Getting to know you.

[Diane CBPFC]

I thought it was about time we had an introduction of sorts and get to know one another better - answer any or all... or make up your own questions if you prefer

What is your real first name?

Where do you live, where were you born?

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?

What do you do to keep fit?

Favorite junk food?

What do you do to make the world better?

What books are currently on your nightstand?

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?

Which BP character are you most like?

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?

Which is your favourite BP book?

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?

[Diane CBPFC]

What is your real first name?
Diane

Where do you live, where were you born?
Four and a half hours north-west of Edmonton, Alberta. Wallasey ? grew up in Wales.

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?
Farmer for tax purposes ? but hubby does most of the work. I do the books and am a general go-for. I spend about four or five hours a day supervising my boys home school education and teaching my younger daughter. They will go to high school in town ? but in the meantime they are saved from long bus rides. I am a taxi driver for all their activities: swimming, karate, ballet, skating and soccer. 

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?
I painted my hall and closet doors ? put the second coat on yesterday. I like to do a few crafts such as card making and I wrote a novel last Novemeber.

What do you do to keep fit?
I don?t

Favorite junk food?
Sea salt and pepper chips/crisps

What do you do to make the world better?
Smile, sponsor kids, Amnesty International, write letters to the editor, volunteer on the library board and coach soccer to kids.

What books are currently on your nightstand?
BP book #1 and Reviving Ophelia

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?
All of the above

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?
Having a clean house, entertaining friends, and watching a movie.

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?
The Nomad

Which character are you most like?
Beau Peep with just a dab of Vera

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?
Most of them.

Which is your all time favourite BP book?
I still have to say book #3 ?  some classic lines from the Nomad

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?
No.

[Roger Kettle]

I don't suppose I can join in with this but I've met Andrew. Are sausages a junk food? I love them but only treat myself if I'm staying at a hotel with a breakfast buffet. Current book is A.B. Guthrie's The Big Sky. That's it. I'm exhausted just looking at everything YOU do.

[Diane CBPFC]

Roger, as a side question - when you see the thread title "getting to know you" to you also hum "getting to know you" from the musical "The King and I"?

[Roger Kettle]

Yes. Dammit.

[Mince]

What is your real first name?
Malcolm

Where do you live, where were you born?
Stanmore

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?
Private Tutor. Yes.

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?
Design games.

What do you do to keep fit?
Beat students.

Favorite junk food?
M&Ms

What do you do to make the world better?
Teach.

What books are currently on your nightstand?
"How To Deal with Women Throwing Themselves at your Feet."

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?
Sometimes.

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?
Hassle-free.

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?
The Nomad

Which character are you most like?
Vulture

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?
Nine.

Which is your all time favourite BP book?
Number 1, which I don't have.

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?
Do you mean they're real?

[Tom]

What is your real first name?
Tom

Where do you live, where were you born?
Cheshire

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?
Customer services.. I don't mind it but I'd rather be doing something else (don't know what though)

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?
Doodle and imagine lots of things

What do you do to keep fit?
Walk often

Favorite junk food?
Jelly Babies or a nice hot dog with barbecue sauce and mustard

What do you do to make the world better?
Walk often

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?
Glorious weather and doing absolutely nothing (not in a waste of time way...)

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?
Erm... ah... oh, the one... all of them 

Which character are you most like?
Please see my previous answer 

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?
My previous answer doesn't work with this one 

Which is your all time favourite BP book?
Probably the first one I will read 

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?
Does via this forum count as a meeting?

[Colin]

What is your real first name?  Erm......Colin

Where do you live, where were you born?  North Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?  I'm called a Technical Specialist? It's a living.

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself? See picture at the bottom of my post.

What do you do to keep fit?  Used to do Muay Thai.

Favorite junk food?  Had a Chinese last night, does that count?

What do you do to make the world better?  Stay alive

What books are currently on your nightstand?  Whats a nightstand?

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?  Wife

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?  Putting a 6 horse winning line on at the bookies, watching Celtic/Scotland humping their nearest rivals the getting stooshied/steaming/wrecked at night with my winnings. The wife could come too if she wanted 
And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?  Beau

Which BP character are you most like?  Denis
How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?  All of them ( twice)

Which is your favourite BP book?  #1 cos it took me ages to get it

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?  No

[Diane CBPFC]

I just want it say that it is funny that Mince's name is Malcolm and I'm assuming that Malc is also Malcolm when my dog's name is Malcolm.

I hope I don't get you all mixed up.

[Colin]

So your saying that the name Malcolm is funny?

Who names their dog Malcolm?

[Diane CBPFC]

I mean funny conincidental rather than ha ha funny.

Malcolm is a great name for a dog - he seems to like it anyway.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

What is your real first name?
What's wrong with Tarquin?

Where do you live, where were you born?
20 miles south of Mold. Glasgow.

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?
I draw silly pictures. I am very lucky and I know it, yes - otherwise I'd join the Foreign Legion.

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?
Earwax sculpture.

What do you do to keep fit?
Angioplasty.

Favorite junk food?
Pepperoni pizza - gift from the gods (may go in part to explain the angioplasty)!

What do you do to make the world better?
Smile at strangers in the street

What books are currently on your nightstand?
I hardly ever read books. I have a very short attention spa

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?
Oh, boy - that is too complicated for a short answer, but the cover-all reply is yes...at one time or another

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?
A first-time trip in a hot air balloon...which coincidentally will be this coming weekend for me. Give me a wave!

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?
That very silly man with the moustache that runs the fort.

Which BP character are you most like?
The geezer with the market stall.

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?
Book 14

Which is your favourite BP book?
Book 14

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?
Yes...YESSSSS....OHHHHHH, YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!....

[Malc]

Diane, yours is not the only dog called Malcolm, unusual as it may seem.
A couple of years ago, whilst coaching the U11s, I was constantly distracted by someone calling my name. Others were too. We all looked around to see one of the kids' mothers yanking on a dog's leash and remonstrating with the animal, whose name was obviously Malcolm.
She was very good looking and I got vicarious comfort from the thought that she probably bathed Malcolm and that he was bound to have had his nose in her groin on frequent occasions.

[Diane CBPFC]

Malc did you also get vicarious distress knowing Malcolm was probably neutered?

[Diamond Lil]

What is your real first name?
Lesley

Where do you live, where were you born?
Killin in Perthshire, Dominican Republic

What do you do to earn a living? Do you like what you do?
Variety of careers but now pre-retirement, I'm a GP receptionist.  Very much

What do you do to fulfill the artistic side of yourself?
Direct amateur 1-act plays and sing along at Neil Diamond/Rod Stewart/Tina Turner live concerts

What do you do to keep fit?
You're talking to someone who just came out of hospital, having stretched out my left leg in bed

Favorite junk food?
Kettle chips

What do you do to make the world better?
Have same-day appointments for people with a cold

What books are currently on your nightstand?
Jean de Florette (in English)

Do you have a spouse, children, dogs, cats etc in your life?
1 daughter now, the others at various stages through the years

Describe what, to you, would be a perfect weekend?
Driving the new Aston Martin along the Cote d'Azur

And now for the serious stuff?

Who is your favourtie Beau Peep character?[/b
Denis

Which BP character are you most like?
Egon

How many of the 20 Beau Peep books have you read?
Only the ones that my brother gave me in presents

Which is your favourite BP book?
as above

Have you met Roger or Andrew in real life?
Roger, since the day he was born (I'm his sister) and Andrew, unfortunately not quite so often