Bargain Hunt

Oh dear Anti GG for the Reds.

Pedal car for Raj's BB.

You can imagine Tubby driving around on it.

Careful now, you might make a profit. Grand Slam avoided.

Reds -110. Could be a winning score. Could be with DayGlo on next.

Profit on the watch. Straight in at 100, but not a penny more after that.

Loss on the treacle glaze

Flashing online but still a big loss on the stopc0ck. LOL

A duck drinking trinket tray. 56 notes. No, they have nothing to lose.

Another dreadful Tubby Audience.



Profit on the dish means they end on -90. The oft obtained 3-figure DayGlo score has been avoided.

 

better?..

 

That's more like it.

 

It's MyLatinaCrush and Will Gompertz for for the Reds.

 

gah. missed today's.
it's about time bbc1 had a '+1' channel, like everyone else.

 

Blue Dad has a good gawp.

 

IPlayer is your friend.

 

Well it was a shiiit auction.

 

Tash playing Hi-Kick footsie with MyLatinaCrush.

 

Sung in April last year. We'll meet again, don't know when, don't know when ..........

Reg:
More useless factoids from a BH presenter. Travel photos this time.

What is George-e-un?

A youngster wearing Popeye? No Raj.

Shouty Blue Bird.

Gawdy French clock. Looks like a child has painted it.

These are Fire Dogs. Do they go by the fire?

Annoying Numpty Blue Bloke.

Subbuteo Club Edition, nice.

Smelling old Russian game boxes.

Careful it may have been Putinised.

Blue Dad is such a tightarse.

Stall holders packing up. BBs will be interesting.

Niki Lauda Blue Dad.

DayGlo is very frustrated.

Natasha with her hair up for Tubby.

Tubby Dutch Auction.

Awful auction.

A sticky loss on the Treacle glaze says Strict Natasha.

BBs save a total Grand Slam.

Very entertaining episode, Awful Tubby, Gobby, skinflinting, PronStar impersonating contestants.



OT78:
Or the beginnings of an all-female reboot of the Banana Splits...

enjoyable climax, though.
Blues thought they were finished.
Bluedad the result of Niki Lauda being (further) melted into Tony Parsons?

tbf bluedad found a great watch. that style/era very sought after over here.

What is it with wimmin today and their bloody nose-rings?
Do they want to look literally like (silly) cows?

 

understandable..

 

Re-up from April last year with additions:
BBC approved preamble:
Ardingly 6
Series 56
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jk9h
Today’s Bargain Hunt comes from West Sussex, where experts David Harper and Raj Bisram guide the reds and blues around the Ardingly International Antiques and Collectors Fair before taking their buys to auction. Meanwhile, Natasha Raskin Sharp find out about a collection of early photographs documenting a world tour in 1874.

The Translation:
As in a previous episode in this series, obviously filmed on the same day, Strict Natasha is sheltering from the p1ss1ng rain along with the watertight Dr Evil and waterproof Dayglo Dave, at Ardingly International Antiques and Collectors Fair in West Sussex. This series at this location mean it's another trip to Tubby Thomas at SAS Newbury aka Same Arr Souls, a genuine Penny Pinchers Paradise. Ebeneezer Scrooge and Albert Steptoe wait in anticipation. Expect a new colony of Miserling approved moths to thrive.

The Staff:
[Gaffer] Strict Natasha Raskin Sharp
[Red Team Expert] Raj Dr Evil Bisram
[Blue Team Expert] Dayglo David Harper, the 'Boro 'Bano, the Pervy Purveyor
[Auctioneer] Tubby Thomas Forrester, the plump schoolboy, the full of gas giant
[Auction Location] SAS Newbury, should be SOS Newbury as profits will be in peril in this Miser Manor
[Miserlin Rating] One Star

​

The Teams:
[Red Team] Orange-haired Female Photographer and Retail Manager tattooed beanpole Male couple. They met online. Does she have an interesting sideline? Yes, I believe she does.
(Challenge: Gilded item)
[Blue Team] Geezer Father and annoying millennial Paralegal Hair Bear Shouty Daughter combo
(Challenge: Georgian period)

The Shopping:
Reds: Painted advertising sign (60) maybe, Pair of brass fire dogs (55) might struggle, Gilded bronze French cherub statue (90 Challenge) struggle.
Blues: Art Deco vintage wrist watch (90) OK, Rockingham treacle glaze boot flasks (54) OK, Georgian Parian ware lockable spigot (100 Challenge) big time ouch.

