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[Note from BookCrossing Support: as per the "frequent questions" item here, we're asking that people no longer use BCIDs for this kind of thing, and that no further entries be made on this one. I've edited out the BCID to avoid further entries. Since this project was begun before the policy was put in place it can remain, but no further entries should be made here. Thank you. -BC Support Team]Here's how it goes, just enter the BCID no. xxx-xxxxxxx Your bookcrossing name, and some details about yourself, a photo would be good too!  alt="Click here to join bccov">Click to join bccov |
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So here's the first of (hopefully) many photo's.This was taken on Blyth beach (North East England) and it's approx 1978, and I'm the one in the blue bikini! Question is, why is everyone else in Jumpers?! My family where originaly from the North East, but moved to Warwickshire in the late 60's. We spent every summer on Blyth beach (near enough) and now the've moved back up there, leaving me here in George Elliot/Shakespeare country.
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UrbanSpaceman here. Pure vanity this :) In December 2005 I was involved in the Channel 4 programme Space Cadets. This is pic of me that I snapped off one of the monitors in an edit suite (I don't have a TV, so I wasn't sure if/when I would see myself on the box again...)
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They say curiousity killed the cat but in this case it didn't! I was a little curious (katze means cat in German) and thought I would come have a look! Will be nice to see what people write in here! I am from Wales in the UK but I live in Vienna, Austria. I love Bookcrossing but can't remember what I used to do with all the time that I am suddenly using for BC!! :) |
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What a great idea. I'm AnglersRest living in Devon England, although originally from Surrey. I couldn't find a photo of me that makes me look slim!, so how about this one? Isn't he beautiful? Monty is a Border Terrier aged 8 years. Small in size, but big in personality! He looks a bit scruffy, but has recently had a nice new hair cut!
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What larks! I've chosen a picture of myself and HonoraryBCDog taken when we went to visit another BookCrosser who is shortly going to move house and won't be around to be visited any more, which is a great shame.I'm wearing one of my BCUK-logo'd sweatshirts and HonoraryBCDog is sporting her BCUK bandana. |
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Linda (aka LindyB28) from Cambridge via Solihull. I'm holding Plato, a philosophically minding cat who resides in Michigan.
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MrsDanvers, native of North-East England now living in Ely, Cambridgeshire.I was test-driving the car, but it didn't end up in my garage. |
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Hello **waves**,I am the head of the weebly's - I have a gender confused hubby on BC as he chose the name BC-Widow and Weebly-boy and WeeblyGirl. We live in Northants and although I come from The Wirral and hubby from Taunton. |
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Great idea - I'm joining in so I can be nosey and read all the journal entries and rub shoulders with the various BCUK media stars...;)I live in the middle of nowhere in the heart of Kent with my bookcrossing son, MantisMad. This photo of me is rather out of date, but the most recent one I've got - I *hate* having my picture taken! |
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Journal Entry 11 by
Hi all!! Well it seems I'm the first journaler here from the good ole US of A!! I live in a very small town in Oregon. I'm not sure of the actual population, but I do know there are less than 200 students in our local school and that is Kindergarten through 12th grade.Hmmmm what eles to say... I have one son (7dragons) who is 13 and a wonderful S.O. (GWiley), and although they think BookCrossing is a great idea, I do all the work on their bookshelf. So if you check you will notice their bookshelves are rather boring. I also have a step daughter and 3 grandchildren ages 2, 4, and 6. I have 3 cats (Zeus, LuLu, and Silver Bells) and 1 dog (Mocha) who is a Husky. The picture is of Mocha. And last but not least I love this web site!!! |
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Hello from the beautiful state of Virginia, USA! I live in a small town in the mountains of SW Virginia. This is a picture of me with my husband, three sons and daughter-in-law. We are owned by three cats and one dog! Bookcrossing has become a central part of my day - somewhere to chat and learn. I have always enjoyed reading, and now I can share with others. There are so many BCers posting here that are from the UK...my husband is from Northumberland. We met online and have been married 4 years this coming March. Have a great day! |
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Hi, Vespa here. I live on the beautiful jurrasic coast of Dorset. I'm afraid I'm another one who doesn't do photos, so you will have to content yourself with one of my two most precious babies.
