I thought I should share with you what’s recently occurred in my shop as a direct and in-direct result of blogging with this site.  It’s all good, and this article is meant as a thank …

Back on Board & Discussing Problem Areas
Well, yes, I’ve been very quiet of late, and I do apologise.  I haven’t even had time to look at The Bookshop Blog for the past month.  We’ve just …

“Do people really sit down and play chess at that table?” I was asked just this morning – referring to a table where I have a chess set permanently set up. And the answer is a resounding yes.

Well, with less than two weeks to go to the Happy Day, I’m wondering how everyone else fares over the silly season.  For our shop, I find every year that we don’t do very well …

Finding the Right Help
When you’ve held for a lifetime the dream of your own little bookshop, it’s more than likely that the dream didn’t include the Sunday helper that you’ll eventually need if you want …

We have been asking ourselves this question for the last five years, but I think we are reaching the decision that we probably should.  The front of our building isn’t very welcoming, looking more like …

Well, I’ve gone & done it. After four and a half years of kid-wrangling, something in me has decided it’s time now to offer Story Time to the children of the Port Fairy community, and any visitors who happen to catch us on the right day.

Ah, it’s been a busy weekend at Blarney Books & Art!  The Port Fairy Ex Libris Book Fair was on, and we hosted the official welcome for authors, artists, and booksellers on the Friday night …

We have one week to go before we launch our first Biblio-Art Awards!!! One week!!! EEEK! So many things yet to do… For those of you who have missed out on any previous comments about this subject, my husband and I have initiated a new art award as a means of contributing to the arts community…

I have tidied up the shop, cleared out the rugs, moved the tables around, taken all the big books off the trestles and relocated the trestles, and I feel – well, almost refreshed!