The Distraction:
Strict Natasha observes some vintage travel photos from some 1970s travel brochures showcasing classic package holidays. Let's all go Pontinental! Natasha dreams of a Scottish holiday camp/theme park. Razor fights, drinking non-stop for 2 weeks, Bucky Bottle throwing and human rollercoaster riding round the back of the chalets by the bins, fire her imagination and her legendary thirst.

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The Auction:
Reds: Painted advertising sign (large loss), Pair of brass fire dogs (largish loss), Gilded bronze French cherub statue (largish loss), welcome to Planet of the Misers.
Raj's BB is a vintage fire engine pedal car from earlier (65), 40-60, 70, a profit in the PennyPinchers Parlour. Well done Raj!!

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Blues: Art Deco vintage wrist watch (small profit), Rockingham treacle glaze boot flasks (large loss), Georgian Parian ware lockable spigot (big loss).
Dayglo's BB is a Art Nouveau Goose trinket tray (56), 80-120, a bargain in the normal world but this is Newbury, 90, excellent buy DayGlo.

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The Aftermath:
The usual awaful Tubby Auction. Tash on good form and with hair-up at Newbury, the only positive about these dire Auction Rooms. Raj with Pornstar and Will Gompertz. Pervy Dave, more reluctant to engage with Blue gobby daughter, perhaps her father has already warned him to keep his distance. It does mean he can divert all his energy into Gaslighting his team to buy the items he wants. Stall holders packing up so the BBs will be interesting. Dreadful Newbury action as anticipated. Tubby calls his Audience mean. What have you bought into Tubby! Some items were doomed even at the better auction houses and you know hands would be thrust deep into pockets here. Real tightwad country. The Reds have their sign, fire dogs, and porn award all making sizeable losses. A gleaming Anti-Golden Gavel is their reward. It's up to Raj to save them from the dreaded Grand Slam of Losses. His pedal car, an earlier rejection, is trundled in as his BB. It ends up creaking to a fiver profit. It's the smallest of small dents to the overall loss of 110 notes. The Blues don't fare that much better. The risky big spend Art Deco wrist watch actually makes a tenner, but it's downhill from here with large losses on the treacle glaze boot flasks and the Georgian plumbing accessory. 3-figure ignominy awaits but Dave actually finds a half-decent trinket dish which sends the online bidders wild and brings them a profit of 34, saving them from a 3-figure loss and giving them a large 2-figure one of 90 instead. 2 decent BBs. Overall, despite the 2 big losses it's another entertaining episode.

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The Hi-Kick:
Standard indoor kick. 2 male contestants slightly below par but the 2 females are above par. A nice symmetry. Red Online Star plays mid-air footsie with Tash. Yes, YES!!

​

 

BH Legacy returns.
BBC approved preamble:
Cornwall
S46E07
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08f06wv
Today's location is the Royal Cornwall Showground. Presenter Eric Knowles is at the helm with experts Caroline Hawley and Ben Cooper. Two teams of best friends battle it out to buy three items that will hopefully make a profit at auction, and they all have their sights on a Golden Gavel. The Reds discover a table with legs to die for, while the Blues have their sights on all things horse-related. Eric has a close-up encounter with some Cornish wrestlers and tells the story of Newlyn copper.

The Translation:
Unfortunately it's a subtitles only episode with Uncle Eric at the Royal Cornwall Showground with Dumb and Louder, Carloss Wispa and Foghorn CAPITAL TEXT. Anthony The Undead Eldred is taking the Auction which like tormented souls prevented from attaining eternal rest is usually pretty bad, despite the blip of reasonableness last time.

