A day in the life of a mad market trader! Back at Taunton Indpendent market.

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:02]Morning. Morning, me lover.

[00:00:08]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Good morning. 2020 today, the first one of the year. I'm exhausted, so should we just get the day on the road? Let's go.

[00:00:34]>> [music] [music] >> Morning. Morning, me lover. All right, then.

[00:01:11]Good. Yeah, you look very lovely. Are you joking? No, you look lovely. I like your jumper and your fleece. I've got you a slice of lemon drizzle.

[00:01:19]>> Oh my god, you might have just saved my life. Oh my god, I'm full of it. Feel absolutely exhausted. I should be having a proper sleep. I'm just I'm just laughing to myself a bit. Thank you.

[00:01:26]Right, an hour later. I'll have it in a bit. Right, should we get started then?

[00:01:30]Yep, we are we have arrived. Oh, hello. Bonjour.

[00:01:34]Bonjour. [ __ ] handbrake on. That feels like that. That feels like that. Right.

[00:01:39]Okay, come on then. We're a bit late, but it's a smaller market, which makes me worry that we're going to have another losing money day, but it's all good. And it's someone else's problems until I stop moaning about it, don't I?

[00:01:47]You can stop winging. And guess what? I need a poo. JESS, STOP IT. SHE'S AWFUL.

[00:01:52]OKAY, RIGHT, come on. We're going to work, including you, camera.

[00:01:57]Don't put that handle in. That's it. And then you pull that up and it's all hooks in on the left side.

[00:02:02]>> week, love. Oh, sorry.

[00:02:05]That's not a good Is that a good spot there?

[00:02:07]Do you know what? You go in there.

[00:02:10]Just do this.

[00:02:12]We've got one there as well.

[00:02:16]Camera one, kiss together.

[00:02:18]>> [laughter] [music] >> That's [ __ ] The black mat, but it's fine.

[00:02:47]>> push it up. Time to get the roof up.

[00:02:50]>> [music] >> I want my fiber optic cable.

[00:02:56]>> [music] >> Uh okay. [laughter] 12:00 in Taunton and it's um It's pretty quiet. You've got customers going. Can we not put people off?

[00:03:07]Can [laughter] we not? Sorry.

[00:03:09]Don't encourage it. Don't. It's a long day, isn't it?

[00:03:12]>> [laughter] >> Do you want me to take the vlog camera over to the choir? Yeah, do it.

[00:03:16]That's a good idea.

[00:03:19]Take it over to rock choir.

[00:03:21]Well, I might get If they're singing songs on this, I can't put it on YouTube.

[00:03:23]>> Of course you can.

[00:03:25]Do you want me to test the music? Yeah, put the volume up a little bit.

[00:03:29]Do you want to look around? Do you want to look around? Do you mind if I get a the video on the camera?

[00:03:32]You do what you Yeah, for your YouTube and TikTok. Go ahead.

[00:03:36]It's just YouTube.

[00:03:42]Oh, it's got me now.

[00:03:44]Contagious. I'm really sorry. I've got my head like I said. My last break.

[00:03:48]Thank you.

[00:03:52]Do you want to get it on the work too much?

[00:03:54]What time did you finish work last night? I know, what did you What time did you finish work last night?

[00:03:59]Half 12. There we go.

[00:04:01]Well, I started at 6:00 in the morning.

[00:04:04]I started at 6:00 in the morning yesterday. Half 7:00 at night. Yeah. I mean I know, we should What did you finish at?

[00:04:12]Saturday as well. I blame it I blame the government.

[00:04:18]I was at another market. Yeah.

[00:04:23]I was at market. You were at market? I was at my main job. That's a long way away. What's your new What's your new job? I was at my main job. Your main job? Watching CCTV. Yeah. And then I went to the bar job. Yeah. And then I came here this week. I was saying to Evans.

[00:04:39]Do you ever do with that bird?

[00:04:41]That bird? Yeah, I know.

[00:04:44]I was saying to you I was like, "Oh, do you watch that on telly?"

[00:04:47]Yeah, I watch telly. You got to turn on.

[00:04:48]I'm bored about that.

[00:04:49]>> [laughter] >> Over the winter, I get excited. So, I finished at Christmas and I was like, "Well, I'm going to catch up on all the telly over the winter."

[00:04:55]I think we watched Yellowstone. That was it.

[00:04:58]Which was good.

[00:05:01]Anyway, you guys have a nice weekend.

[00:05:03]Yeah. Yeah, thanks. Cheers. Say goodbye to the dog.

[00:05:09]>> [music] >> Look at you. Look at her.

[00:05:18]She's ticking.

[00:05:25]>> [music] [music] >> Right, I'll get in trouble. Betty Bowers is going. Come on, Betty. Chicken sour candy mega fizz.

[00:05:42]I follow you on TikTok. Thank you. I watched like 4 hours of Do you want to be in a TikTok?

[00:05:48]You want to? I don't I'll take you for now. Right, we've got So, you're getting a sour candy mega. Now, are you going to go for any fruit flavor with the sour candy or just sour candy? Okay, right.

[00:05:56]Come on, Jess.

[00:05:57]Let's get this done. Yeah. No pressure.

[00:06:00]No pressure at all. I know it's good because this is second time you've ordered it. So Oh, okay. What are you having then?