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Hello from Winchester in the south of England or from St Gaultier in the centre of France. I am fortunate to be able to spend time in both. It's pretty wet in both at the moment, but I keep reminding myself that the reservoirs need it!
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The photo will be one of me on Dartmoor, Devon, UK, the beautiful National Park I'm lucky enough to live in with DH and two dogs. You can check out my new blog for more at http://knitknackpaddywack.blogspot.com/ Hope to meet you all at the UKunconvention in July.tutleymutley X |
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Hi,I'm Dave (AKA Morseman)and I'm from Birmingham originally, but now live in Bolsover, Derbyshire. The photo was taken by me holding a digital camera with the screen facing a mirror whilst I moved the camera and tried to get a decent shot. |
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Hi y'all! Apa khabar? Vivian (niegl-vivian) here from Malaysia too! Photo of me is just, well, a photo of me, hope it won't give you nightmares :P Right now it's my last year in high school, and there's this extremely important SPM examination at the end of this year. Dad's like, banning me from reading books until then :( Ah, well, there are ways to slip past dad's watchful eyes ;) |
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Hi from "sunny" Bolton, Lancs, UK. I'm veganknitter, I've been a bookcrosser since April 2005 and I love it. I'm currently involved in a Birthday A- Z Wild Release Challenge which involves releasing books that match the initial of the place I am releasing them in. If I can't reach a place that matches the book alphabetically I plan to do a themed release. See how I'm getting on at 255-3512997.
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This is such a great idea!Waving to all the other BookCrossers out there! Most of my business is plastered on my bookshelf, but here it is anyway: My name is Jill and I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. BoosterJ and I are expecting our first child BabyBoosterJ sometime in April...I already set up her bookshelf so we can start releasing kid's books together right away!  That's her waving hello, also! I have just started my first bookbox, anyone in the US interested, just PM me! |
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Tartany ( ( (((Waves))) ) ) from Edinburgh, central Scotland. I was born in Stonehaven in the south of the north of Scotland, on the coast it’s 15 miles from Aberdeen. BookCrossing thrills: I now read so much more then I ever did before, 149 books in 2005, as opposed to 10ish/year BC BookCrossing: discovering so many wonderful books &: discovering so many wonderful bookcrossers. HUGE thanks, to all you guys out there ~ for waving back!Pic Mums fave Turkish Restaurant in Aberdeen, Nargile. I’m on the right, one of my last shots of me with my Dad, (who sadly died last April) and my younger sister who lives in Canada and of course my Mum! |
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Hiya :) I'm live in West Yorkshire, but was born in Jersey, Channel Islands. I'm in BCUK & will be going to the Unconvention in July for the 3rd time. I love reading (don't we all?) & think bookcrossing is the best invention ever :)Please check out my availables as I'm happy to post them out, though not too many at once as money is a bit tight atm. I've uploaded a photo of my baby, Holly, as it's the only one I have at the right size. There's a picture of me & my other daughter, Kate, on my profile page. Holly was about an hour old in this photo & I'm getting broody looking at it. Whoops! |
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Ok...i'm Kathryn, age 18, from Durham, NE England, currently at 6th form, HOPING to achieve the grades for university. This is such a really good idea, cool to read all the entries from all over the world! A bit about me...i live with my parents and my brother (when he's not at uni), who's 20. I enjoy reading (bit of a given, but never mind!), i adore music, play piano and guitar, love the north-east, although wouldn't say no to a bit of warmer weather now and again! (Pic is of me [middle] in Balloch, Scotland at an REM concert in summer 2005!) Peace to all, take care.
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Hi. I'm ReetPetite living in Nottingham UK. My BC name is my nickname at work, I couldn't think of a better one. I love reading & I love Bookcrossing. I'm going to the Unconvention again, hoping to meet more BCers this time.The photo was taken in sunny (but cold) Venice last November. |
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Hello, Jane here, I'm originally from West Sussex but now live in Bedfordshire. I'm a freelance web designer and live with my husband Mark and our cat Cameo (only one of whom is with me in the action photo on the left). My favourite book is Jane Eyre.