The Staff:
[Gaffer] Eric Knowles
[Red Team Expert] Caroline Hawley
[Blue Team Expert] Ben Cooper
[Auctioneer] Anthony Eldred
[Auction Location] Eldreds Auctioneers & Valuers, Plymouth
[Miserlin Rating] Two Stars

The Teams:
[Red Team] Friends Mark and veterinary nurse Mandy who breeds hounds, they all met through dogs which is code for dogging. They look like Jack Dee and a Midwich Cuckoo.
[Blue Team] Ikechi Anya who has got a couple of horses and Jenny who decided she would ride one of them. They've never met before, she just decided she would do it on a whim. She warbles, "They're very independent, they have a brain, as my husband rides motorbikes and he controls the motorbike, the horse controls me in a way". They told me to come on this programme and kill everyone with this ridding crop and bridle. They look like a pair of life's afterthoughts. Luckily they've been given to gormless idiot Carloss.

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The Shopping:
Reds: Pair of Victorian brass candlesticks (7) 5-10 not bad, Box of 1960s cookie cutters (5) 3-5 OK, 6 Vintage clear glass soda siphons and crate (32) 20-30 topend.
Blues: Spanish leather horse (16) 5-10 ha ha, Set of 12 early 20th century medical instruments in a case (42) 10-20 ha ha priceless - the humour not the item, Edinburgh marked silver condiment set (160) 40-60 LOL Hand of Carloss.

The Distraction:
Eric has a close-up encounter with some Cornish wrestlers and tells the story of Newlyn copper. Well the images conjured up in one's mind of Eric oiling himself up and grappling with some West Country swarthy fella are a bit too grim.

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The Auction:
Reds: Pair of Victorian brass candlesticks (11 profit), Box of 1960s cookie cutters (4 profit) GG on, 6 Vintage clear glass soda siphons and crate (10 loss) GG bursts like a CO2 bubble .
Foghorn's BB is an earlier rejected Shapely table, ideal for a student they say, so it must be really shiiit (50), 40-60, 22. A 28 loss. LOL. Terrible item, terrible expert, terrible Auction.
Blues: Spanish leather horse (2 loss), Set of 12 early 20th century medical instruments in a case (27 loss), Edinburgh marked silver condiment set (85 loss). That's more like it 218 spent. Hold on it's with Cooper. Quick, put everything back while there's still time.
Tragicooper's BB is a 1920s/30s Japanese lacquer jewellery box with damage, ha ha ha ha, an unusual colour, I think we need a bit more than that to be convinced (60), 20-30, ha ha ha terrible estimates, it sells for 12, a 48 pound loss. LOL. A total disaster. Carloss strikes again.

The Aftermath:
Talking about breaking the bank, the Reds spend 44 notes. Woo-Hoo. Everything sounds hideous like Hawley's standard outfit, which is usually so atrocious you can hear the fibres scream in absolute agony. The Reds BB is barely described so it must be very non-descript, literally, and crap. The Blues spend 218. That's more like it. Hold on it's with Cooper. Quick, put everything back while there's still time. For his BB he's left 82 GBP and he was determined to try and spend a decent sum of money, Oh dear. Tragedy awaits. Eldred The Undead gave his usual rigor mortis underestimates, what a truly dreadful place, fully deseving of its 2 Miserlin stars. This is surely going to be so bad it's good. No Hollywood ending. Probably a Grace Kelly-style car crash.

Reds up first after 2 miserly profits on their miserly items their surplus almost evaporates with a tenner loss on the skipware soda siphons. Oh dear and then a Dutch auction on the shapely table BB. It bombs as expected making a loss of 28 quid. So with a total outlay of 94 notes, they make a loss of 23. 71 notes for 4 items, an average sale of less than 20 an item. That's shocking. Cooper Bluepocalypse next. Bad start with a loss on the leather elephant. Another on the medical instruments. Now the spunked it up the wall 160 note silver cruet set. Tin hats on. Ooof minus 85. A well deserved Anti-Golden Gavel. Can he get the Grand Slam? The 60 note damaged lacquer box starts at a fiver. Ha ha. It climbs to 12 and then falls off the cliff. Another disaster class from the Posh Yeti. 162 loss overall. LOL. Terrible, terrible Undead Auction. The Reds spent miserly and still made a loss. The Blues spent big and made a bigger loss. It's Cornwall. What do you expect!

