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Jul 16, 2018 11:50:51 GMT
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I notice you glossed over the 2nd book................  I was a bit (lot) angry when I did the update. My updates will be changing a lot in future. Yes the book is for my guest bathroom. Always leads to people taking a lot longer to get out there. |
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Jul 17, 2018 18:12:12 GMT
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Jul 22, 2018 19:26:25 GMT
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Woken at 03.00 Could not get back to sleep.  Chatted to Dennis for about 45 minutes. Bootfairs paid off.  New, unused Olney hat £2.00   A bit of research...  My other favourite....... Aluminium safety hat, like new..... 50p  Could be an industrial style lampshade, or possibly I could try drawing onto it with a Sharpie and then engrave some scenery on it. Other items included a pair of lump hammers, one for me, one for mate Craig, £1.00 each. Safety glasses, 50p/pair Large hip flask £1.00 D-shackles 50p each Two Desperado glasses 50p each Mug 50p Quirky new Scarf for Joy £1.00 Toy for Wyzz 30p Bearing scraper 20p Radio (working) for my kitchen 50p Working calculator for my office 50p Grinding and cutting discs 30 for £8.00 Then back home to do ironing, clean house and then head for garage. |
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Jul 22, 2018 21:24:48 GMT
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Bootfairs paid off. Other items included a pair of lump hammers, one for me, one for mate Craig, £1.00 each. Safety glasses, 50p/pair Large hip flask £1.00 D-shackles 50p each Two Desperado glasses 50p each Mug 50p Quirky new Scarf for Joy £1.00 Toy for Wyzz 30p Bearing scraper 20p Radio (working) for my kitchen 50p Working calculator for my office 50p Grinding and cutting discs 30 for £8.00 may I do the Brighton version of boot fairs with your list? If those things were here, it would go a little something like this; a pair of lump hammers, one for me, one for mate Craig. yeah they're vintage mate £30 each. Safety glasses. a lot of people are wearing these at the moment mate £65 pair Large hipster flask £120 D-shackles, big on the gay scene right now, galvanised which is better, I dunno why it is better though. £8 each, I can sort you out some chain as well mate, only a tenner a foot/ you wont get it it any cheaper trust me Two Desperado glasses, nicked from a pub but they're original, well futile £7 each. £7? but you stole them? yeah it is what it is mate Mug (starting to wonder who the mug is at this point) Quirky new Scarf for Joy, oh its a present? she will love it, its only £45 Toy for Wyzz. you have a dog? must be rich... all dogs love these mate, especially your French bulldogs £10 Bearing scraper, priceless. as no one will know what it is, no one will ask how much it is. although some kid with a moustache and a top hat will mumble something to his mate about it being Vintáge Radio (working) for my kitchen, 50p, too new and ordinary to sell for loads and get shafted, you may well get one for 50p. Working calculator for my office, needless to say the £20 asking price will be explained with over used adjectives; retro, vintage, oldschool digital etc Grinding and cutting discs 30 for £8.00 - these will sit unsold, only clean handed folk live here, getting your hands dirty is not a good look. despite this, I still go to the Brighton marina boot fair often. didn't get anything but saw a skull I liked. it wasn't anything majorly crazy but it was £90. so it didn't come home |
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Jul 22, 2018 21:48:29 GMT
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Bootfairs paid off. Other items included a pair of lump hammers, one for me, one for mate Craig, £1.00 each. Safety glasses, 50p/pair Large hip flask £1.00 D-shackles 50p each Two Desperado glasses 50p each Mug 50p Quirky new Scarf for Joy £1.00 Toy for Wyzz 30p Bearing scraper 20p Radio (working) for my kitchen 50p Working calculator for my office 50p Grinding and cutting discs 30 for £8.00 may I do the Brighton version of boot fairs with your list? If those things were here, it would go a little something like this; a pair of lump hammers, one for me, one for mate Craig. yeah they're vintage mate £30 each. Safety glasses. a lot of people are wearing these at the moment mate £65 pair Large hipster flask £120 D-shackles, big on the gay scene right now, galvanised which is better, I dunno why it is better though. £8 each, I can sort you out some chain as well mate, only a tenner a foot/ you wont get it it any cheaper trust me Two Desperado glasses, nicked from a pub but they're original, well futile £7 each. £7? but you stole them? yeah it is what it is mate Mug (starting to wonder who the mug is at this point) Quirky new Scarf for Joy, oh its a present? she will love it, its only £45 Toy for Wyzz. you have a dog? must be rich... all dogs love these mate, especially your French bulldogs £10 Bearing scraper, priceless. as no one will know what it is, no one will ask how much it is. although some kid with a moustache and a top hat will mumble something to his mate about it being Vintáge Radio (working) for my kitchen, 50p, too new and ordinary to sell for loads and get shafted, you may well get one for 50p. Working calculator for my office, needless to say the £20 asking price will be explained with over used adjectives; retro, vintage, oldschool digital etc Grinding and cutting discs 30 for £8.00 - these will sit unsold, only clean handed folk live here, getting your hands dirty is not a good look. despite this, I still go to the Brighton marina boot fair often. didn't get anything but saw a skull I liked. it wasn't anything majorly crazy but it was £90. so it didn't come home Brilliant, if sad reply. But you are right about most of it. Thenscarf would not have been cheap, did not take a pic, but rare, quirky, vintage, any other bull descriptions would suffice. I did look at some spanner’s, mainly a Snail brand, the guy wanted £2.00 “because it’s a big one” when I walked away he tried £1.50 which is still a good price, but I know they are sometimes 20p to 50p and only want it for a friend in Winfield, Kansas. Same as King Dick spanner’s I buy cheaply, they are silly gifts for mates, not rare, priceless etc. Mug..... yep, at least you know the rules. |
