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

So Christmas is over, now what are we going to do? For me I'd like to get in shape and continue discovering the world. There's so much to learn and I feel like I've only scratched the surface at times.

Take Alice in Wonderland, how many people knew she actually lived and how much do we really know about what went into creating the stories based around her?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2009/01/02/alice.shtml

Hi Opti

Intresting read!Thanks

You gonna be doing some fitness training Opti?Hey you gotta be fit to sail the seven seas-ya know!?

Me i need a mental gymnasium.

Her grave is in Lyndhurst and, although it is some years sibce I've been there, I think there is a small exhibition in the Lyndhurst Museum.

http://www.strollingguides.co.uk/books/newforest/places/lyndhurst.php

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I havnt read those books, only about them. Is that your part of the worl Opti?



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Jeez! I feel a dope !


Sorry Opti, sorry Al.


I replied after reading the post, but not the poster, thought it was still Opti.


Sounds like a great story - in real life, and a nice part of the world.

Guildford has connections to Alice, and there are some interesting statues in the castle grounds. See http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Tourism/Alices+Adventures+in+Wonderland.htm

Icy

hi opi
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first offhope you had a good new year
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im sorry to say i have not read the books, infact because of the poor eyesight, i havent been about to even read a paper for a very long time.
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if i stare at the page for long enough, it goes out of focus on me.
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so apart for tv adapts and films, im in the dark, as they say jim xx

ooh lots of interesting points people for your input

Yes Lofty I hail from Wessex and know Oxfordshire well

I'm not sure about sailing I'm rather prone to hiting my head on the boom and going round in circles but I've considered going swimming and working on a cruise ship

Good news Jim I understand that a film on Alice in Wonderland will be released in 2010 with Matt Lucas playing one of the characters

Hi Opti


Where's Wessex, isnt it near Mercia?

Hey thanks for bringing the subject up, Opti-i've read the links that have been posted about Carroll, and it is all quite an intresting read.

So when are you starting jogging Opti? I might throw off my sloth and start with some light jogging now.

Hi lsw,

At the height of its powers, the Saxon kingdom of Wessex covered the following modern counties:

Hampshire, Berkshire,Cornwall,Devon,Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire andas
Surrey.

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BigAl

Stories are great. I particularly like ones written for children as they are not taxing on the brain and like Alice in Wonderland some of them have deeper meaning.

Hi thanks Al-how about Kent?
Invicta!


Hi Opti, yea the best tales are told to children.

There are quite a few childrens books that i would like to read, age is no barrier to a having fun , is it?

Hi Opti, the story behind Alice in Wonderland has always intrigued me and is one of my favourite childhood stories apart from Peter Pan.

Another fictional Character Morse and there are special tours in Oxford:
Inspector Morse's Oxford a virtual tour: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/morses_oxford/

and Oxford city tours
http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/info/tours.html

Can you remind me of that one on the 21st lofty

I once found a book that showed children's stories and there location ...just thinking about it makes me want to track it down again

Perhaps I'll book myself on one of those tours

something to doa updated photo wouldn't go amiss

Is it your birthday on the 21st?


Yea i ahte putting a good story down and that being the end of it, if there are some places or people(places it seems store up more fond memories, dont you think?), that are rlelated to the story somewhere-it keeps it alive.

what of prof?

Yes tis my birthday

On finishing a book I normally feel a sense of achievement

I like you think its wonderful to keep the story alive though

Yea that Prof is allways right Opti.

of youwithout a relative doing to your left

I wouldn't know how to do the guideml code