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What a nice idea.I'm Mark, my current interests are: Modern Fiction, my mini-orchard/micro-vineyard/cider-making projects, music from A-Z (especially D, U & B but definately not C & W), Leicester Tigers Rugby Football Club and all the home nations, except Wales and Scotland. Oh, friends and family too. The picture is from my younger 'Bearded Rock God' days, obviously the beard has gone, though sadly little else seems to have changed! Pass it on.... |
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Hello from south-east London, UK (waves to all catchers!)I dug around for a photo and having discovered, shockingly, that there is no good photo of me with any one of my guinea pigs, I've chosen one that has a large, empty wine glass in front of me. Says it all really. |
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Aloha from Hawaii, I live on the Big Island,yes, I'm a Punatic!!! no white sandy beaches here... I have a S.O.(yes,he's a BX-er,too) who makes me BXing postcards & labels.. Just completed 4libros Holiday Wishes 2005 project..(the pix here is of me sitting in front of bookshelf w/all the goodies from it).now on to the Valentine Challenge.I can't wait to get all those romance books off my shelf... To see some more pix, go to my bookshelf & check out flickr.....& don't forget to give me a hug!!!! A Hui Hou !!!! |
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Hey there! I'm Mary Jo from the beautiful midwest USA (St. Louis, Missouri to be exact). I'm married with two wonderful daughters, ages 13 and 10--a reading family we are! I'm getting ready to go on a 10-day missions trip to Bangladesh (my first time across the world) and I'm very excited about it. I look forward to getting lots of reading done on the 24-hour trip!
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Hi! I hate cameras, but Semioticghost is great with one and doesn't like to take no as an answer, so I'm going to put one here that she took of me with my youngest. Update - that one was too big to load, so I've had to revert to one that was taken of me with SirRoy at the unconvention. I also have two daughters, the eldest has branched out as Tiggerlily on here, while the other two still maskerade as We3Dragonets. Happily I got rid of their father about two years ago, which is when my life really began. I was born in Singapore, we left when I was five months old, and since then I've lived in many parts of England. The second half of my life so far has been in London, but I still count myself as a Northerner. I live with my three wonderful but wearing children (it's sometimes a pleasure to go to work!), one cat, three hamsters, and a tankful of tropical fish. Thanks to bookcrossing I have read some fascinating books that I otherwise wouldn't have looked at, and made friends with some wonderful people; several doctors, several librarians, several media stars (including a journalist at the BBC), a rocket scientist, some published authors - but more, they are warm and generous friends. I have also discovered that it feels perfectly natural to go into a pub and sit on my own with a book, or meet a crowd of people I've not set eyes on before - very liberating! I can be a bit scatty, have no memory, and my house is always a tip. My mother is forbidden entry (she lives a long way away anyway) as she is a good housekeeper, but my friends have learned to accept me the way I am, and are always welcome. If you're ever in London, send me a message and I'll be more than happy to meet you! Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed, I tend to talk an awful lot sometimes! |
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Great idea!! I'm Thérèse and I live in Kirkintilloch near Glasgow with my 4 year old daughter. I hate having my picture taken but I'll see if I can find one I'm not too mortified by!! |
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Hello! I'm a Librarian currently living in London, but looking for jobs in the West Country (anywhere that is primarily famous for scones and clotted cream is okay by me!). I love BC, although sadly it has made me buy even more books! My bookshelves are all full so I have had to resort to cardboard boxes. I will be attending the Unconvention for the first time this year.The photo is of my adopted daughter Amy. Sadly she doesn't live with me because she is a large, grumpy orangutan. I LOVE orangutans, probably because I am rather like them personality-wise... |
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SOrry no pics but maybe one day...(OK Safro has threatend me with random acts of bookcrossing vindictiveness so .....will try to attache what someone said was a good likeness).I live in Stevenage with two kids, assorted livestock including dog, cat, fish, tortoise hedghog etc, several hundered books and a long suffering wife. I work in London, though my boss has suggested I mearly eat lunch there and draw a wage. Which is why at 6 pm Im still at work instead of heading home - mind you I am dossing - so perhaps he has a point...... |
