Over several years we have had the pleasure of a great customer and dedicated buyer Nuala who spends her entire working life going to Car Boot Sales Flea Markets Auctions and the like seeking and buying items that represent an entire RETRO store called “ENJOY” which is just off Pydar Street directly opposite Mothercare. This fantastically well presented store for the discerning customers who like to dress up for that special theme occasion or just to be different in their style of clothing and home furnishings and furniture!
A truly ‘glad to the eye’ store which is the right way to present a RETRO theme location that Truro City can be proud. Congratulations to Nuala and her dedicated team this shop is well worth a visit and your perusal my lovers!

Geoff

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.STOP PRESS … HAYLE CANCELLED TODAY..SUNDAYS CAR BOOT SALES at MABE at 1.30pm and LANHYDROCK at 3.00pm

So many people listened and watched the BBC forecast for Saturday and the only winners of the day were the SELLERS and the die-hard buyers who took a chance and braved the weather that DID NOT HAPPEN!
We allowed the 12 sellers to set up stall at Truro and believe me they took good money from just short of 200 buyers! On to Mitchell again a poor BBC forecast and only 34 sellers turned up and they all (ALL) took decent takings from around 500 genuine buyers. Then at the Wadebridge 3.00pm Car Boot only 25 sellers showed up but there were some stunning bargains with 2 virgin boot sellers clearing mother’s belongings and treating Joe Public to some outrageous treats of gold silver and nice little antique bits!

I know someone who bought items to the total of £17.00 and the resale price on eBay with be the right side of £130.00 what a profit!! Now then, SUNDAY at MABE I am determined WILL go ahead at 1.30pm and LANHYDROCK at 3.00pm will also go ahead! It was a truly GREAT day for sellers today who without doubt took really good takings but the BARGAINS HUNTING dealers (that’s all of us) did very well and I am sure there will be a repeat at MABE and LANHYDROCK on SUNDAY!! Be there or be at home watching crappy telly, you NEED the fresh air and some exercise, you have one life! Live it my lovers!

Bargain of the day was another leather whip for Marge’s Red Room of Pain costing her 20p which she kindly offered to loan to my Lou! If I used a whip on her she would smack me right in the GOB but Marge’s husband Richard (Dick to his friends) goes along with all the fun as long as it makes Marge happy! Enjoy your day! Geoff

Mark Fletcher from relishstreetfood.com recently contacted us to ask if we would give him an opportunity to sell his wonderful and imaginative speciality sandwiches and hand crafted burgers with a real lush flavour entirely different to your normal McDonalds excuses for burgers!

I said ‘Yes, go for it Mark’ and he has been an immediate hit with his customers who have constantly complimented his delightful products, what a difference to be served with such a happy and friendly attitude with this young man presented himself and his Relish Street Foods to the delight of our customers! A real winner and Mark is available for private parties with a host of ideas and speciality menus.
Go for it Mark, I firmly believe in giving these young opportunists and entrepreneurs a chance to prove themselves with our big crowds at MABE, MITCHELL and some of our other locations! Proud of you Mark!!

Another entrepreneur with a great friendly and informing personality is Matt who for the last four weeks has presented food of the highest standards for you our customers and the reaction to the food sold here is a constant flow of compliments where customers have gone out of their way to announce their complete satisfaction at the food sold on Matts Wild Food catering van! It is a great pleasure to receive such high praise for Matt an ex-school teacher who has an ambition to provide some of his speciality burgers to the wholesale market. When Car Boots Catering commences soon we will be at the front of the queue to buy some of Matt’s delightful products.

Matt is a very approachable pleasant person to talk to and already I understand he has received lots of enquiries “Do you take private bookings”? Yes he does and he has some brilliant suggestions for that special occasion whether it be a Birthday or an Anniversary or just a good reason to have a private party in your own garden to celebrate the ‘wild side of Wild Foods’

Give Matt a call to enquire further on; 07527924046

MABE has been established over 15 years as the firm favourite Car Boot Sale to visit on a Sunday afternoon when you can have a long lay in, have a bit of a cuddle, a late breakfast then a trip to the main event of the Car Boot Calendar at MABE in time for its opening at 1.30pm Thousands of people make this same journey throughout the season for a truly bargain hunting experience, you have tried the rest but we are the BEST and we do it all for you my lovers!

