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Subject: Baby brain! Left item with seller 🙁
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Message: Hi, I visited the car boot sale at Newquay today ( Tuesday 9th June) & was really pleased with the purchase of a Baby Mat. I believe it was a Fisher Price make & had a jungle theme activity play frame.

We paid the seller £10 and should have collected the item before returning to the car. I’m 9 months pregnant so obviously baby brain has fully kicked in. The seller would probably remember my bump.
If there’s any chance a message could be left on your site or the seller is in contact with you. I’d really appreciate you putting us in contact with each other. Thanks Melanie

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Did you sell this Fisher Priceless Baby Mat cos it is urgently needed but if you didn’t and you have a spare one contact the lovely Melanie (with the big bump) who will be delighted with your kindness please?
Melanie; In the interim period would you stay away from our boot sales till babe is born especially if you is already 9 months gone my lovely. Good luck. Geoff and the team and all of our customers. XX

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for leaving the note on Geoff Says page. I’m still feeling ok so if alright may attend the car boot on Thursday!!!! Will try my best not to give birth in the field!!! Due date is not until 21st June so possibly a few weeks to go.

Hoping seller may be there on Thursday.

Thanks again.
Mel

Newquay circus Fields Car Boot Sales; 9th June 2015

Very sunny day with well over 100 sellers and very well supported with buyers probably over 2000 people at the Boot Sale which started at 12.00 noon. Most of the buyers in the queue often ask ‘Why do you and your staff go around the seller’s stalls while they are setting up’? Good question but a simple answer, security to make sure no-one is selling any of the items like wines, cigarettes or tobacco, spirits, guns, knives or foods of any kind and we also check electrical items to ensure they have safety plugs fitted.

Today I walked around the first 3 lanes of sellers and noticed one stall holder had about 10 large suitcases for sale amongst other items he was selling. The sale started at 12 and with a huge build-up of buyers at the start time everyone was keen to pay their 50p admission and get amongst the BARGAINS so in the first three quarters of an hour sellers traded well and then this happened!

WE noticed 3 young men who were running down the field with a suitcase each and they must have passed at least 100 of you buyers as they ran into the Car Park with their assumed purchases. We thought nothing more about the men nor the cases until we received a complaint at the sellers stall by the original buyer who had called to collect the 3 cases that he had paid for. It seems that he agreed a deal with the seller and paid up-front asking the seller ‘look after them for me and I will call back’

The seller asked the buyer “What is your name, and I will keep them for you” The buyer replies Mr Smith (alias) and the seller put the cases in his boot, however low and behold my lovers the conversation was overheard by a couple of European thugs and ten minute later thug number one goes to the seller and says “I have come to pick up Mr Smith’s cases please” and the seller opens his boot and hands them to thug number one thug number two and yes you guessed it thug number three and that is when the bastards started running to get their stolen items up-up and away and out of the circus fields into the oblivion of THUG LAND!

Mr Smith however comes back to the stall asking for his cases and the sellers says “I have just given them to your mates the blokes from Poland or Lithuania” Now then Mr Smith is black and cannot understand why the seller should have given the cases to ‘Dem Poles cos they is white and I is black FFS’ which is more or less how the conversation went man!

Anyway Mr Smith (who is a great regular at our sales and a decent bloke to boot) was really upset and although the seller gave him a refund he was not amused.
At the end of the sale I talked to the seller a very large man weighing something like 22 stone plus then some more and I have always nick-named him as Mr Splash cos if he fell on you he would splatter your body and bits all over the place and I tell you what he promises that he remembers the men who got the suitcases on behalf of Mr Smith and when he sees them again he will splatter their innards all over Cornwall and I hope I am there to see that, with Mr Smith of course.

Come on you Europeans from wherever you arrived here from to live in the South West this type of stealing is of scum imagination and does nothing to enhance the relationships with our Community of the genuine people who come to stay in wonderful Cornwall and are completely law abiding citizens, I ask you to get to grips with these ‘thugfux’ germs to society who are doing harm to the reputation of all the foreign tongues who come to settle in god’s chosen country CORNWALL and to my Car Boot Sales the barsts!!!!

