Fairs and Markets

Guess what else is coming home…

bookselling, events, football, memes 10th July 2021 Events, Fairs and Markets, Other Things 1 Comments

‘Coming home, it’s coming home’ is one of those things that was a meme before memes were a thing.25 years down the line, a football song made less irritating than many others by its wistful self-deprecation has been hauled into … Continued

Almost like the Before Times

books, bookselling, comeback, Covid 24th May 2021 Events, Fairs and Markets 1 Comments

It was about this time last year that someone said something about the Before Times – I’m not sure if the phrase originates with The Stand or some other apocalypse classic – but it was the first time I’d heard … Continued

Wanting All the Books

books, bookselling, display, events, marketing, transport 15th May 2021 Fairs and Markets, Musings

I want ALL the books and I want them NOW! OK, it’s not quite as bad as it might sound (though I remember telling people, when we moved into our current home, that I had spent about ten times as … Continued

Feels like a real comeback…

bookselling, comeback, future, kinky traders 4th May 2021 Events, Fairs and Markets, Musings

Yes, there’s still uncertainty and yes, a lot of things are being announced with ‘this may change depending on government guidance/infection rates/circumstances’, but there is a feeling of real comeback going around. Keep an eye on my profiles on Twitter … Continued

A Kinky Farmers’ Market – and more to come

kinky shopping, live events, naughty books 19th April 2021 Fairs and Markets

The first kinky farmers’ market was last summer: when many of us thought this clusterfuck was on its way to being all over, the LAM crew found an actual farm that was willing to host a fetish trading event. We … Continued

Time to motivate with dates

bookselling, fetish trading, kinky market, LAM 7th March 2021 Events, Fairs and Markets

Someone called it ‘pandemic brain’ when I was whining about memory glitches and just Not Getting On with things. They were probably right (and yes, I did go and google dementia symptoms as I am old enough for it to … Continued

Doing Your Kinky Christmas Shopping?

Christmas shopping, fetish markets, naughty books, naughty gifts, XXXmas shopping 5th December 2020 Fairs and Markets

Christmas shopping options may not be the same as they were last year or the year before, but, as you might be aware if you pay any attention to me on social media, there are some options. For London or … Continued

Kinky shopping and other things that are still possible

bookselling, fetish venue, kinky shopping, small busiesses 23rd October 2020 Events, Fairs and Markets

There are still some places to go, even as the potentially terrible winter draws closer. There seems to be something of a reduction in noisy puritanism as well, with an increase in support for those businesses doing their best to … Continued

Reflections on the Plague Summer

adventures, bookselling, naughty books, summer, travel 10th September 2020 Fairs and Markets, Musings

So how was it for you? I doubt any of us knew quite what this plague summer would be like – would we still be caged and cut off from the ones we loved? Would the creeping advance of fascism … Continued

LAM Late Summer Fete

fetish trading, kinky shopping, LAM, naughty books 16th August 2020 Events, Fairs and Markets

In a week’s time, I’ll be hauling myself and a slightly alarming amount of luggage to the semi-wilds of Bedfordshire for the second live open air event of this strange plague summer: LAM’s Late Summer Fete. While I have managed … Continued