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About 10 years ago one of our customers asked if we could find a new home for two budgies and we suggested our Phyllis should have then as they would be good company for her particularly as she had recently lost her dear husband.
She gladly took them and they became TARZAN & JANE sadly Jane died two years ago and last week I received a text from Phyllis to say Tarzan had died. She tells us that her home is empty of the happiness Tarzan & Jane created with Tarzy living over 14 years.
If any of you know of a Budgie seeking a new home I will assure you it will be well looked after. Our Phyllis is 87 years old still very active as she attends the sales at MABE, FALMOUTH & TRURO each week and would love to have another budgie because they are such great company!
Any offers talk to Louise or me at any of our sales.
Thank you,
Geoff & Lou
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In the 1970/80s I used to run a most popular Bingo & Social Club Majestic in Newcastle upon Tyne. To promote the business we would use television personalities to make ‘Personal Appearances’ paying them a respectable fee to visit the Bingo Club during the sessions. Ena Sharples, Dennis Tanner, Elsie Tanner and several other well known stars from Corry Street paid their visits to the applause and appreciation of our Bingo players. I did a deal to present Len Fairclough to a sell out crowd of 1800 bingo players. A chauffeur arrived in the afternoon to say he had brought Peter Adamson and I invited the driver to bring him to my office. The driver apologised that he could not manage to bring Adamson as he was absolutely ‘pissed out of his mind’ I went down to the car to see Fairclough slumped over the back seat of the car drunk!
His wife apologised for the state he was in and I suggested that he should sleep in my office until his ‘personal appearance’ at 7.30pm. We left him locked in the office with a jug of black coffee to sleep off his drunken state. On the advice of the driver I had hid a couple of bottles of spirits in the filing cabinets to prevent Fairclough drinking further, he took over the office to ‘sleep it off’ and I returned to him one hour before his stage appearance to check on his state, I was stunned and shocked to see him still paralytic with drink! It seems he had searched my desk & filing cabinets looking for drink where he found and drank a full bottle of Smirnoff Vodka, to complete his drunken act he urinated on my office furniture despite toilet facilities being available. His dear wife who was crippled with arthritis broke into tears when she saw him and staff comforted her while I dealt with the situation of presenting him to the Geordie public.
At 7.30pm I went on stage to announce Fairclough saying “I promised to bring Len Fairclough to you tonight and I am sorry about the state he is in Ladies & Gentleman Len Fairclough-Peter Adamson” The doors at the back of the Bingo Hall opened with two security men bringing Fairclough to the stage almost ‘frogmarching’ him to a round of polite applause through the masses of Bingo players. He stumbled upstage, I handed him the mike and he started slurring half sentences and words which the Geordie crowd could not understand. In Newcastle, they are a hard crowd but once I had won their respect I was treated with great love respect and friendship over many years from multi thousands of Bingo players, the crowd could see the humiliation and started stamping their feet and booing as I instructed for Fairclough to be taken away back to the office.
Some of the most loyal threatened him as he was escorted away however he was eventually ushered to the front of house (without payment) and departed the Majestic with the message soundly ringing in his ears that he would never work for my company again. To complete his act of self humiliation to all concerned he vomited as soon as he got into the back of the Mercedes chauffeur driven limousine. In the early 1980s Fairclough brought shame on Corry Street with a case against him of child abuse at a swimming pool. Peter Adamson alias Len Fairclough died recently a penniless recluse he showed no respect to his wife his public his fellow workers and children were not safe in his company!
Good riddance!
Geoff
Name: paula and paul
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Subject: car boot sale
Telephone: 07952865130
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Message: hi there with reference to the car boot sale being run at plymouth, could your please add this carboot to you your directory as follows: elburton villa football ground every friday at 4pm sellers £5 vans £10 haye rd elburton pl9 8hs, plymouth devon thanks geof and louise,paula and paul
Back to Mitchell today after last week’s fiasco with some part time ‘I’m a nosey journalist’ from Auntie BBC spouting on about dogs which I will deal with on Monday and I assure you it will be ‘fun reading’ for you but not Lorry, his nickname!
