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

Monday before last I woke up in not such a good frame of mind. I'd skipped a few of my tablets so that I wouldn't end up manic and it had made me dip. On the way to work there were creatures, big rat like things, on the edge of my vision, moving in disturbing ways and watching me and the trees looked so sad it made me cry. I arrived at work and had to turn around and come back home. G came with me because I was distressed and afraid of catching the bus home without her. You know how it is when there are hallucinatory creatures watching you from the bus rout...Anyway we got to talking on the way home, well mostly I gibbered and she listened, but we decided that we needed to move house. If being as unbalanced as I have been this last year is going to be a continuing pattern we need to be closer to our folks. We need to be where I can remember how to be happy and where she has some help looking after me. It is a hard thing to admit that I need looking after and harder still to think that it can be a job that is too big for one person to do alone. So, anyway, decision made we found a house to look at in the town where G grew up, ten minutes walk from her parents and made an appointment to look at it the next day. It was perfect. Tiny, but perfect. We took it.

That is why I now sit two days away from moving to our new house, surrounded by boxes with paint in my hair. It's all happened a bit quickly but it seems to be the right decision. I haven't had a bad day since that Monday and I'm off the tablets for now. I haven't been that sane since October.

Living in the valleys has certainly been interesting. Not good, you understand, but interesting. And now we're moving. No more bleak grey winters and horizons that close in when you're not looking. It's only now that we are going back home that I realise how much I've missed waking up to seagulls screaming outside my window and views that go all the way out to sea and disappear into mist and wonder.

We're going home.
We're going to be happy.

We're not going to have internet access.

We'll come back, one day.

You take care of each other.
I hope your new home brings you all the happiness and peace you deserve.

Don't stop writing.
Your stuff is very good indeed. Rusalka is the finest thing I know on this whole site.

(Shall I finish Dadd? I'd like to, if you don't mind.
I promise not to overwrite *too* much)

Thanks for all of everything.

Pin

Indeed. Take care.

We'll miss your words.

And hope we'll see you again.



db

Thank you both.

Yes Pin, do whatever you feel needs doing with Dadd. Rewrite, overwrite, whatever you like. It would be great to come back and find it finished.


N

Hi Nadia, long time no type...

I hope the move goes well, and that it provides the positive change that you need. Take care...

Ivan.

Hi nadia, and Fatty.
You two have earned a star in the Alternative Writing Workshop walk of fame, and if we ever become so self-indulgent as to create one, yours will be shining with the note "Made a difference".

You will always have a place in the UnderGuide. We'll keep your chairs warm for you. Sounds like a job for Seal-boy...

nadia and G, you'll be in that perfect house with seagulls and horizons by now but I can still wish you well and leave this for when you come back. You'll be missed.
Waz

Boehoe...I just read the entry in the UG (The springtime of my death), thought I'ld stop by on your personal space and then I get the shock of a lifetime: you're not here anymore!
In the words of Homer Jay S.: D'oh!!
Anyway, gonna read the rest of your writings and I know already I'm gonna enjoy them.
Hope to see you on here again soon...

I finally finished it, and posted it : A4179954

Let me know if you'd like anything changed. I took some liberties with the personal references, but I did so thinking that you wouldn't mind.

All happiness to you and L. Come back and see us soon.

Pin
(of course, if you're reading this, you already did)

Thanks all. The move has been everything we hoped for and more. I wish I could stop longer but I've stolen my brother-in-law's internet connection and he's going to want it back very soon.

Pin, you've done a great job. I'm impressed as hell. The writing guidelines section made me laugh. I wasn't expecting that.

I'll stop by, when I can.


N