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Treat 'Em Mean, Keep 'Em Keen

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Posted by: Myriad Life Thursday 13th March 2008, 6:06pm
Last edited 13/03/2008 6:06pm by Myriad Life

Dear General Public, please do not apply this principle to market traders! We can't stay keen forever. T'was a lean, mean day at Fakenham today.

Either all the stars lined up the wrong way or maybe Mr Darling was not so Dahling as he bled us a little bit more.

Ouch, after a rough day's trading needing diesel just added insult to injury. 2p increase might have been delayed but it seems to go up every day anyway. 112p today at Morrisons.

C'mon I'll never get all the stock and stall on a push bike, it just isn't practical.

I can see why all the punters looked glum too but hey it's only money ha ha. Go home and have a nice relaxing glass of wine - or maybe not.

Three good things today (had to scrabble around in my head to find those, I can tell you.) We didn't get rained on - major plus. The wind was blustery but not life threatening (as it can be at Fakenham) and Squeaky is back. There was a time when we all dreaded the arrival of Squeaky as in "don't want him pitched near my stall." Kind of dread. But really he affords us so much amusement we can't help but view him with a kind of fondness.

Squeakisms - he runs everywhere like a comedy character. He used to have a huge Tweety Pie Bird sitting on his front seat for company and he used to do a merry little jig to the Birdy Song while packing away his variable stock (everything from Wagon Wheels to handbags.)

"Come and get your glasses cleaned!" In loud squeaky voice.

"Don't be shy, come and buy." Squeak, squeak.

Then he complains loudly about lack of custom. When he loses his temper he squeaks even louder. This happened a couple of years ago when a rather well-built man reckoned he'd made his glasses even dirtier. Squeaky got really mad then. Ah it was so much fun to watch.

Welcome back Squeaky - we love you really. No doubt there will be some great stories to tell about you as the summer unfolds.

So what am I doing now? Ever the optimist, I am pricing stock, well I was until I decided to do a bit of blogging.

Next week my trusty old van needs an MOT. This week it needed a new horn fitted. Funny that because it failed the MOT on that last year and it was replaced. Suspicious moi? I was driving home after trading at Sheringham when I decided to say bye bye to another trader with a sharp PARP PARP but it instead a little groan came out as if it had a sore throat.

'Oh great' I thought, flaming pheasants everywhere and me with no hooter. Luckily the dumb birds stuck to the side of the road for once and I got back safely. Without a doubt the flash of the headlamps would have done nothing to shift a pheasant from the road ahead.

Oh well, back to work...As George says "You gotta have faith."

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