Sellers will remember when we used to run Car Boot Sales in Par Moor Road we left because of very high rents and Restormel Council wanted rates for our 6 hour use of the land for the very successful sales. However today agreement has been reach between CARBOOTSCORNWALL and Cornish Market World-PAR MARKET opening time and on Thursdays at 12.00 noon!
Sellers on THURSDAYS are allowed to sell either new or second hand items, Market Traders are welcome to sell new items.
YOU MUST NOT SELL any of the following at out Car Boot Sales;
WINES, SPIRITS, CIGARETTES, TOBACCO, ANIMALS, FAKE DVD’s, CD’s or VIDEOS, GUNS, KNIVES, FOOD, CAKES, SANDWICHES, DRINKS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, CRISPS and SWEETS of any kind, without the express permission of CARBOOTSCORNWALL and with the approval of CORNWALL COUNCIL HEALTH AUTHORITES and TRADING STANDARDS!
There is a 50 pence admission per adult charge
(kids free up to 14 years) which is the agreement between our Landlords and ourselves. We have further agreed NOT to increase any prices for sellers in line with the last eight years and the sellers price per car will remain at £6.00 with Estates & 4 x 4s at £7.00 and Market Traders price per van will be a maximum of £12.00 (trailers will be a minimum price of £4.00 extra)
Sellers may queue on Thursdays from 10.00am (no buyers allowed into Car Park until 11.30 am)
You will be shown to your selling space at 11.30
Please note;
Catering provided by Car Boots Cornwall catering only;
Someone rang to ask if he could bring a BOUNCY CASTLE? Of course not you nutter it’s a Car Park we could kill the kids if we allowed that!!
Now here is a great location and we know from our previous experience the crowds of Market Trader and Car Booters will enjoy buying and selling at PAR MARKET Car Boot Sales.
Today I was met with “I can curl my tongue” because they have all been practising in the mirror but when I asked them to recite; I am not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant pluckers son, I’m only plucking pheasants, Till the pheasant plucker comes! No-one came forward to do the tongue twister as there was some £3.00 off vouchers for making the effort without dribbling. However Congrats to all those who can tongue twist to mention a few; Rosie (she can but he can’t) Marge (but of course) and the entire family! Orli, Sid Snot, but the only one we could find who cannot do it is Gordon the gofer husband in waiting to Our Rosie who is looking much better following her recent operations for her shoulder problems. Could I ask Marge to check with Dave if he can tongue twist, he might smack me in the gob if I ask him!
An alarmed fellow dealer overheard this conversation in the queue at the Cattle Market and came to tell me the latest gossip all about ME! “Of course this man Geoff made himself a millionaire just with Mabe you know he is worth absolute fortunes and (get this) it’s the only reason she stays with him cos of the money” What an absolute load of bollocks! To make me a millionaire we would need 3000 sellers each week until I reach the age of 65 second time around and just for the record this conversation was overheard by a potential candidate for wife number 5 see. Louise adores me so I don’t GAF what anyone has to say and I adore Louise which is probably an exaggeration I would have thought! Well, I quite like her-ish?
The procedure at all of our Car Boot Sales is that sellers Q until half an hour before the start of the Car Boot Sale time. You are shown where to park and you get about 20 minutes to set up your stalls. During this time there is a STRICTLY No buying-No selling- No looking at other stall-No reserving just totally concentrate on setting up your stall, you are about to become a shop-keeper so take the matter seriously enough and you could do well. So you have done your part of the deal and my job is to get the hundreds of buyers who have queued to come to your stall to spend their money on your bargains!
I get sick of some sellers who complain they do not have enough time; yes you do, look around you and see how industrious the other sellers are with setting up their stalls! The main reason there is a limited time is to protect our buyers to ensure their wait in the queue has not been cheated out of the bargains by sellers selling to other sellers before the buyers at the start time. Fair is fair, I see thousands of bargains when I go around the stalls but I would not deprive the buyers of the bargains by buying anything before the start of the sale. (the buyers would kill me)
We are planning a CAR BOOT FORUM which hopefully will be introduced before Christmas then we can really get news and pictures of your daily BARGAINS by the way there was two very nice gentlemen set up a stall with hundreds of boxed Christmas cards and I hate to admit they hardly sold any at all which is a shame. Lou and I persuade anyone thinking of giving us a Christmas card “No thanks my lovers” but it’s the cost of the postage which is a staggering 60p for first class and 50p for second class, so you to buy a decent card post it and you are talking a couple of quid.
