Bookworm-Abroad

30/05/2025

Bookworm Abroad/Mystic Mackerel Marvellous Tees is happy to be off a mere 5 miles down the road to https://www.facebook.com/HopeFestCoalville
this weekend, a mini music festival with very reasonable ticket prices and in aid of local charities including Rainbows Hospice.

HOPE FEST IS BACK! Saturday 31st May & Sunday 1st June at Broom Leys Farm raising money for charities in our community!

28/12/2024

Read. It's good for your brain, and apparently stress levels.

My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading. Now it’s more likely to trigger sheepish admissions from partygoers about not reading as much as they’d like to — as if I’m going to spring a pop quiz on Moby-Dick. Long gone ...

16/11/2024

Anyone for a tshirt and do some good at the same time?

10/11/2024

It's that time of year when next year's festival calendar is starting to be filled in, at first with just the regular festivals of which there are only 5 left, plus one new one from last year I am keen to do again and add to the regulars. Two more of those I have asked about/applied for, but that's still only 7 which does not a season make, so the search continues for events worth asking about, and then it's down to whether or not they think I'm ok to apply. The worst part about being accepted is the need to pay the pitch fee at exactly the time there is hardly any income..........and hard to believe there will ever be a summer, since we haven't even seen the sun for several weeks!

09/08/2024

Also probably, almost certainly, giving this a go because they keep asking me to, and it's the same site as Sonic Rock and Onboard the Craft...........https://www.facebook.com/beermageddonfestival

09/08/2024

And last up this season

09/08/2024

After that, Off The Tracks.

09/08/2024

I've done some really good festivals over the years and indeed again this year, and I still have a few to go so I'm giving them a plug in case you're free and interested! Next up the legend that is A New Day, in the beautiful grounds of Mount Ephraim Gardens near Faversham in Kent. What a line up.........

09/08/2024

Bookworm Abroad van was replaced with a short-term fix just as festival season started, and that has now gone to join it in the great scrapyard in the sky. I present to you it with its successor which is somewhat larger. I quite miss the bookworms on the van but in other ways it's quite nice to be anonymous white van woman for a change.....

09/08/2024

Just a little tribute, slightly overdue, to the Bookworm Abroad van, which went to the van resting place in the sky in May, after 15.5 years of trusty but increasingly erratic good service. I remember the day I got the van, and the day it was returned to me with the logo on the sides and the back. It got me through markets, a lot of unexpected travel in the UK, then to Spain and back between Dec 2010 and March 2004, and everywhere since then. The sticker was still in the window from 2008/9 when we were fighting to keep local markets in Erewash and somewhat ironically stayed in the window all through its European journeys. Now it really isn't round the corner any more.

27/05/2024

Probably about time I updated the website to list this summer's festival itinerary.........where to find Bookworm ABroad/Mystic Mackerel Marvellous Tees in a field this summer :

26/05/2024