The weather in Newquay was torrential rain but only 4 miles up the road at Mitchell we had sun for most of the day only a very slight drizzle towards the end of the sale which was great to watch as sellers packed up in a hurry before getting soaked. All was going well nearly 200 sellers up to 3800 on site, about 2.00pm someone brought a boy who was lost but he didn’t seem at all distressed told me his name was Vinny and his family were staying at Monkey Tree and he was 8 years old the same age by coincidence the same age as those thieving little bratz from yesterday. As he had what I considered a good sense of humour I thought lets ‘wind him up-revenge time’
“Right Vinny what happens is you stay here by my car so you can look for your parents if they don’t arrive within 20 minutes WE SELL YOU how much does you think we will get a fiver or more” ‘You aren’t selling me but I am worth a lot more than that’ “OK that’s fair but we will expect a reward when they find you” I then offered would you like and Ice Cream took him to the trailer where he opted for a Chocolate flavour cornet and I convinced him to ‘go for the LARGE one’. Once he had taken the first lick I demanded he pay £1.60 for the ice, he was so gobsmacked the ice fell out of the cornet and with one grubby hand he picked up the chocolate and rammed it back into the cornet and continued eating telling me he had no money. Back at the car I told him about the kids yesterday who had bunked off without paying just like you did with the ice cream which he found very funny when he spotted his family who all wanted to know where had he been and he said this man has been looking after me and he wants a reward, they thanked me and said come on Vinny lets go and he replied ‘Nope I am staying here with him’ That will be a NOPE from me as well but I said he owes us for the ice cream and is there a reward please! Sadly that was also a NOPE-keep him! Nice kid, nice family did the right thing by coming to us we treat them well.
About two years ago we had 3 kids 2 girls one boy aged five four and 3 and I discovered they were from a family of 5 little monsters. I did the ice-cream routine and allowed them FREE rides on the Bouncy Castle to amuse them whilst waiting for Mum & Dad who according the kids were selling at one of the stalls. Two weeks later the same threesome came up and said ‘Excuse me we are lost again’ “Oh no you are NOT” said I. Another nice little family the kids often come to talk whilst their parents are selling their toys! Hah.
The last kid we found at Mitchell was truly upset about being lost and his parent’s reaction was to shout and threaten the poor lad which was sheer stupidity, as I explained to Vinny its not you that’s lost its your parents at least YOU know where you are!!
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The biggest is not always the best its up to you to find out by visiting all of them or ask Marge!
Is that really your name?
Regards,
GEOFF
www.carbootscornwall.co.uk
One of our sellers has returned home only to find a POWER-RANGERS Wallet in one of their boxes, in the wallet there is an ARGOS gift card and a game card voucher!
If you have lost the above Miss Betts of Falmouth will be pleased to hear from you, I have her phone number so give me a call!
I hope it belongs to one of those little bratz who conned me on Friday I could end up being quids in!
Geoff
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Friday; Falmouth Rugby Club now in our 24th year!
Great day at Falmouth and at last the Rugby Club has allowed us to go onto the ‘dead ball GRASSED areas’ for selling and parking which caused a lot of pleasure to our sellers and buyers. The ground conditions have always been the subject of complaints over the years and it is high time the COUNCIL who are the owners of this land to do the decent thing and provide a tarmac surface for the Falmouth Rugby Club before there is a serious accident.
Shortly before I parked up all of the seller’s two young lads came up laden with carrier bags to ask if they could sell without a car, they had needed some pocket money and decided to get rid of all their unwanted books and toys so raided their bedrooms and were ready for the sale! I parked them just behind my car and the deal was they would come to me at the end of the sale and pay me the rent they thought would be fair to them and me!
The sale started with over 70 sellers and about 1800 people in all turned up to the event, I noticed the lads had displayed a really tidy stall on the ground on a borrowed blanket and several customers were buying bits and bobs from them and I was pleased with them for making such a determined effort.
