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Diana Birchall

London, England

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

What kind of member are you? (Check as many as apply.): Other
What would you like to tell us about yourself, your collecting, or business.: I collect books, mostly women's literature of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. I'm also interested in collecting old magazines to which my novelist grandmother and other writers contributed. And I collect original Mickey Mouse Club material.
What is your level of expertise?: Long Time Lover
What are your areas of interest?: Books/Literature
Why do you collect?: For the same reason anybody gets obsessed with an author or subject, and then wants to collect as much as they can relating to that area.
What is your favorite autograph in your collection?: Charlotte M. Yonge (Victorian novelist)
You can ask anyone living or dead for their autograph. Who would it be?: Jane Austen

Comment Wall:

Julie Snyder

Hi Diana. Loved your blog. Aren't you glad I insisted on taking your picture with Tim and Dave (Spin and Marty)? And, of course, the Mice (Mouseketeers)!

Julie

May 2, 2010
Julie Snyder

Hi Diana,
Yes it was a wonderful occasion. I've actually had three Mouseketeer stories in AUTOGRAPH. I'm hoping that they'll run one on Spin and Marty...but havn't heard anything from them as yet. I had several cool exchanges during the weekend with Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich von Trapp in "The Sound of Music"). Do I see that you live in the UK?! I thought you lived in California, from the blog.
Julie

May 2, 2010
Julie Snyder

The first one was in the September 2003 issue, pages 132 &133 : One Brief Signing Moment--Julie's Mouse Hunt. The second one was in the March 2005 issue ; the innermost columns of the News pages 14 &15 : A Mouse in the House. That one was a really cool experience!

May 2, 2010
Julie Snyder

Hi Diana,
An update for you. Kimberly Cole has let me know that my "In-Peson Scoop on Spin and Marty, and Nicholas Hammond will be in the August issue.
Julie

May 28, 2010
Julie Snyder

Have you been able to get the earlier issues? By the way, I printed out your blog on your Mouseketeer weekend. Hope you don't mind. I still chuckle on your comment on your nervousness at meeting Spin and Marty (Tim and David). :) Aren't you glad I encouraged you for your photo op with htem?

May 28, 2010
Julie Snyder

uh.....that would be "them".

May 28, 2010
Julie Snyder

Yeah, for me, too! I told both of them that I had attempted to meet them in 1995 (I believe) when they made an appearance at Disney World here in FL at a Disneyana Convention. I decided to go on "Public Day" only to learn that both of them had left the day before. Talk about disappointment! I more than made up for it last month! Tim was funny when he told me to make sure people know that I was NOT wearing my Triple R shirt when they signed it.

May 29, 2010
Julie Snyder

I don't think that they do many appearances like this. So it was really specail and nice that they were there. Tim was especially nice at shoe closing that Saturday. When I shook his hand and told him how much I appreciated the opportunity to finally meet him, he said, "After all these years."

May 29, 2010