"I know I'm home when I see its striking rusty wings on the hill."
Your From Where? Columbia? In Washington? In the UK?
Anne Race was brought up in Washington, Tyne and Wear. Yes, Washington in England. It is the original Washington, where George Washington's family came from. Washington Old Hall, found near the village centre, was the family home of George's ancestors.
Washington largely consists of roundabouts and industrial estates. I am grateful for being brought up here, although I do have a tendency to go round in circles, round in cirles and I'm often found sitting on curbsides facing the red brick walls of wholesalers and factories eating ham and peacepudding stottie cakes.
Books I've Loved
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
David Mitchell's Number 9 Dream
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt's Freakonomics
Malcolm Gladwell-Blink's Tipping point
Yann Martel's A Life of Pie
Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's world
J.R.RTolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Kate Adie's Kindness of Strangers
Stephen Fry's Moab is My Washpot
Oscar Wild's A Picture of Dorian Grey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Johnathan Foer's Everything is Illuminated
Khaled Hossein's The Kite Runner
Edwin A Abbot's Flatland- A Romnace in Many Dimensions
Going for broke, starting from scratch with nothing at all, not even clothing, we intend to raise the necessary resources, bit by bit, without any cash ever changing hands, to set off on the 25,000km journey from Brisbane, anti-clockwise around Australia, to arrive back at Brisbane. We will discard all our possessions, relying wholly on the kindness of others to provide us with everything we need to navigate around the continent. We work the whole way around, doing as many jobs offered to us as possible and give up every single cent of our wages to Book Aid International. At the end of our adventure we will keep nothing but our footage, pictures and stories. All we've been given, that we have not used, will be auctioned off, with proceeds going towards the promotion of Child Literacy. We will keep nothing for ourselves save the proof that Australians are fair dinkum the worlds friendliest people.
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