A £13.5m lottery winner will fund a new building for people with multiple sclerosis, a charity has confirmed.

Great-grandfather Peter Congdon, 67, from Truro, Cornwall, scooped the money in a rollover in May.

The Merlin MS Centre said Mr Congdon’s wife Rosemary had multiple sclerosis and his family wanted there to be a “lasting legacy” to her.

The charity said the exact donation was yet to be finalised but it would be a “substantial amount”.

‘Heart-felt thank you’

Loraine Long, the centre manager, said: “Peter and his family were very keen that they could help provide an additional service for people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions.

“A hydrotherapy pool is a much-needed facility and by locating it alongside our centre, subject of course to planning approval, this will provide a wonderful natural therapy for people living with a range of conditions and to the wider Cornish community.”

The widower, who has three children, 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild, has previously raised thousands of pounds for community groups.

In the run-up to buying the successful ticket on 27 May, Mr Congdon had won three days in a row on the National Lottery Scratchcards.

Ms Long said: “Everyone here is so delighted for Peter’s incredible pledge.

“We would like to say a truly heart-felt thank you to them. This is our own lottery win.”

The charity, based in the Cornish hamlet of Hewas Water, supports those living with the incurable condition.

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What a lovely story and I am delighted for Peter and his wonderful charitable gift to the Merlin MS Centre. I was a bit saddened to hear that he had received lots of begging letters from long lost friends. Louise asked me “What would we do if we won thirteen and a half million and what would we do about the begging letters” My reply; Keep on writing them my lovely?

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Hello,

Thank you for your very kind comments which are much appreciated, besides our webmaster Adrian I organise the general information and I do my own blogs under Geoff Says. My head is getting bigger as today at Penryn I got numerous compliments about my ‘up front’ comments on life.

Kindest regards and thank you,

Geoff

www.carbootscornwall.co.uk

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Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 10:51:08 +0100

Hello Administrator,

The following is an e-mail sent to you through the administration contact page on “Carboots Cornwall”.

I’m extremely impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your weblog. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it yourself? Either way keep up the excellent quality writing, it is rare to see a great blog like this one nowadays.

Geoff Says,
It’s really rewarding when someone comes to say they enjoy reading your blogs but today was brilliant as I had four of Penryn’s customers come to say nice things about Geoff Says but even better than that is 2 people (love them) walked up to Lou to compliment Geoff Says and Lou took it all in her stride riding high on such lovely compliments for the man of her dreams which is all a bit two faced because Lou does not and will not read my stuff cos she thinks I am most rude to my beloved customers and that I ought to be ashamed of myself! When I can get the old battle axe as wound up as that it is a major achievement but I detect a little bit of two facedness going on here.

Every Sunday she speaks to head office (her Mother and Father) (my in-laws) and if they ever compliment Geoff Says (which mum-in-law does all the time) she takes all the bleeding credit and she don’t even read it FFS!

I have written a 30 page story about the domestic bliss in our household that you will all find brilliantly funny and rude (cos its wot I wrote) but before I print it in this column I need a solemn promise that as a regular reader you will send the story on to at least TEN of you friends either on Facebook or your email addresses! Believe me it is very funny and is nothing but the truth, well almost! Coming soon!

Enjoy this weeks weather, its looking good now watch some bugger spoil it all!

Here is one for the kids get then to mouth without a sound the words ‘two and a half pee’ which are identical to “do you love me” now look at yourself in the mirror doing the same words and you will look an utter nutter but it is great fun doing it on a bus sitting opposite some unsuspecting foreigner or an old granny! Try it on the wife or someone else’s wife and get a smack in the gob my bird! Do it across the classroom to someone you fancy ‘two and a half pee’?