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[THANK YOU all you lovely people - I have now succeeded in uploading a photo, as you see!]Just to prove that I'm not a COMPLETELY dumb blonde, here is a picture of me on the day I graduated with First Class Hons in English Lit. I am not working at the moment, apart from lots of voluntary commitments. When my son Sam (now 6) is a little older, I hope to teach English. We live near Oswestry in North Shropshire with a mad Border Collie called Fosse, two cats and a hyperactive gerbil. I love reading (obviously), theatre, music, walking, good company. Lots of other things too, but I'd better stop somewhere! Alison (aka OutrageousGrace) P.S. Isn't Bookcrossing just a lovely thing to do? I think the world would be a nicer place if it was full of bookcrossers. |
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Excellent idea. I'm molekilby from S Wales. I work in Cardiff. I renewed the joy of reading recently and then became active in Bookcrossing (although a member since 2003) and BCUK. Both of which has seen the number of books I've read (and collect in the house) increase dramatically.Pic is of me just after shaving my head for charity in 2005. I used to have shoulder length hair and a full beard. I've kept it short and no beard since. |
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I'm Krys. I was born in London, studied in Bristol, lived in Zagreb (then Yugoslavia, now Croatia) for 5 years, and then in Sheffield before moving to Nottingham. I did a doctorate in immunology, which taught me that I hate lab work. Then I ran a faculty library and requalified in library and information studies and decided libraries were not for me. I then spent longer than I wished as a scientist and information specialist at a charity. During that time I qualified as an indexer and still index several books a year. Finally, with no linguistic qualifications and by sheer chance I became a medical translator and seem to be good enough for clients to come back. I've managed to leave the pettiness of office life and being (mis)managed to working at home. I'm working harder than ever but loving every moment. The times spent working right through to next morning are balanced by the days off and holidays I take without needing to ask anyone's permission :))I took up running in my 50s having been a lifelong couch potato. The photo is of me just before running the Brighton 10K in November 2005. It was taken by the younger of my two grown-up daughters (faerieenigma on BC). My other main activity is West Gallery music in which I fiddle and sing the treble part in a performing group from Warwick. My other interests mainly revolve round esotericism and hermeticism, Egyptology, astrology, tarot, Jungian psychology and other "weird" pursuits. I am currently owned by 4 cats, all black: Merlin, Ebony, Sopdet and Seshat. |
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I'm herrgirl, living in Harrow, Greater London but originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire and a tyke through and through. I joined Book Crossing in 2003 to stop my daughter, chelseagirl, from nagging, but only became an active bookcrosser about a year ago after I retired. I'm going to the Unconvention this year and look forward to meeting all the people I read on BCUK and swap books with.Picture is of me with grandchildren mrs-lampard and karatekid. |
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Hi All :o)caffcaff here...aka Vikki....aka Super BcWoman, a nickname i seem to have adopted by the fact that i go to meets all over the country lol. Im branching out a bit in 2006 as i'm signed up to go to the Convention in Toronto! *gulp* I'm a born and bred Sowf Eas Lundoner now residing in Kent UK. Well i couldnt move too far away from London as hubby's business is there.... Talking of which.... Hubby is a BCer too, hes "BigBoss" and has been known to attend the odd meet (and come home with more books than me would you beleive!!!!). The other BCer in the house is "tigzz" my DD who is 13. My two sons (aged 15 & 17) love to read too, but you'll never catch them journalling a book.... They think my book thing is "stupid" lol. I've been a BCer for 20months and my fave part of the whole thing is wild releasing.... I've just done the sums and on average i release about 192 books per month lol.... Addicted? Me? lol The picture is of me taken by SemioticGhost at the BCUKUnCon05. We're in the throws of planning BCUKUnCon06 at the moment, so im looking forward to seeing a lot of you in Birmingham in June! |
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Journal Entry 57 by
What a great idea!I'm in Loughborough England and go to the bookcrossing meets in Nottingham. I love knitting, crocheting and sewing and am self-employed. |
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Another knitter here! I live in Birmingham at the moment, am from East Yorkshire originally, and have been a student since time immemorial. The pic is of me in the sky! I did a parachute jump when I was travelling and these are my legs, stylishly clad in a boiler suit, heading for the ground.
