Thank you to all of our loyal buyers who turned out to support the sellers who braved the piss-poor weather to sell at TRURO yesterday, I know there wasn’t a lot of stalls but they certainly took good money from the comments at the end of the sale.
Some of you will remember the chaos caused by the Fairground arriving at Newquay during our Car Boot Sale despite being asked to delay their visit until after our event, Louise I tried to reason with but found their ignorance and faces like a bags of spanners with miserable attitudes hard to understand.
They are in the Leisure Industry looking afer todays kids at a fun-fair for christs sake! Be nice to people!
I was advised yesterday the same fair arrives at Falmouth today for over a week and they have been given the hard standing so we will be on the grass. I hope the conduct of some of the youngsters is better than previous years when punch-ups and disturbances caused neighbours to complain to us, which is none of our business. Have a good week and SMILE!!
I hate having so much time off because of the weather because it gives Lou time to experiment with food and cakes and I am allways the victim if the baking goes wrong and I hate being watched over and told ‘eat this I made it just for you’ and its YUCK sometimes! I am chuffed my grand-daughter is here for a week to share my misery.
Cheer up everyone be happy and live your life!
Ps; Marge stood in Cow Shit on Sunday at MABE and was livid but in her regal manner she admitted ‘Should have gone to Specsavers’ whilst I provided baby whipes to clean her crappy shoes! She loves being waited on according to Ricky!
Love to all especially my lovely wife who had her 44th birthday (looks older) yesterday so me and the grand-daughter is making her a cake. REVENGE TIME darling!!
Part of my absence is due to a TANTRA course, report to follow;
Our Orli came to the car for a good old chat and a bit of gossip and told Lou and I about her recent holiday away to Somerset where she went to several Car Boot Sales. She was stunned to witness the way in which the Car Boots were being run, she said “The sales are exactly the same as all of your Car Boots Geoff in fact I thought you must be in charge”
That is such a great compliment because the owner Paul of the car boots in Taunton came on holiday staying at Hendra Holiday Park and studied how Car Boots Cornwall works then decided to copy our system. Although we have not met we have known each other for a few years, he told me last night it was the best thing he could have done for his business it seems the dealers in the area are a bit ruthless and riding roughshod over other buyers, he said “At last I feel in control and it is so fair to all the genuine sellers and buyers but the most important thing is I have the dealers under control and yes I did copy your system and am proud of it” Thank you Paul that make me so chuffed mate you can buy me a beer. We talked about a Day Trip coach trip to one of his best Car Boot Sales 400 stalls so if any of you are interested talk to our Manager Becky Steadman. Could be a good idea but limited space for purchases (no furniture)
You will remember the two dealers we recently barred for their aggressive behaviour Bee Julie & Simon well here is an update on DSS Simon who was apparently motor mouthing about me at Lostwithiel a couple of weeks ago claiming ‘if you face fits you are in’? He was well shot down by a couple of my staunch supporter who said “If you have got so much to say why don’t you have the balls to say it to his face” Quite right Simon you had over 10 years to pluck up the courage to say it behind my back so GFY you CREEP!
Bee Julie, School Teacher/Car Boot Dealer on the other hand walked up to a stall in HAYLE and this is TRUE! The stall-holder said to Bee Julie “Walk away from my stall I do not wish to sell you anything” Bee Julie walked away the stall-holder shook with rage, don’t know why but I think its got something to do with a certain Teddy Bear?
Footnote;
Orli said “The organiser was marching up and down like a little Hitler but totally in control just like you Geoff” That is so callous. XX
This is very rude but a true story!
Becky our Manageress and I were sitting in the car on a lovely warm day at Newquay Circus Fields during its Car Boot Sale, Arlin was sitting at the rear of the car on the open boot whilst the 3 of us were having a break. Suddenly a man shouts “Hey shitty arse come ere” I thought I was the only one to hear the man and he repeated “Hey shitty arse come ere” Quick as a flash Becky shouts to Arlin ‘there’s a man calling you over there’ which I thought was a bloody good line but Arlin didn’t. “Cheeky sod” shouts Arlin, once again the man shouts “Hey shitty arse come ere” We then notice a woman of about 30 join the motor mouth man and another couple as they start to walk back to the top car park then we notice the woman had a huge brown stain on the bum of her jeans! No Shit!!
