November News
You might have caught the little video clip elsewhere but, if you didn’t or if you want some more info on the markets lined up for this month, dive in. First up, this Sunday, is LAM (London Alternative Market) and … Continued
Fairs and Markets
Rail trip! Rail trip!
In the quest for accuracy and the proper use of words, what an author did ought to be good at and all that, I acknowledge the chant is ‘road trip’ but… I don’t do roads much. I am car free … Continued
Let’s have some fun in the sun!
Some have been saying that yet another way in which Brexit has taken us back to the Good Old Days is the fairly dismal weather we’ve had so much of over the past few weeks. Europe might be going up … Continued
Cheaper online?
Every now and again someone picks up a book, examines it with interest, then looks it up on their phone, announces it’s cheaper on Amazon and puts it down again. This is fine, I get it (particularly these days, of … Continued
The Night Market: an evening of surprises
The Night Market was certainly full of surprises. Possibly the first surprise was the organisers agreeing to let me take a stall: this is absolutely not a fetish or adult event (so yes, I left the hardcore bondage, fisting and … Continued
United Again in Smut: The Smutmarket
Obviously the first best thing about going to the Smutmarket was a chance to see some friends I hadn’t seen since, well, the Before Times. And there were plenty of other good things about it, as well. Smutmarket is at … Continued
A Rainbow Day at the BB
The BBB is pretty much a guaranteed good time, whether you’re a veteran pervert or a slightly hesitant newbie. Last Sunday’s Pride celebration was particularly fabulous, not least because of the amazing outfits so many attendees were wearing. Pretty much … Continued
Tiptoeing into 2022
A whole month into a new year… so how does 2022 look so far? In the short term, at least, further mass house arrest and further harm to the event and hospitality industries – and all your favourite fetish markets … Continued
The joys of outdoor trading
Home from a merry afternoon’s bookselling in the New Forest, I started remembering how some of my earliest stallholding antics involved outdoor trading. At 21 or so, long before fetish markets (or, indeed, before working out that I might … Continued
The fetish fair bonanza
The last time there was this much of a range of kinky shopping activities was over 20 years ago. When this century began, you could choose from the London Fetish Fair, the Whiplash Market (also in London), the BBB (still … Continued