Three weeks late the decision to return to Mitchell on Saturday was difficult due the overnight rain and it was still raining when I made the decision that it WILL go ahead. We had 1300 visits to this website plus countless on Facebook and our mobiles recorded over 140 calls all seeking the ‘It’s on’ message! What a ‘result’ almost 100 stalls with well over 2000 men women and their kids enjoying the BARGAINS and the sunshine and meeting up with old fogies from last year all looking like they have ‘put on a lot of weight’ over their winter in hibernation. Fat B’stards!!

Despite my warnings and naggings some slimy git has to spoil the show! Two lovely ladies bought a mirror for eight pounds and asked the seller “Can we call back for it please?” The stallholder agrees, a few minutes later a man who had overheard the conversation goes to the stall and asks “May I have the mirror we bought please” The seller says “I sold it to two ladies” the sneaky slime ball says “Yes, I am with them” The mirror is handed over! The two ladies come back for the mirror and the seller realizing she had given to mirror to some sleazy slime-ball makes a gesture of total goodwill by refunding the two ladies their £8.00 They told me about the incident not to complain but to let people know and to be aware that this kind of scum behaviour from an alleged human being can spoil the afternoon for buyers and sellers. But, fair play to the seller for her fair play to the ladies.

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They say that to break a mirror is 7 years bad luck, but to stoop as low as to actually stealing a mirror is far worse than picking someone’s else’s nose and eating the contents FFS! I mean, did you know that according to the old wives tales there is an ancient Witches Bitches curse throughout this land of St Pirran in Cornwall that will bring to the thief of a mirror total and excruciatingly painful constipation called Rectum —non-Sphincter work (inactive arsehole for short) that goes on for hours and days and weeks (teeth marks on the toilet seat time) and you cannot crap forever and a day and, and you will earn the title of shit bag forever and ever! Only slight relief for you from the Witches Bitches of St Pirran’s folk-off curses is that you can have a crap on only one day a week on a ‘Turdsday’ only you tight arsehole FFS!! Deal with it! Thieving Bastard!! Fancy stealing a mirror, I hope when you look into it-it shatters into a thousand pieces and as they fall to the ground the blades of glass chops off yer Willie FFS! Ouch!! You faeces from KFC!!!

Sellers; You are given an admission ticket when you pay your stall fee, if one of your customers pays for stock and wants to come back for the items I suggest you give them the admission ticket telling them “Without this ticket, I will not give the items to anyone” or better still why not have a few of your own business cards made out to give to your customers. They won’t cost a lot you don’t have to have your address on them but it does impress customers if you give them a card with a contact number and it makes you more professional.

Sorry for the two ladies, tut-tut darlings, you admit to reading my warnings but you take no heed that there is always someone ready to rip you off in life and Car Boot Sales are no exception which is unfortunate cos the majority of our customers are really nice people who have seriously missed our sales over the winter period and they are just delighted to be amongst the people enjoying the Community atmosphere and being in my company of course.
Do you ever get the urge to just ‘kiss someone’? I do every day and it’s not my missus but the two ladies above were a bit loverly but I would probably get locked up if I suddenly said ‘Gis us a kiss darlins’ Is there someone who you know that you would love to just go up to them and grab a kiss? Go for it! But please be gentle with me FFS!!

There is a regular John who sells tools at some of our sales, he sells from a large blue van. At Mitchell he noticed someone had left a wallet on his stall so he immediately brings it to me, we check the contents cash & credit cards and I take responsibility of the wallet. The owner later realizes he has lost his wallet and eventually the two are reunited at Wadebridge Car Boot where the owner was truly delighted at the fact that all of the contents were correct including his really expensive return rail ticket back to up country later in the day. The owner thanked John for his total honesty. I asked John if he had been busy on the day. “I had a record day” was his reply, you see I believe in good vibes, I believe in bad-vibes, and John always carries good vibes he is like a lot of our regular sellers, well liked and trustworthy and a very likeable man into the bargain, and I believe ‘he is available’!!

