home and emits dreadfully offensive gases into your lives! Humans cannot achieve that, or can they, can you for instance?
DOG cannot feed itself, it depends entirely on you therefore a DOG is most definitely not a human being. When you walk into the room where DOG is the first thing DOG does every time is to look to your hands to see if you have any food or treats for DOG who is constantly wanting tit-bits and DOG requires meals every day of its life provided by you. If you have nothing in your hands for DOG to eat then DOG will silently grunt and fume WTF WTF FFS!! MY dog Nana Moon comes bounding up to me in the office excitedly seeking tit-bits and I pat her firmly once on the left side and once on the right side then tell her to eff off and she does FFS!!
Now then, it is you who decides if DOG goes for Walkies because it is you who takes the DOG therefore the DOG does not take you. The phrase should surely be reversed from ‘MANS best friend is DOG’ to “DOG’S best friend is man” FFS because the DOG absolutely and totally is reliant on man 365 days a year to feed and clothe DOG. Firstly man must look after himself, then his wife and then his kids and then finally and last of all after the cats and the disabled (only 3 legs no Zimmer frame small enough) poor pet hamster comes DOG in that barking order.
If man does not look after DOG then DOG dies hence my analysis of the situation that man can survive without DOG but DOG cannot survive without man hence ‘DOGS best friend is man’ Bottom line; DOG has got MAN by the balls or short and curlies cos DOG has a cushtie life and you are it’s man or woman servant, however If you do not agree with any of the above load of old DOGS bollocks or are offended then that’s fine cos that’s why I wrote it RESULT!, Deal with it me ansum, but for me personally I seriously DGAF, what-ever!! I have just read the above WAALOCMLs?
Punch-line; And, and as a payback for my rudeness about dogs my effing dog Nana Moon puked in my car on my brand new high visibility jacket (just around the armpit and inside the frigging sleeve FFS) whilst coming home from Newquay on Thursday and it stunk to high heaven the fat dirty rotten sloppy smelly scummy bitch that she is, her was eating rabbit freshly dropped droppings and dirty old grass at Newquay’s rotten diesel and petrol fume infested fields which seems to me like a good combination to make the bitch puke up, but not in my effing car, never again FFS-FD!! Delete and block.
I receive quite a lot of emails and texts regarding times and days of our Car Boot Sales and at least once a week I get abuse mail with challenges like “We are going to close Car Boots Cornwall down within the week” all because I express my rights for ‘FREEDOM of speech’ and that I am outspoken cos I say it like it is’ Then the matter is discussed amongst Facebook’s worst inhabitants the self-appointed off their trolley’s Trolls who pontificate about everything that they know sod all about and then they start sending out to innocent people who have their own opinions what amounts to ‘poison pen Facebook letters’ to whosoever they wish to target.
Then you get the genuine Facebook reader who does not agree with the crap that the Troll has written about and challenges and defends the Troll’s accusations politely but firmly. The Troll’s defence mechanism then kicks into his peanut brain cell which comes into operation by being the most offensively rude and threatening and confrontational antagonistic bastards to people who have total rights to express their opinions without fear of threats towards them.
I object in the strongest terms that any persons should threaten any of my customers just because they have expressed their opinion by supporting me and CBC!
As a result (and to prevent any further abuse to my customers) I decided to immediately cancel Car Boots Cornwall Facebook pages for a peaceful life FFS! I believe the Troll (T/roll=toilet roll=Trolls) who targeted my defending customers was actually organised by that arse-hole who I sacked for causing racial disharmony and threatening violence towards the immigrants and the Polish and some of our customers. But he is not the main protagonist of whom I will target in my own time?
I like the Poles they are good spenders they now respects our systems they keep themselves to themselves and are shy and introvert and respectful to our fellow customers now all they have to do is speak the Queens English with the appropriate accents and spend loads dosh at our Car Boots please. But, do the Poles have Trolls or do the Trolls have Poles and are they all complete R/Soles like Cornwall’s twisted Troll’s FFS? Who GAS, not eye!!
Now then, I advertised and spent good money on Facebook to promote my business and to keep readers updated and informed about our Car Boot Sales but the total analysis was that over the period of less than 18 months the CBC Facebook pages received an average of only 57 visits per day which is a dreadful return when compared to my Geoff Says ‘for free’ pages which average between three to six thousand people weekly depending on the time of the seasons!!
Goodbye Facebook. What a blessing, back to normality! Did you know that if you look up ‘Anti-Facebook’ on Google you will see there are thousands upon thousands of pages by people who have complained and absolutely hate Facebook and have therefore left?
The bottom line to Facebook in my opinion is that there is absolutely no controls (con-TROLLS) no supervision no guidelines no direction no personal contacts no protection no easy way for complainants no dialect at all but there are thousands upon thousands of decent people throughout this Facebook crap monopoly who are threatened with abuse and violence through the courtesy of the pages of Facebook daily and Facebook do sod all about it all because a few morons who have nothing better to do with their lives than try to disrupt other people’s lives with their brainless and offensive and ignorant attacks. If you know who they are feel FREE to expose them through Geoff Says columns and I promise to keep your identification between you and myself. Drop me a line to
Don’t get me wrong about the total sociability of Facebook it is wonderful for all families to communicate and share the family news with pictures and happiness all round as you proudly show the world your kids growing up, that is the Community getting together in the nicest possible way just like our Community Car Boot Sales but I protect our customers by not suffering r/soles trying to disrupt the happiness of thousands of my customers.
My motto in life has always been ‘if you are in command of a ship of 1000 people and one jerk is trying to disrupt the happiness of 999 of them so chuck the jerk overboard’ that is called BARRING someone and that is what FACELESS FACEBOOK should do to bar offenders who abuse the freedom of speech to my customers GAFYs!
