The h2g2 Post 08.01.24

Created Dec 11, 2023 | Updated Jan 6, 2024

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Posted: 8^th January 2024

This week's title is Blasts from the Past. Clockwise from upper left: Baby the cow, starlings in a tree in winter, a thatched-roof hut that looks magical, a lighthouse up close, an orange cat sitting smugly on a wooden staircase, dolphins leaping, a sunset sky full of nacreous clouds, a study of an intricately-patterned fence with bicycles parked beside it, closeup of a brown horse on a snowy day, and a red cardinal in a snow-covered bush.

Hello again. How's the new year treating you? Do you still have leftovers from the holidays? Here at the h2g2 Post, that's what we've got a lot of. Our lazy contributors have been so busy either having fun or preparing their novel prologues (which will appear next week) to send me very much new Stuff. So we'll have plenty of 'blasts from the past' in this week's issue.

That's okay, seriously: if you look in the archives you will notice A Hole. That's where some intergalactic vandals at about this time last year decided to muck with our web host. Result: lost data.

The joke's on them. The Post Editor believes in backup. The Post Editor knows where the bodies are buried – or at least where to find those leaping dolphins. The Post Editor has kept the receipts. So this week is a great time to sneak in with some primo photos that definitely need to be restored to our corner of the Akashic Record.

You'll recognise some old favourites ('Hey, isn't that Ricky the Horse?') and discover some brand-new Stuff you're sure to like ('The vicar said what at the church fête?'). So read the whole thing, please.

Next week, this drivel will be replaced by something even more inexplicable. Like the novels. One has Dutch teenagers in it. Another has a talking dog. There are space colonists and time travellers and a family of weird aliens who talk too much. You will laugh and furrow your brows and probably get scared, if I know FWR.

So please read, leave comments, and share. And have a good week. Be nice to 2024: it hasn't got its sea legs yet.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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