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

This is intriguing because it opens several questions.

Who is she? What is she doing at the bus stop? Is the big building on the right significant?

I could make up a life story for her but it would probably be wrong.

You could start by reading about her here: A87865627

SashaQ has written about two of her novels: A87890377 and A87911193

The building on the left is Eastleigh Railway Station. The building on the right is one in a row of unremarkable office buildings with generic names like 'Wessex House' or 'Mountbatten House'. I'm about 60% certain (I could well be wrong but I can't be bothered to look it up) that that one is 'Mitchell House', named after RJ Mitchell the designer of the Spitfire - an aircraft that first flew from Eastleigh (now renamed Southampton) Airport. Behind it is a multi-storey carpark where it has parking spaces that I am convinced are purposefully designed to be an inch narrower than the average width of an average family car, complete with columns deliberately positioned to be in the most awkward places possible.

The is a member of the Southampton & District Transport Heritage Trust collection. It is 133 - TTR 167H 1970 Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1 / East Lancs H45/31F (Translated into English from the language of the Enthusiast, this means it was Southampton bus number 133, registration number TTR 167H, a 1970 Leyland Olympian chassis with body by East Lancashire, a Highbridge Double Decker with a passenger capacity of 45 seated upstairs, 31 downstairs with the door in the front.) Apparently this was one of Southampton's first 'wheels-on-wheels' and equipped with wheelchair lift, although I was unable to see whether this is still operational.


Charlotte Yonge Archive
A87742272 - Writing Right with Dmitri: Talking the (Local) Talk
A87839103 - Writing Right with Dmitri: Making It Exciting
A87863223 - NaJoPoMo Highlight: Bluebottle's Conspiracy Theory
A87866563 - The h2g2 Literary Corner: The Camp of Refuge by Charlotte M Yonge
A87866833 - The h2g2 Literary Corner: Several Paragraphs in Which Nothing at All Happens
A87867166 - The h2g2 Literary Corner: The Promise, by Charlotte M. Yonge
A87867571 - Writing Right with Dmitri: Write Like Charlotte
A87867625 - The h2g2 Literary Corner: St Ambrose's Choir, by Charlotte M. Yonge
A87868048 - The h2g2 Literary Corner: The Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge
A87878650 - Join the Q: Summer Holiday... Revisited
A87882826 - Happy Christmas from Charlotte
A87920706 - Join the Q: Family, Friends and Magic

Though personally I'd love to hear the made-up life story!

<BB<

Oh dear, after having read that life story, I want Charlotte to rebel leave home and seek out adventures.

All very interesting.

And your descriptions of the multi storey and the info I find as poetic as the statue itself, and this place on earth is now, for me, immortalised. I would go there if I could.

You think I'm kidding? Oh, you don't.

It's like going to stand on a corner of Winslow Arizona. (as immortalised by Jackson Browne).

Only better. Not so far away, and also more poetic because of the bus details.

She's not at the bus stop it's 20 yards away up the street - should have gone to specsavers

I'm going to sue that hairdresser he's welded the hairnet to my head and all I wanted was a perm

"Curse my grandmother! She insisted that I not receive any money for my stories, and now I don't have enough for bus fare."