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

what's in a color, anyway? I personally prefer the rich emerald green one finds in rural areas of Ireland. Or in rainforests. That green that is so alive it just pulses with color and just seeing a picture of it, you can smell the greenness of it.....

Especially the green of leaves unfurling. I love this time of year.

purple is the colour of sexual frustration. which is odd. its my favourite colour...

When some blue pants fell off my clothesline they were attacked by a colony of ants...

Bumble bees are attracted to blue, esp my old car for some reason... but then it was always so dirty, it probably had a lifetimes supply of pollen on it....

a comet?

i live in the New Forest so not much light pollution

*runs out to look*

Not much chance of seeing the comet from here, with such big hills to north and south.

I can't get used to the time change; I didn't even know about it till my comuter told me.

i looked but there's too much cloud

When I tried to look the sun shone in my eyes

Okay, I just need to state here and now that I think Daylight Savings Time is the biggest crock of ****! What's the point? Can anyone tell me what the heck it was supposed to do in the first place?!

Sorry, I lived in Arizona for 5 years, and they didn't have it, and I sort of got used to being the same time all the time!

MTR, it was a farm thing. Has to do with farmers not having to light their kerosene lantern on a winter morning, when they go to feed the livestock and milk the cows.

Mmmm, down here in NZ, the reason cows need milking at the same time each day is to fit in with the milk-tanker arriving at the farm to pick up the milk. ie: cows don't need to be milked at daybreak - they can hold on, so to speak.

Nowadays, daylight saving means that 9-5 office workers have another hour of daylight after work to enjoy barbecues, outdoor pursuits with children etc.

Duh. here's the missing paragraph. Ot goes in the middle of the other two.

In many western countries, daylight saving was first introduced during the Second World War. The idea was to conserve energy by allowing workers to work longer in daylight hours (they didn't need to turn the lights on so early)

[Sol]

{[caer]} Monday morning

Morning all, apologies for absence, been loafing on leave for a few days with small boys and Mrs Monk, as such, havent read any BLOG. Hope all are well and no personal crises have descended to darken the Atelier.

[Munchkin]
*Waves at PWM and does not mention the rugby.*
What can I remember from the blog...
Woad, not worn by the Scots, but rather the ancient Britons of Caesar's time. I'm fairly certain William Wallace wore armour.
Pub crawl, watched it mow its way through the BOF Inn. It was quite fun, but I'd never have been able to keep up with them.
Daylight Savings/British Summer Time. I thought it came in during the First World War, along with restrictive licensing hours but for the reason given by Looney.
What's an AS level then, in relation to GCSE, A level and other confusing English type educational things? I did Highers.
Oh, and hello new people.

Hey Munchers, resigned to the fact that the national game is in tatters, not looking forward to World Cup (Egg chasing!) next year and generally down, although as a result of some quality beach time and general infant interaction quite frankly dont give a hoot! (No excise for caledonian gloating mind!) Woad definitely a Brit thing, it used to excite a prepubescent history class to think of Boadicea clad in nothing more than a rather fetching shade of Blue setting on the romans with a big stick, shame the history books did not do the pictorial representation justice! AS Level, lawd knows, whats wrong with Os As and Borstal Graduation Certificate!

AS level is half an A level and taken at the end of the first 6th form year. Fortunately both my sons were after the introduction of the shambles.

Just remembered about last weeks' Dr Who!

[op]