Reds -23
Blues -162

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The Hi-Kick:
Probably OK, if the camera team can stop laughing.

 

Not here in (IP-blocked) France it isn't.

 

Nice to see Roo handling a nice bell end again. She even has her special sensitivity gloves on. Speak of the useless Devil, Tragicooper is on with Muttley in battle of the scruffballs. Fates will be determined at King Henry's auction in Wrexham.

 

Roo in Boots gyrating for all she's worth. Double plus Good.

 

Eager beaver says Roo. Indeed.

2 Little and large teams. Were the Prod Team having a laugh.

Rusty old sign. Muttley special.

Yeti Cooper thinks that box will struggle. They buy it anyway. LOL.

Blue Whale plays the drums.

Muttley shoots and scores on thet footy table. Perhaps his only victory today. Oh it's Cooper, almost guaranteed victory.

The instrument has no sax appeal.

Muttley brown furniture alert.

Blue whale has found an old oil lamp. Skip rescued.

Phil is on form.

Blue rush for big spend. Never a good sign.

 

Big loss potential disaster on those letters. 120 notes. LOL.

Go on buy that terrible pineapple lamp.



Roo gyrating and blowing today.



Ear trumpets. Am I hearing correctly? LOL.

This almost compares with the belly fluff navel lint collection.



Roo wears this vintage mind control device. The instruction to keep her boots on resonates.

 

Lovely Roo at valuation with surprisingly shaggy hair.
(Almost wrote 'shagging hair'. Suppose it is, in a way.)
Redteam's Phil Collins looking healthier than of late.
Love this zesty auctioneer. John Thomson meets Henry VIII.
Some jammy sod got that great box for thirty quid.

 

Roo wearing her dressing gown for the valuations and the Auction. Quick release?

Polo sign make a loss.

Big loss on the bench.

But a small profit on the bracelet.

Everyone looks frozen in the Auction room.

Champage tap makes a profit.

Cooper disaster again.

Has he sourced a bargain with the cruet set?

It makes a sixer.

Three figure loss avoided. Still a whopping 99 though. LOL.

 

Gonna be big losses today.

 

Shag-me hair?

 

Hilarious Carlos crash on item 3.
Wtf was that.

 

Just squeaked under a 3-figure loss. Still a 99 in the form of a turd.

 

Impressive lung power shown today.

 

BBC approved preamble:
Oswestry 6
Series 68
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y4ll
Two teams hunt for bargains at the Oswestry Showground under the guidance of experts Philip Serrell and Ben Cooper. Roo Irvine hears all about a world-record-breaking collection of ear trumpets, some of which date back to the 1700s, which are proudly on display inside Oswestry’s museum. Over at the Oswestry showground, the reds and blues are hoping their items will make record-breaking profits at auction in Wrexham, where Matthew Tong is on the rostrum. Expert Philip Serrell is guiding the reds, friends Richard and John, as they’re challenged to find an item with a lock. Meanwhile, the blues, friends Matthew and Becky, are helped by expert Ben Cooper as they try to track down a functional wooden item.

The Translation:
Lovely Roo is our hostess at the Oswestry Showground, I don't think she's led us by the hand at this place before. Today, her feminine charm is balanced with old codger Muttley and lumbering Yeti, Carloss Wispa, our Poundshop George. King of the Auctions today is Matthew Good King Henry VIII Tong, off with these bids, send that inactive daytripper to The Tower are today's catchphrases. Will Roo end up as wife number 7? We've already seen Plenty of No. 6's here in Wales. Be seeing you.

The Staff:
[Gaffer] Delightful Roo Irvine, full of Eastern Promise
[Red Team Expert] Philip Muttley Serrell avec scarf de tat et pull-over de moth
[Blue Team Expert] Ben Carloss Wispa Tragicooper, bad buys woo-woo
[Auctioneer] Matthew Henry VIII Tong, Estimated, Bidden, Died, Estimated, Bidden, Flied
[Auction Location] Tong's Auction House, Wrexham
[Miserlin Rating] Unlisted

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The Teams:
[Red Team] Security officer Friends Richard and John, Little and very Large.
(Challenge: With a lock)
[Blue Team] Friends Grocery Retailer Matthew and HR Manager Becky. A little and large and large team.
(Challenge: Functional wooden item)

The Shopping:
Reds: Rusty old county sign (59) topend, Replica long bench (139) ouch, Silver bracelet (9 challenge) Bargain it's a winner.
Blues: Walker & Hall repurposed walnut cutlery box with key (60) Struggle, late Victorian Old oil lamp with a copper base (10) Perfect, 20 Random bronze and enamel letters (120) ouch arrrrggghhhh oooofffff.