I got extremely bad vibes dealing with this character who is now BARRED from any of Car Boots Cornwall events. BARRED! You will recall over the past two weeks I have advised on one man who was allegedly but repeatedly getting items stolen from his stall and his rantings that ‘It’s the fucking foreigners’ who are stealing his stuff. He has since sent some very offensive and libellous emails with threats of violence towards myself he has also threatened violence to other customers of ours who sell at our Car Boot Sales.
If you look up Facebook the name ‘Neville Rogers’ you may recognise this antagonist loud mouthed offensive idiot who in the words of one of the people who claim to know him quite well said “He has a brain full of toys” what a lovely expression.

Whilst we were on holiday Amelia took over the management of Truro. A group headed by this idiot was formed unknown to me and Amelia that they should advise her during my absence on whether to hold the Car Boot Sale indoors or outdoors (which most of our customers prefer) Anyway, I arrived back and was told that a decision had been made that the Car Boot would be held indoors. Who made that decision? The earlies!! (they pay extra to set their up their stalls early) about six of them who I have by now named ‘The Committee’ (and I loathe Committee’s) led by Gunga Dimwit Neville were trying to hold a gun at our heads ‘it’s either inside or we go home’ are the messages I am receiving from my spy’s.

Silently I say to myself ‘Well eff off home then’ but as a true gentleman and an ex Guardsman of The Household Cavalry I feel duty bound to represent the majority so I was absolutely determined to assist them with their decision “Shall I stay or shall I go” and if they were thinking that I might say “Please don’t go-don’t go” then think again rubber duck lips FFS!! I drive to the front field looked at the forecast checked the ground conditions and decided it’s outside on the FRONT field! OMG confrontation!! I could not believe it when a group of them arrived at the field like a deputation digging their heels into the grass to see ‘how hard is it’? After a huddle they decided to question my decision and judgement “That’s it lads, it’s on the FRONT FIELD right here so it’s make your mind up time, which in a rude expression meaning ‘walk away in jerky movements’ dears! Well they certainly had slumped shoulders as they went to report back “Geoff Says” I felt like a HUGE cat playing with mice WAF result FFS!! The Committee is now disbanded and gone their separate ways throughout the Universe of Camborne and Outer Mongolia calling me all names under the sun. I can cope cos I don’t GAF!!

Amelia as always did a wonderful job, I had made a great decision on the day, some people had to eat humble pie and choked on it (RESULT) 80 sellers enjoyed their day with well over 1500 people enjoying the open air Car Boot, oh and I almost forgot Neville is; BARRED! Results all round I would have thought. Amen

Geoff

Our Alice is now in her third year with CBC she is still at School until August. As sellers know she collects the rents and generally helps with the supervision of some of our sales. She is a very happy person but she saw red when some idiot decided to ‘wheel spin’ his van making serious scars on the grass. She told the male driver “Please don’t do that you will damage the ground” to which he replied “I don’t ******* need to take lessons from you telling me how to drive” Alice said “I am not telling how to drive, I am telling you how NOT to drive”
More verbal abuse from the driver then he decides to pick on Tamii (not a very bright move) she is some hard! He carried on giving her the verbal’s so between Alice and Tamii more than 15 minutes later they had-had enough and told him to leave and BARRED him!

Well done! We have waited 3/4 weeks to get back to Mitchell because of the weather and ground conditions then you get some idiot who wants to rip up the turf doing sodding wheel-spins just for a laugh or showing off to Alice, I wouldn’t do that son, it takes a lot to impress Alice and digging up a farmers field with a heavy van is not one of them. She also knows how to deal with real men in her life, her three brothers for instance (Steady on Geoff)

