"Wanna buy a pig?" "How about a lovely terracotta teapot, mate?" "Ere, that's a genuine Banksy. Honest .. would i lie to you Missus?" "Take it off me 'ands for two quid."
A right motely crew of dodgy wheelers and dealers were to be found flogging their wares to raise money for Greenpeace at the Clifton Car Boot Sale this weekend - aided and abetted by some geezer in a polar bear outfit! One way to try and sell stuff is to model it and show off its benefits, so at one point we had a couple of our gang resorted to wearing lampshades on their heads Not sure the punters were convinced!
A field full of sellers and buyers, good weather and an enthusiastic selling team from the Bristol East group all contributed towards our best Car Boot Sale result! We raised a fantastic £178. In addition we encouraged a good number of people to add their names to the ribbon that will very soon be stitched onto 'Aurora' - the double decker bus-sized polar bear puppet - that will be the centrepiece of the Polar Parade in London on Sunday 15th September. Further details of this event can be found here
Big thanks to:Clifton Car Boot organisers for giving us a free pitch and to those who donated new 'stock' to sell, Well done to the gang including, Carol, Lauren, Fi, Madeleine, Paul and Richard B.
Photos of this event can be found on our Flickr website.
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