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Jul 22, 2018 22:27:38 GMT
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Not a good day for Bootfairs. The larger One has shut down for the rest of the year, due to trading laws, which means they can only use a site so many times per year, and the second site they usually move to has been closed down this year, as it will be developed into an housing estate. So the smaller site was operating. But with less than half the field occupied by 06.30 when I got there, usually it’s a lot fuller even by then. So I did not hold out much hope, and seeing hordes of Eastern Europeans flocking the site meant some shoving and being walked out the ground, fortunately I am larger than life and only got shoved once. I walked the rows and there was very little of interest, and I tend to avoid tables when there are 10 young men milling about, all speaking foreign and getting way too close inside my personal space, I had been attempted to get pick pocketed a few years ago by a man, I got his hand on my wallet in my pocket, and landed a flat handed slap to the side of his head, this really pisssed Nicola off at the time as she was worried I could have been assaulted by a gang, but I told her in no uncertain terms to not even go there, she may have understood. So by the time I got to the second row, after starting out, I saw some bits, randomly on a table. Seller a super nice guy, chatted with him for about 15 minutes in the end. Bought a few things off him.  Some 150mm Velcro 320 grit sanding discs for when I get to that on the truck. £5.00/50 per box, one box for mate Martin. Or about $7.50 per box  3mm drill bits 10/pack £5.00 took all four as they are disposable these days. Or $7.50 for 10 12mm HSS drill bit £1.00 or about $1.50  So the Bootfair was not a total bust. Came home and now it is raining, perfect to break the long hot spell, and stop me from grinding a truck fender  Hope everyone else got a good bunch of stuff at other sales. |
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Last Edit: Jul 29, 2018 9:43:58 GMT by grizz
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Woke up to the rain,so decided to can the bootfair. Sanding discs look good. Wurth drills,from my experience from my last job,are very hit and miss. They buy from whoever and repackage them. Had some that lasted for ages,others that would go blunt quicker than you could spell it. Soft as hell when you came to resharpen them..
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Jul 29, 2018 10:01:50 GMT
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Woke up to the rain,so decided to can the bootfair. Sanding discs look good. Wurth drills,from my experience from my last job,are very hit and miss. They buy from whoever and repackage them. Had some that lasted for ages,others that would go blunt quicker than you could spell it. Soft as hell when you came to resharpen them.. Totally agree on supplier dictating quality. It’s a risk, but at that price...... Possibly worth taking. |
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Took a day off Friday to get a load of yard work and hedges done as my back is so knackered now that I cannot just do it in one long push. I had planned for Sunday to get into the garage to start on the front fenders. Not happening in the end. Got a movie date at 2.30  Today’s mini haul.   Beer bucket for Craig £1.00 Weird Norwegian mug 50p Gruffalo mug 20p Toy for dog 50p Bottles of nails 50p each CD’s for myself 20p each Snail Brand spanner 50p Not quite Bootfair but still a bargain, traded anew Bahco wrench for six beers on Friday evening.  |
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Last Edit: Aug 5, 2018 11:04:36 GMT by grizz
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Nice job Grizz. I love to swap. Much more satisfying than paying for things. Today SWMBO, 3 youngestkids and I went to the monthly bird market. One seller had a few tools. Got this saw for 25 quid! Very happy with that. My aldi one died in a ball of smoke a while back.This one looks brand new. And yes it works  DSC_2735 by quickrack, on Flickr  DSC_2736 by quickrack, on Flickr  DSC_2744 by quickrack, on Flickr |
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Aug 12, 2018 17:01:14 GMT
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Total bust at both Bootfairs today. Bought a load of fruits, tomatoes and cucumbers for £4.00 Also a large, wooden scarf for £1.00 for Joy Blocks £1.00 for my place Crocodile for the dog 20p  |
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Aug 19, 2018 14:27:13 GMT
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After a few months of not getting much I liked at bootfairs today started out slow at 06.30 after I was awake from stupid-0-clock.
In the end I got home after 12.00 which is a record from about 5 years ago when they used to deliver.
A lot of the stuff may seem incredibly random, and it is too......