For no reason at all last week Alice called me a ‘heartless bastard’ I think it might have had something to do with the lady whose car broke down right inside the gates just at 1.30 where there were masses of cars all wanting to get into the same gate Alice says ‘Shall I call the AA or RAC’ “No, if the woman had-had her car serviced that would not have happened and she wouldn’t be holding up all this traffic, let her call her own AA let’s get the crowds in FFS woman” ‘You are a heartless bastard’ said she but I cannot repeat the rest of her sentence of which I assume was foul newly invented school language, I did not understand but I believe it’s pretty similar to my FFS & GAFY cos I could not GAF or GAFF really!
At the end and after the AA had been the car owner thanked Alice so much for her help during ‘my hour of need’ and gave her a religious leaflet in a gesture of appreciation. TFOB!!
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Any finally, this is true! My missus Lou was at a stall at Mitchell on Saturday and quite liked a copper pot (ideal size for under the bed) she asked ‘how much is this pot please’ the lady says £2.50 Lou pays the £2.50 and feels inside the pot just as she was about to walk away from the stall. Her pulls out enough Cannabis for at least half a dozen spliffs. She said to the lady “Is this where you used to keep your stash” and the woman totally embarrassed says ‘Yes, how do you know that?’ Lou then shows her the packet of smoke, she looks at her husband and says ‘What do you know about this?’ he grabs the weed from his wife and throws it is the back of the car, guilt was apparently written all over his face but their daughter who had as much guilt written all over her face was also helping on the stall and she said absolutely nowt! A cute little story but I said to Lou ‘Why TF did you hand it in you could have given it to me FFS and I would have given it to one of my elder customers to perk her up a bit. News on Marge she is in Spain somewhere (3rd holiday this year) She is the real reason I don’t swear on these blogs any more, she don’t like swearing and she has absolutely no idea what my abbreviations are all about FFS!! Xx

A request too far;
A lady customer told me that someone had bought an item from her stall and the word SUN was on a yellow background which fell off the items sold. For some reason I have been asked to carry the stupid looking label measuring 2” x half an inch FFS around with me just in case they read this tosh dearest, I do get the feeling that ‘I have been set up on this one’ by a lady who earns the title ‘Nutter of the day’ but also another person worthy of a sudden kiss me ansum! Anyway, if someone does ask for this piffling little label I shall want to take a picture of the item sold to see what sort of crap my lady friend has sold to you my lover!
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Apparently my name was MUD at Hayle yesterday when Hayle decided to increase admission prices from 20 pence to 50 pence and it is all my fault because I started it first FFS!
I absolutely support the decision of Hayle Rugby Club increasing their admission price to 50p entrance.

I think all members of the public should realize that they cannot expect to drive onto someone’s private land take part in a privately organised Community event and spend as long as you like in a safe environment with toilet facilities and Public Liability insured and FREE parking for only 50 pence per adult person! The sooner we follow Up Country prices the better at some Car Boots the admission is three quid, (Ask Rita) 50 p? A bargain!

Now then, my early morning spy contacted me to tell about the 50p increased from 20p but it was as nothing to the cries of ‘foul play’ over the price of estates and 4×4 increased to £10.00 which I must not criticise, next year we will increase to £9.00 but the biggest complaint and in my opinion a totally justified complaint is that large vans are being charged £28.00 which is a huge amount of money and unreasonable! My top price for a large van is tops £15.00 atm.

Just because you have a large van at a boot sale does not necessarily mean you take a huge amount of money, only the very lucky ones do that but to spend £28 quid plus the cost of fuel you have got to take £250.00 at least to cover your stock costs and pay yourself below the minimum wage FFS!

Welcome to Car Boots Cornwall my van owning friends and lovers, nothing illegal you understand! Know what I mean? But fifteen quid tops (extra for setting up early) is all we charge and we are NOT a Registered Charity like Hayle RFC is see!

Geoff
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MITCHELL is on this SATURDAY at 12.00 noon for sure!! STRICTLY NO DOGS ALLOWED!!

