Background
In 1997 a scruffy untalented poet started to write verse for the car boot sale adverts in the local papers on a four week trial.
Before long his attempts at verse was being discussed in hostelries far and wide.
A regular at the car boot sales was in his local pub in Barnet when he heard two men at the bar discussing a car boot poem they had read in the local paper bu someone they called 'The Baldock Bard'.
From this moment on, the un-named verse-writer was known far and wide as 'The Baldock Bard' until his unfortunate Stig-like demise in October 2005.
1997 First Attempts
Mary had a clear-out
Couldn't believe her eyes
Took a stall at our boot sale
Now her house seems twice the size!
Little Bo-Peep
Couldn't get to sleep
Because of her telephone bill
She took up a pitch
That made her quite rich
Now her bills don't make her so ill!
There was an old lady that lived in a shoe
Had so many children she didn't know what to do
She took a pitch at our car boot
Couldn't sell the children but made some loot!
Jack and Jill went down the hill
To sell at our car boot
Jill bought a gown for half a crown
And Jack bought a second-hand suit!