So’ton Zine & Craft Fair

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Yester­day I went to the Southamp­ton Zine & Craft Fair. It’s a 2 day event, and I was supposed to be there for two days, but I came home last night in the end. The event was very small anyway, and the weath­er in Southamp­ton was atro­cious with torren­tial rain­storms and gale force winds, so there weren’t many people there. I felt pretty awful from being under the weath­er anyway, and stay­ing up too late the night before cutting zines and baking panda cakes with Vicky, so the thought of sleep­ing on the organiser’s floor after battling through rain didn’t appeal at all.

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L-R Ellie, Ed, Steve. Here’s our stall with the Brighton Zine­fest stuff. Steve lives in So’ton, the rest of us came in Ed’s car, me, Ed, Ellie, Ed’s friend Elli­ott and Vicky. Vicky was the only one without a name begin­ning with E. I didn’t get a photo of her stall for some reas­on. Isy from Morgen­muffel was origin­ally going to come with us, but she decided to just come for one day and get the train, so we took her box up in the car for her instead.

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Here’s the place it was in. Upstairs at a veget­ari­an arts cafe. The cafe was really nice, although their leek and potato soup was a bit odd (and expens­ive). I got the feel­ing walk­ing round So’ton town centre trying to find a chem­ist so I could get some more Femin­ax, that there wasn’t much to interest me in the town, it seems to be designed for cars rather than people. I guess Brighton has spoilt me.

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Steve Larder had prob­ably come the furthest of all (from Notting­ham)

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Tukru and Carl.

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Madame T copy­ing Steve L’s typic­al photo pose.

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I got this pretty brooch made of recycled broken jewellery from one of the stall­hold­ers.

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And this great fancy £2 coin celeb­rat­ing DNA (it’s worth about $4 USD/​ €3)

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And the inscrip­tion! I also got one celeb­rat­ing Isum­bard King­dom Brunel, but I forgot to take a picture of it before using it.

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There was a vintage shop next door. Tukru found these ace glasses frames, I took the photo to show her what they looked like on, because of course she couldn’t see in the mirror without her glasses. I got Velvet Under­ground and My Bloody Valentine badges, and she got a Paul Calf one for Carl, because he looks a bit like Paul Calf with his natur­al blonde hair.

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The rather great mask display in the shop. It was a bit odd, doub­ling as both a vintage clothes shop and a costume shop. All the vintage dresses seemed reas­on­able prices, until you real­ised that was the week­end hire price, and really they all cost £50, which seemed a bit much.

After the event, we all went to the pub and debated the merits of the Times’ top 100 albums of the decade (too much Cold­play). Then me, Vicky, Tukru and Carl went for a pizza before the train, getting drenched on the way. I had a great mush­room, garlic and smoked mozzarella pizza. T&C got the London train, and me & V met Isy and caught the Brighton train.

The train took 2 hours, stop­ping at every single possible stop (West Worth­ing, Worth­ing and East Worth­ing anyone? Worth­ing is a small town) and Isy managed to sleep through the horrendously drunk middle aged rugby fans who got on the train for about 20 mins and star­ted strip­ping to try to get our atten­tion. When we preten­ded to be read­ing intently/​genuinely sleep­ing they got really disap­poin­ted and asked us if we were going to a goth conven­tion (none of us were wear­ing black).

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