[00:06:06]Same.

[00:06:06]Oh my gosh, second sour candy. Yeah, you know what? You got to have it.

[00:06:11]I'll take that. It's a good flavor to have on the menu this year.

[00:06:14]Do you like Do you like this?

[00:06:16]Yes. Oh, good. They're good. So, there we go.

[00:06:19]Right, good.

[00:06:21]fruit drinks. Yeah, but we need to bring it to the camera. I wonder if it's Is it as good as the first one?

[00:06:27]Does it taste all right? Is it as good as the first one? Yeah. Amazing. Thank you so much, guys.

[00:06:30]Bye-bye.

[00:06:31]Hello.

[00:06:34]>> [music] [music] >> Uh blueberry.

[00:07:02]Yes, of course. Um would you be happy to be in a TikTok video or would you rather not be? Sorry.

[00:07:08]Yeah, sure.

[00:07:09]Okay.

[00:07:11]So, uh we've got one medium.

[00:07:13]You got cash or card today? Cash please.

[00:07:16]And what flavor was it? Just caffeine or Blueberry, you did say.

[00:07:21]Hey dude, you're on.

[00:07:23]Have you tried one of these lemonades before? No, we haven't. No, so this is your first time.

[00:07:29]You can't say.

[00:07:31]No.

[00:07:32]Yeah, we are.

[00:07:34]I think it's too far.

[00:07:38]Uh we are based in London but we're from Bristol. Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:07:43]Is this blueberry too?

[00:07:49]>> Anybody waiting?

[00:07:50]>> [laughter] [music] [music] >> Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I keep leaving this on. My bad. Right, 20 to 2. We're going to finish at 3 today cuz it's quite quiet. We've had a bit of rush on. So, that's good. I'm a bit less miserable than I was. I'm finishing labeling trolleys. Yeah, that's it. I thought there's a lot of footage on here, so I'm going to I'm going to cut it out. Jess is working hard. These are fruit.

[00:08:32]Right, it is 20 What? Quarter to 3 already. So, we're going to finish at 3 today. We could trade till 4 if we wanted, but it's pretty quiet here in Totton because the blooming food festival is around the corner. So, we're going to pack away. We've had a reasonable day. We've had a bit of a rush on, which I think you saw. And then it's died off really.

[00:08:48]I was going to say something profound and enlightening and I completely forgot what it was. It's completely gone. It's vanished. So, I think we're just washing up and packing away now. Let's see. 30 minutes to pack away is what I want, but we're still serving 15 minutes. It's a bit tricky. Louise is on the washing up.

[00:09:01]We've got a system we think for washing up cuz that always takes so [music] long. So, yeah.

[00:09:05]Anyway, that's where we are. I'll turn this off again when we're packing down. But, yeah. Very quiet day in Totton. Very quiet day. Another another financial loss >> [music] >> today. So, it's been good. It's been good. This is why I still have a full-time job because when it's good it's good. When it's bad it really Yeah, it's pretty bad. Anyway, right.

[00:09:24]Check in later.

[00:09:25]Right, 3:00. We're packing down now.

[00:09:27]Been a day.

[00:09:28]Been a day.

[00:09:41]>> [singing] [music] >> Okay, right. Packed down is going reasonably well, touch wood, so not bad.

[00:09:53]Put this camera up somewhere, shall I?

[00:09:56]Oh gosh.

[00:09:56]Oh, it's just hit the gazebo. Right.

[00:09:59]There you go.

[00:10:01]Watch the chaos.

[00:10:14]Okay, that was a good guy. Oh, it's still going wrong, guys. Probably going to fall over again, isn't it? Won't learn though, will I? Things I do for you guys. You all right? This is where Jay's going to drive in with the van and run you over.

[00:10:38]>> [music] >> It's not going to last long, this camera, is it? Thought I'd broke that camera for this camera for good then, but um right, 10:00 to 4:00. Do you reckon we're going to get it all in 10 minutes? Starting to rain as well, so let's get the job done.

[00:11:07]5:05 I said we'd be done by 4:00. We are not.

[00:11:11]I'm really thirsty, but I remember water this time. Right, it's probably going to fall over, but 5 more minutes.

[00:11:21]>> [music] >> Right, we've done it. 10:00 past 4, not bad. Probably the earliest Taunton pack down ever. Good too.

[00:11:37]Thank you.

[00:11:38]Just in time cuz it's pissing down. Oh my gosh, okay. We're done. I would say, I'm trying to get my watch to work.

[00:11:43]>> First weekend in Taunton is well.

[00:11:45]>> First weekend in Taunton was not >> Love it. not busy. No, but it was nice to see some familiar faces.

[00:11:49]>> It really was, yeah. It really was nice to see these people. So, yeah, we've just gone quarter past 4. We're packed away. We're done. Yeah. Taunton over and out. I think I just left the camera on filming loads of it. So, hopefully you guys got a good what was going on, but um Absolutely.

[00:12:01]>> got an hour back up the M5. Hopefully the traffic's good. Fingers I've not got a lot to say today. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm very tired. If you've watched this far, thank you so much. Next time, Bridgewater Food Festival.

[00:12:12]Let's do it. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood by then.

[00:12:13]>> for it. Bye. Tomorrow, love. Bye.