User:Katie1971

Here are my userboxes (I'm glad I discovered these!):

This user is female.

18+This user is an adult.

Please be nice and patient with this New Wikipedian.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

This user is of German ancestry.

This user is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany.

This user comes from NRW.

This user lives in Bonn.

This user is not British, but shares a common heritage and respects a parity of esteem between the many people of "these islands".

This user is interested in England.

This user has visited England.

deDieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

This user is a BookMooch member.

CF	This user is childfree.

This user is short-sighted.

This user has green eyes.

This user is a Taurus.

This user was born in the Year of the Boar.豬

This user's spiritual beliefs are complex and personal.

This user is interested in the British Isles.

This user is an Anglophile.

This user identifies with the
West Country

UKThis user uses British English.

This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent.

This user is interested in tarot reading.

This user is interested in ghosts.

reincarnationThis user is interested in
reincarnation.

This user prefers cold weather.

This user enjoys overcast weather.

This user likes foggy days.

This user loves rainy days.

This user loves the Autumn.

This user loves the Winter.

This user really enjoys dark and stormy nights.

This user has no understanding of time and does everything at the last minute.

11 MAYThis user strongly feels the day should be written before the month

This user is a participant in WikiProject Novels.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user enjoys pop music.

band-3This user likes ABBA.

This user is owned by one or more cats.

This user is a caring cat owner.

This user thinks no outfit is complete without cat hair.

This user thinks pets should only come from an animal shelter.

This user enjoys reading almost anything.

This user enjoys reading plays.

This user is interested in the Romantic period.

This user is interested in the Victorian period.

This user enjoys reading non-fiction.

This user enjoys reading fiction.

This user enjoys reading humorous literature.

This user enjoys reading Biographies.

This user enjoys reading magazines.

This user enjoys reading the newspaper.

This user is interested in drama and acting.

This user likes to do embroidery.

This user does not smoke.

This user is against smoking.

BThis user is a fan of black or dark comedy.

FLThis user only likes A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

fan-2This user is a big fan of the comedian Mario Barth.

fan-2This user is a big fan of the comedian Dylan Moran.

fan-2This user is a big fan of the comedian Billy Connolly.

This user is a fan of the Eagles.

This user has a
cunning plan, my lord.

This user thinks The Beatles are overrated.

Fast Times

F...F...F...Three weeks we've been talking about the Platt Amendment. What are you people...ON DOPE!!!

CSIThis user follows the evidence.

DEALThis user wants to play Deal or No Deal with Noel Edmonds.

This user supports the fight against breast cancer.

This user respects women and rejects any violence against women.

This user puts up a real Christmas tree, not an artificial one.

IndigoThis user loves the colour indigo.

TupperwareThis user constantly uses Tupperware

This user thinks healthy food is vital to mental health.

H₂OThis user drinks water regularly.

This user would rather drink tea than coffee.

S-0This user does not drink carbonated beverages.

This user loves
Chinese cuisine.

This user loves
Indian cuisine.

This user eats at SUBWAY and eats fresh.

ORGThis user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food

This user is a carnivore.

This user enjoys Barbecuing
but ONLY on Charcoal or Wood

This user eats chili.

This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.

This user eats fries, or chips.

This user likes a 'proper' Pasty.

This user eats crisps.

This user loves spaghetti.

This user eats custard creams.

This user eats at KFC.

This user likes
Spanish Food

BAM!	This user believes that gaaahhhlic is a beautiful thing!

This user prefers unflavoured live yoghurt.

This user is a chocoholic.

This user eats apples.

This user loves to eat cucumbers.

This user loves oranges.

This user loves to eat pineapples.

This user enjoys a little red pepper with their meals.

This user eats strawberries.

This user believes that tomatoes are fruits.

This user eats watermelon.

This user eats bagels.

This user is a cereal killer.

This user enjoys muffins.

This user loves pasta.

This user is afraid of mushrooms.

This user eats salad.

This user eats chicken.

This user eats fish.

This user eats steak.

This user enjoys their egg with the sunny side up.

This user loves cake.

SofHThis user enjoys pretzels by
Snyder's of Hanover

This user drinks hot chocolate.

This user is highly allergic to nuts.

This user prefers to use herbal remedies.

wiki-1This user is a beginning Wikipedia editor.

This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

This user supports
renewable energy.

This user is addicted to travel.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user thinks the Jeeves book series is top-hole, old bean!

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

BBThis user buys their books from Black Books.

Eh up! This user enjoys the
James Herriot series.

IndigoThis user loves the colour indigo.

This user enjoys optical illusions, especially the impossible constructions of M.C. Escher.

deThis user has been on the German version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

This user is a lottery player.

This user plays mahjong.

CardsThis user enjoys playing Uno.

This user exists. This is not claiming that this user is not a bot, sockpuppet, blocked user, or inactive user, it is just stating that this user EXISTS. He/She/It/They would like to point out that the reader must exist as well.Existent

to
too
twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

whoThis user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things?

their
there
they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

“,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler.

. TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

A, B and CThis user prefers not to use the serial comma.

its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.

your
you'reThis user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

"…"This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

sheThis user prefers to be referred to using feminine gender pronouns.

This user doesn't drink, and has a healthy liver to show for it.

This user is inked.ʰ

This user enjoys writing.

en-GB
-5This user can contribute at a professional level of British English.

This user loathes, but is forced to observe, daylight saving time.

This is a standard size userbox created with Template:Userbox.
It stacks neatly with others of its ilk.

:(This user wishes there were more userboxes on Wikipedia.

This user watches Channel 4.

This user is head-over-heels in love.

This user needs just one more userbox on their page!

This user's personality is so much more than the few userboxes describing it.

This user collects userboxes as if they were trading cards.

LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.

IntS-2This uxor's Internet slang is k, but TBH, they're still mostly a lurker.

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam

This user is against the colorization of black and white movies.

This Userbox doesn't exist, you're just crazy.

“ Nooo !! I said 'no rules', not "anything goes"! ” — Bernard Black

• Somebody nicked my Gosford Park userbox!! If you nicked it - please put it back!
  • Please DO NOT nick anything from my userpage, or make any changes on here!
    • This is MY page and I'd like to keep it that way. Thanks.

About me

I am fairly new to Wikipedia. I have read many articles on both the German and the English sites, and have made a few minor changes here and there. But I have never written an article of my own. I'd be glad for any help! My job is civil and pedestrian. Nothing exciting at all but I hope to change that sometime soon.

My Readinglist

I love to read. I was taught to read from an early age and have always enjoyed it more than other things. (Though that is not to say that I am boring, or have no other hobbies!) I am a member of Bookmooch and can only recommend it as a way of getting rid of unwanted books (and finding new ones that you do want). I also believe that books make great presents and would like to be able to buy all the books that I see! (And store them, and find the time to read them too.)

May I share with you here my current reading list:

Dec 2007 / Jan 2008

• Rebecca (novel) by Daphne du Maurier

Jan 2008

• Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
• Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Feb 2008

• Survivor by Christina Crawford
• 1979 by Rhona Cameron
• In-Flight Entertainment by Elliott Hester
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

Mar 2008

• The Sewing Circle by Axel Madsen
• Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
• Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist

April 2008

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Britannica & ich (German version of The Know-It-All) by A. J. Jacobs

-- I haven't managed to read anywhere near as many books as I would have liked to this year, yet. There just never seems to be enough time... "work" and "life" seem to always get in the way.

May 2008

• Still stuck on P&P.....
• Happy Aua by Bastian Sick
• Götz George - Mit dem Leben gespielt by Torsten Körner
• Brecht - Stücke 2 by Bertolt Brecht

-- I am having the hardest time with P&P. I have never spent this much time on any paperback, ever. But I am nearing the end of it now and as I don't like leaving books unfinished or half-read, I will knuckle down now and finish this.....

June 2008

-- Started and put away a couple of books. Can't seem to concentrate on anything properly. My life is a bit of a mess right now and even though reading has always offered a certain amount of escapism for me, I can't seem to get stuck into one particular book at the moment.

July 2008

-- I finally gave up on P&P. It's too much, I can't take it anymore!! I have instead started on

• The Mind Readers by Margery Allingham. Much better...
• No Room For Secrets by Joanna Lumley
• Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

August 2008

-- Haven't had a whole lot of time to do any reading recently. I have a wedding to organise and some cross stitch to do for that!

September 2009

Finally finished 'Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera' yesterday. Jeez, that was a long-winded book if ever I read one! Could have done with about 1/3 less text. Started on

• Our Street by Gilda O'Neill straight away.
• Hinterm Haus der Wassermann by Gudrun Pausewang

is a lovely children's book that I read and re-read as a child, many times over. I recently thought back to it but could not remember the title nor the author's name! All I could remember were bits from the story. I found a different book by the author in a street sale a few weeks ago and looked her up on the internet, only to discover that it was she who had written my much-loved book which I couldn't remember the title of. I bought it second-hand and read it in one go.

• The Birds (story by Daphne du Maurier)
• Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn. Laughable attempt by an American author to write a story set in Victorian London. She even gets her AE and BE spelling mixed up.

October 2008

• What To Do When Someone Dies by Nicci French. Fabulous as all of their books.
• Frag Mutti - Das Sparbuch by Bernhard Finkbeiner and Hans-Jörg Brekle
• Madame Tussauds - 200 years of Chamber of Horrors by Pauline Chapman
• The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge

Other hobbies

of mine include travelling, my two cats, doing cross stitch, surfing the net, and lots more. Having said that and just to get back to the original theme, I want to dedicate more time this year to reading and re-organising my book collection.

I am also an active member of an amateur dramatics group. Within the group, I have done several jobs on various productions - acting, stage management, publicity, set building / painting, and Front of House.

One of my favourite playwrights is Bertolt Brecht.

As I said above, I enjoy travelling. I have been to most Western European countries and a couple Eastern ones, too. Here's a selection, from memory, of places I've been to: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, UK ... and I once spent a day in Northern Africa, and three months in Australia.

I got married last year and we spent our honeymoon in Madeira.