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Journal Entry 61 by
Mmmm? What to say about myself? Enjoying Bookcrossing but will admit that the primary use I am making of the site is as an on-line catalogue of my library and the releasing of books is only secondary to this (although a close second). Enjoy reading, cinema, TV (mainly watching old movies on cable), science fiction in all media, collecting books, and movie and sci-fi memorabilia, dinner with friends....Mmmm! Yikes! Starting to sound like a dating agency profile. Better not let KEMS see this. The picture here is the closest I could find to me holding a book. I had been lounging in the pool (it was 42 degrees Celcius there that day) with a book, but had to put it down to drink my mug of tea. |
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Journal Entry 62 by
What a marvellous idea! Here, let me join in, and this is what you'd see if you were sitting on my computer monitor and snapping flashes into my eyes. I'm holding my BBC Radio Guernsey journal, because I'm listening to Jenny Kendall-Tobias at the moment, which it's just after a summer sundown on a hot day here in Canberra.I've been a BookCrosser for three years, I get a great deal of joy from books, BookCrossing and BookCrossers, and I have sometimes been described as "the world's only full-time BookCrosser", which isn't too far from the truth! |
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Hi. *waves*I'm Laura and i'm a teacher living in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. I teach little children, 4 and 5 year olds. I'm a newly-wed and now own my own house. Yay - no more renting! I am a vegetarian and i love food. I love to read and i've been a member of BC since 2003, although i have slowed up a bit in my reading and releasing of late. I also love to be creative and make things. My main love at the moment is knitting but i am slowly expanding my horizons. Looking forward to reading what everyone has written. :D Edited to add: Forgot to add my sister and brother are also bookcrossers - mockingbird-05 and Jonneh. Still working on my non-reading hubby! Also wanted to add a link to my journal: http://laurakateknits.livejournal.com/ |
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Hi - I'm minnie the pinkozcat. I live in Cottesloe, Western Australia.I live with two Burmese cats and I am not putting a picture of them in this journal because they are very territorial and there are already a lot of cats here. This is me bookcrossing in Iran. I'm not usually that wide - I am going to have to tweak the original to slim me down a bit. |
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Journal Entry 66 by
I like to confuse everyone with my screen name as I actually live in Christchurch.Reason for screen name is I was born in Lyttelton and my children used call me a witch that spelt with a "B"I have two adult sons and the younger one Robert is always complaining about my books. As well as obviously bookcrossing I do geocaching and host overseas visitors thro' couchsurfing.I don't have a lot of spare time but one day hope to get back into my craft work and the family tree. My future plans include taking extended leave from work and travelling especially to the UK so I hope to get to meet everyone in person.The minute I am given medical clearance I will be booking my flights, which gives me about two years to save the money. This photo was taken at a work function,when we arrived we were all handed headgear to wear.I used the idea at the Dunedin convention. |
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I live in Brisbane and I’ve always loved books and loved to read. I can’t remember a day in my life where I haven’t read or been read to. When my partner, Davros-10 started becoming interested (for ‘interested’ read ‘slightly compulsive’) in BookCrossing, I thought that I would look into it, I needed to make sure it wasn’t anything too odd. I checked BookCrossing out and found that I enjoyed it too, especially the authors I’ve been introduced to, the RABCKs, the releases I’ve had caught and the ones I’ve caught as well as the lovely Christmas themed BookCrossing activities shared with BookCrossers from home and overseas. I’m a slow and steady sort of BookCrosser so I will keep on registering and releasing as whim would have it.The picture here is Davros-10 and me on holidays in Sydney in 2005. P.S to Davros-10, I have read your journal entry and say – go ahead with the on-line dating agency suggestion if you will. But, confidentially, I think it is a safe bet that he won’t proceed because he’d begrudge the time that would be taken away from BookCrossing! |
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This is interesting! Soo....now we're books...kind of..every life is a story, every day a page for us to fill anyway! ahhaa..Angela from Singapore here! |
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Hello from Texas. This is my daughter [bookshelf is bonsai429] and me on my Grandfather's farm near San Antonio. We enjoy among other things, target shooting, riding horses, camping, music and lots and lots of reading. BookCrossing is a great site with great people!! And many thanks to Sherlockfan who told me about this journal....
