Sunday weather was promised bright sunshine all day but it rained in a lot of areas so I did not expect more than 70 sellers to turn up but the pleasant surprise was from about 11 the weather changed therefore there were a lot of last minute decisions “Let’s SELL” a total of 107 arrived to sell and I seriously believed that all stallholder will have taken good money. Two stallholder I spoke with admitted takings of over £300.00 and some of the dealers had a field day with some exceptional BARGAINS! One of the buyers showed me some very collectable pottery which was bought for a mere TEN pounds and will certainly sell for hundreds. The genuine deals and bargains were out there my lovers and when you see the RUSH of buyers as the HORN starts the sale I don’t blame them at all because I had a good look around the stalls and I know there was money to be made from both sides of the counter!

Did you see the Rolls Royce seller? They say its a bit of a ‘status symbol’ to own a Roller but it was a great deal of smugness to have one of them arrive at our Car Boot Sale loaded up to the hilt with good sellable item. I had a chat with the driver who was ‘doing it all for charity’ with the stall next door to him. I said I would plug the charity called EMMAUS UK which their logo claims “The homeless Charity that works” and its president is Terry Waite CBE no less. He is the bloke who went on a hostage holiday for 5 years in the Lebanon you will remember. Terry was also assistant to that Robert Runtie the old Arch Bish of somewhere or other!
Anyway back to the stall next door the young ladies attending to the stall worked hard to raise monies for this charity and I admired the effort they had put in to raise the funds, I hope that all the funds raised actually goes to the charity itself!
Too often there are appeals “Will you give £3.00 a month” from your hard earning for this or that charity or you can spend a further £3.00 to adopt some grizzly animal that would fooking EAT you sooner than say ‘thanks for your three quid’s mate’

As most of you know Lou and I don’t do Christmas and here is another reason why! I know of a dealer who is ruthless in purchasing driving hard bargains from the stalls and then bragging about the profit made from some gullible sellers. The dealer throughout the year makes exceptionally good money from the booters and was overheard bragging “I have only bought two presents for the kids so far which cost me a thousand pounds’ That pisses me off unbelievably, when I was a kid in the home during the war all I got for Christmas was a book and a box of liquorice allsorts, I had to share the sweets with the other kids and I couldn’t fricking read!!

Have a nice time don’t overspend and you can always ask me to look after your credit cards with my trusty pair of scissors. In a few weeks time we will be in our 25th Year of running Car Boots Cornwall and hopefully we can organise some special events. Do you know Marge has been with us all those years and she doesn’t look a day older, not from a distance anyway! Love y’all. Geoff x

Thanks for the card Marge same as last year, I reckon she bought the box several years ago from one of my sales it said on the back of the card 1/9p that’s one and nine pence OLD MONEY!!

Ps; A lovely lady came to say she loves this column but is frightened to be seen talking to me because she might become victim of one of my blogs. I wouldn’t do that! X