You will have seen the various new caterers I have introduced to our various locations, now then, what I am looking for is someone who specialises is home baking making HOME MADE PASTIES with their own secret ingredients that will make them better than any others and that Car Boots Catering could sell on our own catering trailers, samples will be most appreciated, however this is a serious request and if they taste good then we will promise to buy from the best to sell to our customers. I bought a Pastie last week from Rowe’s, surely Mother does better!

Enjoy and ‘Live de Life’ with some fresh air and a great walk to build up your appetite for your journey home for mother’s speciality roast of the day! Sounds good to me, my missus will make a good cook some day, hopefully!

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Anyone you know in these 4 picture?

Ps; Isn’t it nice to see all the caterers featured wearing protective gloves to ensure health and safety in preparing your foods??

End of Season Blues at Newquay circus Fields?
I know it is some time before the real end of the season but today was full of dramas without kids so the adults made up for them with their own little dramas. Firstly on Tuesday a dealer bought a very nice mirror for £18.00 paying the full asking price, he took it home to his wife who said “That is not exactly what I want” so he looks it up on eBay and sees the same mirror is selling for up to fifty quid so today he puts it on his stall and asks for £38.00 During the day the person (he did not recognise) who sold him the mirror asks “How much is the mirror” he says £38.00 but you can have it for £35.00!! There follows a really nasty argument with the original seller calling the buyers wife an effing biatch etc etc etc! Now then, the original sellers sold it to the buyer and were happy to accept the original eighteen quid therefore the buyer has every right to dispose of/or keep the mirror or sell it on with NO QUIBBLE from the original sellers! It’s all a bucket of handbags but I refereed the incident by telling all and sundry not to get so agitated over such a matter but typical Cornwall they went on and on and on until they went home! Listen here my lovers, you have one life and one heart don’t abuse either because getting so agitated and STRESSED over nothing could be more than your heart can take! Move on and turn the other botty cheek!!

Next, several complaints about a really aggressive Brown Pit Bull Terrier being paraded by its owner on a long lead and every dogs it sees it presents a ‘fuck off my patch attitude’ growling and snarling and flashing its upstairs and downstairs teeth ready for WAR! One of our regulars has two widgy piddly little rat looking scrawny B’stard dogs and Brown Pit Bull nearly scoffed them both with one almighty lunging growl in their direction. So the complaints came rolling in and it fell to Arlin and me to approach the owner of the Pit Bull to tell him he must take the dog out of the Car Boot and back to the car! His agitated mates demanded a refund of the 50p entrance fee which was duly given and as he and the dog were escorted out of the selling area Pit Bull wanting to ‘have a go’ at three other dogs! Why oh why do people keep such aggressive dogs knowing full well that in a Car Boot arena where there are up to 40 dogs at any one time a really nasty incident could happen causing injury not only to other dogs but also to the people in my care!!

Next, I get called to an incident where a large lady in a wheelchair has ridden over a hole in the ground (I swear it wasn’t there beforehand) and her chair was upended causing the woman to fall arse over tit out of her chair into a heap on the ground much to the amusement of those witnesses with a warped sense of humour! I took a look from a distance and thought ‘I am not picking that up’ anyway I arrived in time for the lady to be reseated and I looked at the hole which was about the size of a steering wheel so a bollard was placed over the hole and with a FREE cup of tea the lady and her embarrassed old man departed the scene! Our Jackie thought it was a major incident imagining a GREAT big hole had swallowed up the dear lady and we would need MacSalvors to excavate and lift the old darling out! Hilarious it was not as I told Jackie to ‘take that grin off your face’!! You don’t very often see her smile it’s normally indigestion! Imagine yourself in the same predicament my lovers if it happened to me I would have made the most of it hoping that my Lou would be so embarrassed he would disown me. Arlin said “I wished I had seen it would have been a bloody good laugh” to be fair the lady herself did have a sense of humour about it all thank god she was wearing trousers?

