27/05/2026
🥚 IMPORTANT (AND SLIGHTLY CHAOTIC) HORNSBY MARKET UPDATE 🥚
This message is for our wonderful Hornsby Market crew 🧡
We love you all… but we also need you to understand something very important.
We are officially allowed into the market from 6:30am ⏰
Not 6:00am. Not “just a quick sneak in.” 6:30am. This is set by market rules and also regulated by Hornsby Council 🏛️ so no, we cannot negotiate it with coffee in hand ☕🙂
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🧊 Step 1: Coolroom mission
First mission: coolroom trailer setup
This is not optional. It must be positioned, stabilised, and running properly before anything else happens. If it’s not cold ❄️, it’s basically just an expensive metal box having a bad morning.
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⚡ Step 2: Power up
Second mission: generator time
We connect the generator so the whole stall can actually function 🔌
Without it, we’re basically a very organised outdoor picnic 🧺
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⛺ Step 3: Gazebo battle
Third mission: gazebo setup (aka adult tent wrestling)
We set up and secure the gazebo so it doesn’t try to fly away with the wind or become a Hornsby kite festival 🎪💨
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💳 Step 4: Cash register reality check
Fourth mission: cash register survival test
We connect and test the system so we can actually take payments 💰
Not just smile awkwardly and say “please transfer vibes” 😄
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📦 Meanwhile…
We also have a huge amount of pre-orders 🧾 that need to be sorted, checked, packed, and organised so people don’t get chorizo when they ordered cheese 🧀 (that gets emotional very quickly)
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🧀 Then comes the boxes…
Everything we bring is still in boxes 📦
So we unpack, organise, and build a full display of our cheese, salami, chorizo, and all our cool-room goodies 🥓🧀 so it doesn’t look like a mystery warehouse on a table.
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🚫 Bottom line
Only after ALL of that… are we actually ready to trade.
So if you arrive and we look like we are in the middle of controlled chaos… that’s because we are 😅
We completely understand it can be frustrating arriving early and having to come back later. We really do ❤️
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🛑 Important reality check
Safety, council compliance, and hazard control come first every week. 🧊⚠️
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🪧 Sign system update
To make things clearer, we will now display a sign that says:
“WE CAN ONLY SERVE AFTER 7:30AM” ⏰
👉 If this sign is up, we are still setting up and cannot serve yet.
👉 If the sign is NOT up, we are open and can start serving earlier if we are fully ready.
This should help avoid confusion, unnecessary waiting, and double trips 😄
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We’ve had a few cases where customers had to come back multiple times for cool-room goodies because we simply weren’t fully set up yet 🧀
We appreciate your patience more than you know 🙏
We are always working on speeding things up so one day we might actually look organised before 7:30am… but no promises 😄
Thanks again for your support, and we’ll see you once the chaos turns into cheese 🧀🥓🙂
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