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

It's like I never went away...

I've been up in Constanble Country this weekend, on a Wild Flower Identification course at Flatford Mill, near Colchester.

It was incredibly intensive, but I learnt how use a key to identify any flowering plant in the UK. Some of it was very technical; we used eye glasses and microscopes to peer at the intricacies of daisies and see which way the hairs point on heath milkwort, stuff like that. My head is still full of worts (not warts ) and calyxes and things like that,l and I don't think it will get itself organised in head for a few days. I *think* I've learnt a lot

On the way home, I popped in to see the lovely Venus at her immaculate garden centre and had a great chat over a cuppa She's got a lovely house and a great garden, and hopefully I'll be invited back next time I'm passing She also gave me two trays of plants for the garden, with the challenge that I have to identify them all - I was thoroughly to only be able to name one on the spot, even with a list in my hand!


Off to read the backpost

WB, we missed you, it was way too quiet around here



I've emailed you about Moxx and Drake

GB

Thanks GB I was quite lucky in that I was looking forward to meeting Venus all weekend, so still got a kind of RL hootoo fix!

Tired, but it's nice to be home...

Welcome back.

Welcome back! Sounds like a great weekend I keep losing connection so if I disappear like the Cheshire cat leaving only a in the hootoo atmosphere I'll hope to catch you tomorrow (later today) for a natter

Tomorrow it will be, I'm afraid - off to bed in about a minute, am knackered after all the driving

You can never be too careful with your milkworts.

Common Milkwort (P. vulgaris) is most widespread & all its leaves are alternate & scattered up the stem, whereas Heath Milkwort ( P. Serpyllifolia) has at least the lower leaves opposite, Chalk Milkwort (P.calcarea) however has its lowest leaves in a rosette.

How about a test on Sundews, they go in for sticky hairs & grow in wet bogs. Who would have thought plants could be so naughty!

zdt

Your welcome to pop in any time It was great to meet you

oooh you had a visitor yesterday Wish I lived someplace a hootooer could pop in like that

You'll just have to move over here then

You just wait -I might do excatly that one day

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Me too!

Worthead!

*tries to not be so childish*

Don't worry mate, I did that crap joke at Venus' place. Difference is, I didn't mean to

Hello again *mops brow after battle with gremlins to get connected to hootoo* Hope your day is going well

Oh yes 'my heads full of worts' was the phrase

Ooh, hello again, Elfie

When I meant to say 'my head's full of warts'

..hence the expression 'worts and all' I guess... Hey there

Oh - y'see I knew it wasn't funny. I just happen to have a rare incurable disease that makes be abusive towards hotel managers.

*decides not to give up his day job*

It seems everyone in the world suffers from that one, Alex