Brian O’Connell has died 03/08/2016
I am so sad to tell you of the sudden death of Brian O’Connell yesterday. Brian aged 73 had been amongst friends during his weekly visit to the Rosudgeon Car Boot Sale, at the end of the sale he was making his way back to his car when he had a sudden heart attack and died.
I have known Brian who ran the very popular ‘SOUNDS Ok’ in Falmouth for almost 25 years. We became great pals during my Dig & Delve days in Swanpool Street. His son Jason is naturally devastated and we pass onto Jason and his entire family our sincere sympathies for the loss of such a good man.
Three of his closest friends Ann, Jason Wilkinson and Frank will so sadly miss the great fun character that Brian was with his ready smile and his great sense of humour. Tears of love happy memories and sadness will be shed.
He was so popular with his thousands of supporters of his Sounds ok shop in Arwenack Street selling records cds video’s and dvds. In the summer tourists used to cram into Brian’s shop selecting very rare records and collectable music. Brian was an absolute expert on music with a vast knowledge over many year.
Brian was a very nice man, a gentleman, a proud Scot, a true friend, a genuine man, loyal and the most honest business person I have ever met in Cornwall.
We will all sadly miss you Brian.
Goodbye son!
Geoff and Louise.
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Now 2 pictures;
Tribute to Brian;
From: “B Sables” withheld @gmail.com
Date: Aug 6, 2016 10:21 PM
Subject: Brian
To:
Hello Geoff, Devastated by the news about Brian. For years I’ve bought records CDs and DVDs from sounds ok, always leaving on the price labels now when I pick up one of these CDs, DVDs to play l will always remember Brian one of Falmouth’s stars now shining in heaven…and sorely missed.
Birdy x
Tribute and memories of Brian by Ann Parker;
I first met Brian back in 1995. I had started selling Music and Films and had a stall in the Truro Flea Market at Hall for Cornwall. I also had started to sell online.
I ventured into Sounds OK to see if there was anything interesting I could buy and sell on. Brian was very interested in what I was doing and gave me a great deal of help and advice. He showed me how to grade vinyl amongst other things. Cd singles were doing well online at that time and Brian had a plentiful supply so every week I would go down to the shop and buy plenty. Brian always used to give me a good discount and always ask how things were going. I spent a small fortune in there every week and years later things would reverse and he would buy from me and ask my advice!!
Brian and I had a friendly rivalry with dvd selling. Every week I would bump into him in town, normally when I had just finished scouting the Charity Shops. He would say, ” I don’t believe it, have you been in all of them?” and look in my bags to see what I had bought. If we got to a shop at the same time, we would start at different ends of the shelf and laugh and tut at what we were finding. I normally beat Brian to the better stuff and would tell him he should get out of bed earlier!
Every week at Rosudgeon Car boot I would be Brian’s last stop and he would buy from me and tell what he had been up to that week. He loved eating out and would describe everything he’d had on his plate and tell me the price. He thoroughly enjoyed his All-day breakfast and Coffee at the Garden Centre recently with Frank and Maria and thought it was a bargain at £6.99!
He loved a night out and I often bumped into him enjoying the music and having a dance.
The last thing we spoke about was holidays. He loved Portugal and Greece and told me he was going to book a trip the next day, probably to Falaraiki!
Dear Brian, I will miss him so much. He would come up and say “Well hello there!” It won’t be the same without him. He loved Falmouth and Falmouth loved him. The town won’t be the same without him.
Ann.
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Here is the clip of us dancing!
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Further Tribute 10/08/2016
Carole (withheld)
Wed 21:42
Absolutely saddened to hear the sad news about Brian. When I lived down West he always bought DVD’s from us on the boot sales. He was always so polite and lovely and always asked how we were. My thoughts are with his family, so, so, sad.
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Brian was most proud of his Sounds ok store with thousands upon thousands of collectables amongst his records CDs videos and DVDs.
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Regular’s will know that we have four very old aged pensioners who get a FREE stall at all of our Car Boot Sales. A couple of weeks ago 85 year old Jill had sold at Mitchell packed up her car and travelled back towards Truro on the A 39 dual carriageway. Jill has one foot on a banana skin and the other foot on her accelerator and is belting along overtaking all and sundry but her aint that clever cos she should have known her were in a 60 mph speed limit zone. I don’t know what her were on but her sailed past the Traffic Police van which clocked her doing 73 miles per hour. Gotcha you old bugger her is so full of herself and never ever breaks the law says she. (bit like me really) Anyway her gets the summons in the post with the £100.00 fine and three points on the licence and her starts snivelling to anyone who will listen, the one person who did listen is gullible my Louise who firstly laughed at Jill getting caught then said to her “When I got caught twice in one day on the same road as you I was sent for an awareness course which costs the same as the fine but if you keep your nose clean for three years nothing is added to your licence”
Jill thinks this over and decided to write to appeal the speeding fine with this pathetic excuse! Please Sir or Madam may I ask you instead of the fine and 3 penalty point please may I go on the awareness course instead, you see I am 85 years old (and should know better) and I would dread the thought that I would die with three penalty points on my licence FFS!!
Now then, I have known this old biddie a lot of years and cantankerous she can certainly be, it is rumoured that she has poor eyesight and she has been so ‘off and on’ with her health lately that my advice to the SUMMONS department is get your hundred quid quickly cos she may not last the next month or so the way she is going on FFS! But even better still make her resit her driving test ending up on the A 39 dual carriageway.
Good luck Jill, I cant wait to tell your boyfriend cos I know you wont dearest. XX