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

Yellowstone is on my list, too. So are a lot of other places! In fact, most of the rest of the world!

The deer are crazy here in the states, too. Especially in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. They've become a nuisance, not only to motorists, but they're eating all the ground cover for birds and other small critters. A bunch of them starved last winter. Don't get me wrong, I like deer, but they have to cull some of them. I think reintroducing a few predators would be a good idea, but the CVNP isn't in my backyard either.

I'm reading The Map That Changed the World right now, but I haven't got to Yorkshire yet. What was it like?

[Mog] Well, I just back from w*rk ... it lasted longer than I'd hoped, and the person who I thought I was supposed to be working with wasn't there for much of it, but I got it done!

*sips white mocha.*

I know the feeling...

Hi everybody, Scandrea!
I am back from spending the weekend. My house looks like a battlefield. I should not leave my kids and puppy Frida home alone for 2 days...

My house looks like a battlefield too Hati - and I haven't been away. But the weather's been so good I've been out in the garden working. I was potting on 3 kinds of sunflower today. They're such plants - and the birds love the seeds later in the year.

I don't want to go to work tomorrow - I'd rather be playing in my garden .

Yorkshire was, and still is, beautiful, wide open moorland and big skies. Malham is famous for it's limestone pavement and cliff face. We also went down potholes, crawling on our hands and knees at one point and saw blind shrimp that live in pitch black. This was 30 odd years ago and I really must go back one day.

Good weekend was it Hati? They go just too quickly.

Quite good,
I was fighting with a toothache but by saturday evening it was bearable. So I was at my best friend's and we watched Eurovision Song Contest together and had a lot of "girls talk". Today we had a walk around in a botanical garden and visited an art exhibition (soviet posters from 1950-ies ). Then I travelled back home.

Everyone's lives always sound so much more interesting than mine.

Tonight I'm trimming F's toenails. Be still my heart.

Glad the tooth's a little better, Hati.

Welcome to the café, Scandrea!

Ooo... is that a real wolf? *tentatively approaches Tracer, gives the wolf a careful pat, and then a gentle scratch right between his shoulder blades*

Just for once I think that the right song won the Eurovision Song Contest this year!

Could I have a please,

*rummages around for a brown paper bag*

*looks for a wolf - treat, but being a vegatarian I don't have one*

IIEM, a , please, green one.

[Mog] I just had an idea! They need to invent a drink called "Mister !"

I think my grandparents bought one last year...

Tea sounds good, IIEM, but I'd like iced chai tea instead! It's blazing hot today.

It's miserable and rainly here in the Outer Hebridies,

(que surprise)

Here it's just gloomy. +11C, cold wind.

IIEM, a blue java, please.

Glorious down here in SE UK, 23ºC

The problem warm nights have coincided with the arrival of May bugs, which makes it very difficult to get Cassie in at night. She loves chasing them, they largely terrify everyone else though

OOOh, IIEM, and iced chai sounds lovely! Thanks for the suggestion, Scandrea!

*reaches into pocket and pulls out a doggie bag of bones and gives one to Tracer*

Hope that's okay?

June gloom has come early to SoCal. It's gray and damp in the morning, and by afternoon, quite warm, but still muggy. My hair is *not* a fan!

Did someone mention iced chai?

Oh look, a wolf! *climbs onto a chair to give the wolf time to adjust to being close to a 10 centimetre-high ant*

[The Moogles all line up to take turns petting the wolf.]

*Tracer, thoroughly enjoying all the attention, graciously accepts all wolf-treats and doggy bones, even the vegetarian ones, and lies on the floor, letting everyone pet him.*

Glad to see someone had fun today!

I was stuck at work trying to fix a glitch in an excel spreadsheet. Microsoft just doesn't like me!