Campaign to buy JRR Tolkien's house backed by Lord of the Rings actors - The Guardian

Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to The Guardian site. With no digging at all our intrepid traveling kitty found a post about J.R.R. Tolkien.

It looks important to me.

According to The Guardian's post by Alison Flood, the Project Northmoor wants to raise the money to buy the house where J.R.R. Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings. The house would be turned into a museum. To accomplish this, the Project Northmoor charity has started a crowdfunding campaign. Lord of the Rings actors Sir Ian Mckellen, John Rhys-Davis and Martin Freeman are helping promote the fundraising campaign. The post has a link to the Project Northmoor site. The Project Northmoor site has all kinds of information about the fundraising and what the money will be used for. You can read about the gifts you will get by donating at the different levels. You can also donate from there.

 

Panzer says, "This little kitty can give up his kitty treats for a day to donate at The Hobbit level. How about you?"

 

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the link to Project Northmoor, also bring a thermos of tea and twelve muffins. (There are also links there too.)

To read the post tootle over to J.R.R. Tolkien's house

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 25% to $38.0 Billion - Press Release

Panzer's trip into the Catosphere today took him to the Amazon news room site. There our traveling kitty boy found a post with interesting information about Amazon.

According to the press release, Amazon's 2017 second quarter net sales were up 25 percent to $38 billion over 2016 second quarter net sales of $30.4 billion. Also included in the beginning of the post are income figures, cash flow figures and stock figures. Below that is the Highlights section which includes what Amazon (and this little kitty) considers it's most important activities for the period. Included in this section are Amazon Video's 16 Emmy award nominations, Prime Day sales, Prime membership increase numbers, Amazon's charitable contributions, Echo news, Alexa news, and much more.

Just reading about it makes me tired.

Panzer says, "There's also news about Amazon's completed expansions and proposed expansions."

Note: This is a h-u-g-e post. Bring two thermos of tea and two dozen muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Amazon sales

Book Review: Dragon Poems for Smiletrain

Panzer and I happened to come across this little ebook " Dragon Poems for Smiletrain" compiled by M.R. Mathias  and L.M. Stull. While neither Panzer nor I usually read poetry, this one is raising money for the charity Smiletrain.

The anthology contains twenty poems. There are some humorous poems, some sad poems and some cute poems. All about one of my favorite things: dragons.

Panzer gives it four paws up. He doesn't like poetry or dragons, but he does like charity giving!

This ebook is rated G and is for the whole family.

Available at the Amazon Store for the Kindle.

*****

Is anybody else having trouble with this new blogger? Panzer says, "GRRR." Hiss. Hiss. Hiss.

Help First Book

First Book is a charity which donates books to children. J.A. Konrath says on his blog here today that he will donate $500.00 to First Book if his book Origin breaks into the top 100 at the Kindle Store.

So, let's all help First Book by buying a copy (or two) of Origin.