The person receiving it will open it up hang it up and then bin it and you have worked your balls off to pay for the fricking card in the first place. I had an old Auntie May who was so tight fisted she would send me cards sent to her the previous year she would cross out their names and put mine instead. Whenever she used to come to see me she would always wanted to kiss me goodbye, horrific experience, bit like being kissed by SPIKE from the 3 dog’s stories.
I lost her address after she sent one of my wives 6 hand knitted egg warmers which caused me great humiliation
We all had a good day today Cornwall at its best, back into our winter quarters again TRURO!
8.00am Monday the rain is raining again and the forecast is crap for a few days, why not have some ‘ME time’ that means spending some time completely on yourself my lovers. Sod everyone else, go for it.
Duty calls got to do the breakfast for her indoors. Still eating?
And it shows.
Following the heavy overnight rains at Mitchell we agree with the Landlord David Leggo to call it end of season as of today. Last week we went ahead resulting in the grassed areas suffering from the heavy traffic. It is in the interest of the grounds that they are fully repaired for reopening in Easter 2014.
Similarly with MABE the heavy Friday overnight rains and tonight’s forecast it is in the interest of the ground conditions to call END OF SEASON……
Thank you all for your wonderful support during
2013 at both of these locations, there will be a few tears in Mabe tonight…..never mind dears it will soon be Easter……Someone said to me “What am I going to do with MABE closed” come to Truro my lover come to Truro….
Lou & I have known all the groups of students who have come to Falmouth University to further their education and we can seriously say they have been a superb crowd each year since we started Car Boots Cornwall way back in 1989 and they certainly have supported the weekly Car Boot Sales at Falmouth Rugby club.
Come and support them and their effort to raise cash for a special project.
Geoff
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Name: Samantha Mcleod
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Telephone: 07719103589
Message: Hiya, I am a student at Falmouth University, and I and the rest of my film crew where wondering if it would be possible to have a cake sale at one of your car boot sales as a way to raise money for a final film project at University? (are preferred place would be at the Falmouth rugby club, as it is the closest place to us) If you could get back to me as soon as possible it would be most appreciated Samantha Mcleod Student Producer Falmouth University
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:21:11 +0100
Hello,
We allowed this idea several years ago from Falmouth University the cake display looked horrific and got ‘sweaty’ because the cakes were not covered up in the sun.
You may try again on one occasion only but I do give a friendly warning if the display is not to a high standard then I will close your stall down.
Regards,
Geoff Camden Wiles
www.carbootscornwall.co.uk
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Thank you for giving us this opportunity, it’s very much appreciated.
Do we need to let you know which week we plan on attending or can we arrive for whichever we like?
Also are there any suggestions you would give to us regarding making our display up to a suitably high standard?
Thank you
Samantha
07719103589
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:15:22 +0100
Samantha,
To help you raise the funds you need I will give you a FREE stall for the day but remember you must ensure the cakes are covered. The more ladies involved in this project the happier I will be, several years ago the student group
I refer to below all lad who had emptied all their cupboards end of season bit and bobs including flour, suet, cannabis seeds, weeds, magic mushrooms and left over jams of the season and they threw the lot into a mix covered with a slime of chocolate and cream and it was melting and looked hideous and was only 50 p a portion. (it was a bloody good laugh and endeared the students to the Car Boot crowd)
The lads had great sense of humours all afternoon as I stood begging customers not to buy their crap food. At the end of the boot sale they stopped one of the team and said “Give that to the bald bloke, tell him thanks” inside the bag were 4 of their delightful portions of 50 p Great fun, I believe two of them were stoned! I also believe the cake went into the bin and certainly not through my system.
Just go for it, if you want to promote your idea send me some detail and I will put it into the Geoff Says column 18,000 hits per month!
It occurs to me that you will know Ragnhild Jaatun who is on a photography course at your University she would be a huge asset to you having a good day; she knows how to work a crowd!
