On Saturday we had a stall in the Laxey Christmas Fair, which is run over four venues and two days in Laxey, Isle of Man.  The picture shows the queues forming before the fair opened.  Unfortunately they were not all queuing for us, so we still have some books left if you'd like any.

Getting there was quite exciting as Storm Arwen was still making itself felt.  On one particularly debris-strewn road I walked in front of the car, clearing bits of twig, branches, clumps of gorse and frightened birds off the road.  Then we met the fallen tree...

We like doing fairs such as this, though, as it's one of the few occasions when we get to talk with real readers.  We listen to bookshops who tell us what their readers want.  Then we listen to readers who tell us what they really want.  Sometimes the bookshops are right.

This sort of event puts us in a quandary, however.  It's lovely when someone says 'I've got all your books', but it does mean that we can't then sell them anything.  Unless... gifts for friends??

Who was it said that Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard...?

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