Inside or out? It’s your choice but SUNDAYS winners were the insiders! Firstly let’s deal with the first 12.00 noon Saturday Car Boot Sale at TRURO and I was very impressed with the turnout of 25 sellers. Because of the weather we were down on buyers but they certainly bought well so as a gesture of goodwill it was a FREE day for all concerned.
Thank you to all of the regular buyers who turned up to support the Saturday Car Boot, all sellers were given a £3.00 off voucher for next Saturday so hopefully it will be decent weather.
Like most of our customers I always look at the weather forecasts but they are so unreliable particularly the bloody BBC who gave no indication at all that heavy rain would hit TRURO during our Car Boot in point of fact they said it would be a dry day so when I arrived at Truro to see over 20 sellers queuing I thought it would be safe to conduct a survey INSIDE or OUTSIDE?

People seem baffled when given the choice because the insiders have to carry all their stocks into the cattle pens which is good exercise but bloody hard work for some people and it is always a good time to hear some of the couples falling out over something or other, I don’t know why men don’t just shut their gobs and do what they are told to do by their dear partner wives who know exactly ‘who is in charge’ and how to organise a boot sale! The survey carried out revealed 50/50 so when I started parking the cars I divided the traffic to the ‘chicken insiders’ and the ‘brave outsiders’ and the sun was shining so several changed their minds at the last minute deciding not to go inside. (Silly sods)

The sale was well under way with up to a thousand people mingling amongst the stalls, great atmosphere bargains galore but I felt sorry for the insiders cos not many sellers had covered their pitch fee when all of a sudden the bloody heavens opened and the rain thundered down on the cattle market roof which caused an absolute tidal wave of people running in from the ‘brave outsiders’ you could actually see the rising steam from them as they had got drenched in no time. It was heaving it down still more people were arriving and suddenly the sellers were selling ‘big time’ the heavy rain lasted about an hour which extended the sale therefore those insiders did so well with some takings over £250.00 but spare a thought for those outside whose stalls got DRENCHED!!

Paul who helps at some of our sales decided on behalf of his wife that they would sell outside but she thought the opposite so I was not surprised to see him packing up the car and his dear wife was sitting in the front seat looking decidedly glum. She tells me “I said we should go inside but he would listen to me” ‘Yes, I know what you mean dear, I told him to go inside as well but he wouldn’t listen to me either’ I replied! The look on his face was priceless plus he was drenched to the skin and yes I am the sh*t stirring bastard he has just called me!
Despite all there were no complaints loads of bargains exchanged hands and it is good to see so many parents are buying their kids Christmas presents at our Car Boots especially toys that have been loved and cleaned to perfection and recycled to another child brat without the cost of the box and wrapping but by the end of Christmas Day they will probably be so bored of their presents anyway. Been there-done that!

Someone very kindly gave Lou and myself a bottle of wine today which was a totally lovely gesture but we do not celebrate Christmas which we believe is time for a lot of people to spend money and credit card buying which they cannot afford. When I was a kid I got a book and a box of liquorice allsorts for Christmas worse still I had to share the allsorts!!
We don’t give each other cards or presents neither do we do Christmas cards it is not because we are tight fisted we are in the second-hand business so all Lou and I need to buy is available for next to nothing from our sellers.

There was considerable moaning about the BBC and their weather forecasting skills and how they get their facts so totally wrong but it always amuses me to see some of the dreadfully hideous dresses the local lady ‘weather forecasters’ wear! (aren’t the morning ones some lovely) (nope) I don’t know if they have a wardrobe department for these TV grotty appearances that tell us sweet nothings about todays weather. Most of them wear stuff that looks as though it was given to charities instead of binning them. Get around the boot sales my lovelies and at the end of your spouting on about the weather bit you could say “Do you like my dress, I bought it at one of CAR BOOTS CORNWALL Car Boot Sales, it was only one pound fifty don’t you know”

You will remember the set of three books revealing all the 50 Shags of Grey gory details well here is the official trailer to the film and it is boring, boring, boring just like the Trilogy of books now on offer at most good Car Boot stalls for about a quid for the three and most of them in mint condition.

TRURO on SATURDAYS starting this week at 12.00 noon by a majority vote 12.00 noon is the time for SATURDAYS at TRURO also SUNDAY will be on usual time at 1.30pm…… Several wanted 6.00am but 12 noon is a sensible time and of course if it rains we will use the ‘under cover’ Cattle Pens!
SATURDAYS have always been popular at TRURO from 18 years ago when we used to start at 8.00 am but 12 noon is a more sensible time and so say all of us, well almost all of us!!

Here is a lovely but very sad story……
Sheila Marsh was given this one last chance to see her favorite horse after it was brought to her hospital bedside by caring staff.
The 77-year-old grandmother-of-four was clearly delighted as horse Bronwen gently nuzzled her just a few short hours before she died of cancer.