The Distraction:
Roo Irvine hears all about a world-record-breaking collection of ear trumpets, some of which date back to the 1700s, which are proudly on display inside Oswestry’s museum. Did you say crumpet?, asks Roo with a bugle stuck in her elegant lughole. The spectre of the McWhirter twins is present when the phrase world-record-breaking collection is mentioned. They summon the ghost of Roy Castle to parp out a tune on these instruments. Roo hopes her aural canals wax up in record-breaking time.

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The Auction:
Reds: Rusty old county sign (29 loss), Replica long bench (39 loss), Silver bracelet (9 profit).
Muttley's BB is a Vintage Champagne tap in original case (24), 30-40, 28. 4 note profit. Looks like it'll be Pomagne that's cracked open.

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Blues: Walker & Hall repurposed walnut cutlery box with key (35 loss), late Victorian Old oil lamp with a copper base (evens stevens), 20 Random bronze and enamel letters (80 loss).
BadBuys BB is a Cased 1960 Birmingham Silver cruet set in the form of champagne bottles (59), 80-120, 65. It makes a sixer.

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The Aftermath:
Suede-booted Roo gyrating with a Hula Hoop like a go-go dancer, blowing a large horn, and fondling several phallic objects for the Distraction gives this episode a big thumbs up. Phil mugging and chuntering to the camera was also good. 2 sets of height disparity contestants, amusing. Carloss Wispa with yet another P1ssi beery performance, hilarious. Cap it all with another impressively vocal and enthusiastic auction by King Henry Tong in his frozen throne room. Excellent entertainment. Muttley's Reds bought some right old tat. Phil you have some very good days and also some duff days. This was one of the latter. The Rusty Polo mint-style county sign made a loss, just as we knew it would, we also knew they had well and truly overpaid on the replica long bench, they had, with an even bigger resultant loss. Things did improve with a nice profit on the cheap silver bracelet and his vintage champagne tap made a whopping fiver. The Reds end on a 55 quid loss. Oh dear. Next it's the Yeti's Blues. Oh shiiit. The knackered cutlery box had loss acorched right into it, it served up a large loss. for the expected Cooper start. Then the cheap as chips old lamp just about wiped its arse. Phew thought Bungling Ben, that's the Anti-Golden Gavel avoided. Still, they were down 105 notes. What's that weak bugling sound, is it the crap cavalry appearing on the horizon with the BB to save them all? Ah, it's a cruet set, but it is quite nice, and reasonably stylish, 1960 Birmingham silver, 59 notes. Crikey a sensible buy. It might actually make a profit. It does. 6 notes made bringing them down to 99 notes. A large 99 cone with a turd instead of a flake in it. A small victory for Bungling Ben. LOL. Very enjoyable.

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The Hi-Kick:
Standard indoor kick in cramped conditions with a poor too high camera angle, which makes it difficult to guage the par-ness of the Kicks but it does look like everyone bar Muttley achieves the minimum. Roo's effort is blocked by the Blue Whale's obstructive movement. Yes, YES!!

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double dizzy izzy on Roadshow tonight, Timmy...

 

Roadtrip, rather.

p.s.
70 years ago this week, Rock Around The Clock was recorded.
Rock epochal moment.
40 years ago this week, Waterloo won eurovision.
Pop epochal moment.
Both artists on BBC4's TOTP tonight!

 

Just an addendum to yesterday's episode, Roo is an excellent presenter. She's engaging, charismatic, slick and adaptable. Quite the opposite of her fellow expert promotee, Hawley.

 

When she flirted with the ear trumpet guy and was shot down, she didn't miss a beat before showing interest in another ear wax coated trombone.