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

Took some pictures out at the lake/reservoir:

http://www.jannaostoya.com/2014/03/04/mendocino-lake-drought-watch/

Wow, that's really quite low!

Do you have hard or soft water? I've always lived in hard (chalk-filtered) water areas, and when I've visited friends in soft water areas, the difference is quite noticeable.

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Soft water definitely has more 'flavour' to it than hard water... when we're camping in Wales the difference is really noticable.

HN, that is some serious lack of water. I do hope it fills up, but it looks like it'll take ages

Came across a similar water dam/pond in a newsflash from Australia. Normally fertile lands are just dust, and the cows starve. Bad stuff.

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That's really sad. Australia has been terribly hard hit

*sends more rain*

I have plenty to spare here! Please take as much as you need!

Hey Mr. Dreadful! You're probably not going to be the last person to arrive.

I've bookmarked dogeweather. Right now all it has to say about ABQ is "So wow, so wow, so wow..."

A little fixer-upper here, with treasure in its attic --
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41542705.html#

Ah, wouldn't it be loverly....

I'm liking the space shuttle room.

At that price, I hope furniture is included

That could be the new "towers", it even has a landrover outside for Pastey

Would mean moving to London though, so I'll pass

For that sort of money, I'd expect the shuttle room to be able to take off - so potentially you could take off, enter orbit and land somewhere more palatable.

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What?! The shuttle room doesn't ?! Deal's off.

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very brrrrr
wow mist
much gloomy
such concern
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I'm sure the entire edifice is a space ship, but the bridge is in need of a refit. They can pull out the old CRTs for a start and install flat screens.

Five million quid isn't too bad for a three story space shuttle with the original wainscoting.

I love the look of the house from the outside, and I find several of the rooms quite interesting too. It actually reminds me a lot of the small castle that I tried to design in my teens, drawings and all - although I failed to notice any proper library in any of the photos, with book shelves covering each wall up to the ceiling, with one of those ladders-on-wheels to reach the topmost shelves, a leather-topped writing desk, comfy worn leather armchairs, one of those big perched on a wooden frame, preferrably showing the world according to the medieaval ages, that opens up to reveal a collection of fine whisky.

I'm sure one of the rooms could be converted to something like that...

Looking at the floor plans, I see even more similarities

...but it doesn't have the grand entrance hall I planned back then - either with a broad, straight staircase leading halfway up narrowing towards the top (Hollywood style) or two gently curving staircases mirroring each other leading to a platform halfway up to the next floor