But remember that I shop for a few people, and some of the stuff I get is for my own pleasure.
I am just getting ready to do a BBQ for 10 as Joy wanted to do it at her place which is not really ideally set of for a good South African style Braai/BBQ so I offered my place to celebrate her dad who died a year ago.
It should be a good afternoon.
Report and photos later if you guys are still about.
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Well, Bootfairs were a winner yesterday. Left home and in the fields by 6.30 for first one, of course while you are at one Bootfair, the buying does not stop at the other...... so think of all the missed rubbish you could buy. First blood was this little number for craigrk for his daughter. All of £1.00  Next up another item not for myself, but at 50p for friend Bryan MR TIKI who owns the little Imp, it was a no brainier. Same seller had a Ladybird Book for 50p on how to survive a Zombie attack. The reason I bought the book for Bryan was because he and son Harrison built, rather than bought a Millenium falcon a few years ago, now to me that is quality family time and top parenting.   Item no 3 was again not for me, but for Joys daughter, who runs a an acting and dance school, she needs to move large props, stage floors etc, and recently her sack barrow went missing. Photo was for her to choose one, the rusty, better one for £5.00 was chosen. At the same table I got 4 spanner’s and an unused rasp for £1.00 Seller took pic to WhatsApp to Dayzee.  Then another £1.00 spent on a complete and hardly used Impact driver, I used one a lot on dismantling my Chevy truck. This will replace the one I have as its well used.  Time for a WTF? Last year the same seller appeared once at a Bootfair and I bought a load from her. Yesterday she was back, selling the usual tat, but also having a car full of very pretty tights. I texted a friend in South Africa who works as a senior PA in banking and always dresses immaculately for workto see if she wanted more again. Dùlce was straight back on the phone calling me on WhatsApp video to select 20 different pairs of tights for £14.00 which compares rather favourably with the typical £5.00 per pair for this sort of thing in shops. Also, in South Africa she has no access to this much selection and variety plus top quality. craigrk will ask his wife to deliver the next time she or he heads back there, so worth the effort.  Randomly bought soft toys to put away for winter, for Joys dog Wyzz, he likes his soft toys and therapeutic destruction of them means the house is spared. Mostly 50p per toy, some 20p. Thenhat, with original box, in the background bought for resale, cost £3.00whichmclearly is a lot less than retail.   Next pile, CD’s for various applications around 20p each, new Johnny Cash triple pack for road trip. Two for Joy. Books discussed already and cup 30p for Joy, cup,and saucer £1.00 Gloves are full Retro ladies driving gloves.........unused, new for sale too. Love them. Key ring bear thing for a friend 50p   Last pile. Tools, spanner’s and rasp £1.00/5 items Tin snips 50p Vintage scribe 50p Key safe £1.00 Gloves for Joys daughter £1.00/pair. Industrial cling film £1.00 per roll for me and Craig. Clay statue £2.00 for me   Socket organisers £1.00 for both.  Not totalled up what the day cost me, but pretty certain I had a decent day. |
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Aug 20, 2018 20:43:16 GMT
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thanks Rian,we may just have to do a restoration job when the book arrives.   this is from 7 years ago,it was finished and then played with until it started to come apart. |
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Aug 20, 2018 20:59:36 GMT
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Never seen anything like those socket trays. Very very cool find Grizz. |
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Aug 20, 2018 21:24:43 GMT
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Top hauling there, the socket trays would sort me right out. But this gives me the creeps massively, so its awesome. Ive not done a carboot for a while but one of the locals has got a 2 day bank holiday monster this weekend. Well it was huge last year so I'm expecting the same this time, and its an 11am start, so i even get a lay-in. |
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I notice you glossed over the 2nd book................ I was a bit (lot) angry when I did the update. My updates will be changing a lot in future. Yes the book is for my guest bathroom. Always leads to people taking a lot longer to get out there. Interestingly, a guy in Texas saw the book and commented about me posting pages of it for everyone’s entertainment, so I sent him a PM to offer it to him, so now it lives in a bathroom over in Texas. He sent me some number plates last week. |
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thanks Rian,we may just have to do a restoration job when the book arrives. this is from 7 years ago,it was finished and then played with until it started to come apart. I will get it in the post soon, it’s already in the envelope, just need to print off a large address. Never seen anything like those socket trays. Very very cool find Grizz. Thanks Allan, yes I liked it too, seller said he used to have loads. Would buy another if it came up. Top hauling there, the socket trays would sort me right out. But this gives me the creeps massively, so its awesome. Ive not done a carboot for a while but one of the locals has got a 2 day bank holiday monster this weekend. Well it was huge last year so I'm expecting the same this time, and its an 11am start, so i even get a lay-in. Funny that, not the creeps, but made me want it. Seller is agouse clearances, said he had picked it up on the Friday. To me it is handmade, and certainly humorous |
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this is from 7 years ago,it was finished and then played with until it started to come apart.