The scene – photographed at Wigan Royal Infirmary in Greater Manchester after staff moved the patient’s bed outside – reduced everyone to tears.
Daughter Tina, 33, said: “I was crying my eyes out and all the nurses were crying too.
“She took comfort out of it and it was a beautiful moment.
“She loved her horses and she loved and adored all animals. She had six horses, three dogs, three cats and other animals.

“Her condition did not get any better and the hospital allowed us to bring Bronwen in.
“It was a matter of hours later that she passed away. I want to thank the hospital and all the nurses.
“It was very important for my mum.
“She was one of the most hard-working people that you could meet and she would do anything for anyone.”
Andrew Foster, chief executive of the trust, posted the image on Twitter and said it highlighted how trust staff went ‘the extra mile’ to make Mrs. Marsh feel comfortable.
He wrote: “With the family’s permission here is how we go the extra mile to deliver the wishes of a dying patient.”
The post was widely shared and re-tweeted with many saying the image brought tears to their eyes.
Gail Francis, writing on Twitter from Stratford-upon-Avon said: “What an amazing photograph.
“Anything that makes the last days/hours bearable should be applauded x.”
And Lizzie Legate added on the social networking site: “Beautiful moment for them both. Well done everyone for an amazing effort to provide a treasured moment”
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It’s the END of MITCHELL after 11 years we are moving to a larger location just across the road for 2015 !!

After 11 years at MITCHELL I have decided to move our Car Boot Sales to a larger location that offers magnificent views across the main A30 which should be a great advantage to sellers at our new venue which is directly opposite our present location. ‘Geoff Says’ will report further in due course. Will MABE be next?? Coming soon PENRYN RUGBY CLUB Car Boot Sales………………….Geoff

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Thursday 30th October

Geoff.

Bought a small wooden box painted with a chicken at the sale today. Asked a very attractive lady “how much”. She said well the box is a pound. I paid here a pound and left putting the box and other items in a bag not looking closer until this evening. In the picture (sorry for poor quality) are 3 rings. One with 5 small diamonds, 1 with a single diamond and the third a gold and silver mix. All have markings on. Next a gold plated locket but on a gold chain and last but not least an enamel broach. I bought the box and I am sure the Lady did not realize that these items were inside. I don’t think they are of great quality or value but by rights they are still hers and if she makes herself known she is welcome to them back. Hope others would do the same for me.

Cheers —Guitar Man

Saturday 01 November

Guitar Man came to Mitchell yesterday and told me he had been to a flea market and recognised the pretty lady seller and introduces himself and reminds her of selling at Par on Thursday (get the tissues ready) she says to Guitar Man “I wish I hadn’t sold there someone stole all my jewellery which was of sentimental value” ‘Not so’ says my man the Guitar Man ‘for it was you who asked me a pound for the box I bought from your stall because it had a chicken painted on it, I just shoved it in my carrier and didn’t realize the contents were of any value till I got home and I got hold of Geoff to tell him, but I want to give you the jewellery back! Wow!
Tears of joy and happiness and delight flowed from the pretty lady’s face (god I am so sick) as she felt she had lost the jewellery forever and a day.
By the time you read this the ‘pretty lady’ will be reunited with the items in the picture plus two other gold rings so we are talking probably in the region of £300.00 valuation which Guitar Man could have legally sold the items on his stall.

What a lovely honest Guitar Man we have and what a happy pretty lady, but next time young lady be more careful and pay attention to what you are doing it isn’t every day you meet a Guitar Man!

Guitar Man sells at most of our Car Boot Sales he has always given great service to his customers he is a credit to the Car Boot Community so if the pretty lady is buying any kids presents for Christmas wouldn’t it be a great gesture of goodwill if she looked at Guitar Man’s stall and perhaps buy a kid a second hand guitar, it would also give me a chance to see how pretty ‘pretty lady’ is I only have Guitar Mans word! Thank you. Geoff and the team. X

Before any of you start asking ‘who is the pretty lady’ is it posh Anne?

When I was 18 I was called up to do my National Service and spent 3 years in HM The Life Guards of which I was very proud but the initial 6 months training and square bashing were not enjoyable. Years later I was telling my son Simon all about going into the army about the first two days when you get fully kitted out with your bedding and uniforms followed by a full on medical examination plus 4 injections that almost paralyse your arms as the anti-viruses work their way through your body. You are given a 48 hour period to ‘get over it’ the next 48 hours is square bashing with a heavy rifle, get over it!!

I explained to my 8 year old that as raw recruits we all had go to the Army Hospital about 30 in all go into this medical. “Strip off and shut up” was the order. You stand there bollock naked in a line back and wait for the eccentric Dr Colonel to examine all of you without no apparent washing of his hands between soldiers. He then grabs hold of your balls and says “Cough” and from that he can apparently tell if you had any diseases or disorders in your Willie! What an absolute load of old bollocks, or is it?
The story amused Simon who questioned me relentlessly about having your balls grabbed and being told to “cough” by this very eccentric Colonel who was the Chief Medical Officer for the Military Barracks at Windsor.
Si had obviously told his school mates about “my dad had his balls grabbed and was told to COUGH in the army medical exam” When I met him from school he told me ‘they didn’t believe me and think you might be gay’ so to add to the story as a joke I said “And by the time the Colonel had got to me he grabbed me so tight I was nearly sick all over him”
On the way home we have to go into the local ironmongers to buy some cup hooks, the old gadgie who runs the shop is a right snot gobbling miserable old sod so I warn Simon to be on his best behaviour.