Several weeks late we are delighted to advise that Mitchell’s famous Car Boot Sale will be on SATURDAY at 12.00 noon. Sellers should arrive at least one hour before start times. Foreigners guests tourists holidaymakers with plenty of cash welcome, locals with loads of BARGAINS welcome. Honesty is the best policy “NO NICKING and NO PUSHIN-In please! Ground conditions should be great for your Zimmer Frames. toilets one mile, disabled parking two miles! Enjoy your day but leave your dogs at home please!

Note;
Any owners who bring DOGS to Mitchell despite all of our 8 signs and our polite requests and warnings will be BARRED from Car Boots Cornwall for 3 months at all of our locations!
I would ask all regulars to assist with this BAN on DOGS at MITCHELL. If you see any persons walking a DOG despite our security checks please tell them and us and we will eject owner and dog to the MOON FFS!!

Updated;
Our Car Boot business has been in absolute free-fall for the past few weeks almost going back to last November where it seems the weather patterns has plotted against us all to earn a living. We are well aware of the implications for those sellers who absolutely rely on our Car Boots Cornwall to provide venues for our sellers to be able to trade and earn money as part of their most important income. For the record we have lost 20 plus car boots this year mainly due to the heavy rains that have ruined ground conditions at all of our locations. The cancelled Car Boots affects everyone Landlords don’t get paid, portable loo people don’t get paid, our own teams don’t get paid and more important our sellers don’t get paid.
We are sorry it affects all of us but it is well time that we had a ‘huge indoor location’ centre to Truro or Newquay so that people would have the opportunity to trade under cover and protect their stocks and to provide themselves with the opportunity to earn a reliable income.

The majority of sellers are from all walks of life and could not afford shop rents and rates but they can earn a realistic living selling at our ten Car Boot Sales. I believe the provider of such a location should be Cornwall Council. Car Boots Cornwall could not possibly fund such an ambitious project but it would be nice to see the Cornwall Council actually doing something for Cornwall’s ‘COMMUNITY’ by providing a location where the people can meet the people and Car Boot Sales and Flea Markets and Antiques Fairs can all intermingle at one location providing a service to the Cornwall public and their visitors. And the recycling we would achieve towards Cornwall’s environment would justify the Council’s involvement. Anyone got any friends in the Council?

SUNDAY at Truro we were amazed that over 50 sellers braved the dreadful rains and high winds to sell, a crowd of 500 turned out to support those plucky sellers. At 2.10 pm there was a huge gust of wind with heavy rain, part of the roofing was ripped off causing brickwork to be dislodged and fall to the area where 4 stalls in particular were affected by the falling rubble. Dear Marge was standing close by as stones were heading in her direction fortunately missing her by inches (here we go again) but she was fine although a little hot flushed I would have thought, but with soothing words from myself she went home to tell Richard of the dramas, dear of her! We checked our 4 stalls there was no damage to their stocks and no persons injured. Thank you to the four sellers who were most understanding of the situation we refunded their stall fee as a gesture of goodwill plus a voucher for their next visit for any inconvenience caused, nice people to deal with and thank you to my team for being ‘on the ball’ with dealing with this incident.

You will recall that last Sunday a complainant was getting uptight because he claimed that on ‘several occasions’ he had-had stuff stolen from his stall and I had reacted by telling him it’s his own fault if he does not concentrate on what he is doing instead of gossiping all the time!
He sent me 3 emails mostly drivel, however below are 2 extracts from his comments which I believe are confrontational and racially prejudiced. I then get told on Sunday that he is getting his solicitor ‘on to me’ I think the first thing the solicitor should do is to tell you to GAF yourself and not waste his time and certainly do not make threats in printed email “I will sort him out” and “It’s the fucking foreigners” these comments are totally confrontational and you could seriously get yourself into a lot of trouble making such statements especially as this column is read by a few of the ‘boys in blue’ teams cos they don’t like threats and anti-racist remarks see and they might av to pay you a visit! Know wot I mean son? Oh, and by the way I am meeting another complainant during the week which should be very interesting, this time the complaint is about you FFS! The jury is still out.

