h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thunder and lightning and snow? How does that happen?!

Thunder *and* lightning *and* snow?


*tries to recall her conversation with the weathergods but only remembers mentioning snow*

IIEM, a please... *tops up with liquid from brown paper bag*

Sounds like you might have upset the weather gods when you asked them to pop over Titania
They were certainly grumbling and flashing their lights around when they dropped the snow off.

No1 son was walking home at the time, he said it was really scary. The storm was directly overhead, a 1 second pause between lightning and thunder.

It is now very icy and all crackly underfoot.

I have just got back from a mamoth drive: 4 hours 45 minutes to do a 1 hour 45 minute journey. Mind you, I did get my phonecall to the local radio station about the traffic broadcast on air. "a girl called Ben" strikes again! We got thunder lightning and snow too, flipping between an orange sky from the sodium lights and that neon blue you get with lightning. Way cool.


Oh, and Caer - since you are so very good at wishing, can you wish me lucky in love? It would make such a nice change...!



Celebs?

Judith Hahn of Tomorrow's World lived in the village and put some friends up when we had my Dad's 75th birthday party. The female of the couple was a New Zealander so she didn't know her from Eve and said "Hi Julie" when they were introduced. Tee hee.

I met Arnie in a tiny wee airport in the middle of the Nevada desert once, but the one which makes me laugh the most was that Jim Corr apologised to me for touching my hand. I have washed it since, though!

I sometimes wonder if we have secret celebs here on hootoo. There was a rumour about John Cleese once...



Freedom - lovely to see you in the thread - very very long time no type.

(But don't tell the IIEM about the I am sipping in between the gulps of tea!)

B

[Mog] Maybe you forgot to tell them one detail that they wanted -- if there's one thing that annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Mog's absolutely right. If there's a god around you must at least have a room or a heap of stones or something where you must regularly reassure it that it is omnipotent. They really do get dreadfully out of sorts.

No reason why you can't have thunder and lightning with snow. I've seen it up here in the mountains.

Watercolor class tonight.

Ben, when my brain is a little clearer (I've broken my two dry nights in a row with a or four <hic&gt I'll have a go at thinking of you and pulling a card from the tarot and see what it says.

In the meantime, I shall take a couple of slow release vitamin C capsules along with a couple of iboprufen and head for bed.

Sleep well, Caer.

Oh, and only do the Tarot if you feel like it. I have discovered that it is brilliant at telling me what I hope / fear / expect to happen (astonishingly accurate in fact), but crap at telling me what actually will happen. I cannot work out if that is because I have strong brain-waves, if it is because I am poor at self-prediction, (I am pretty good at prediction for others), or if it is because my life is just wierder and more surprising than other peoples.

Ben

[Mog] Yes, things that read the future can be a bugger ... Most of them only reveal what /might/ happen, and the few that give a definite idea of the future pick one at random, there's no way to avoid it, and it might not be one you like.

IIEM...

thanks.

Tomorrow the race to finish the second year (master's) paper begins in earnest. I have 1 week to finish the sketch, and then 3 weeks to write the first draft, and then 3 weeks to refine. Yikes.

Good thing I know where it's going, eh?

IIEM... thanks...

*sits down in corner with her vanilla latte and a huge pile of w*rk*

A lovely cup of tea, please, IEEM.

I felt very mean last night. The stepson rang me to say that though he had done the washing up, he had not tidied. When I had got home from the drive and he had got home from the theatre I made him tidy up. When he had finished I then said things like "what about that newspaper?" "where does the mustard live?" and so on and he then tidied under direct supervison for another 10 minutes.

I truly think that men don't *see* things in the domestic environment in the way that women do. The only other explanation is that they are deeply cynical and manipulative, and I prefer to assume that is not the case for every single one of them.

I know that Z will say that he is not my servant, but I am not prepared to have him sit around while his father works 40 hours a week and travels another 30 in order to pay for him to watch crap-tv, and I also don't see why I should do two hours housework per day just because he can't see the mess.

I was nice about it. Just unrelenting.

*sigh*

B

Ben, I think it's genetic. The STBX has the same problem.

Your journey makes my journey to work yesterday sound very easy in comparison Ben. This morning apart from the pavements being iced up from all the compressed snow everything has run smoothly and I've got here on time. At least today I remembered to put my boots on and kept my feet nice and warm

[Munchkin]
Light, crunchy snow all along my journey in but no delays or problems other than the usual.
please.

IIEM...oh, thank you. *sips latte*

As much as I love to complain about the weather, I'm not going to today...it's actually a lovely, clear, crisp, not-too-cold and sunny day.

I seem to have got through quite a bit so far today .

I only needed one travel jab, which was perfectly bearable. The roads were a bit iffy getting to the surgery, but the sun was melting the ice fast.

I have had a mammoth sorting of old company papers and have cleared a load of them out for storing away. Leaving room in the filing cabinet for the pile of papers on my desk which I shall tackle a little later.

IIEM please.

Good morning! IIEM, gimme a Lil Special.

I've had this window open for ages -- I got sidetracked by the 100+ posts that came from the Epson List this morning... apparently they've worked out that, overall, the ink in my business printer costs about 40 cents a millilitre.

[Mog] IIEM, gimme a usual.

[IIEM] Right, a triple espresso with an extra shot of espresso, and a shot of espresso on the side (with an extra shot of espresso).

[Mog] And make it strong this time.