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

It's quarter to eleven and I'm still sitting here in my dressing gown supping a cup of coffee after a heavy night on the ale last night

There ain't no way that I'm going to bathe, shave, pack, print off maps, refuel the car, drive 180 miles, park, get on a train to the city centre and find the pub by 1:30pm.

I'll see you mid afternoon instead

Ok, see you later!

And in the ensuing half-hour since my last post all I have done is run a bath and make another cup of coffee.

My god, I'm running slow today...

Well you've got to take it easy it's a long drive.

PS if you are going to park near mine it's buses replacing trains to New Street,so the train jounry will take longer,

anotehr option would be to park in Selly Oak, Somewhere near Selly Oak station.. but then you'd have to get there on the bus on Sunday.. s'up to you.

Buses? Trains? Selly Oak?

You're forgetting that Birmingham, and indeed the whole of the western flank of England between about Gloucester in the south and Crewe to the north, is a geographic closed book to me. I've simply never been to these places.

My experience of Birmingham is a couple of conferences at the Aston University campus; West Bromwich Albion football club; and a drunken visit to an old Uni friend in Solihull, but as I said, I was drunk so don't remember much about that one.

On the up-side, I've now had me bath and am on what I think is fourth cup of coffee. The down-side I've just noticed that my car is rather tightly pinned in. I do hope my neighbour is at home so that I can ask him to shuffle his Ford forward a few inches so that I can get out.

Master B and Odo are here already and say 'get your arse into gear'

Looking forward to seeing you later, and all will be forgiven with