Now then, whatever the circumstances I am not interested but what sort of bloke treats his missus by openly humiliating her like that, why didn’t he rip his shirt off to cover her embarrassment. I can imagine when the poor lass got into the ‘all windows open car’ squelch-squelch! Anyway while we are on the subject did you know the 18% of fat men who go on a bungi jump either empty their bladder or bowels during the jump, imagine that when you get to the bottom you bounce back to meet up with your own poo!! Yuck! I told you this was rude, I bet I get a letter from Mrs Whinge is disgusted from Camborne. Lots of interest in the coach trip to Torquay some want to book already!
During the last few days we have had several sellers phone to ask ‘are we on the grass’ at Falmouth and if I say NO then they will not sell in the dusty car park conditions so up to seven of our valued local customers stayed away. This means that last week alone 70 people had to go home and completely wash all their unsold stock because the winds blew high dusts onto my customers stalls when we seriously SHOULD have been on the dead ball areas which in no way affects the pitch.
Today common sense prevailed and the happiness amongst our buyers and sellers was as good as the old days back in the early nineties when we used to occupy the entire grounds. There was a great atmosphere with lots of Falmouth’s young mums doing car boots who we remember as young school kids all lovely my lovers! Proper job!
Two week ago at Truro Cattle Market the sale had been moved from MABE due to rain. Shortly after the start of the sale I saw a large bronze Greyhound Dog which I reckon weighed about ten pounds, I asked how much it was and the lady said £30.00 which I said was a fair price and if it was there on her stall later I would make her an offer. I know nothing about Bronze at all and as I put it down a regular dealer picked it up and paid the asking price as he walked past me he said “Why didn’t you buy that it’s worth about £150.00 on eBay” Well there you go I thought you learn something new every day and I checked on eBay and he was right. see picture;
One last word on the grass our Rosie said to me “When was the last time you had it on the grass?” How rude how very rude! None of your business my lover!
Amongst the sellers today was a stall surveying our customers asking personal questions about your household bills and for taking part in the survey and also parting with your home address & mobile number. They claim that you will be entered into a competition for a Mini Car WALOBS! You have more chance of King Kong moving next door to you and eating your grandchildren than winning a Mini.
Tell them NOTHING because your address and all your personal details are then sold on and on and on and you become a target for all sorts of unwanted crap in you mail box.
But here is the best tip if you want to know how to get the best possible deal on your household bills and Insurance quotes then search the Internet yourself it is amazing how much you can save and if you do not have a pc or a laptop then but one. Our Phyllis is 87 years old and loves her laptop.
So keep your information private to yourself, tell them sod-all!
Many of you will remember when we started our first ever Car Boot Sale at Mitchell ten years ago but today we have a huge problem because of its popularity. We do not have enough spaces for buyers and sellers. We do nothing to encourage the influx of people apart from this website and our directional signs, we have proven what a complete waste of money was spent by us on advertising in the West Briton when its you our customers who have spread the word! Thank you…
Back to Mitchell our problem is serious with our dispute over Councillor Tankard’s attempt to entirely disrupt traffic at our Car Boot Sale but more serious is the question of space. A further field large enough for an extra 120 cars has been provided but with the ‘selling fields’ we are planning to move downfield to provide the rightful spaces for each seller. There could be restrictions on LARGE VANS whoever the traders are with the exception of the fruit & veg stalls and catering vehicles.
There is only one option which is to ask the farmer next door if we can use his field for additional parking for Saturdays. Now then, if we were to succeed in achieving the extra land there is absolutely NO DOUBT we would have to pass the cost of this to you our customer that’s buyers and sellers alike. I have always agreed that Landlords should get realist rents for the use of their lands for our Community Car Boot Sales so to continue to provide fantastic public events to the present demand there will be increases my lovers.
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A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to one of our team when someone offered me a contact mobile number which I needed so I passed my mobile to our Dave asking him to put the number in for me. Unknown to me he had searched my numbers and sent a text to Arlin our ‘main man’ from my mobile saying You are fired’! A few minutes after leaving to collect the signs Arlin returned looking tearful and distressed and I said ‘what’s up son’ and he showed me his mobile message and I looked at Dave and said ‘you absolute bastard’ and him and I pissed ourselves laughing but Arlin did not see the funny side and took a ‘fag break’?
Now then, back to Dave, well done that was funny however what goes around comes around as they say in Cornwall! Recently Dave asked me to advertise his absolute desire to meet a nice lady to share his life and future, he wanted bliss and happiness and marriage and lots of sex and maybe a couple of kids (I wouldn’t)
I am not sure if I should take him seriously after seeing these pictures posted on Facebook by Dave looking full of bliss and happiness with Aussie John and lookalike Justin Beeber some upstart brat from Canada!