Two of Simon’s friends are in the shop they chat and I decide on which cup hooks I needed, I point to them on the display board when suddenly Simon smacks me so hard in the googlies and shouts “COUGH” I fell to the ground in absolute agony and laughter as the little brat and his mates nearly pissed themselves laughing then to a stunned silence the old gadgie looks over the counter and with a dew drop hanging off his snot box he says “Do you still want these cup hooks” then with a shake of his head the dew drop was gone!

I staggered to my feet paid up and buggered off with Simon laughing all the way home as he told me his mates in the shop had dared him to do it. Fair play fair play!! Got home only to realize the old gadgies snot had landed on the bag that he put the cup hooks in and I had put the bag in my pocket. Yuck figging yuck! Snot funny! Cough!! Next day at school Si was the hero with his friends having floored his father and shouting ‘cough’ Stupid idiots!!
Enjoy the picture, I am number 8” (it’s a joke)

Hopefully we can get a Car Boot Sale away at Falmouth today. We shall put the signs out and I am quite sure there will be lots of buyers to support the 12.30 Car Boot.

Saturday is dependant on the weather and ground conditions at Mitchell so will not make any decisions until a ground inspection at 8.00am

Sunday we will most definitely be at Truro Cattle Market at 1.30pm this is an all weather location so if it rains the Car Boot will be held in the Cattle pens where many of you will be at home dears.
Last Sunday with over 80 sellers there were thousands of bargains and sellers reported good takings and like sex it was all over in two hours and everyone went home happy.

My missus told me right at the beginning of Oscar that he was guilty as sin of her murder and to be fair that was the opinion of most of the women I spoke with but the Lady Judge did not agree so he will be out in 10 months. What an Oscar performance and what a total wanker!!
Great picture.

Several weeks ago I wrote an item about a man who went to the Car Boot Sale at LONG ROCK on Tuesday 17th June 2014 There were only 17 sellers and it was decided by Lou to allow the buyers FREE admission. The man who we shall call Johnnie was walking around the very few stalls when he claims he fell into a hole in the ground. He shouted that he had broken his leg severely and that Louise should get him an ambulance he also complained that there should be someone on site who was first aid trained in fact Louise is first aid trained and in her opinion the man had not broken his leg.

However an ambulance was called and Johnnie got up onto his feet walking to the ambulance completely unaided went inside the ambulance was spoken to and he left the ambulance jumping off the step and he walked back to his car and drove away! The small hole it would seem was probably a rabbit digging or field voles or mouse hole but certainly unseen through the newly cut grass.

Johnnie (have you been injured) was back the following week looking around the Car Boot in fact he was filmed by us and seemed in fine condition however I received an email from a solicitor representing Johnnie and what I believe to be a suspect claim for compensation.

During the days that followed the incident two of our regulars who were at Long Rock told me of the incident and that Johnnie had made a ‘laughing stock and idiot of himself’ with his overacting because they had witnessed the incident as he appears to have thrown himself onto the ground?

Were you there and did you witness what happened? If you did see the incident would you kindly tell us what you saw please either with a phone call or email or in person please.

Many thanks,

Geoff & Louise

CARBOOTSCORNWALL does have a full Public Liability Insurance Cover for our customers protection at all locations;

We have a regular customer who for all of his sins supports SUNDERLAND and this weekend his team were beaten 8-0 by Southampton and the first OWN goal scored by Sunderland is apparently going to be the GOAL of the season scored for the other side! What absolute embarrassment for the team who had to go in person(s) to their HOME fans (but most of them had pissed off home) and beg forgiveness for their dismal nay crap performance in the aptly named STADIUM of Light now known to all Newcastle fans as STADIUM of SHITE!

Anyway this SUNDERLAND supporter arrived to sell on Sunday nowhere near the gobby bugger he normally is (I think he had been crying) so anyway Alice and I went to get his rent which is ten pounds for his van but as a gesture of goodwill I said to him today I will only charge you EIGHT pounds to remind you of the dreadful EIGHT nil beating your crap team got yesterday, he WAS livid cos his missus took my side.

At least the Sunderland FC had the decency to refund all Sunderland supporters ticket charges because of the hideous result, apparently the alleged fans were offered FREE tickets for the next HOME game but they all said “no bloody fear” and I cannot blame them.
Can you imagine the stick they are going to get at all of their away matches with the chants of “Eight NIL” EIGHT NIL” at every stadium. But then I support Newcastle United who get beaten most of the time but never, ever, never by EIGHT frigging nil Geordie Lad! Apparently another bloke who get seriously pissed off with Geordie Boy (Mack-em-n-tack-em) he bought my ‘special customer’ a box of AFTER EIGHT MINTS! Brilliant!