Friday at Falmouth came back to life at the Rugby grounds with 40 sellers and lots of buyers but the very poor car park surface and high winds did not do much for the stocks of the sellers, time and again we get complaints to improve and repair all the holes but club funds could not afford the costs for the whole area which would probably be up to forty thousand pounds. It’s still a good boot sale well supported by locals and the student population and it’s great to meet up with so many regulars we have know since 1989 when we had our first ever Car Boot Sale.

Saturday at Mitchell for its second car boot this year was hugely successful with a great atmosphere and close on 3000 people enjoying the sunny but cold afternoon in the open air and getting some exercise. Now then a quick summary of our buying customers reveals that clothing for all ages is top of the buyer’s lists, we see bagfuls of clothing being bought from stalls some for members of the family some to be sold on eBay but sellers have been generous with BARGAINS GALORE! Think about your prices don’t be too cheap, I was at a stall in Truro one day when a lady who wanted to buy a pair of good quality ladies green suede boots asked a 10 year old ‘how much are these boots’ and the 3 year old sister butted in “A penny” the brother said ‘no its not Melanie’ and the two of them had a right set-to until mother arrived from serving another customer. She resolved the problem by selling the boots to the lady for only two quid or my estimated eBay price forty quid! If you think you have had an absolute BARGAIN tell me about them and I will tell our readers! What’s the best bargain you have ever bought?

BLOODY Seagulls are paying interest in our Car Boots and I would ask everyone especially tourists DO NOT FEED THE SEAGULLS. I was chatting to one of our Truro regulars I had not seen for a while and I noticed a scar on her face ‘how did you do that’ I asked? The lady explained she lived in St Ives and was passing an ice-cream to a child when a seagull appeared from nowhere made a grab for the ice cream and its beak crashed into my lady friends face. The bloody bird had crushed all of the flesh surrounding the right side of her face and I could have cried for her as she told me the amount pain and torment over many months and that a lot of permanent damage has been done to her flesh and cheek muscles. What a crap year she has had, bloody seagulls! At the end of our conversation I asked “So, how many marks out of ten would you give for your life so far” Her reply was a disappointing 4 out of ten.

So, how many marks out of ten would you give your life so far? Sit and think about it seriously, sod the debts if you can’t pay them so don’t pay them! Let’s say if your score is less than four out of ten then that’s pretty bad, my lovers. If you are over 6 out of 10 then you are heading in the right direction, any of you 8 or above then that’s brilliant but if you are a 10 out of ten and if you know someone and love them who is below 4 then please help them out, but don’t lend them any money just give it to them. What!! Bottom line; if you see anyone worse off than you are help them out, you couldn’t give me a few quid please we have had a shocking winter? Honest!

SUNDAY! WOW!! The gossip and complaints about HAYLE and how they tried to run their Sunday Morning Car Boot Sales like we do at CARBOOTSCORNWALL and the total confusion and the traffic hold-ups and the ‘Geoff wouldn’t of done it like this’ and the moans and groans as the dealers (that’s you and me) were held up whilst the buyers ‘yes’ the buyers were going around the other sellers stall and buying up the effing bargains!! What a cock-up the witnesses told me! What a shame I told them because during the winter Car Boots Cornwall with our teams offered £15,000.00 that’s fifteen thousand pounds to the club to allow us to run their Car Boot Sales with the rest of our group and guarantee them a better income than they are achieving at present and we would have been happy to start a mid-week Market. They didn’t even reply.
It is fair to say the Hayle Rugby Club is run by a committee we do not respond to committee’s as we deal with all of our Landlady and Landlords on a one to one basis that’s me and them. My interest is not in the money but to see all Car Boot Sales in the South West operating in the same way as our group for FAIR PLAY to all concerned for buyers and sellers alike! And it works!

MABE on Sunday was a miserable day with under 100 sellers but again the MABE crowds turned out with their usual support and enthusiasm, it was lovely to see so many of the old farts and fartesses had wintered so well and families had responded to my calls to ‘bring mother’ some of the lads from our teams are stunned at seeing so many gorgeous women and young mums at our car boots. I collected the 40ps at Falmouth on Friday for the rugby club funds and was pleasantly surprised by some of the very pretty students and mummies who come to the rugby grounds! But no-one prettier than our Becky who returns next week to ‘boss about’ the main gate again, now in her fifth year!
Wait for the summer season lads when these mums set up their stalls you can see more ‘lady builders bums’ than anywhere else in the country, what do you think I do the job for??

Back to MABE nice crowd of just under 2000 people and there were some great bargains with lots of new faces as sellers. MABE is popular as it is a real country road location with spectacular views now in its 16th year with hundreds of Sunday customers driving all around the varied SUNDAY sales from Hayle to Carn Brea to Pool Market to St Austell Council Offices to Withiel to Par Moor Road only to end their day at the fabulous and best of them all M A B E!!

Yo, you remember I am asking for people’s opinion of which day we should run LONG ROCK Wednesday is winning so far but the email replies are taking it all too seriously, we will discuss the positives and negatives soon, but fella’s don’t take it all so serious my lovelies, it’s a promise we will be there in 4 to five weeks! Thank you for responding to my ‘I only want a HUG’ that Rosie took it all too serious by near flooring me with a Rugby tackle type of HUGG!
Thank you for your support, Bring Mother, we need her 50ps please!

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