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

You'll only know me from the word association games They sure keep your brain active I tend to do a crossword nearly every day & read a fair bit so the old words tend to snap into place!

I love your "space" page - amazing and funny. Give the boss my regards - best name for her (although I am biased )

Thank you for your kind words. I think your home space is better as it is more colourful. I too love the word games on hootoo, and I also download any free trials I can find of word games.
I think the hootoo community is great, we all seem to be a bit eccentric which is a wonderful British characteristic.
The Boss is the The Boss because she is not at all bossy but like most ladies always seens to get the best of me

Thank you for the returned compliment

My husband's son gave me an electronic "hangman" game for Christmas, together with Books 1 & 2 of "The Book of Bunny Suicides" - books displaying cartoons of the title I am a little worried of how he actually "sees" me as a person

Ah, but the eccentrics on hootoo are worldwide - although it did take a Brit to start the site in the first place .....

We ladies are taught that trick from a very early age, I think, or does it just come naturally

Take care

Hi Shirps
Your step son has a great sense of humour and obviously knows you have also otherwise he would not have given you the book. There are others in the same vein. The one about useful things to do with a dead is hysterical, I laughed like a drain when I saw it and I am a lover. There is also a rude one called How to have s*x in public without being noticed, but I expect you are much too young to read that one
I think that this thing about the ladies being able to twist us guys around any old time they like is born in them. That about the sexes coming from different planets is spot on. I have been married to The Boss for 49 years and still have no idea what women are all about

ooh! I'll have to drop a few hints!!

Oh I'm definitely too young - what a gentlemen you are

Isn't that what makes us so endearing? You must admit it keeps you men on your toes

I think my daughter read that - I'll ask if I can borrow it. She & her husband seem to have got everything very well balanced - he's been great: cooking, cleaning, etc., while she's been studying & writing. They seem to share most things - although she does tell me she has to nag him occasionally, but I'm sure it works both ways - I'll have to ask him

I congratulate you on 49 years The big one soon - 50 - is that going to be this year? You both must have been VERY young when you got married

I was a bit 'previous' in saying we had been wed 49 years.It is 49 years March coming. The Big One is March 2006. We are planning the party already.
We have had a stormy marriage, not with each other but battling traumas, like the loss of our eldest son and The Boss' near death illness'. The mothers in law from hell;both mums disapproved of our marriage and said it wouldn't last(and of course it might not),
And of course The Boss having to put up with my child like personality.
However we still manage to have a laugh and we are only really happy when we are together so I suppose we are very fortunate.
We caused a storm when we met. We were both engaged to other people. We were both just 21. I was a big headed bloke from up country and she was the local beauty queen in a small Cornish village. There was uproar, but we faced then all out and here we still are.
Your son in law is one of the good guys!!

Go on, tell me - what's the date?

Look on the bright side that you've got a whole year to plan for it I had 6 weeks to organise our wedding . When I look back there are a few things I would have changed: I should have gone to the premises to check everything in the morning - never trust anyone to do what you ask , but the most important thing was that everyone had a good day & evening and enjoyed themselves .

I only had 6 weeks because each time we decided a date, then another member of the family would suddenly announce either a wedding or birth. We found ourselves trying to fit in without crowding anybody else out!! It was also a very cold day - 1st March and my birthday is on the 11th, so together with Valentine's Day & Mother's Day - I tend to get one pressie for all of them

I'm SO sorry to hear of the death of your son. I have only one daughter & admit I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like to lose her Was it through accident or illness? If I'm being too intrusive then don't answer that. My heart goes out to you both.

My husband's mother passed away while we were still courting and so did my father. So that only leaves my mother! It seems rather strange as my mother & father knew him BEFORE I did! Thankfully, my mother adores him! So much so that he can't do wrong - which, believe me, can at times be infuriating

I always thought you should marry people that your parents disapproved of That's why it seemed strange that second time round I had learned different

We've never had a row - fingers crossed - & we've been together 11 years now. If either of us says something crossly the other one makes a joke of it - I can't have a temper anymore

Like you, we prefer each other's company, but sometimes I like to meet other people & exchange views on things - hence h2!!

Good for you both! If a knight had ridden up & swept me off my feet before my 1st marriage - I am sure I would have caused as much uproar & rode off on his dazzling charger with him

It's the person you marry - not their relations. Sometimes families cause far too much trouble, but isn't it a great feeling when you prove them wrong

As this is 2nd time around for both of us and all our children are grown the relationships vary: R has a son & daughter both married and I have one married daughter. R's son now has 2 sons of his own, therefore R is a grandad, but I'm only a stepgrandmum - the children call me by my first name as they have both their grandmums already.

R has a slightly younger brother, who has also recently married for a 2nd time, they both have their own adult children. I have one older brother who is married with one unmarried adult son. Phew!

There is an age gap between he & me of 15 years, so his son is only 10 years younger than me, yet my brother is 9 years older than me! I try not to think about it

Have I managed to confuse you?

So your wife was a beauty queen? I am sure she still is

Hi Shirps,
I hope you don't mind ,I have put you on my friends list so I can snoop around when you post
To be sure The Day is St. Patricks Day. I expect you can work out the date from that. March is a good month for both of us. My Lost Boy was born on the 4th of March so it is a very special month for us.
I certainly don't mind you asking about my boy. My wife cannot talk about him without getting upset even though it is 9 years last September he was killed. I have found myself a space in my head and heart where I can cope. He was thirty one when he was taken from us but as soon as I knew he was gone he turned from a man into my little boy. He was killed going home from work by a tractor which should not have been on the road as it was full of mechanical defects including no proper steering.
The week he was killed he had been preparing to open his own design centre. He and his business partner had decided to open larger premises as they had so much work. My son had worked for the B.B.C designing a set for a film made in Cornwall and his work had attracted venture capital so they were able to expand. The week before he was killed he had beem interviewing staff and had given work to about a dozen people. The centre never opened because of his death.
One of the saddest things that was said after he had gone was from his brother only eleven months younger who said to me "I hate being an only child" as he was married with two children of his own at that time it was all the more poignant. His eldest son was born nine days before his uncle was killed so my daughter in law (with great difficulty) had his birth certificate altered legally and gave the baby his uncle's name. A wonderful heartwarming gesture.
I have rattled on too much but thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about my son which I will do whenever asked about him but never bring up in conversation first.
You obviously have a wonderful family around you Shirps and those of us who have a loving family are truly blessed.
Kif

Aye! It be the 17th March! My husband is an eighth Irish, but it doesn't show Did you marry on that day because it was St. Patrick's or, like us, was it a coincidence?

A really, really tragic event - so much talent - what a complete waste. I can't say more as whatever I can say, I am sure, has been already said over the years.

You didn't rattle on! It is good to talk ... and write

I don't mind if you snoop around my posts - I am not guilty of anything untoward (I hope!)

I use to be kif in a past life. I wonder if you are still around Shirps