Your most important priority is to choose a day that the weather is dry so watch the weather forecasts? Just be hygienic on your stall and offer your customers some “Student Home-Bake” surprise yourselves, bring your mums & dads and enjoy your day!
You should think of arriving to set up your stall at 11.00 am with your tables, covering, stocks, paper bags, cake grips, blue or white plastic gloves, hand gels & nice clean clothing.
Do I have your permission to include these emails in Geoff Says please?
Kind regards,
Geoff
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078 078 078 88
Hi Geoff,
From: Samantha Mcleod
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:22 PM
To: Geoff Camden Wiles
Subject: RE: Coming to a car boot
Hi Mr Wiles,
That would be a great help thank you very much! I don’t think we are planning to come and sell our cakes until Friday the 13th of November (unless the weather is hideous),
so we can ensure we have got everything we need! But I can assure you our cakes will be nothing like the lads you let in before 🙂
Of course! Feel free to use these emails 🙂
We already have a Kick-starter page where people can donate money to our project, but in summary we are making an Experimental film looking at technology and how it is used, we plan to explore with different camera’s etc. People who donate certain amounts to us will receive a reward (the rewards are explained on the page)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1711138070/supertemporal-working-title << The link to our fundraising site, which I will update every week with our progress!
Did you know that 15% of the worlds population cannot curl their tongues making them look like funnel?
Well it’s true and I am not one of the 15% are you? So here is a test for you and you mates ask them;
“Can you curl your tongue and say the following”?
I’m not a pheasant plucker,
I’m a pheasant plucker’s son,
I’m only plucking pheasant’s,
Till the pheasant plucker comes!
Come on Marge, Rosie, Rita, Phyllis, Posh Anne, Ordinary Ann and the Le Roy’s and lets get ‘Got any jewellery Luv’ at it! Seriously give it a go anyone with false teeth is excused!! Do it in the mirror before you go to bed all alone a see how ugly you can become, come on Rachel and Rachel, Louise, Jackie and Julia my mother in law………………? xx
Spike heard the shuffling through the grass and decided ‘let’s go have a look’ immediately Spike is confronted by his first ever Porcupine who was startled by the intrusion so old Porky says to himself I will just walk away. Suddenly Spike tries to stop Porky and jumps on him and Porky ejects and directs at least 80 of his Porky Spikes into Spike’s body! Spike pulls himself away from Porky yelping and trying hard to take out the spiky needles of pain, alas he limps home arriving so late the house was locked up and everyone had gone to bed. He whines and whimpers and hardly gets any sleep as the poison from the spikes is working its way through his system and on a count of one to ten his pain is a straight ten! Now it gets sadder, get the tissues out mother!
The back door opens after a seriously painful night for Spike and his owner says ‘What have you been up to’ the dog who doesn’t talk but the dumb owner can see for herself that Spike is in severe pain so she tries to pull one of the spines out of Spike’s leg and Spike gives it his best shot by yelping and growling and telling his owner ‘leave me alone’ The owner says ‘there is nothing I can do today but I will take you to the vets tomorrow afternoon’
Overnight the searing pain was so intense Spike slipped in and out of a coma as he could not withstand the pain. Morning came and eventually Spike was taken to the vets who asked ‘When did this happen’ as he took pictures of the severely distressed animal. “I don’t know, he came home yesterday after being away for a few days in that condition yesterday” She then requested “Put the dog down, I don’t want it anymore”
The vet is now faced with an immediate problem what to do? What would you do? Bottom line is that he and his team worked tirelessly removing all the porcupine needles from Spike and he lived happily ever after.
Readers will remember two year ago we had a very young child taken seriously ill and it was necessary for Air Ambulance to be called to collect the kid from the Car Boot. The helicopter landed in the parking field with 100% cooperation from all of our customers.
Customers were told ‘a little girl was taken seriously ill’
The following week a distraught lady came to advise me that a dog had collapsed and what can you do please? With over 2500 people on site fainting dogs are not a priority of mine however I said I would get some cold water from the catering and take it to the dog! I was urged “Please hurry” intimating I should run to get the bottle of iced water. I took the bottle to the area the dog had collapsed, there were up to 20 people rubber necking and observing and offering stupidity with advice as to what should be done!