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:39:56 +0100
Subject: mobile phone
From: neville
To:
hi geoff ref the mobile phone that was stolen
it was stolen and i have witnesses as one of the customers went after the bloke ,this is not the first time and i am not the only person to have had stuff stolen ,everyone is scared to say anything because you like Barring people for saying the truth ,we caught a guy walking of with a pocket knife walking off with clothing ,a action camera was stolen the other week and last week the mobile phone yes i have a lot of stuff ,and i am trying to give people a choice ,why people have to steal is any ones guess ,
i will say this if that guy who has stolen from me shows up i will sort him out myself your comment is false above and people who know me there know i would never accuse any other seller of stealing its the fucking foreigners

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Geoff Camden-Wiles wrote:
I don’t doubt it was stolen but when you make it every body’s business it becomes monotonous and it gives our Car Boot Sales a bad reputation. It also makes sellers close to you feel that suspicion falls on them
I like ‘barring people’ is a load of bollocks, the last person I ‘barred’ was well over 3 years ago.
Your trouble is that you love a bit of gossip so when your back is turned the stealing starts. Message to brain! I must concentrate!
Geoff
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Now then, ‘the best stall’ gets a FREE voucher scheme is popular but I received one comment-complaint that the sellers who pay to go in early have an unfair advantage against those who have only half an hour to set up their stalls. Fair point! What a very good observation and absolutely correct therefore according to the Oracle of St Pirran and in fairness to all concerned I believe any sellers who pay to go in early cannot qualify for the FREE stall voucher so there, like it or lump it so there!! Now the gossip will really start, my god that should get right up ‘the Committee’s’ noses FFS!! Bring it on!!

The winning stall on Sunday judged by Louise had brought so many genuine BARGAINS. They displayed their stall brilliantly and traded really well and lots of our customers had happy faces with their purchases and I know lots of the items bought will appear on eBay and have probably got bids on already. The sellers, delighted with the FREE stall will probably come back next Sunday. Happiness is!!
We went to the Royal Cornwall yesterday to put out the signs for this Saturday’s start of the Car Boots delayed through bad weather last week. The grounds show the evidence of the heavy rains we have had in Cornwall for so long which was the same at Mitchell when we inspected the fields yesterday. According to the BBC forecast we have more rain up to the weekend so we can only hope they have got it wrong.

We had a call from the owners of ‘The Birds of Prey’ Sanctuary at Winnards Perch, Cornwall asking if we would be interested to discuss the possibility of Car Boot Sales at their Complex. Their plans are already in progress with the foundations settled they are to build a huge hanger 100 metre by 200 meters for their Birds of Prey Shows, however the show is closed on Sundays. Yes, we are interested, let’s see the building first, my first impressions are it would be a good ‘drive in boot sale similar to the Car Boots we used to have at Wadebridge where sellers drive into the hanger and sell from inside the hanger. Fantastic winter location! Early days yet but it could be ready for August.

Let us pray! No more rain please and if you must rain on us please make it Wednesdays over the Rosudgeon area dear god whoever!! Hah!!

Geoff

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Updated; 09/04/16
Free microchipping for dogsBook an appointment at a Dogs Trust Centre or event

The law’s changing this week – from Wednesday (6 Apr), all dogs in England, Wales and Scotland must be microchipped. And it’s already compulsory in Northern Ireland.
While microchipping usually costs £15-£20 at a local vet’s practice, you can get it done for free (but please donate if you can) when you book an appointment with the charity Dogs Trust.
A microchip (an implant about the size of a grain of rice) stores a dog owner’s details on an electronic database, which makes it easier to reunite them with their pooch if it gets lost. You can have dogs of any breed or size microchipped.

Owners who fail to comply with the new law risk a fine of up to £500, though they’ll first be given 21 days to get their dog microchipped and avoid having to pay it.
If you’ve no Dogs Trust Centre nearby, or you can’t get an appointment, see ChipMyDog.org for free microchipping events happening all over the UK.