Next you will remember the story I told about Madam Polish and her bullying tactics and queue jumping well today she arrived to challenge our authority to exclude her from any of Car Boots Cornwall sales and she ranted unreasonably so much so that I told her “this is the end of the conversation, you either leave now or I will ask the Police to escort you off site” and she left immediately. One sad note about her ridiculous tactics to be unfair in all her dealings was a report from a local Charity shop that the same woman had been caught changing prices on the clothes rails and the Charity Shop Manageress was delighted that Madam Polish had been BARRED! I must conclude that most of the Europeans who are settling in Cornwall are pleasant in every way and respect the rules of FAIR PLAY to all concerned buyers and sellers alike!

And finally, the potential war in Syria is exercising a lot of our sensible Car Booters minds thankfully they are all against any actions against Syria over very flimsy chemical evidence and the British Government under the leadership of Dumbo Cameron has now said “We have new evidence” What an absolute load of BULLSHIT Dumbo you are another BLAIR with his bloody WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION which did not exist! Why don’t you do us all a favour and GO TO THE COUNTRY and ask the BRITISH people what they want and while you are doing that can you STOP the BLOODY BBC from constantly talking the war up! We are sick of WARS! Leave the Syrians to sort out their own problems or we may find President Putin and his powerful friends might give us more than a BLOODY NOSE!! NO WAR!!

Gossip! St Austell is finally a 90% chance sooner than you think my lovers!!

Geoff

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Thousands of our local sellers and buyers have been aware of the fact that the 100 plus acres at the Circus Fields (originally named by yours truly) Newquay has recently changed hands and is now owned by the Kingsley Group who also own KINGSLEY VILLAGE. Planning permission for up to 400 houses with breath-taking views over Newquay and a shopping complex is being sought however initially a road system is being built which will obviously mean changes to the way we operate our Car Boot Sales.

The odd gloating pessimist has predicted the ‘death of the Car Boot Sales at Nookey’ not so, the KINGSLEY people realize the huge draw of our events attracting up to 6000 people weekly during the main seasons and have offered us alternative plans that will move us around from field to field but the guarantee is the Car Boots Cornwall will operate there twice weekly seasonal sales up to the time when the entire development is completed in the coming years.

From this coming MONDAY the existing roundabout entrance near MORRISON’S will close down for the road system to be built and we will use the entrance/ exit next door to The Kings Head pub for the foreseeable future in fact to the end of this season which date is entirely weather dependant however it is hoped we can continue up to Mid-October.

Newquay Car Boot Sales are great fun to run in particular at the end of the season when all the locals get together and the ‘EMMITS’ with all their snooty nosed kids and the widgy rat faced excuses for dogs on extending string leads tripping up old farts like me have long gone home to work and save up for next years holidays in FABULOUS CORNWALL! We love them all really!

Bottom line; Thank You to the KINGSLEY GROUP and their planning for the future with all the fabulous new housing and their determination to include us and the Circus and the Fairs and the Stunt Shows and other ‘special events’ as part of this massive investment for the people of NEWQUAY! Bring it on and give it your support my lovers!

Welcome changes have occurred at all of our locations with ‘Happy to Serve YOU’ entrepreneur teams ringing the changes and presenting a REAL CHOICE of variety and healthy foods for all members of your family. These teams are available for private hire and CBC are going into partnership with “Spud ‘O’ Licious” soon presenting delicious HOG ROASTS!!

Racial & Car Discrimination!
On Sunday at Mabe manager Becky Steadman was collecting the rents and asked one man with a large 4 x 4 car for the £7.00 rent and he demanded to know why ordinary cars were only £6.00 and his car was £1.00 more. Becky explained that his 4 x 4 was larger than other cars therefore he could get more selling stock into his car also that his car took up more space. He then flew into a tirade of abuse against Becky and our charging system accusing us of “car discrimination”! He was still in his childish mood when he was asked to do as all other vehicles do and that is to park side on refusing to do so and also using insulting language to me and my Lou and again to Becky! He then threatened to set his two large dogs crammed into the front passenger seat against me! This man earned the title ‘Dickhead of the day’ but he did leave early I assume to go home to change his ~ incontinence pad~ and I believe sober up?

