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LOW COST LITERARY FEAST AT WWW.MYBOO KYOURBOOK.CO.UK |
CALL CENTRE’S GEORGINA TAKES A BRONZE |
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 Call Sign has been contacted by mybookyourbook.co.uk to explain to our drivers and staff just what their online library facility is all about. This co-operative online library is for the exchange and recycling of paper-back books and already has thousands of books in its catalogue that are obtainable for just the cost of a stamped, self addressed envelope. The site, unlike some book sharing schemes, does not rely on the chance finding of books, nor is there a need to provide a matching swap when you find a book you want to read. The ability to order envelopes at a low cost price through the site also means big savings on packaging too. To join mybookyourbook.co.uk, members must simply submit details of ten paper backs they own and pay a sign-up fee. They then have access to the library and can start requesting books from other members via the easy to use automated emailing system. Once recieved and after a reading period has elapsed, each book stays on the members "bookshelf" until another member requests it and sends a stamped addressed envelope so that it can be despatched. One user of mybookyourbook.co.uk is DaC's Network Administrator, Jonathon Winterburn. He has been using the facility since its launch in 2005. He told Call Sign: "Mybookyourbook.co.uk
is a non-profit company and the low membership fee covers
hosting and other such costs. This is a great community to
join if you're a book-lover." |
 Part of this years' Hampton Court Flower Show Inset: Georgina back in the Call Centre |
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calltaker, Georgina Newton, sounded thrilled as she told
Call Sign how she had scooped the bronze medal for her
vegetable basket at the prestigious Hampton Court Flower Show –
where one of the Silver medal winners (in the Show Gardens
category) was no less than Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone! Taking place from 4 – 9 July, Georgina and a friend were representing their local Cable Street Community Garden group. She told Call Sign: "Many of those from the group gave me their prize vegetables and we arranged them into baskets for display at the show. Taking them all in the car was a nightmare because vegetables don’t come in easy-packing designs! But we somehow got them all there without any misfortune." In addition to Mayor Ken’s Show Gardens category, there were hundreds of entries for other categories such as Conceptual Gardens, Water Gardens, Floral Marquees, Rose displays and Georgina’s category of Window Box and Hanging |
Gardens.
Georgina admitted that whilst knowing that their display was very
good, expecting a medal against such strong opposition was really
clutching at straws – but they did it! "We were just so thrilled when our name was announced as bronze winners," she said, "it was worth every minute of the hard work that our allotment group had put in. I felt honoured to be the one who was presenting our display." Georgina’s display came under the heading of Food in the City and contained any and every vegetable or flower that is eatable, including chrysanthemums and nasturtiums – delicacies that Call Sign has yet to send our restaurant reviewers out to test! And what about the medal? Who gets to keep that? "We will be putting it up on our notice board because it belongs to every single person in our group," said Georgina with a sound of triumph. "We all earned this." There were two Gold medal winner’s in Georgina’s category; they were the South Holland Horticultural Show Society and the Wisborough Horticultural Society. |
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