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

I enjoyed this one thoroughly. I remember as a child I always had more plastic horse figurines than dolls and I would dress them in scarves and let them have adventures of retaking lost kindoms and such.

And yet she doesn't like 'My Little Pony'...what a mystery...

It must be the weird pastel colours--natural colours are lovely all those rainbow colours in the Crayola box are too much on any critter.

heheheh.

Love it.



I had trolls. Did you have trolls? Not meaning internet bullies then, but those strange little plastic creatures with big hair, usually pink or green.

I kept them in a shoebox, but they went on a lot of adventures around the garden also, which ended when the family dog tried to eat one. .

I never got into trolls, I just felt sorry for them having constant bad hair days.

heheh, yes, the hair was always their most notable feature. .

Santa bought me my first trolls, three of them. All I saw was the hair, sticking out the top of my Christmas stocking, in the half light of morning. Eeeek! Thanks Momeeee.

At one of my past residences, I had a bookcase built of planks of wood 12" wide x 8' long, painted black, and grey 4" x 12" square cinder blocks.

Though I had adequate planks and cinder blocks for an additional shelf on top, there wasn't quite room below the cèiling for that to work to good advantage, so rather than setting the last set of cinder blocks vertically, I laid them on the side and placed the eighth shelf on top of them, which helped to stabilize the stack and provided a good display area on top.

That left me with a 4" high niche below the top shelf which was ideal for glass animal, troll dolls, geometric constructions like polyhedrons, and other small objects in that size range.

I still have two troll dolls, one black, one white, both with startlingly white and shockingly wild hair.

Excellent, ITI! so you had glass animals, also?

A black troll doll? Never seen one of them before, is it a rarity?

I'd like a polyhedron.

I have a yellowy/green luminous lightbulb in a clear plastic cube. Not like a light that switches on and off, but it absorbs light during the day, then glows for about half an hour.

It was a present from 'im, years ago, and it's still glowing on. . It's just a gimmicky ornament, the idea taken from some quirky scifi story or film or something, but I can't remember which.

...here a glass animal, there a toy soldier...