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

Teuchter - One of my favourite series of books uses modern idioms despite being set in the first century in Rome.

The Long Room at Trinity College was great, though I was more interested in the books by Newton, Lagrange, Hamilton etc than the shelves.

I have just put up a sign in my cube that states "Beware the Leopard". I wonder how long it will take for someone to spot the reference.

I've always thought that a great text adventure game would just be Arthur getting to the plans.

I have stopped reading books because they were the author's last or I felt funny about reading it (because I wouldn't have another to read!). Two books like that: P.Smith in Love and The Salmon of Doubt.

I'll have to pick up Thud later today. I forgot about it coming out...

It was another good City Watch book. Not the best by any means, but it was a solid read.

So let's have a poll. Of PTerry's city watch series, which is your favourite and which do you think is the best?

For me I would say that Feet of Clay fits the bill for both spots.

::gives Sporky the stink eye for mentioning Wodehouse, arrrrgh::

Aye, me pretties, it was a lazy weekend here. It rained nearly the whole time and spent nearly all of it in Davy Jones' locker, watching movies, reading a book, baking a chocolate cake, making stuffed peppers, and visiting friends.

It is another city watch book? I've got a bit bored of those - was hoping for something new/different. Has he run out of new ideas now?

Bagpuss - Do you mean the Falco series? I love them too - but they're well researched and very well written.
If they were in Latin I'd be lost.

I wish I could remember the name of the offending book - or at least the 'author'. It really was dire.

If we're voting for favourite City Watch book, I vote for Night Watch. Though of course if you ask me next month I may well say something else.

Very tired today. Poor S up half the night with cough, getting his revenge on me for my weeks of noisiness. I had started the night in the marital bed, but at half one in the morning I decamped to the spare room as there was nothing I could do for him and I may as well not be in a ripping-heads-off foul sleep-deprived mood the next morning. But the bed in the spare room was cold. Quite a shock. I'd forgotten beds could be all cold and horrid and in need of hot-water-bottles and cuddly husbands to make them liveable. And of course, my husband isn't cuddly in the least at the moment. And he went to work. But I have his own word for it that he spent a lot of the day making 'forts' out of HTML manuals and dozing off behind them. And he doesn't cough much during the day, note. Oh no, his germ saves it up until past midnight when everyone is cozy and fast asleep and then does a whole day's worth of coughs in two hours.

I like the Falco books. Great fun.

Kat - make sure the college know you have health problems so they can attribute days off to over-doing it and needing a rest rather than wondering where on earth you've got to and if you are skiving (which you aren't. First week back at school? Overwhelming. I'd be tucked up in bed re-reading the Provincial Lady's Diary with cocoa on tap, myself, thinking strong thoughts for the rest of the week).

Off to finish the washing-up. If I stay sat down in the mellowness of internet-land, I shall fall asleep face down in the keyboard and surprise you all by burbling grtugbvn bbcn bgbgb

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

{Courtesy}

[GDZ-reluctant owner of a headache]

*wanders in looking rather dazed and confused*

Who am I again?

*wanders out again, who knows where*

O arrr, o arrr.

My wooden leg hurts.

Arrr!

*hands out to those who need it, especially to Sol and Ag and Kat*

There's a new Pratchett book out in the US before being out in the UK? B@st@rds! It's not out till October 1st here. Still, I can at least read it before Christmas afternoon, which was when I had to read the winter Pratchett when I was married. Lovely present, dear man, but...



I am exhausted. We had the induction weekend for the MSc this weekend, and Z's landlord's letting agency found a new tennant at short notice, so there were Boxes To Be Moved. Z, incidentally, is mainly offline because of being trapped in hospital accommodation until his house purchase goes through.



Thinking of Pratchett, the UKians might like to know that there is a Jasper Fford short story in this week's Big Issue. I haven't read it yet because I thought it was about the actor who played Dirty Den in East Enders. It turns out that Fford has an unfortunate resemblance to him. Lesley Grantham, isn't it?



Off to bed. Goodnight all, and s all round.

B

Psst, Lil... nice effort but I'm afraid it's more Somerset than sea dog.

Which reminds me. It struck me that the chant for the Countryside March in 2002, wasn't it? should be a chant by the two groups marching:

Oooh Arrrr...
Ok? Yah!

Oooh Arrrr...
Ok? Yah!

Oooh Arrrr...
Ok? Yah!

Oooh Arrrr...
Ok? Yah!

Gnight, everyone.

B

5 days until the dreaded kitchen tour fundraiser. I can't wait until it is over. I just got a call from the printer of the program/ad journal that they are giving us a 25% discount of the cost. Why, you ask? Because, although the proofs they showed me were perfect, it turns out they were produced at 800 dpi and the printing press produces at 2400 dpi. So I've got a bunch of cr@p images.

Arrrrrggggghhhhhhh!

So the representative says, would you like to see them? I said, what for, it's not like I can do anything about it, it's too late to change anything. Keep printing.

Sorry for the rant. *Runs over to the kitchen to make a .*

By the way, did I mention I have to move almost the entire contents of my house into storage by October 1?

*Hugs WM with deepest sympathy*

I have just moved all my worldly possessions into my hospital flat whilst I am waiting for the house move to go through. The good thing is that I don't really have much to do in the evenings apart from harrassing solictors and things. Which is actually quite useful, because it means that I think things will be moving quicker. Turns out that my mortgage company don't have my correct solitors details so send the written mortgage offer to the wrong solictors.

Still I actually signed the contract today. Even though it's just being kept on file until we exchange it.

Glad the surgery went well Sol. I never expected surgery to hurt the first time that I had it, I always try to tell people who have never had operations before that may hurt afterwards, and the anaesthetic will make you tired for about two or three days afterwards, and no you can't drive home from hospital the day you have an operation, you'll have to get a taxi, or someone to collect you.

GD can't imagine suvivalism being quite the same here as it is in the US, there isn't really anywhere remote here, and perhaps anyone who wanted to do that who was UKians went over to the US a few hundred years ago, leaving the unadventerous lazy people behind.

Thank you for the reminders, we did some pirate talking at Guides tonight and played Port & Starboard as a result! Mr D, do you know The Pirate Sketch? I think Andy Hamilton wrote it ... about a group of pirates who want a training day ... it's very funny. DH performed it once in the village review, and had to march off-stage midway through to find a script.

Autumn is officially here. I wore tights to work today, and have taken my leather jacket out of summer storage. When I put it on, OSH was astonished to find that his mother looks like Doctor Who - well, if Doctor Who were to wear tights and a short skirt, of course.

Gentle for those that need it.

Mol

[GDZ]

"GD can't imagine suvivalism being quite the same here as it is in the US, there isn't really anywhere remote here, and perhaps anyone who wanted to do that who was UKians went over to the US a few hundred years ago, leaving the unadventerous lazy people behind."

Nope, I've read that about a dozen times now and I can't work out if Z is having a dig, or if he's just typed it badly. I'm at a loss as to what he is trying to say.