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

I'm sure everyone understands the situation, Ben, and will not think the less of you. I felt inadequate to being hostess last autumn, too, but for financial reasons. I clearly remember how I didn't get any receivables until the morning of the day everyone arrived, and how I had to sprint to get to the bank and shop for the weekend groceries then come back home and get in the shower. My hair was still wet when Courtesy and MR arrived several hours early!

I'm up early; the longhair cat threw a furball (hork! hork! )before I would have awoken ordinarily but leaving me too little time to get back to sleep. Still, it's the last day of the post office assignment, and I hope to actually accomplish something productive with the rest of the week. Maybe my replacement replacement monitor will arrive and I can put my office back together.

Ben,

I don't think you should beat yourself up over postponing your party. It is a very generous offer, very time consuming and very stressful. We all need our own space and often we are not masters of our own emotions or time. All just part of life. Just think how good you'll feel when you've finished your assignment and got a distinction for it

Lil, I ddin't mention the accident with Cille's dog because I wake up in a new world every morning and only remember what is posted last and just forgot. F ran over one of our cats years ago. It was very upsetting for him, but I think the cat, who was old and had developed leukemia, got under the wheels on purpose to end it. It was the first time he ever got around the car.

I can get the notes to you on Sunday. The Alabaster House Journals are never read. I could copy the phone book and no one would know the difference.

Happy Easter to those salonistas who are off today to parts known and unknown to celebrate the holiday or a ban collie day. The kids here are out of school today, so we'll be busy. *note to self to buy eggs to devil*

Lil, did the little starved cat ever settle in?

Right, been shopping, done some (fairly minimal) housework, and off to brave the motorways in about 20 minutes I think. (So long as the and haven't escaped now I've fed them. I should have shut the front door..... )

B

Ben, your post # 1960 is awaiting moderation at the moment. From the subsequent postings I surmise you are postponing your housewarming. You must have turned some phrase!

Yeah, that posting confused me too. Been a while since we've seen one.

All this talk about The Green Man and how well-read the collective intelligence of the Salonistas is has reminded me of something I need to ask.

What the heck are Hircocervi?!

I've been searching for months! I find an obscure reference to them in a book called "Invisible Cities." They're mentioned alongside a bunch of classical monsters (dragons, sphynxes, unicorns, hydras, etc.) but I can't seem to find much info on them anywhere.

I found a few conflicting descriptions ranging from a kind of horse/goat hybrid, to a bipedal D&D monster who travels to different dimensions in search of new musical experiences. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that it's not the latter of those.

And what *really* confuses me is how the reference appeared in this (fairly recent) book. If it's such a little known monster, then why pair it with all of these other classical greats?

I'll stop hijacking the conversation now.

How.... peculiar. I've been running the gauntlet elsewhere on the site today, but not here. And I've not had an email from anyone saying what the problem is. There really was NOT anything which contravened the house rules.

What it did do was give MY email address (not anyone else's, please note, dear mods) as agirlcalledben at yahoo dot co dot uk, and asked people who had expressed an interest to say whether or not they would like to come out to the pub with Z and me next Saturday evening.

It also said that if people did not want to turn out for a pretty average meal at someone else's local in the middle of nowhere, then I would fully understand.

There was then some information about what I wanted to have happened before I did have a party, which referred to warmer weather, my studies, my general frame of mind, and my attempts to buy the garden.

There was, so far as I can remember, absolutely NOTHING which was modderable, but because I have not yet had the email, I cannot tell why it went.

Lil, I am verry about this.

Ben

Ben, I saw the post and agree that it was distinctly unmoddable.

Affi, hirc- is a Latin prefix for goat things, so goatiness seems very likely. Quite what a hircocervus might be in addition to goaty, I really have no idea.

Update. Goat + stag seems most likely. Goat + horse is possible, but stag much more more likely, according to what little info I can dig up.

Oh, maybe I've got a stalker who's yikesing my posts!



That'd be exciting!

I've been wanting a really good stalker for some time: one I could get to clean my windows and sort my rubbish for recycling. Do you think I could get them to cut the grass too?

Right. Both cats are back. The laundry has been herded into a corner and is whimpering quietly to itself. The M62 beckons like a seductive siren, calling me to waste my time, energy, holiday sunshine on her wandering silvery byeways.

Be good my chickidees, and if you can't be good, then please really enjoy being bad.



B

*waves to Ben*

I am so useless at being librariany. I should have explained my reasoning in my last post. Cerv- tends to be a latin root for deer-like things. So hirc- and cerv- is goat- and deer-. Maybe I'll ge better at this stuff when I start my library MSc in a few months.

I'm also wondering whether I really count as a chickidee. I am very good, though.

It said it had been refered to community team,so would not get an e.mail from mods unless it was banned when they look into it, other than the e.mail address there was nothing in it, since it was pressumabley not yikesed by someone here, is there a new filter that detects e.mail adresses in any form?

Looks like it's been referred not modded.

Owladee? Mmmmm. I think I rather like that.

SS, I'll wait and see what transpires. I've emailed the mods and ccd Jims and Natalie. I wonder if the phrase "wait until the black dog is firmly back in his kennel" was construed as animal cruelty?

Oh well. Tuesday will bring whatever Tuesday brings.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeee.............

*appears from nowhere*

>> Looks like it's been referred not modded.

Which is actually more annoying, because I won't find out why till Tuesday evening.

*disappears again*

Morning everyone.

I'm like the rest of you who read the post. I can't imagine what was objectionable about it. Strange. It will be interesting to find out the reason.

Mornin' all........
In reference to what all places everyone has visited:
I feel like the poor kid on the block, in a way. We've travelled in the middle US quite a bit, but never out of the states. You have to fly to go anywhere out of the US. Well, I think most of you have heard how I feel about that!!
There are lots of lovely places within driving range to visit here--the Southwest comes to mind first. We love New Mexico and Arizona. We also love anywhere we can find mountains. Living in flat Kansas does that to you.

Speaking of book clubs, mine meets next week. Our book pick this month was Michael Chabon's "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay". I liked it a lot. May's book is "The Kite Runner" by Khalid Hosseni (or at least I think that's the author's name). February's book was a trashy piece of popular fiction. Everyone hated it so much--"cardboard characters" was a popular critique--that I don't think we'll be going back to trashy bestsellers any time soon.