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

Kitty cats do that

and sun spots and balls and feet ect

Generally anything smaller than they are

Random thought

When I was a child, my Mum got me a ghastly fingernail polish set for Christmas (think I was 7 yo)Horrible big false fingertips, and a lot of little bottles, for nail polish. (Back then, they didn't have polish in, now they would...) Yeuch!

I was wrapt, cos I used the whole ugly thing, for collecting insects! Mum was horrified - because she didn't like a house full of ants (wonder why?) and also, because she knew I wouldn't be a 'girly-girl'.

Yup, I used to hatch tadpoles and gum moths in my room my Mum used to be scared of moths now I think about it she got a bit annoyed when I moved on to mosquitos though....

"mosquitos" are you nuts???

many a sleepless night was had at the "hands" of those little toyotas

At the age of about six or seven I was at first pleased then dismayed to find out that if, on a chilly winters morning, you pour hot water into a goldfish type bowl with tadpoles in it, they roll over onto their backs....

I got bitten the other night - no, I'm not, I really had to fight off a mozzie - this, on 30th April! Is it winter or not? Or is it just that mosquitos have no intelligence?

It is postulated that insects are cells = each individual ant (for example) is not an individual, but a cell in the body called Ant. That's why they don't need brains any larger than the head of a pin.What do you (plural) think of that?

1st of June is winter, isn't it?

I don't think that a whole lot of bugs are smarter. An individual insect reactionary (not unlike a conservative politician) the other insects in the group (or political party) follow the first one to move

I think that I am glad that I am not an ant(or a politician)! And yes I probably am nuts. Though I never did have much success raising mossies. Did any of your tadpoles recover six7s?
You mean this isn't winter? It is going to get colder? I didn't need to know that....

Jesi

brrrr Wellington. you can cheer your self up watching old people playing dead ants

or ....
And Wellington is no colder than Auckland!
You NI os SI?
Jesi

that should read NI *or* SI
Jesi

North Island, Bay Of Plenty

I've been in Wellington winter, did a pretty good job of standing up to.

Absolutely Positively Windy Wellington!

Yes...it can be a bit like that sometimes, not often mind you! Maybe thats why the moths have to grow so big!

Jesi

Well at least The Edge broadcast there a good reason to stay in out of the brr cold. To be fair I remember being there when there was sun and wamth on the same day

Four seasons in one day....


Jesi

Does Wellington still have electric busses??? I liked those things

Yes, boo hoo I miss those electric buses... Actually, despite playing dead ants in the wind, I quite miss Wngtn.

We're in Auckland now, in the coldest, dampest, mouldiest house in the entire NI, that's why I believe winter comes around 1st May, or sometimes April. Oh for a standard breeze-block flat, they may be small and smelly, but they're warm!

Actually, global warming is amyth (not for the reasons the Far Right would have you believe...) We're heading for the last round up - oops, I mean Ice Age.

Wonderful book - "Terraforming Earth" by Jack Williamson

We are still *in* an ice age surely... hence all the white stuff at the poles...

Not that this is an excuse to poison the planet of course


six7's
Nice and warm


but ...



at school on a Saturday

"at school on a Saturday"

Pourquoi? Are you a teacher, or at boarding school? (I'm studying to be an ESOL teacher... I'm already a special needs teacher aide.)

Also - I am a cat, so I crave warmth and cosiness!

I'm a student Della... and its exam/assessment time....

and I really would like to pass...

Another year and 2/3 to go (at least) and then I can be a grown-up again... assuming of course that I ever was before...

hmmmmm....

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