So much fun!

[skyring]

Last night I went along - five minutes after it began raining - to the local Neighbourhood Watch group. I'm booked to be their guest speaker next month and I wanted to get a feel for the meeting. About a dozen, mostly elderly, folk meeting in a back room in the church hall. The guest speaker was a volunteer for the National Museum on a restored paddle-steamer that her great grandfather had captained around the turn of the century on the Murray-Darling. Now it's restored and operates on lake Burley Griffin. She talked for an hour and was fascinating the whole way through. Yikes! How can i follow this?

The rain let up slightly as I walked back to my car, but returned in full foce with thunder and lightning later on. Glad I pulled the bed sheets in before it started, sad that I left everything else on the line. Oh well. Final rinse.

Tuned in just in time for the BookCrossing feature on BBC Guernsey. Steve (Netstation) and Shiela (Swan-Scot) were the guests and it seemed that one of the staff was also a BookCrosser. They had a fantastic time and the presenter was impressed that Swan-Scot climbed mountains to leave books on top, and that one of them had been picked up and left on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. I was impressed, and I've been reading about her exploits for years.

The best part was that the presenter, with the delightful name of Jenny Kendall-Tobias reacted well to Steve and Shiela (as folk tend to do) and became more and more enthusiastic. And then as the emails began rolling in from around the world, she became more and more excited. After the BookCrossing segment was over, she couldn't stop talking about BookCrossing and her international audience. Following guests must have been bemused to find BookCrossing worked into every second sentence.

And then somehow she reacted to me bombarding her with cheeky emails and set me a challenge to get as many Aussies as possible to contact her. Crikey! It was eleven at night - most people would be tucked up in bed with a book.

So I got onto the forum, the email list, the local group, emails, PMs - everyone got a quick call. Peggysmum, Woosang, CoffeeBron, Sujie in Borneo and RavenBear in Vietnam. And BookCzuk and Amy from South Carolina! Oh, but it was marvellous fun to hear all these names and have their emails read out on air!

Thanks everyone!

I needed a lift. Mind you, I didn't get much writing done!

And now I've got two wonderful BBC presenters to listen to.

Comments

[bookczuk.livejournal.com]

cheeky little bugger, calling in twoce with two names! Oh well. It pumped the numbers!