Geoff Says;
It will apparently cost up to £20.00 locally to have your dog chipped and should your dog be aggressive then I seriously think it is a wise idea to get it chipped cos if your dog causes any problems or it is involved in dog fights the least you will get fined up to £500.00 quid’s or worse in extreme cases you could go to prison.

Been there done that with Nana Moon who hates the vets so it is necessary for her to be wearing a muzzle before she goes into their surgery. She has been trained to be defensive and she enjoys her role around the Car Boots as security dawg! Lou watched as a postman a giant of a bloke came into the gates a few weeks ago and Nana Moon started barking at him so he started hitting her with the parcel he was delivering.
He reported the incident to his manager who refused deliveries anyway Lou went to the Manager’s office to hand in half a dozen letters for other addresses wrongly delivered by fat bloke to our house, she told her side of the story and the order was reversed see!

Get they there dogs chipped my lovely, you can even do it for free but will be expected to make a donation and I hope the injection hurts, see! I told Lou’s mother all about making a donation so she took in a tin of beans FFS! Generous to a fault, it runs in the family me ansum.

Geoff
Not a dog lover unless its a Chi-Wawa!

All the information you need click on;
https://www.chipmydog.org.uk/have-your-dog-chipped-for-free/

They are thinking about making it compulsory for cats also to by micro chipped whatever next? They cant do budgies because they’ve been ‘cheeped’ already FFS!

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LATEST on NEWQUAY! Following a site meeting with the Kingsley Village Management it is decided that the Car Boot Sales at NEWQUAY will not start until the 28th of April due to the effects of the recent heavy rains and the drenched ground conditions. We are sorry about the inconvenience caused to our customers.
Geoff

FACEBOOK misinformed observer!

Holly Oliver Any chance of the traffic being properly managed this year instead of the queues stretching back past Quintrell Downs?

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Car Boots Cornwall Madam, That is an offensive irresponsible and ill-informed comment, we are only a small part of the traffic flow from Quintrell Downs to Morrisons roundabout. You should not assume that CBC has any control to ‘properly manage’ the traffic outside of our main entrance Car Boot Sales which are Community events supported by the locals and holiday makers. The Police control all Newquay traffic. No-one seems to complain when there is a 13 mile tail-back with Qs for the Royal Cornwall Show (where we also have Car Boot Sales)

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Car Boots Cornwall Car Boot Sales at NEWQUAY now in its 21st year starts onThursday 14th April at 12.00 noon and every Tuesday and Thursdays at 12.00 noon which will bring pleasure to many thousands of people. CBC ‘Now in our 27th Year’

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We got back home from the Car Boot at Truro and I was able to shut myself in the office and listen to the exciting 20/20 Cricket Match which England lost to the West Indies with four sixes in the last over. The real pleasure was that Geoffrey Boycott was not on the commentary team, listening to him ‘gobbing it off’ tirelessly about what England should do and shouldn’t do all the time. Sir Geoffrey was a pain in the bum as a cricket player nothing’s changed! Whatever!! England did brilliantly through the entire tournament to end up in the final. They have the entire support of the cricket supporting UK and beyond for their gallant efforts but I can understand Stokes wishing the ground would swallow him as he bowled the four last balls that scored a winning total of six fours are twenty four and we all became runners up. Tis only a game. No-one could ever have forecast the last over not even Boycott. Brilliant gripping game and full credits to both teams. And the commentary team were brilliant.

“STRICTLY NO SMOKING IN THE CATTLE PENS, THIS MEANS YOU” (that’s if you smoke of course)

When there is rain and bad weather at our Truro Car Boot Sales the sales go undercover into the 100 odd Cattle pens which are bigger than a car selling space approximately 11 feet square. There are gates at the entrance to all pens and the adjourning pens which ‘must be secured open at all times during the sale’ Buyers must be allowed the free flow for customers to walk from one stall to the other and I will not accept any excuses nor requests to alter that ruling. Bottom line; ALL GATES TO REMAIN OPEN DURING THE SALE, Thank you!