Sunday at TRURO 31st 2015

Updated Friday the fifth following a complaint from my Irish friend and his partner in crime who say “I was playing the race card with this item” I will give you two buggers a race any time you like, bring it on!! Actually they are really nice clean living lads (well the Cornish one is) they have both been very ill for some time and they see our Car Boot Community as part of their therapy and they love our customers and they bring great fun to the sale with their friendly banter with their customers. Respectfully, I do not know their names but I have it good authority that the Irish lad is a tight fisted old sod which is true as yesterday he tried to pay Louise the rent with the old pound notes the TFOB!! X

Back to Sunday!
A rotten day weather wise as the heavy rain took its toll on most Car Boot Sales and an early morning call with the Penryn official confirmed that it was the interest of ground conditions the 1.30pm Car Boot would be cancelled followed by a field inspection at Lanhydrock and the decision was made to transfer the Car Boot to Truro’s all weather location at 1.30pm. I advised many by mobile but the power of the Internet and our website brought out over 800 people to the rearranged undercover Car Boot with over 40 stalls and a good atmosphere with lots of BARGAINS, however the afternoon was marred by a complaint from one of our sellers which is the second time a similar complaint has been made and I ask all Car Booters whether they be buyers or sellers to keep an eye open to ensure this is not going to be a regular occurrence at our Community events.

A very timid lady seller ‘on her own’ struggled to set up her stall in time for the HORN so Louise gave her a hand to display her selling items, the horn started the sale and Lou stayed with the lady helping her to serve the rush of people and handing the lady £14.00 for the items Lou had sold on her behalf.
About half an hour into the sale several people were crowded round the stall and a man a woman asked our lady seller “How much is this dress”? The seller said she wanted £5.00 and the couple offered £1.00 which is a smack in the face rudeness on behalf of the buyers but the lady insisted “I want £5.00” The couple have the dress in their hands and said to the seller “Well, we only have this amount” and threw a handful of coins onto the sellers table and walked away into the crowd with the dress. The lady counted the coins to a total of just under a £1.00 which amounts to blatant stealing!
The lady wanted to ‘run after them’ but she was on her own on the stall so she had no other option than to be the loser to this dreadful scam. Just imagine going into Marks & Spencer and taking a liking to a dress that is say forty quid, you go up to the cashier and say “but I only have a fiver” then you throw the money at the cashier and bugger off with the dress?? Can you imagine how the City’s Police would react to that!

It must be pointed out that the couple who stole the dress were NOT Cornish nor English nor Irish nor Scottish nor Welsh but their accent was definitely, most definitely, European. Now then, another lady we shall call Sophie set up her stall with much more confidence in her display and traded very well, she was happy and lively and trusting with her customers and sold some realistic bargains for her eager buyers.
She had put her bright pink purse containing her takings, credit cards, driving licence if full view of the public and her reward for her efforts for the day was that some opportunistic thieving bastard stole the purse with at least £100.00 in cash. I could only sympathise with Sophie and her loss advising that she immediately gets the credit cards stopped to prevent any further losses and notifying the DVLA about the licence theft however after talking to other sellers it would seem that the potential thief was not Cornish?

Customers will have noticed when they go around our Car Boot Sales that this year in particular there are more foreign tongues than ever before particularly with the influx from Europe and I do regret that some of them have a very aggressive and offensive attitude when seeking bargains at our sales. I am reminded of Madam Polish whose attitude towards sellers in seeking “the best price for me” resulted in a life ban from our Car Boots Sales because of her bullying attitude particularly with our elder sellers.
We have to check on their cars ‘people carriers’ as some of them lie on the floors in their vehicles to avoid paying the 50p admission FFS! We caught another ‘people carrier’ offloading 10 of its passengers outside the Truro Cattle Market so they could also avoid the 50p charge by climbing over the main road hedging and fencing. It is the absolute minority of the Europeans who are jeopardising their different tongues in settling down in Cornwall and being totally accepted by the community.

Regretfully I have to advise everyone to keep on guard with your property and should someone throw money on to your table in settlement for something you do not agree with then GET hold of either Lou or me or any of our teams but do not lose sight of the offenders and further ‘Do not take the law into your own hands’ we can act on your behalf’

There is a vacancy for a griddle chef/cook in our mobile Catering Trailers, the applicants must be able to tow our trailer therefore a clean driving licence is essential. Up to date food handling certificates required, if this vacancy interests you please telephone GAE Kirkbride our Catering Manageress to discuss further and an appointment and interview can be arranged at our Kernick Industrial Estate unit in Penryn.
Phone Gae on 01209 719511 or 0752 8351371

The NEW Mitchell Saturday 31st May 2015
Our day started at 8.00 am with a member of our team putting out the directional signs within a three mile radius of TRETHVAS Farm our new location with a STRICTLY NO DOGS policy part of that signage is that 8 of our display boards state NO DOGS both inside and outside of the location. I get mithered at because there are two dogs that are shut into a car and according to some complainants ‘the dogs can hardly breathe’ There are up to 750 cars in the car park over 3000 men women and their kids 200 odd stalls and people want to monopolise my time over 2 dogs that should definitely not have been in the field.

