Posted: 12^th November 2012

Motion in Both Directions

h2g2ers: always on the go. The thing is, you can go with the flow, follow (or even lead) the trends, or you can buck the tide, fight against the current. Which do we do? Depends. What time is it?

This week's issue brings you the best of both approaches to life on Earth. On the one hand, some of our contributors are savouring the moment – a lot of these moments are outdoors, and very well illustrated. Willem's heard a hoot, and Pastey's smelled some peat. He's also sent us some photos, come look.

On the other hand, there are times you need to stand up and be counted. We reflect on that, with the Armistice Day season upon us. benjaminpmoore wants us to think about what civil courage means to those who are battling more than their share of life's adversities. They tell it well, we urge you to read.

The usual suspects are here, with snarkiness, fun, and enough weirdness to make you hold your head.

We welcome coelacanth to these pages – it's been awhile, she says – as she lets us in on the glamorous life of a film extra. We snagged this bit of personal narrative from Create's NaJoPoMo Project. Lots of Researchers are doing it – keeping a journal every day for a whole month. Paulh is telling a surreal story. Beatrice and Minorvogonpoet are telling their adventures in verse. Z is teaching us medical terns we never knew before, like 'dyspraxia'. And Icy North is teasing us, as usual. Your Editor is compiling a month-long list of free films on the internet. If you have a yen to read any of these, just click on the names on the Project page.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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  Would You Kick a Dying Man?


Health. And care.

• I Couldn't Care Less


Who cares, wins.

• Writing Right with Dmitri


Cluing the reader in.

• Oddity of the Week


The Greatest Moment in History?

GOING WITH THE FLOW

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  Kayaking for Beginners


He He He. . . wiiiipe out!

(Okay, so with the flow. . .?

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  Going for a Walk


Pastey's varied countryside.

(It kind of flows up, and then down.)

• Pre-Raphaelite Theatre


What she always wanted.

(It was all the rage.)

• Colours of Wildlife


Who hoots there?

(Expect noises at night.)

BATTLING TRENDS

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  Gheorgheniplex


Now it can be told.

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  h2g2 Rubaiyat


The moving finger types.

• The Post Quiz


Elections in history.

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  24 Lies a Second


Awix with a whale of a movie.

• The Very Verst of jwf
  


A teacup moment.

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  Adventures of an Extra


coelacanth's limelight moments.

• Rodney and Reggie


Feel that night air.

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  Big Churches in Little Europe


Experience the Abbey with PT.

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