Now then, if you are so keen to be more secure than everybody else then sell from one on the cow pens on the walls which isn’t rocket science is it? But my complainant wants to go a stage further by putting bungies to tie up one set of gates because he say he gets ‘stuff stolen almost every week’ this week he allegedly had a mobile stolen and he mithers on and on involving anybody who will listen but my attitude is this; I am sick of telling people to ensure nothing is stolen from your stall and if you are running your stall properly then items will not be stolen therefore if you do get something stolen or nicked then it’s entirely your own fault! However, this complainant is the only person to complain to me (on a regular basis) ‘I have had something stolen’ which put everybody under suspicion so as a gesture of goodwill I will promise that if you have something stolen from your stall again I will give you a month off working at our Car Boot Sales until you can reliably ‘look after your own stock’ or better still ‘reduce the amount of stockpile you put on your stall in the first place’ because your claims are casting a lot of doubt on our customers and fellow sellers which is totally unfair and does not add to a happy working relationship within our Community Car Boot Sales.

Many of you will have noticed that there are two mini buses parked in Truro on Sundays, these buses bring migrant workers from the work they are doing on the land, in fact they are doing work that we British or we Cornish do not want to do so in this instance there were about 15 Rumanians who came to our boot sale yesterday. They paid their admission bought very well at the sale and loaded up into their buses ready to go home. As one of the buses reversed it slightly bumped into another car but the driver claims he did not hear or feel a bump however the owner of the ‘bumped vehicle’ assisted by others ranted and raved at the driver about the bump which truth to tell the car was not in that good a state in fact the slight bump would have only added to the car’s existing war wounds.

The Rumanian passengers worried about all of the commotion decided to ‘go have a look’ got out of the bus crowding around the complaining unreasonable lady (not understanding WTF she was on about) who had by now called the Police.
Louise was called to deal with the situation and found that the lady car owner was being unreasonable as the Rumanian driver had apologised several times and offered thirty pounds (which Lu thought was totally reasonable) to pay for the ever so slight damage/mark which Madam refused preferring to deal with a full insurance claim. Bystanders commented that the lady owner and her friend were far too loud and most unreasonable in their dealings with the gentleman Rumanian driver but they all eventually quietly dispersed following words of wisdom from Louise, however one comment from an observer claimed that Madame Car owner would not have taken such a ridiculous stance but for the fact that the mini bus driver and his passengers were all foreigners FFS!! Which is totally out of order and unreasonable!

Which reminded us of when we first came to Cornwall 30 years ago to take over a franchise Restaurant called Carwardine’s in Cathedral Lane. When they realized we were both English and not Cornish the entire inherited staff walked out as soon as we arrived to take over the business. What a result. I immediately got in touch with local radio advising what had happened and could they help us find staff and before the day was over we had got two cooks a New Zealand lass and an ex Catering Corps chef Collins who were both brilliant and the following day we had a queue outside the Restaurant where we took on another 12 full and part-time staff and within two day we were in ‘full on business’ see. One of the walked out staff came and asked for his job back ‘no chance’
We were not welcome to Cornwall by the alleged ‘Cornish’ but over the years we have worked our way and our business right into the heart of Cornwall and our business is totally Cornish my lovers and my birds!!
Anyway,
We were just about to leave Truro when a lone Police car drove in to find the Cattle Market almost deserted following the woman’s distressed complaint which truthfully was a right load of overacted handbags according to witnesses. We advised the Police Officer that the parties had gone their separate ways but I am annoyed that the Police were called over such a minor incident. Don’t waste their time, we run Car Boots Cornwall and any problems see us-it’s our job!

The Rumanians had conducted themselves in an exemplary manner, thank you.

Geoff