I checked on the car, there were two dogs a small one who whilst panting seemed in good shape and the larger dog was laying in the boot are of the car which in my opinion had windows open enough to afford a reasonable circulation of air for the dogs.
But you always get someone who wants to go that extra mile and wants to smash the car window? Then what? If I was a dog sitting in a car and someone smashed the windows I would jump out and run like fuck cos some lunatic is smashing up the car. Great idea.

The next suggestion was ‘Call the Police’ ‘Call the RSPCA’ I provide one of our yellow “DOGS COULD DIE IN CARS” to place on the car screen, a man and lady arrived with the man sounding off straight away claiming the larger dog was a GUIDE DOG and that “now there was a Tory Government these boot sales will be closed down and I will get this one closed within a week” and then he repeated his threat to which I replied “You would not and could not get this place closed down all of the time you have got a hole in your butt plug (or similar) you stupid bugger” I object to stupid threats like that especially if some ugly sod is mouthing a load of old tosh at you and he wants the whole world to hear, but my gob was bigger than his so he soon shut TFU-FFS!
Friday the forecast was crap for the afternoon with showers around our start time of 12.30pm. About 35 cars gathered in the drizzle some of the drivers chickening out doing a U-turn followed by a couple more then we got down to 20 and the heavens opened and six more went, the shower stopped and five more arrived sod it lets start the sale, let the sellers have a stall for a fiver and let the public (about 250) in FREE! I feel sorry for our potential customers who chicken out and go early and miss the opportunity to sell, all of Friday’s sellers took good money and the buyers bought some great bargains particularly adults and kids clothing lots of it brand new with tags. I bet some of those BARGAINS were listed on eBay the same day?

Back to Mitchell (no dogs allowed) this is without doubt our best location with stunning views across the countryside and the busy A 30 with all of the traffic on the left of that dual carriageway can get a brilliant view of our Car Boot which from the round-a-bout looks amazing and that my dear sellers this is where the majority of your customers will come from with loads of dosh hopefully. Our new Landlords have enthused and cooperated in every way possible with setting up their farmland to suit our Car Boot Sales and when our season ends the land will return to Mo’s horses and equestrian activities.

On the question of litter we ask all sellers to check on themselves and their neighbours that NO rubbish is left on our farm field sites, it is classed as Fly Tipping which is against the law and we would most definitely take action against any persons leaving unsold items or rubbish. Last Saturday at Mitchell someone had broken a glass fruit bowl and put the broken bits into the hedge where horses feed, this is so irresponsible, respect the countryside FFS!

By the way, I plan to start MITCHELL on Wednesday’s very soon at 12.00 noon and we will return to TRURO on Sundays very soon at the NEW time of 12.00 noon, Penryn will of course continue because it is very popular with the locals and ASDA shoppers who all spend well and it you are selling you WILL take money providing you offer BARGAINS!!

The tourist have arrived the insults and the ‘dog fights’ begin!

Following a very busy Bank Holiday Monday at Truro with over 150 sellers and some stunning BARGAINS we thought that Newquay Car Boot Sale would be a doddle compared to Sunday. Many of you will know that there is a Fun Fair who are using a large amount of the lower field so as it was a nice day and with lots of people around the Car Parking was restricted so we had to stand on the gate once all the Car Park was full and wave potential customers away. The road was steaming with traffic the sun was belting down and the ‘tourist holiday-makers’ (who come on the cheap weeks) were in no fettle to be told “Sorry the Car Park is FULL”

