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

Hi Cactuscafé, where did you take this photo?

It is a remarkable picture CC! Thanks for sharing it.

It does look like deepest jungle. The plants seem to be coming to get us.

But I'm hazarding a guess - either somewhere in South West England or Sheffield Park gardens in Sussex?

Evidently there are alien plants that are every bit as scary as little green men.

Hullo me luvs! Thanks!

I wasn't sure how the pic was going to look, all properly presented in the Post. .

I'm pleased, so thanks!

It was taken in fact on the planet Monochrome Yearning Just Beyond The Borderline.

Oh cc, that's so stupid .

OK so it was taken in The Jungle which is part of The Lost Gardens Of Heligan, nr Mevagissey in Cornwall. A very magical place.

I set my camera to black and white by mistake, , but decided that I liked monochrome images, so stayed there for a while. It's the b/w light reflections, they remind me of home, just beyond the Borderline.

What Borderline????

OK OK I'm going

paulh, are you home in the USA already?

Lovely to meet you on Saturday.

I got back a little after 1:00 p.m. yesterday (Sunday).

The flight home was a marvel of hospitality. I got everything I asked for, with the exception of an alternative to the cramped seating that was making my knees ache .

But as for food and drink, there was more than I could have hoped for. They never ran out of cranberry juice. Supper was chicken chasseur (hunter's chicken, which makes you think of staking wild hens i n the woods somewhere) with orange veggies and corn salad and mango/passion fruit pudding. Then they brought an eskimo pie on a stick. Later still, they brought a chocolate bar. And just before landing we had chicken salad sandwiches.

So, what with sitting cramped in an interior seat for seven hours, and being overfed, I now need to lose a couple of pounds.

I think I will work off the extra weight just tying up loose ends around the house and yard now that I'm back.

And, I will say that it is glorious to be back. decisions, decisions, though! The red-stick Dogwood in front of my oil tank is about half dead. Can it be separated so the dead parts can be disposed of? I could take the new shoots (called suckers) and plant them in a big planter.

It's time to plant seeds. I've just picked up some long planters and garden soil. I will mix potting soil and garden soil in a 50/50 mix, fill three planters, and then plant seeds. White coneflower seeds in one planter, Rudbeckia Fulgida seeds in another, and Early Sunrise Coreopsis in the third. Remember, this is what I get the big bucks for!

This is splendid, paulh. And glad you got home safe. Cranberry juice and lots of salad! I remember from Saturday that you like cranberry juice and salad. So aren't you glad I called the airline and asked them to treat you like a Lord?

Actually I didn't, but they knew to anyway.

Thanks, Cactuscafe. I was very very lucky that it all went so well, and that I only got lost four times.