Which section shall I advertise Dave?
GOTCHA! Nice pictures mate….We all love our Aussie John and John loves the boys this is not an advert its true, he does remind me of my gay daze!
Geoff
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You have all seen the picture on our HOME PAGE of the air-view at Mitchell and I asked Gavin to give it a title Christmas Day at Mitchell 2012
You would be amazed how annoyed some people have got over my joke title to the picture but best of all I have had serious requests to hold a real Christmas Day 2013 at MITCHELL this year. What say you? Tell me, ask me?
Becky is our Manager and takes over all of the Car Boot Sales in our absence. On Thursday at Newquay she was watching a couple of ladies of foreign tongue put some clothing under their arms and only offer to pay for the one. The seller is unaware of the hidden clothes and the two ladies started to walk away from the stall.
Becky says to the ladies “Are you going to pay for the items you have just stolen from this stall” She made them pay and escorted them to the front gate and BARRED them!! GO for it Becky, that’s what I call management.
Now then do not confuse Becky with our Bex who runs Falmouth Car Boot Sales. Last Friday when she arrived to prepare the grounds for the sale a lorry was parked outside the club house so badly that sellers could not queue. Bex finds the driver and his mate and asks them in her usual polite manner to move the vehicle to which they agreed, as Bex walks away one of the men says to the other “Give them an orange jacket and they become little Hitler’s” making no effort to take the van away much to the amusement of customers who heard the confrontation.
Bex stormed back to the two blokes stood all 5 foot tall and said “Yes I am littler Hitler now move your van NOW” By hypnosis the men got into their vehicle and were gone in seconds. Bex deflated her rage but onlookers were very impressed. That’s what I call good management the van was seriously holding up our Car Boot traffic. Go for it Bex and if anyone calls you Adolph just let me know. We love BEX she is the customers favourite at Falmouth and she is a very fair person in dealings with our customers and her customer during the day where she works in the Post Office at Costcutters in Falmouth, great place for a gossip apparently she tells all her customers about the Car Boots. She is a total love, well perhaps that’s probably going a bit too far?
CARBOOTSCORNWALL; copy email for your information correspondence between ourselves and St Newlyn Parish Council.
From:
To:
Subject: RE: MITCHELL CAR BOOT SALE
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:57:29 +0000
Dear Madam,
I must report to you the details of a visit to our Car Boot Sale on Saturday of a person whom I now know to be Councillor Chris Tankard from St Newlyn East Parish Council who apparently was carrying out a traffic survey on behalf of the Council. May I complain in the strongest terms at the way in which Councillor Tankard carried out his alleged survey and the grossly offensive language he used against myself resulting in my saying to him; ‘COUNCILLOR you are using offensive language towards me and I am not prepared to discuss anything further with you’ as I walked away from him he shouted ‘What the fuck do you do for Mitchell anyway’ In part of his torrent of abuse he claimed the Landlord of Mitchell had told him that I was a complete idiot and ‘effing useless’ which conversation was emphatically denied by Mr Leggo.
Prior to my speaking with Mr Tankard I had received 2 complaints from members of my team that Mr Tankard had told them they were not doing their jobs properly and he told my Manageress that she had no rights to direct traffic at the entrance gates to the Car Boot Sale, this amounts to interference in the running of my Car Boot Sales as NO person/s outside of my management team has any authority to tell or instruct any of my staff.
I then went to speak with him to ask why he was interfering in the way in which I run my Car Boot Sales pointing out that we have NEVER had any complaints at any of our 8 other locations nor from the Police he then accused me of talking ‘a load of bollocks’ with that it was the end of the conversation.
Now then Kathryn you will see from the copy below that I accepted there was a problem the previous week when there was some build up of traffic to the Car Boot mainly due to an unprecedented increase in business due to the fine weather which I tried to explain to Mr Tankard to no avail. This man is most offensive in his manner and appearance and I will refuse to accept him at any of my Car Boot Sales therefore he is BARRED from any further communications with neither my team nor myself.
For the record we have NEVER had any complaints from the POLICE at any of our venues, they accept we are running public and COMMUNITY events and they leave our teams to do our jobs to the best of our ability and yes we have had compliments from the Police at Mitchell as recently as the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay!