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Hello, this is Lesley from the beautiful county of Suffolk where I live with my husband MrRedhouse and our three cats, Tigger Oscar and Fitz in a new house that we finished building about a year ago. We are about three miles from the coast and a mile from the River Orwell.The beautiful Suffolk Wildlife Trust bird reserve at Trimley Marshes almost backs on to our house. I have been actively bookcrossing since August 2003 and am completely addicted.The photo was taken in Chartres on the first evening of our holiday in June and yes, I had probably had far too much to drink! |
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Hello everyone, sarahbear from Tasmania, Australia now adding to this online experience. What a fantastic idea. I've really enjoyed reading through the other enteries. Im Mum of 4, part business owner and generally keen participant in reading, cooking, geocaching and especially bookcrossing. I also enjoy doing cross stich although I have to be in the right mode for that. I will try and add a photo now :)Thanks to the creator of this online journal. |
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Hello from sunny California!
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Wow ... I'm a book now!I'm Rosie, born in St Albans, a Roman city just north of London. I love travelling and am currently moving very slowly around the world with my Canadian boyfriend. So far, on this particular journey. we've been away from home for about 15 months and have visited Canada and Fiji, and spent a year on a working holiday in New Zealand. It was great to meet up with Kiwi bookcrossers when I passed through Christchurch! We've been in Australia since November, enjoying Brisbane and challenging ourselves fruit picking further north in Queensland. Now we've moved to lovely, temperate Melbourne, which we'll use as a base for the next 2 years. I'm currently job-hunting - back in England I worked in publishing and in medical libraries, though here I'll take whatever I can get! Hoping to meet other Melbourne bookcrossers soon. Good to meet you all - I'll upload a photo when I get the chance. |
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What a great idea. I'm Suefitz living in Saratoga, CA a native California. I couldn't find a photo of me, so how about this one? My favorite animals.What a fun experiment. Would love to hear from others. |
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Hi there from the Borders of Scotland & a small town called Peebles. I'm a nurse working part time in our local hospital. Love reading, wonder what I did with the time I know spend, bookcrossing, keeping up with BCUK & tracking rings/rays & then sitting on my hands to stop me joining more, LOL. I'm attending my first UnCon in Birmingham this summer & am looking forward to it. Sharing a room with Reetpetite & flying down from Edinburgh, my first solo airplane trip, so I'm dubbing the UnCon scotsbookie's big adventure. Hate having to have my pic taken so you'll have to make do with a little Marigold Flower Fairy I stitched. |
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This is such a great idea! I love all your pics so here's a recent one I took for SerenityBlue to use on her convention collage.I'm Jenny, I live in a village near Harrogate, North Yorkshire and I love it here! I'm married with a 6 yr old daughter who is the light of my life and apart from reading, my other hobbies are card-making, calligraphy, watercolour painting and dressmaking (the last two haven't had as much attention since I started BookCrossing but it was a sacrifice worth making!). |
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Ah, Littlemave, why does it not surprise me that you were the first Antipodean to jump on the bandwagon?! ;o) Hello all! My name is Feryl, and I live in Sydney (just around the corner from Littlemave, as it happens), but I grew up in the beautiful, World Heritage listed Blue Mountains. I was introduced to Bookcrossing nearly a year ago (my first Bookcrossing anniversary is coming up on 17th April!) by my friend miss-jo. I've since become slightly obsessed with it and keep pestering the rest of my friends to get in on the action too! :o) |
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I am a high school English teacher in Yuma, Arizona, USA (the pic is me on "crazy hair day" at school). I especially like literary fiction and mysteries. A student of mine turned me on to BC, and now I'm an addict.
