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

Brilliant!

I love the tension that builds up as they all wait for the bread oven to explode

Thanks - I was worried that it might be getting a bit depressing!!

Not at all, this is one of the more uplifting ones (apart from your loss of cash, of course)

Wonderful as always. PBS. It got me hooked rihght away again.
Thanks for the photos, too. I've never seen such an oven before, but I recently found that we have a guide entry on how to do them yourself: A1304795

I didn't find it the least depressing, in fact it was fascinating. Not many people would have the courage to 'tell it like it is' which gives us a real feel for how things are. I am so glad you managed to convince them that there are other ways to do things.

I always felt it was a bit patronising to tell people from other cultures how to do things, until I realised that they really did not know another way.

I have really enjoyed your articles, and style of writing. I shall look forward to another one.

Websailor

Thank you kindly and I am just happy (as well as continuosly surprised) that anyone enjoys what I write. Please bear in mind that it was all written – originally – out of utter frustration but NEVER despair.
It's not 'courage' - 'telling it like it is'. It would just be interminably dull if I didn't. Fortunately neither Fatima nor Fatna can read so there is no danger of them wielding the editorial axe!

I hope and pray that I am NOT patronising but (if The Post continue to publish the stories) there is ample chance for you to make your mind up about that!!

In my telling of the tale, my 'thoughts' obviously get mixed up with my actions and although I might well be thinking 'you raving idiot - you don't have a clue what your doing' (or word to that effect), I don't (often) actually say so to anyone's face. If I did - I probably wouldn't be here now - bearing in mind that most civilised Moroccans wouldn't dare set foot in the place and even the police keep to the perifery - unless there are ten of them and they have come to invite Majid-the-Mule to a week's free board-and-lodging in the chokey!!

However one of the very first bits of English that even the men learnt common two word collocation, one of the words of which is ‘OFF’.

PBS,

I wasn't for a second suggesting you were being patronising. You were living with them, that's very different. I meant outsiders going in, which though well meant doesn't always go down well. for sticking to your guns and making them see another way. Your food made me feel hungry by the way!

it's not courage to tell it like it is - but over here there are PC snoops that jump on even the slightest criticism as being racist, making people very wary of what they say.

I genuinely enjoy your tales. My other half spent a couple of years out there so he is interested too.

Websailor

Websailor
What was your other half doing here - if it's not a rude question?

Glad you liked the food - it gets better in the next episode!! Or worse perhaps - depends on the point of view.

Oh - and I am STILL here - writng this from inside the house that I built. Chaos still reigns outside but it is - in an odd way - a perfectly adequate way of living! I do escape to 'civilisation' (if Casa can be called that) in the persuit of that dreadful stuff called 'money', but 'real life' is here.

No, it's not a rude question, he was in the Army late fifties, early sixties. He has fond memories of his time in that part of the world. He could have stayed. He was offered work, but he chose to come home.

I am glad the food gets better, I could almost smell it (the nice part) - your writing evokes a real feel of what life is like there. I guessed you still lived there. I suspect you are better off in that real world, than in the one the rest of us inhabit, mainly for money. You clearly have a great fondness for the people too, even if they are frustrating.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Websailor

I think I have found the real you on the Internet, and I shall go back and read more when I have time. It was nice to put a face to the writer

If I am correct, and I am sure I am, then you wrote virtually what I said about outsiders! Unless of course you have a double

Websailor

If I have a double - I feel very sorry for him indeed!

You are too modest!

Websailor