What do we do for Mitchell? We provide the greatest COMMUNITY Car Boot Sale for the benefit of thousands of people throughout the season widely supported by the MITCHELL residents; customers of ours over the years have frequented the local pub for bar lunches indeed we have done promotions with the management of The Plume of Feathers. Scores of our customers over many years have supported the 4 Winds Garage in Mitchell and they have given our customers exceptional service. More of our customers go to the Cornish Rose Company in Mitchell as part of their visit to our Car Boots so yes we do bring money into Mitchell which amounts to contributing to the local COMMUNITY! Oh and by the way two of our customers recently bought property in Mitchell.
I am not sure Mr Tankard was doing too much for the local community after hearing some of the adverse comments towards him from local residents as they witnessed him sitting on the railings spying on the car boot sale ‘He looks a proper Humpty Dumpty’ said one local whilst others leaving the Car Boot told staff ‘that man is always causing trouble of some sort or other in our village’ and that was from a lady who has lived in Mitchell for over 50 years!
I must conclude with a reminder about the WORLD FAMOUS Royal Cornwall Show which is due to start next week, the organisers are targeting over 130,000 people and there will be the longest queues of cars stretching miles and miles throughout the many roads leading to WADEBRIDGE and yet no-one complains. May I respectfully suggest that Mr Tankard is severely reprimanded for his offensive attitude particularly as he alleges he was acting ‘on behalf of St Newlyn East Parish Council’ which truthfully has the shades of victimisation towards my business and my thousands of customers and I am minded to seek legal advice.
May I ask for your response please,
Respectfully,
Geoff Camden Wiles
Further copies;
4 WINDS Garage
The Plume of Feathers
Cornish Rose Company
Geoff Says
Louise Camden Wiles
Rachel Steadman
Becky Steadman
ARLIN
Dear Kathryn,
Further to my email of yesterday I have now had time to interview two of my staff who advised me of the confrontation caused by Mr Tankard the previous week when he insisted at shouting and swearing at my staff about he did not want all the traffic because he lives in Mitchell but deliberately holding up the queue of traffic by refusing to move his car from the entrance to the Car Boot Sales by up to 3 minutes which obviously had an adverse affect of the traffic flow causing the queue of traffic on the slip road.
The management staffs is perfectly reliable and would be prepared to talk to yourself to tell you of their experiences with Mr Tankard and of the offensive attitude and language in his attempt to thwart our progress in dealing with our Community Car Boot Sale traffic.
There are going to be lots of buyers and sellers over this weekend at our 4 locations we anticipate our busiest ever weekend this year so listen to the warning and tell your friends!
Look after what is yours! Enjoy our Car Boot Sales at MITCHELL at 1.00 pm on SATURDAY and at NEWQUAY CIRCUS FIELDS at 3.00 pm and at MABE on SUNDAY at 1.30 pm & LANHYDROCK at 3.00 pm
Quick story; Many of you know Louise is a legal executive she was asked to do a complete house clearance for PROBATE at the home of Mr J who had passed away. Lou’s job to sell the entire contents of the 2 bedroomed house within a few days as the property was going to be marketed for selling.
She had advertised some of the furniture on eBay, today a lady phoned to say she was absolutely desperate to buy the almost new bed that was advertised. Lou normally advises NO DEAL so wait till the end of the auction however the lady seemed genuine in her pleas so without a bid on the bed Lou agreed. The lady then goes to the hole in the wall machine at ASDA gets in the car and drives to meet Louise at the house.
Halfway there the lady realizes she had forgotten to take the money our of the hole in the wall and does a U-Turn after ringing ASDA and telling the ‘I drew fifty pounds from the machine today and left it there’ and guess what? Someone and that someone was a really honest person found and took the money to ASDA reception and handed it in much to the relief of the bed buyer who got a real bargain on the bed but how careless and how lucky!
Yesterday a young mum has her four hundred pounds mobile phone stolen from her open door car! Come on ladies wake up its usually the men who are dilatory!!
Ps; So why did she want the bed so badly? because her springs were coming through due to ‘so much action’ do it on a single bed its much more fun. Sleep well you lucky lass. X
HAVE a GREAT weekend its going to be good weather!
my opinion;
Busiest Car Boot of the weekend will be Mitchell!
Best BARGAINS; Newquay at 3.00 pm the phone has not stopped with enquiries!
Customers favourite our survey says! MABE on SUNDAYS
BEST POTENTIAL for Jewellery & collectables is LANHYDROCK on SUNDAY at 3.00 pm
Bring him indoors to pay for the goods and carry them to the car whilst he texts the girlfriend my lovers!!
