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[Zuri]

Thanks all and welcome Ferrel.

[Dawn]

Ferrel wrote: "Hi,

How nice it is to find a welcoming, UK-centric reading community that evidently does a nice line in slightly surreal banter! I'm Ferrel, an avid reader who has a penchant for travelogues, phil..."
Welcome, Ferrel! I love your name. I don't think I've ever heard it before, but that may be because I'm an American.

[Dawn]

Mario Escalada wrote: "Hi everyone,

I'm Mario, almost forties, live in Madrid (Spain) and i'm looking improve my english and looking easy reading books but i'm focus in novels, not teaching, education or children's book..."

Hi Mario! Welcome to the group!

It's wonderful that you are reading English books to improve your language skills. I struggle with German and Spanish, but I can't imagine reading my books in another language.

[Dawn]

Ferrel wrote: "Hi,

How nice it is to find a welcoming, UK-centric reading community that evidently does a nice line in slightly surreal banter! I'm Ferrel, an avid reader who has a penchant for travelogues, phil..."

Hi Ferrel,
My books are all on Amazon's KDP program and they seem to do well. My publisher tells me it's hard to keep track of royalties because Amazon pays per page read, but the support you get from an entity like Amazon can't be beat. It's worth the effort. Just my two cents.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Dawn wrote: "Ferrel wrote: "Hi,

How nice it is to find a welcoming, UK-centric reading community that evidently does a nice line in slightly surreal banter! I'm Ferrel, an avid reader who has a penchant for tr..."

UK = two pence lol :-)

[Dawn]

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Ferrel wrote: "Hi,

How nice it is to find a welcoming, UK-centric reading community that evidently does a nice line in slightly surreal banter! I'm Ferrel, an avid reader who has a pe..."

Hi Flo,
Yes, your systems for money and weight are very different from ours. I don't know how many 'stones' I weigh, and I'm happy that way. It's bad enough in pounds.

[Jane]

Dawn. I reckon stones is better. Less in number.

[Patti (baconater)]

*cough*

Fewer

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Jane wrote: "Dawn. I reckon stones is better. Less in number."

Good thinking Jane - think I'll stick with stones!!

[Michael]

Hello! Just joined your group, will hopefully be able to find my way round :)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Hi Michael, you're very welcome. As far as finding your way around, just follow the trail of bacon ;) At least you'll get lost in interesting places...

[Michael]

Ah bacon is always good to follow...

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I think our noses are baconnected to follow the aroma.

[Alicia]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "*cough*

Fewer"

Thank you, Patti - my pet peeve, though I fear that battle has already been lost.

[Kath]

Hi, Michael. Nice to meet you.

[L.A.]

Welcome Michael, there's not many of us so just follow follow the trail!! Hard to get lost........ except at first, but don't worry.......

[Jane]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "*cough*

Fewer"

Patti has the right of it.

But:

Grammar is there to be squidged if it suits one's purposes.

Less sounds less than fewer. So I went for less.

[Dawn]

Jane wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "*cough*

Fewer"

Patti has the right of it.

But:

Grammar is there to be squidged if it suits one's purposes.

Less sounds less than fewer. So I went for less."

Now, there's a fun word: squidged:-)

[Aled]

Hey group! What a great bunch you seem to be :) I'm Aled and for those who like free stuff my book is currently free for four days. The colours of our petals

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Hi Aled. Sit down, make yourself at home and have some bacon.

[L.A.]

Welcome Aled - wrap it round Monkfish for lunch.

[Kath]

Hi Aled! Welcome to our world.

[Anita]

Hi Michael and Aled, very nice to meet you both.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Aled wrote: "Hey group! What a great bunch you seem to be :) I'm Aled and for those who like free stuff my book is currently free for four days. The colours of our petals"

Hi Aled - downloaded your book - love the Tudor period. I notice you've got the book "to read" - don't you know what it's about? :-) lol

[Jim]

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: " love the Tudor period. ..."

it is one of our more fascinating periods.
However my daughter studied it so often and in such depth they almost managed to sicken her of it!

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I don't think I could get sick of it Jim. I always live in the hope that I will find something out that I hadn't heard before.

[Jim]

Have you read The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

Written by the author of the Flashman Books, it's a history rather than a novel, but is very readable

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I've just read Fair Helen by a favourite author Andrew Greig, so that would follow on nicely

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

It does look interesting Jim - but I don't usually part with anything more than a fiver for a book - so I think I'll leave it on my wishlist until the price comes down a bit. :-)

[Jim]

or buy the hardback for £2.52 plus postage :-)

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Couldn't possibly Jim. I have a confession to make - as long as you promise not to tell anyone else........ I'm a Kindle-aholic!!

[Patti (baconater)]

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "Couldn't possibly Jim. I have a confession to make - as long as you promise not to tell anyone else........ I'm a Kindle-aholic!!"

There's my gurl.

That damn Jim is always trying to force dead tree books on us.

I should smack him again. It's been a while and he's getting cocky.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

With a dead fish, of course.

[Patti (baconater)]

Dead...fish.

Okay

[Jim]

I thought she ought to smack me with a virtual electronic fish?

[Anita]

Thought I could smell something fishy !

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "I thought she ought to smack me with a virtual electronic fish?"

How about a Babel fish?

[Elizabeth]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Jim wrote: "I thought she ought to smack me with a virtual electronic fish?"

How about a Babel fish?"

'Ear 'ear.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Elizabeth wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Jim wrote: "I thought she ought to smack me with a virtual electronic fish?"

How about a Babel fish?"

'Ear 'ear."

Hehehe!

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Well that was scaled down a bit!! :-)

[Jane]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "With a dead fish, of course."

In our neck of the woods we slap people with a damp copy of the Farmers Weekly

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jane wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "With a dead fish, of course."

In our neck of the woods we slap people with a damp copy of the Farmers Weekly"

LOL!

[Patti (baconater)]

Jane wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "With a dead fish, of course."

In our neck of the woods we slap people with a damp copy of the Farmers Weekly"

Hehehehehe

[Peter]

This thread looks a little more than introductions, but here goes. I'm Peter, I'm on my third Kindle (a Paperwhite) and I have a frighteningly large Kindle library, both nonfiction (history, international politics, biography) and fiction (often detective, spy etc).
Thanks, moderators, for the brilliant 'quick start' message, which other groups could learn from.

[Anita]

Hello Peter, lovely to meet you. We are a happy group and welcome all new members, please feel free to pull up a chair and help yourself to coffee, if you are very lucky Patti will do you a bacon buttie, if she hasn't already eaten all the bacon !

[L.A.]

Welcome Peter. Loads to do with loads of very different people..........some like bacon........some like it more...........some like fish ............ some like their fish wrapped in bacon...........enjoy!

[Peter]

Just had breakfast, but thanks anyway.

My Kindle backlog is probably because I get the Daily Deal email and invest 99p in anything I like the look of, for future enjoyment. I probably only buy one or two a month, but they mount up.`

I'll pop over to the author section and do a quick post there, before I get down to work.

[Anita]

Most of us have thousands in our TBR list Peter, you will fit in just fine !

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Welcome Peter - enjoy the group.

[Ferrel]

A big thanks to all of you who've been good enough to welcome me to the group over the past few days. I have been at a music festival over the weekend so please don't think I've been ignoring you!!

And yes; before you ask: lots of bacon rolls/baps/baguettes were consumed...