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

Does anyone know where March is disappearing to? I don't seem to have been in touch with anyone for a few days .

Starting to be our busy time as people decide that they need their ponds looking beautiful for Spring , plus PL is off on a 16 day rowing trip to South Africa (Port Alfred) this Friday (I think we might miss him !). He has also got his Drama GCSE production to get through on Wed and Thurs nights, final Assembly on Friday morning then we have to be at Heathrow for 1.30 pm!

Pondboy has been busy putting 600 miles on the new bike so that it can have its first service and then he can "really open it up" or something

Spring is really springing round here now and even some of the bulbs I planted last year are coming up . Looking forward to the lambs soon

Hi PeeGee

Spring is sprung.

The House is set high on a hill and a deep valley falls away and rises steeply again. I was looking out the other day and the field opposite was bathed in sun and sitting in the middle was a very pregnant fox and a youngish fox pup who was trying to get his/her mum to play.

Within six feet of Vixxie were a dozen rabbits enjoying the sun and having a feed. A couple were playing leap frog I think.

The gorse is full of bright yelllow flowers and the blackthorn covered with a mist of white flower.

Bloody lawn needs mowing

PPII

You paint a wonderful picture with words PP. Are they as accurate as your photo ?

Which part of Britain do you inhabit, a rough geographical location will suffice! Not that I'm suggesting that you would live anywhere rough of course !

Pee Gee

Take a map of the UK. Find Chelmsford on the east of the country. Align right hand of ruler there. Swivel ruler so that it now runs due west and align it under Gloucester. Trace your pretty left fin along the ruler aaaaaaaaallll the way left until you reach the land's edge. There you will find the Ellysian Fields of Phlopp. Or Pembrokeshire as the unitiated call it (don't tell Don though he keeps accusing me of being Welsh).

PPII

PG

We're lambing here. And last week we saw some kids which were only 5 hours old. Three kids were born which is very unnusual. The 3rd kid was minute and being cared for by a human being.

Oh so sweet,

Jen

Spring is not yet sprung here Went to the mountains at the weekend and there wasn't even the merest hint of green on the trees and bushes. Everything was still snow-scorched and a sad sort of dun brown.... the animals are only just being let out into the fields after the snows, so maybe we will see some offspring start to appear in a week or two? I miss the buds on the trees, and the snowdrops and the narcissi and the feeling of expectation in the air. Please paint me some more pretty pictures . By the time I get home, trees will be in full leaf, the rhodies will be burgeoning and roses beginning to shed their petals. Raise a glass of to a UK spring for me!

Essjay

Hi PG

Hope PL has a great trip to SA. It should be really nice weather now down there. Is he flying to Cape Town or Joburg? I used to work for SAA so just reading the names bring back memories!

We've had no heating since last Thursday so wishing it would get a bit warmer. New boiler needed and they start tomorrow, so warmth again at the weekend I hope!



H

Hallo Essjay

As my husband would say: "It's not ALL beer and skittles", in fact, as we speak there are hailstones as big as pigeon-eggs coming down. I went to get my dustbin from the front and nearly went flying.
The daffodills would like a little sunshine too, I think.
Heating is still full on, we are still eating casseroles and stews and don't you worry, you'll probably catch us up.

There have been some mild days and some things were quite forward, but it always evens itself out in the end, doesn't it?

Still, a good excuse to indulge ourselves.
Here's a toast to English spring , whatever it's like to-day.
Fancy a piece of with it?

I feel very guilty because I came home with a leg of lamb this morning.

Glad to see you, incidentally, thought you had forsaken us.

Dear
Never forsaken... just under the cosh out here which prohibits me from spending as much time as I would like catching up on my social life. The next month or 6 weeks are going to be very hectic and then things will settle down to a (sort of) organised chaos... Then it will all get exciting again the first two weeks in July when I send all these people back from whence they came and then I can look forward to returning at the end of July - get the out!! I feel a party in Comfort Corner coming on!
to you all
Hope to catch you soon
Essjay

Good morning everyone,

Hope you all have a lovely day. Have fun in the R2MB!

Don't work too hard, Essjay!!!!

Correne