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What a great idea!!Anyways, here's a little about me - my BC name first and foremost is a homage to my 2 main vices : coffee and chocolate. But it is also a "twist" to my parentage of Indonesian-Dutch-Sino-Malay ancestry. So, instead of the usual "cafe-au-lait hue" used generally to describe a mixed raced child, I decided to call myself "Cafe-au-chocolat" instead (yes ... yes ... I am the poster child for confused children and walking dichotomies). I now live and work in Kuala Lumpur (or KL as it is affectionately known by locals!) but have spent 3/4 of my years growing up in London, New York, LA, Rotterdam and spent 7 years doing my tertiary education in France. Perhaps now you understand why books are my contant companions. I've been a BCer since 2002 (or was it 2003? hmmm ...) and you can check out my BC profile on the kind of books I love. |
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Um I am a book hoarder, but love to send HUGE packages to unsuspecting bookcrossers. I have a large collection on Vampire books, included romance ones, that are avaliable to Bookcrossers from Boomarings. I have too many books in the house :) and I collect the Simpsons Episodes. I am also a livejournaller :D I belong to too many Yahoo groups, all book groups.I have picked a photo that Skying took of me because it is bright and colourful and one day I will actaully read the book I am holding. |
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Not to sound like a broken record or anything, but hey -- what a great idea this is! Wish I had thought of it! I saw this when browsing someone else's bookshelf, and my curiosity got the best of me!I'm Coleen, 30-something, living in the Midwestern USA. I'm very addicted to this BookCrossing thing, I might add, pretty much since the day I joined. How can you NOT be??! I am also not good with the photo thing here, but I'm going to try, and if it doesn't work, I guess I'll keep trying until it does. I had to laugh and get the camera the other day when my daughter (who just turned 2) plopped herself down on the floor with one of her books and some of my brown packaging paper and started trying to wrap it up, apparently after seeing me do it numerous times. LOL! |
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I'm sandyundead, currently at university in Durham, but born in Essex, although only lived there for 2 months so not sure if I count as an Essex girl or not :) Grew up in Wolverhampton and went to school in Telford, so basically am very confused :) Studying languages and want to travel for the rest of my life, so probably won't make defining myself any easier! I love Bookcrossing, although I do have _far_ too many books to read now, and feel that any time not spent reading is wasted! i have made loads of great friends through the site and really look forward to the monthly Newcastle meetups. Might even sort myself out and make the Durham meet a regular thing (pigs might also fly!) :s And for anyone who knows I'm related to the weeblys but aren't sure how (can hear aunty weebly complaining now that I'm not weeblysniece!) I am weebly's niece (duh!) and katweeble's daughter. Finally a question - how do you add a photo to a journal? Can't believe I've been a member for over 2 years and still don't know how *looks very sheepish and hurredly submits je so as not to prolong embarrassment!* Update - thanks very much to feryl for letting me know how to add my picture (stolen from aunty weebly who put it on another journal related to me) :) |
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Hi all. I thought I'd join the fun. I'm Pixette and live in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia, but I originally come from Brisbane. I love my adopted city, slendid weather with the city and a magnificent harbour I can walk to from home. I've been a bookcrosser for a couple of years now and enjoy the company of other crossers immensely. When I travel (which happens occassionally) I hope to meet some of you who are a bit more far flung than downtown Sydney. I haven't got a recent photo but I need one for a few other reasons so I'll post one sometime. |
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I am mostly harmless and have been a bookcrosser since Christmas 2005.I find Bookcrossing to be eminently suitable to my obsessive compulsive tendencies and there is no greater Bookcrossing feeling than getting (sadly rare) a journal entry from a released book. I also enjoy rugby, football, cricket, real ale and many other admittedly-typical Blokish, British pursuits. |
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Hello from San Francisco!
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Hey guys!It's such a wonderful experience to read about people all over the world and let them know some things about you..I'm Natalie and I live in Athens,Greece.I became a bookcrosser after reading an article in the newspaper "Eleftherotypia".I'm a student and I want to become an architect.My favorite subject is mathematics.I love maths and I've read many books about them so far.I've visited exhibitions about maths and I solve problems,while being on the metro,on the bus...anywhere!I've been playing the guitar for 6 years and I love it because I express myself through it.I also write my own music(without lyrics)!I adore the cinema and the DVDs,too.Until last year(when I didn't have so much homework) I watched a film per day...I wanna learn Japanese.I'm extremely interested in the religions.My biggest dream is to visit India and Thibet one day...So far I've travelled to Germany,the Netherlands,Switzerland,Malta,Turkey and France!Anyway,bookcrossing opened for me a whole new world! |
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