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

Kat - you may ask - around here is the answer:http://www.j31.co.uk

*Goes to look out at the horses*

Good Morning. It's Mothers Day here in Ozland...so have a gr8 day Mums

Welcome Rhynch, JulesK and anyone else I have missed, sorry for the late welcome.

My mom got a boquet(sp?) of flowers yesterday at work. She liked them (I would have hated them, I am alergic to irises and orchids). Hypatia helped me pick them out.

My sis was supposed to visit my mom tomorrow but has backed out. So now I have to smooth things over as usual. I am really rather uspet with her. I now she'd rather spend the time with her own kids. But, Mother is 84. Who knows how many more Mother's Days she'll have.

Mr M and I were out running errands today when I saw what I want for Mother's Day. So that's what I got.

http://www.espiritu-usa.com/main.html

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What is it like? I've never heard of that spirit.

I'm not allowed to open my presents until tomorrow. And my daughter asked me if I liked toast and oatmeal...I have a funny feeling I know what I'll be having for breakfast tomorrow morning.

I got a friend of mine new tires for her car. She desperately needed them, couldn't afford them, and I just so happen to have connections in the tire business.

Hypatia, that's awesome. Do let the "local" history departments know. This could make someone a great, great dissertation!

Hyp, what a lovely surprise! I would spend hours pouring (poring, pawing?) over the records.

Well, looks like the housing development won't be happening for sometime. Seems they only have outline planning permission and the Borough Council have decided to take a stand on the Govt's policy of squeezing houses into ridiculously small spaces and are going to raise the money to counter-appeal. This is quite something as they haven't counter-appealed before.

Thanks Amy.

*Cranes her neck in an attempt to see the sea and muses over the fact that she didn't see any of this before she came in.On coming to the conclusion that there'd never be a logical explanation, she said the only thing she could think of..*

Nice weather we're having.

Once when I was two, my grandfather gave me a small potted plant to give to my mam for mother's day. He told me to hide it under my bed and that it was a secret.

So as soon as he left, I hid the plant under my bed and went to mam and said
'Mummy, I've got a secret plant for you under my bed'

This year I gave mam a pair of cashmere gloves (moving up in the world from small plants) but I'm not sure if she liked them, she seemed to, but I have a knack of giving presents at the wrong time in a rush I think.

Thanks for the link Jules

Hypatia's mention of TB hospitals reminded me of a book I read many years ago - I think it was called 'The Egg and I'.
Ring any bells?

We don't do mother's day. - neither father's, nor Valentine's or any other of those kinds of day. There is a Danish marxistic childrens' book about how "capitalism' envented mother's day.

Hyp, how nice to get the records of what have been - even in our lifetime. I have just been listening to an LP from 81 that describes how we in this country treated the mentally handicapped under the ruling of doctors forgotten by the state. They lived hidden away in huge insitutions in the woods and countryside.

To read the lyrics send me back to when I was in Romania just after Ceaucescu's (sp?) fall around 1990. Aid organisations found psychiatirc patients and mentally handicapped living under horrific conditions. I spent a week reporting from the institutions and had nightmares for several years after that.

envented = invented

Now, really!!! I should have proofread that. >sorry> Ag...

[[They lived hidden away in huge insitutions in the woods and countryside.]]
Now live hidden in shop doorways and underpasses, Z you may not know this but silly thought just popped into my head and popped out again so I forgot the question but wont edit this so as to make the backlog that little bit longer, and in the vain hope that now that the thought is creeping back in there, but I know if i try to formulate it into everyday english that you might understand.
something to do with payment made to Dr re no of patients on books,and no of patients on NHS with no actual abode ,never mind might come back to me


Ceaucescu Romanian instutuional relevantions ,several of the ethics concerning treatment are or where taken from this country training methods ,not forgeting a lot of the Drs practising or training qualifying Drs would have been train here, its not so long ago we had
institutions such as these .we still have not as bad as that but chemically coshed patients dont make as much mess , less costs on cleaners.. several other points could be raised but this is sunday a day of tequlla sunrises and pimms .

Marv, Espiritu is a syrupy liqueur derived from fruits native to Ecuador. They bottle says it is citrusy, but I find it more like apricot or peach. It's not too sweet for my taste and makes a nice aperitif.

It is relatively new. It was concocted by a guy from the shore area while he was working in Ecuador. So far, it can only be found in New Jersey. I happened across it when a caterer used it in a few recipes he was serving at a fundraising event.

That sounds pretty tasty, Witty! Where do you get it?

Anyway, my mom loved the rosebush- I went out with her this morning to try and figure out where to plant it! We think it's going to go where the old one was.

Funny story about the last rose I got her. We planted it and waited two years for it to bloom! When it finally did, we realized that the rose we got at a discount store was a multiflora rosebush!

Mother's day was originally concocted as a bone to throw for women during the sufferage movement, I thought. I could be wrong, and I probably am.

Women have had so many bones thrown at them that you're probably right, statistically.

Happy mothers day to all those of you with kids!

Thanks for the Mothers' Day wishes.

Scandrea, I found it at my local liquor store. Maybe by the time you get to State College, PA it will have migrated to Pennsylvania outlets.