NEWQUAY Circus Fields…….
As all our customers know we have quite an influx of Polish people who have moved here in Cornwall and settled down with their families obviously taking a toll on the housing stock but nevertheless they are Europeans and entitled to be here and I with all my teams treat them with respect as customers when they arrive at our boot sales. However there is always someone who stands head and shoulders above the rest this time it is 6 foot lady of about 40 years old (long died black hair) who parks up her car and walks to the front of the queues causing justified complaints from other customers. We have told her repeatedly not to jump the queue but her most annoying feature is that she has a most aggressive attitude to buying demanding ‘special discounts for me’ which has again been the source of complaints. Another tactic of this lady is to agree to buy from sellers take the items away with a promise she will get more money from her car and does not return to settle up her debt. All this is hearsay but she did exactly the same to my Lou one day and further she conned our Jackie into parting with goods she would settle up the next day! (You should never part with any items you are selling until they have been paid for)

During my absence last week at Newquay she upset an elderly lady seller by demanding to pay £3.00 for an item the lady had asked a fair price of £10.00 but Madam Polish still made her unfair demands. Matters reached a head when manager Becky received complaints about this woman’s tactics and after previous warnings Becky decided to BAR the lady.

However, Becky did not tell me she had BARRED the woman so I was surprised when I was confronted by this woman accompanied by an Englishman who wanted to see fair play as she complained about her treatment from Manager Becky further complaining that Becky had “RACIALLY DISCRIMINATED” against Madam Polish and that as I was a good man she was appealing for the ban to be overturned! She ranted on for a considerable time but I had chance to interrupt her flow of complaint to advise that I also had received complaints about her ‘pushing in and bullying tactics’ which was unacceptable behaviour. I also reminded her that I recently BARRED a lady School Teacher and her DHSS husband for the same type of bullying tactics and they were from Cornwall so we do not discriminate against the Polish or in fact any persons from anywhere in the world who visit our sales providing they accept the rules of ‘fair play’ at my Car Boot Sales.
The conversation was concluded that I would speak to Becky and get the full facts however I would allow Madam Polish to stay for the day and I would decide after speaking with all of our team of the day.
There was overwhelming evidence that this lady has caused offence to many of our customers with her aggressive and unfriendly behaviour towards our traditional and good willed Car Boot Sales and that I have no alternative than to support Becky’s original decision to BAR this lady with immediate effect!
I personally am grossly offended on behalf of my team that we should have been accused of ‘racial discrimination’ we are fair to all of our customers but if any customer wants to buck our system of FAIR PLAY to all of our customers, buyers or sellers alike then we will take the same attitude and actions to eliminate complaints from ‘you the genuine people’ who have built up a great reputation and a friendly atmosphere at all of our Car Boot Sales. Thank you my lovers!

Over the August Bank Holiday weekend dramas!

Friday at Falmouth was a huge success and we were allowed onto the dead ball area for half the sellers and well appreciated by all concerned! Our Bex was missing (replaced by a small bollard) because as most regulars know she was due to have an operation on her legs which has been planned for several months. To be honest Bex is a bit of a coward and likes to cry a lot as the operation date gets closer so it didn’t help matter much when I told her the anaesthetic needle was 8 inches long and no specialist has been able to hit the right vein without several tries and that her arm may look like a pin cushion but ‘Bex be brave’

However as a nasty turn of fate and with her operation scheduled for Monday and her entire family were arriving to sit around her bed as she came round from the operation she received a call to say ‘Sorry but another operation will go ahead so yours has been moved and we will advise of the new date’!! Firstly she thought it was ME pissing about and winding her up but when reality set in our Bex cried and cried and then cried some more. Poor Jamie (Bex’s partner) was summoned to comfort poor Bex, me I could not stop laughing but we all love Bex such a lot and she can be a ‘right little Madam at times’ so my sympathy really goes for Jamie all 6 foot eight inches and at times it is fair to say she walks all over him! I must try that with Lou sometime!