Towards the end of the sale I mentioned to Lou about the boys and said I would go get some rent from them. Guess what? They had ‘buggered off’ without paying which is exactly what I would have done at the same age! Little brats!
Just imagine me having to explain to Lou I had been CONNED by 2 little boys of about 9 years old.
Geoff
Ps; But I do know their mums and I am quite good at telling tales! Hah!
Proud to be part of the COMMUNITY.
Are YOU reading ‘50 SHADES of GREY’? We enjoy studying people particularly when they arrive early in the selling queues I was interested in what our women customers do whilst waiting for the Car Boot to start. Some of them have organised picnics others spend the entire time on their mobiles whilst 20% of them read. This is rent collecting time so Lou gets time to speak with drivers but over last weekend she noticed more ladies reading than ever before and out of 100 sellers at MABE 14 of them was reading 50 Shades of GREY an alleged ‘very horny’ 3 volumes book.
I had noticed over recent weeks that several of our real regular ladies had a certain ‘spring in their step’ and seemed happy and content with their lot, more so than in recent months could it be 50 SHADES which is a bestselling blockbuster number 1 Book of the Year! Our lady Lynne of double glazing fame drove past me as she was leaving the other day her face looking decidedly like a ‘hot flush’ saying “I am going home to read the rest of this book it is so good I cannot put it down” and with a saucy wink she drove off! I suggested to Lou that she should buy it but typical her she said No, I will be able to buy one at the boot sale for a pound before long’ so as a rare treat I decided to buy part one of the trilogy and give it Marge to read and review it for our lady customers once I agreed her enormous fee.
This book was the talk of the sales Doreen was reading it for the second time; Rosie came over all funny by page 83 the happiness in her smile as she rushed off home to read more and have her husband bringing cups of coffee content that his wife was happy whilst he was in his shed having a sly pint. Annie told me she ‘loves it’ but I dont think she was talking about the book? Margaret raved about it Marge’s Rachel had read the 3 volumes overnight and Marge herself told me ‘I am up to page 14 and nothing has happened yet’ she can be so impatient at times but I did notice she rushed off home earlier on Tuesday after her ‘whistle stop’ tour of the ‘nookey’ car boot.
Her man Richard is so well trained he will have her slippers and gin & tonic waiting for her when she gets home to continue her review after showing him ‘this is what I bought today’ Lovely family and we await Marge’s review however I was talking to Ben my mate and he says ‘Oh my missus has read it and by the middle of book TWO she said it wasn’t very good but she continued to the last page of book THREE!
Guess what? Lou bought her book for ONE POUND at Newquay has read half, not that impressed does not like the plot and promises to send the book to my mother-in-law! OMG sex is what they put coal in according to her, very nice posh voice! I am not going to read it, having been married 4 times (so far) and lived with 9 lovely women and losing my virginity at 15 (months) I am considering a book of my own! Apparently the author of 50 shags of grey wrote the book slowly because he knows Marge cannot read fast.
Geoff
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ps; Marge is Tee-total
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Comments on the ‘I’m a journalist who like to poke his nose’ ranged today from 3 listeners to his DRUDGE gas bagging tripe were; 1.Thank god someone has told him where to go! 2. That man is SOO up HIMSELF! 3. He is a complete LIAR and changes the truth to suit his programme! 4. Question to Geoff; Whats his name? I dont know and I dont need to but he certainly knows mine! 5. Who is his best friend? His MIRROR of course! 6. What is his illness-Verbal Diarrhea of course! No more please.
Marge was away today, I knew I should not have asked to to review Fifty shags of Grey! By the way the critics so far have given the book a HUGE thumbs down apart from Lady Lynne who bought her copy from the Ann Summers shop in Truro. Whatever else she bought is left to your imagination but I am told it needs a pump! We will have to ask Sue! Which Sue, I am not telling you but her husband rides a throbbing machine to our boot sales-what a clue!
8 pictures from today at Newquay and somewhere else……………….FRIDAY at Falmouth could be busy….. x