I was busy parking up to 300 buyers cars in the selling fields and the moans and groans started with those blasted bloody bleeding BLUE BADGE holders flashing the badge and pleading “I am disabled and I want to be near to the sale” With the greatest of respect to these BLUE pass holders from up-country they seem to be given out like confetti or people are photo-copying them in the guest houses or summit similar FFS! “Madam, you are in the selling field, I can’t get you any closer otherwise you will end up in someone’s boot” then her old man has a go at me for being rude I wasn’t rude I was just stating the obvious you old fart, but what these people do not realize is that they are holding up the traffic by trying to start a senseless argument over sweet FA!
Then you see the ‘walking wounded’ with their pretending limps and no idea which leg to limp on with a walking stick. We had 17 lost walking sticks last year and most of the owners forgot they had even owned one in the first place, bloody drama queens, then there are the Zimmer frame walkers and we get loads of complaints about them and WTF do you expect me to do about it I just don’t know?

We have one regular old Biddy who drives to the Car Boot gets out her wheelchair firstly checking the portable toilets and reporting her findings to any member of staff then she wheels her chair around the stalls and ‘yes’ we do get complaints about her taking up so much space in the aisles.

Get out of your car and WALK the exercise will do you good and you could LIVE LONGER and you can tell your doctor what a heartless bastard I am for not parking you right in the middle of the effing boot sale. Now then, if you are disabled and you need wheelchair access wherever possible we will get you ‘closer to the action’ however if you arrive after the Car Boot has started it is difficult to expect the same promise.

At one o’clock I get summoned to the front gate and have to make the decision not to allow any further cars into the grounds in the interest of PUBLIC SAFETY. 4 of us are standing there waving all traffic away from the entrance but still some people would not accept WE ARE FULL stopping their car (and holding up the traffic) to discuss with us ‘Why is there no space for me’ and we say “Move on please you are holding up the traffic” but they still witter on departing the scene with some rude expression which seemed to be all aimed at me FFS “You’re a WANKER, You’re a TOSSER, You’re an effing B’stard, Go and Fupp yourself, You’re a bald-headed old TWAT were some of the milder expressions which amused the other lads on the gate working with me! Another car tries to pull in and the driver was a beautiful young lady and I said “I am sorry my love we are full” ‘Not even space for me’ “No sorry Darling” and she replied loud enough for the lads to hear ‘You BIG KNOB’ and I looked down to my luncheon box to make sure my zip wasn’t open and things hadn’t fallen out I said to her “How do you know, have you been looking” and she drove off. Now then,our Paul couldn’t believe what he had heard and later told my missus “Hey, guess what, some woman called Geoff “You BIG KNOB” and she replied “I know he is always flashing it around” That is a total lie the BIG KNOB bit is correct but I do not ‘flash it around’ any more because of the genuine threat that ‘If you were to do that to me I will cut the bugger off when you are asleep’ Memories, memories will have to suffice.

Whilst all of the drama at the gate is going on Louise is in charge of the selling field with up to 2000 men women and kids and buyers and sellers when in walks this man with TWO large French Mastiff dogs and one of then took an instant dislike to a Rottweiler who was sitting on the grass with its owners minding its own business. Suddenly the ‘nasty attitude’ Mastiff ran toward the Rottweiler (dragging its owner who fell arse over tit) grabbing the Rottweiler round the throat with screams from several kids and women! Ok the incident was over quickly but the missus owner of the aggressive French Mastiff and the other Mastiff (who couldn’t GAF what was going on) was told by Lou “Do not bring those dogs” here again and the owner could not understand why!!
Then we have two lots of 4 stupid widgy farty squidgy little ugly face rats on the end of leads’ (I want one) being paraded around the stalls as though we are running a pigging Dog Show as well as the Fair and the Car Boot Sale and to cap it all some old Fartess tells me all about her painful piles FFS “That’s why you never see me sitting down” (the mind boggles) and NO it wasn’t Phyllis my lovers who by the way totally enjoyed my article about Gods waiting room but her mate Nurse Gladys’ Emmanuel thought “I was a rude old sod” better being a rude old sod than an ‘ugly one’ my lover? ‘Oh, and he can be so offensive at times’ Yup, that’s me!

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Fun Fair with some great RIDES fun time for the family!