Saturday morning at Truro Cattle Market although a quiet Car Boot Sale is well supported by good buyers particularly the main dealers who bought some great bargains but the MAIN event of the day was well anticipated by over 200 sellers and up to 3800 visits to the 1.00pm Car Boot Sale at MITCHELL off the slip road for Newquay. Reasonable weather but the entire sale went off without problems or incidents and we watched as countless bargains were carried back to the cars and there were so many happy kids faces as they conned their parents to ‘buy me this or I will scream the place down’ darling little BRATS!

As you know I cannot abide these squitty little shitty rat faced excuses for dogs that are paraded amongst the stalls on long lengthy string leads and I was delighted to see one of them wrap itself around one of our ‘nastier sellers’ tables legs and ‘Oh yes Bingo’ down came the fricking table to the yelps of the dog and screams of delights from our witnessing staff who are trained to look the other way when you hear a table CRASH with all its contents!

Once the sale is up and running my Lou departs to run the last Car Boot Sale of the day at the World famous Royal Cornwall Showground at Wadebridge where they also held an Antiques Fayre on the same day. The admission price to the Fayre is three quid a person so the sellers and buyers from that sale eagerly paid our bargain price of only 50p to come to our sale and I am reliable informed that all and sundry agreed that OUR CAR BOOT SALE was better value than the FAYRE and they spent very well with 3 reports of takings over two hundred quids and lots of other sellers takings over the one hundred pounds mark! Not bad going for a sale that starts at 3.00pm and like sex is all over within two hours!!

SUNDAY at MABE was its usual busy Car Boot and with decent weather everyone was happy including the kids who were treated once again by gullible parents, anything for a peaceful life. No real incident to report apart from our John who has worked on our Car Boot teams for 5 years he witnessed the unbelievable! A gypsy kid of about 5 dropped his trousers and as he squatted he took a dump on the field in front of John and shocked John says “You are not allowed to take a poo on the grass” to which the gypsy kid pulled up his trousers and picked up the poo and threw it into the family van!! Now then, if I had told his mum she would have beaten the shit out of the kid! Too late Mum, too late!!

BANK HOLIDAY Monday at Truro was just great, decent weather lots of BARGAINS lots of sellers and lots of buyers but there is always an incident or two which either makes or breaks the day. This Monday was no exception! I had a really nice lady come to complain that she heard two buyers at her stall have verbal’s to each other with one threatening the other that he would ‘put a gypsy curse on you’ which the lady took seriously enough for it to spoilt her afternoon. I convinced her not to worry about the incident and calmly told her to enjoy the rest of the car boot sale so she went back to her stall to sell.
Shortly after two very irate men came to me asking if I would sort out their argument because they had both seen the same bargains at the same time and they both made a grab for the items and one of them told me ‘He put a gypsy curse on me’! I allowed them to rant at each other like the nerds they were being then interrupted “Right, I have heard enough this is absolute HANDBAGS now if you go that way and you go that way” I directed the lads left and right “and if I hear any more of the absolute CRAP I will BAR you both, now sod off” and they accepted my wishes, end of incident!

But the most stupidity of all the weekend was I was sitting in the car with Rachel who is always in the calming influence mode, we were watching the sellers when I noticed a boy of about 7 walking on top of a long wheel based white van and my immediate thought was for the child’s safety my second thought was for our Public Liability Insurance and I did not want any stupid claims over what looked like irresponsible parenting. Immediately I left the car and approached the vehicle and told the mother “Take that child down otherwise there could be a serious accident” She refused saying “he is not coming down until his father comes back” and again I demanded that in the interest of the child he should get down to which the lady (mother) became offensive and rude to me also to neighbouring sellers. Ten minutes later and with most buyers taking my side the kid was eventually taken off the top of the van! What stupidity and what gross ignorance to jeopardise a young lad’s life by allowing him stand almost nine feet above the mother’s car boot table and if he had fallen off onto her table it would have been my FAULT!!

Apart from all that it was a great weekend and for the record over 14,000 people attended our events over this August Bank Holiday, we are the BEST in the West and you are all so lucky that I am so gifted to organise such incredible events, you lucky people! (That should raise a few hackles my lovers) XX