2 Dayer at Swinderby tomorrow and Sat. Some of the usual bods will be there, namely Me, Dan Carter (and his unstoppable sex machine + tins), John and Kathy Emmett, Simon and Carol Hadwick. Come along theres bargains to be had.

My stall is easy to spot, full of tat!

Sadly off bottle digging for the week

It was a poor show, poorly organised. The allocated stalls were in and setting up nearly an hour before the unallocated ones. The stalls down to the end of the runway were sparsely viewed and many people had a bad day.
I wont be stalling here again. Pretty unhappy all in all. Once again I tip my hat to IACF - their greed is slowly killing the trade.....

Yep Jez you are spot on IACF are killing their own golden goose. As you know at Ardingly they charge £20 for TRADE at 9 am. The fact that trading has been going on since 6am and some on Thurs nite seems irrelevant to them. BUT ....................the greedy bastards know it going on because they now charge £50 or £60 !! for trade at 6.30 !!

So IACF is trade 6.30 or 9.00 ? Is trade £20 or £50. Also they let cars and vans bomb round the site willy nilly all morning. In the past pick ups were only allowed later in the afternoon. Sooner or later there is going to be a nasty accident at Ardingly.

I hear on the grapevine Swinderby is going to be re-marketed as " Swindleby " ....sounds about right !

Lummox

Who'd be a bloody Show organiser.

It aint an easy call in the 'hot seat' - very easy to criticise.... others aren't out there to risk trying to compete/ offer better tho'?

The UK SummerNational this yr cost me £14k to stage - but folks rarely appreciate the huge gamble/ cost of such - "yeah but did you see that EE queue" or "yeah but look at the auction total?"

You can only please some of the people some of the time - but, sadly, the biggies, like IACF), are stuck with large day to day running costs... but we can all see from this side of the fence - they're slowly strangling themselves.

Still amazes me how many 'bottlers'/ 'advertising collectors' pay large one day/ EE fees - fer seemingly little REAL 'fresh ter market' goods. It can only be the lure of the chase that keeps them goin' - and buy mullock which would cost them much less in other places, simply to justify their means/ or justify a day off work and early start ter run round material already picked over.

We're all craaaaaaaaaaazy.

Same here
Never doing swindelers again
They doubled there money off us
For a one day fair,don't know anyone who stayed
There was no were to eat or wash
I went home Friday night
And done a car boot Saturday and made 300 pound more than
Swinders,,for a 12 pound pitch
Newark is the same,,awful,,
And ardingly I done the last with a free
Ticket
Or I will never go
It's 300 pound to go other wise
A good one happened tho
I had a marquee ticket and it was the same colour as the last Newark
Ticket,,so I put it in my widow just to try
I didn't write my reg on the new ticket and they never checked
They just glanced and waved me through
Keep your eye on this
They do it a lot

Alan, you're right about being a show organiser. Done a few mesel. That said BBR is among the best, well organised, good fun, plenty to buy and sell. Always a good vibe.
So take a pat on the back Mr B. I know how hard it is to do and not many buggers appreciate what you do, how much it costs and how hard it is. You only seem to ever get complaints and seldom get praise.
I put on a fair a few years back and got a letter from one stallholder explaining in 12 separate points what I'd done wrong. (One included the siting of the toilets which were a solid brick built building on the showground). On the whole I got good comments but you cant keep away all the nutters!
Keep going tho Al, its my bestest and favouritist fair - and its 4 times a year!
Jez.

I agree with Jez- BBR is a great event I always look forward to. It has a sense of a friendly, if competitive, community, full of people intent on buying objects of no practical use. Long may it continue.

Regards Richard

I never got the last one(s) Al. Ho ho.

Great Point Richard. Thats why Elsecar rocks and we're all mad. Wibble wibble. I am a teapot....

Never saw the high quality collectables as "objects of no practical use tho' batley?

The fully restored castle key like front door lock will unveil a wealth of visual splediferousness - with a wonderful new display cabinet fitted to the full height rear glass extension in my c. 1750 restored cottage - to show off to high visual effect top end coloured glass - sunlight behind.

The underfloor heated kitchen will feature a glorious array of well located 'Kitchenalia' - my prized Pratt pork pie plaque to be screwed to the stonework above the light switches.

Before bed I will gargle liquid out of an early pontilled Daffy's Elixir, on the windowsill a delicious glass advertising lidded dish filled with pretty pot pourri, & a few carefully selected hot water bottle gems my bedpan a fine bit of ornate Victorian transferred pottery - but my toothbrush is new!!!!!

Resting on the carefully and lovingly restored oak beams in the main, vaulted ceiling, bedroom, will be some subtly located early items of pottery and glass. A weonderful enamel atop the open oak staircase - maybe....

What to place on the oak window seats - yet to decide....... well actually - all this is a pipe dream - gotta run it all past Lynn first?

Quality collectables change a house from a home to a 'wow' upon entering, making it different from Bill and Betties place next door.... still looking for 'just the right' pieces.... roll on the next Elsecar - October 4 & 5!!!

and....................S**t in a beautiful flowered rose petal 1880's Victorian toilet !!

nite nite AB

I am happy to stand corrected Al - Regards Richard