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

Oh, for the medically minded in the audience...

I've been trying to find the function of the frontal horn in the right ventricle. All I can find is information about where it is (the brain!) Nobody seems to know what it does. We know very little about the brain, so it doesn't surprise me.

I think this is the link to the photos of the Hillbilly Meet last summer

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/5521679QlCoUa

Page not found.

Oh, I just realised I was in Phred's photos, not yours. Hope he doesn't mind that I've pinched one.

*called away just as reply window opens, totally forgot what was going to be said upon return*

*posts something randomly anyway*

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Bagpuss, I'm on Mr. D's friends thingy...

Just finished HP7, no idea what I am going to read now.

I'll tell you what I thought was oddest about the birds in Moscow when I was first there - the pigeons are a different colour. I can't remember, now, whether they were darker or lighter, but there was definitely something odd about them.

My most enduring wildlife memories of B's village house in the south run to mosquitos, frogs and colerado beatles.

Lentilla, ventricles are generally fluid-filled spaces so I wouldn't expect it to have a function. Will check in my text books when I've put the boy down though, in case I really have forgotten my entire degree...

Bloody heck!
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I was disapointed about not being able to get my first choice of holiday cottage at beginning of September as had looked at map and it was good for walking, wildlife and countryside. It was in Seale and 2 miles from Wanborough which has just had the Foot and Mouth outbreak!
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Around 10 years ago the last Foot and Mouth outbreak cost 6-8 Billion UK pounds and caused millions of sheep and cattle to be put down, if I remember correctly from news yesterday.
They have put an extremely strict 3k zone around the farm and another 10k one too. Nationaly there are livestock restrictions on movement.
I remeber the last one and public footpaths, parks, etc were closed for some time, my holiday there that would have included wildlife watching would have been not pleasant to say the least if they are burning fields of dead cattle and sheep again with this horrible disease.

Sorry, that was 50,000 animals were slaughtered in 2001 , not millions in last Foot and Mouth outbreak.

Let's hope that it doesn't get as bad as last time. Ed Milliband was on telly just now saying that the government's acted more quickly to contain this outbreak, but then he would say that.

*getting ready for 6 hours of post awful in Tinnie*

Is the dawn chorus of birdsong healthy in your part of the world? I am not hearing nearly the racket I did just a few years ago, and I'm concerned.

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We still have birdsong, but I don't honestly know if there is as much. It is too hot and muggy to breakfast on the porch right now. I'm not outside early in ther morning that much anymore. One reason I love spring and fall is because I can have breakfast on the back porch.

broelan and her family were here for a visit yesterday evening. That was fun. And, I now have a Stuckey's pecan log roll. The last Stuckey's in the state are near St. Louis. broe was nice enough to stop and buy me one. I'm going to cut it into smaller portions, wrap them individually and freeze them. Then I can pop one out when I need something sweet.

Today is our prize day for summer reading. Yay!!!!!!! Worth giving up an afternoon off to get it over with for another year.

I've read over 2000 pages this summer, can I have a prize?

Lil, here the dawn and evening bird singing is OK at moment. If you are short of birds there are thousands of Ring Neck Parakeets around here I would gladly give away if you're too quiet there, believe me when they arrive it won't be quiet for long!
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It seems Longleat Safari Park has closed due to Foot and Mouth, other places are stopping country shows too while tests go on at other farms. Hopefully the passports to track where animals have been, introduced since last Foot and Mouth outbreak, will help.

I am getting confused, they again said 6-10 million animals were destroyed in last Foot and Mouth outbreak, a CeeFax type thing said 50,000 this morning.
Also they are saying the farm is in Normandy, Surrey, again that is only 2 miles from where I nearly booked a cottage on Monday of this week.

Just ran across this "headline" on fark.com.
Up and over the railroad tracks, the trucker drove his diesel; down the tracks an engine came, pop goes the diesel

You sing it to the tune of pop goes the weasel.