I wasn’t aware that was a British Standard for Aerojumbles that had been infringed. All the people at Popham did their best and got stuffed by the weather. Would you have stood there all day in the rain with a table full of aeronuatical junk waiting for someone in a snorkel to come past and buy? What do you expect flat-packed Sea Furies?
A junk sale is a junk sale, be it a car boot, an auto jumble or an aero jumble (of which popham tries to be both and in the good weather almost suceeds) and the bottom line is that most of it is junk. Sometimes you get a pearl sometimes you just get the seafood.
Now, if you want to organise a better one . . . .
or even define what an aero jumble is?
MH
Admittedly my original post was a little harsh and I’m not having a go the people who organised the Popham event or the traders, but do you really expect me to be happy when having travelled a long way to an event advertised as an aerojumble, it turns out that there is precious little aerojumble there? The plant, embroidery, toy and camo jackets stalls far outnumbered the stalls that are supposed to be the whole point of the day. As you say Melvyn, a junk sale is a junk sale, but don’t pretend it’s an aerojumble.
Now my real point I suppose is the poor state of the ‘aerojumble’ in general. As I said in my original post they’re ALL in a bad way and I think that kind of event is dying a death. That’s not anybody’s fault, there isn’t the stuff out there to sell at these things anymore as Bruce has quite rightly said.
Frankly Shoreham is dying because the organisers are demanding unrealistic fees for stands and Popham has become a general boot sale event rather than an aero/autojumble. And those are comments made by a number of the higher profile traders at these events not just me.
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