Birth, deaths and marriages
Wednesday, 09 April, 2003
Why would you want to record these in the front of your Bible?
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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Because you don’t carry a diary?
Or maybe it’s an early example of the Palm Pilot diary/bible in one thingy!
Maybe it’s because it’s a safe place to keep such a record—because people don’t throw out Bibles?
just a theory…
Maybe it’s a leftover from the days when your average family wouldn’t have owned many books or papers to write those things in. I kinda like the association of God’s word with all the fundamental events of life. Not that I’ve written them in my bible!
The other thing that annoys me are these “Presented to… on ...” Bibles.
How many bibles are going to be given away like this? Not many, am sure. Now I have this daggy looking page in the front which I am never going to use.
What should I do? Fill it in like someone loved me enough to give me this Bible?
Or try to neatly cut the page out?
Cutting a Bible seems so wrong, somehow.
It’s a throwback to the days when Bibles were passed down in a family. In my grandparents’ Bible, there are records dating back (at this point) 150 years. Those records are valuable for geneological research and the Bibles that were passed down are also worth quite a bit because many were brought over from the Old Country. (I’m speaking as a child of immigrants here.)
That sounds so sensible, Jen! I never even thought of that. I’m so much of a product of our times.
Minorbob, maybe you could fill in the “Presented to” page so that it’s from God. Which is sort of true!