Featured Entries
New in the Edited Guide: Classic Sandwich and Sponge Cakes
Nowadays cakes come in all sorts of shapes and colours, but many are based on classic sandwich and sponge cake recipes.
Author: minorvogonpoet
New in the Edited Guide: Molang - a Cute Cartoon Character
For people with young children, or people who just like cute things, Molang is an ideal character to get to know. The range of child-friendly toys, books, merchandise and animations provide something for everyone in the world of Molang.
Author: SashaQ
Topical: Towel Day
Towel Day takes place on 25 May each year in honour of the life and work of Douglas Adams (if these links are not working, please log in, go to Preferences and select a Skin other than Pliny, then search for Zaphod Congruence).
Welcome to Create
It's spring in the northern climes. Time to get out and explore. Leave your firesides and pick up your cameras. Take a few steps: take 42.
Record what you see: in prose, poetry, art, or photography. Let us in on all the big and little surprises. Help us form a picture of the world.
May 2019 Create Challenge: 42 Steps
Newest Edited Entries
- Classic Sandwich and Sponge Cakes20th May 2019
- Molang - a Cute Cartoon Character20th May 2019
- Oystercatchers - Distinctive Wading Birds12th May 2019
- Griessnockerl - Austrian Semolina Pasta for Soup12th May 2019
- Dark Entries by Robert Aickman13th May 2019
- RF Stevens Ltd - Folding Organ Specialists18th May 2019
- Irving Berlin's Amazing Transposing Piano: Ragtime High-Tech18th May 2019
- Front Page 22 April, 2019 - Zaphod Congruence22nd April 2019
- 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' - the Film21st April 2019
- How to Make a No-Sew Friendship Blanket and Astound Your Buddies22nd May 2019
Peer Review
- A87935232 - Make Mine Music - the Disney Animated Classic 2 Days Ago
- A87935223 - Melody Time - the Disney Animated Classic 2 Days Ago
- A87930002 - Q 6 Days Ago
- A87937690 - Caroline Herschel - Astronomer Last Week
- A87938086 - The Pittsburgh City Directory of 1815: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know Last Week
The Post
There's a bumper crop of short fiction this week, to suit all tastes. Add the stunning photography, the photography that will stun you, the humour that will lay you out, and the quizzes that will tie your brain in knots, and you have....the h2g2 Post at its finest.
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