Autumn with a hint of Christmas

We've seen frost here this week - just a tad, enough to make the geranium start to curl and the peppers on the patio start to protest. It feels (although it's highly unscientific) as though the frost is later than other years, but as the passage of time goes faster and faster it's hard to tell. We seem here to have jumped from late Summer to grotty autumn without the lovely autumn that precedes it. Why am i wittering on about the weather? Well, firstly I'm English and that's what we do. Our yardstick of all things. Secondly because it almost feels valid to talk about Christmas. Even more so because OTR is going out on the road for the first time at not one not two but three events. I'm busy designing my stall and buying stuff for it, and trying to get creative with the giftwrap bags and the tags that I hope will be very popular and sell as well as my books. I'll post dates and locations shortly once a bit of firming up has been done!

I've loaded some seriously lovely new books on the site - you can see them in the slide show at the top - and I've started to sell books and jotters which, after all, is the point! It's scary standing here at the top of the ski slope but nothing ventured nothing gained I reckon!

I've joined and been to my first meeting. If you're in business you should be a member, it's fab.

There will hopefully be a new category of books available soon, you'll just have to watch this space! In the meantime, don't forget to start thinking ahead about pressies for your loved ones. I'm sure you know where I am coming from!