The concern was immense as I emptied the cold water on the dogs head and its gob and ‘hey presto’ the dog came round and lived to tell the story.
Now then, after the dog incident I received several texts and phone calls and one email asking about the dog?
The following week several buyers and sellers were asking about ‘What happened to the dog’?
Yet NO-ONE asked about the little girl who was taken away by Air Ambulance the week before.
For your information the little girl is fine and was diagnosed as being overcome by the heat of the sun so too was the little dog.
So is your dog your best friend? Louise came home sober one day and her dog bit her!
Footnote; I am thinking of BANNING dogs in the selling area during the main season, your comments please?
Readers will remember two year ago we had a very young child taken seriously ill and it was necessary for Air Ambulance to be called to collect the kid from the Car Boot. The helicopter landed in the parking field with 100% cooperation from all of our customers.
Customers were told ‘a little girl was taken seriously ill’
The following week a distraught lady came to advise me that a dog had collapsed and what can you do please? With over 2500 people on site fainting dogs are not a priority of mine however I said I would get some cold water from the catering and take it to the dog! I was urged “Please hurry” intimating I should run to get the bottle of iced water. I took the bottle to the area the dog had collapsed, there were up to 20 people rubber necking and observing and offering stupidity with advice as to what should be done!
The concern was immense as I emptied the cold water on the dogs head and its gob and ‘hey presto’ the dog came round and lived to tell the story.
Now then, after the dog incident I received several texts and phone calls and one email asking about the dog?
The following week several buyers and sellers were asking about ‘What happened to the dog’?
Yet NO-ONE asked about the little girl who was taken away by Air Ambulance the week before.
For your information the little girl is fine and was diagnosed as being overcome by the heat of the sun so too was the little dog.
So is your dog your best friend? Louise came home sober one day and her dog bit her!
Footnote; I am thinking of BANNING dogs in the selling area during the main season, your comments please?
Lots of our customers have asked ‘Have you seen the catering trailer that is a mobile PIZZA oven’? Yes we have because Simon and his team have shown up several times at Lanhydrock this season and it was our pleasure to host them at Newquay on Saturday where loads of our customers took advantage of these beautifully freshly baked woodfired PIZZAS with a vast range of sweet and savoury flavours and fillings.
Here is a novelty idea for your parties and celebrations.
You can contact Simon for full details on 07824325633 or Sarah on 07825817434 or go to their website www.kernowforno.co.uk
Ps; Their Chocolate and Banana PIZZAS are delicious
LANHYDROCK End of Season! Next year new start time 1.30 pm
Today we went to Liskeard on the way we called in to Lanhydrock at 9.00am to walk and check the fields over and decided to CANCEL todays sale and the end of Season for LANHYDROCK which has had a SUPERB year. With the new time and a maximum of £10.00 for large vans including Market Traders who could start their week in CORNWALL at this fantastic location! Things are going to get better in 2014 at LANHYDROCK!! Read more in Geoff Says update; Rachel has done a brilliant job in looking after Lanhydrock in its first year for Car Boots Cornwall. This is a very popular first year and 2014 will be very busy for buyers and sellers. (super Landlords)
Our Next Car Boot Sale is planned for TUESDAY at Newquay and is the last Tuesday of the season however if the weather is ok the last day of the season will be THURSDAY 17th of October then we move to PAR MARKET on the 7th November….read on….. Back to Liskeard Cattle Market where it is proposed to hold SUNDAY morning Car Boot Sales probably at 8.00am however we have meetings to attend before things are finalised but the hard standing location would be most popular with sellers plus the Cattle Market is in the centre of Liskeard and is surrounded by a housing and chimney pots! Where you see chimney pots you see people who will love a new CAR BOOT SALE on their doorstep and will certainly support our efforts.
When we arrived back to Mabe in the slight drizzle I was highly chuffed to see 3 rows of sellers queuing in what was a miserable day but the SUN came out just as the sales started and the sellers did extremely well as the buyers claimed they had brought the sun with them but they spent loads of money! It is amazing the amount of crap that goes out the gates passing my ever critical eye but the buyers had a very good day and again a lovely Cornish Community atmosphere that prevails once the Emmitt’s have gone back home.
Over 1000 people who got the exercise I was nagging about, take a walk my lovers.
