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

Ain't Wessex sort of West of Essex, Middlesex and Sussex (hence the name) but south of Mercia and not including Cornwall, that being Celtic.
This site http://www.zyworld.com/wessexsociety/Boundaries.htm has it not including Surrey, but as I work in Hampshire I'll still claim my seat. Off to read their bumf now.

It's probably best to include anyone who is interested in Wessex (or thereabouts) based meetups. After all, I was allowed to join in the Scottish meetups

Do any of you fine Wessex people know any Spanish? If so, you might like to check out my Spanish Pronunciation entry, currently in Peer Review. Aw, go on!

Wibble.
Despite a distinct lack of the mention of Sussex, I'm here. I live in an eastern bit of West Sussex, near a town by the name of Shoreham.

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If you have an empathy and think you ought to belong, then I for one think we should include anyone who wants to be here. Does that sound good to people?

You could well argue that everyone in England lives in Wessex, for after Alfred The Great, the kings Edward the Elder and Athelstan (who I consider to be England's greatest King) conquered and bought the rest of England and made it one kingdom, and not lots of little ones. They introduced the Shire system to the rest of England, but making the Shires larger whilst conquering the North.
(A good argument if you get involved in one of those "who's better, Southerners or Northerners?" conversation - especially when in Yorkshire, when you can say that Yorkshire is only Yorkshire because the Kingdom of Wessex went to York and shired it. Although as far as I'm concerned, you're all Mainlanders. )

But yes, Wessex had no fixed boundries as it was a kingdom which gerw and shrunk over 500 years, and was a kingdom of people - not of land. If you consider yourself to be of Wessex, that's good enough for me.

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Count me in! I'm in Sussex, originally from Manchester (but only when I was very ickle) and I'll be off to Salford in aruond 18 months. But for now I qualify!!!

i'm from New Milton, Hampshire i wanna join!

Oh! lots and lots of people! Are some of them intending to come to reading on the 11th May?

*Grins and nods, then remembers he already is in Reading....*

Yay! Come to the Reading Meet!!! A694893

Okay BB, I give in. Sign me up to this 'ol thing!

But I am a 'stokey or a... a... Bomonian?

Da, am to be signink up here as well. Am livink in Chandlers Ford, between Winchester and Southampton in Hampshire.

Use of fake foreign accent is not havink reason. Perhaps readink too much User Friendly.

i may not be able to come but i will try!

I think there's a few of us in that boat1

Oh, by the way, do we have a h2g2 signal so we know who each other are yet?

I plan to wear a h2g2 T-shirt - that should help. Look out for a long-haired scruff with glasses.

Remember, if you can't go to the Reading Meet-Up, there's always the Southampton one, see: A699654

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That will help. I'll wear my fairy wings; should be quite distinctive! OPh, and I can't remember where we're meeting; was it in the Station or in the Gardens?

if i come i'll wear a sign round my neck saying "i'm Lizzy and i'm looking for the h2g2 freaks"

or something similar

*Starts to wonder why he ever bothers putting updated information on A694893 as nobody ever reads it.....*

Okay, hint taken...

*reads it*

Ah, I see. Makes sense.