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

mvp wrote, she's really busy in her new life as Councillor, might not be around so much.

Good luck mvp , you are amazing.

I shall send you h2g2 sparkles through the atmosphere. Each sparkle is a crumb from h2g2's own version of Kendal Mint Cake, to give you energy.

The h2g2 Kendal Mint Cake is much better than the original. Is this possible? Surely there is no comparison. Well ..

Oh, its lunch time. I shall have h2g2KMC with my soup. Mint goes well with tomato.

And ...

OK bye then. I wonder how long my stupid mood will last?

Hi cactuscafe, and thanks for the H2G2 sparkles!



I shall take them with me when I set off to the Town Council for an induction event this evening. I just hope it isn't going to pour with rain, or I shall arrive dripping wet!

I shall certainly be back

Hi folks! Last weekend I had fun times visiting my sis and her family in the Pretoria area. Cactuscafé, do you like cigars? You mention them here. I celebrated my book by trying out a small Cuban cigar, I liked it a lot.

I've now got my copy of your book, Willem!

I've only just started reading it, but the pictures are marvellous.

Here's a daft limerick -

There was an old woman who swore
retirement was proving a bore.
She attempted the feat
of winning a councillor's seat,
and will be busy for evermore!

Love it, mvp! And thinking of you.



Hullo Willem! I used to smoke cigars, in my attempt to be bohemian in the 70s. Or pretending to be Columbo. . I never inhaled. I don't think you do inhale cigars in fact. You could get tins of small, slim cigars called Cafe Creme, that ladies often smoked. I was always sent outside at parties. Go away, not very cool person, with 'orrible smoke.



Life is good. This morning we had an extraordinary cycle back from town. Its the Brighton Festival at the moment, so the crowd is extra arty, although this town is never entirely normal.

We gave some change to a lady tree spirit, who was sitting on the sea front with a painted green face, and wrapped in bits of tree. She blew us a kiss, the way that tree spirits do, especially the ones with long eyelashes, flirty pouts, and sparkles on their green faces.

A stream powered vehicle, with coal shovelling crew, was arriving for the vintage car rally, and the air was filled with clouds of coal dust and steam. Not entirely eco green. I think they'll have the green tree spirit and mvp after them.

And then ...

Oh, back inna min

And then there was a vintage vehicle with Whangarei Fruit Farms written on it, some other names, and including Liss, Hants. Quite stange,have to research further.

We were wondering where or what is Whangarei. And, by coincidence, a fellow arrives on his bike beside us, and was amazed because he came from Whangarei.

It is a city in NZ, lots of fruit farms around, and is a Maori word, pronounced Fong-gar-ay. That's ay to rhyme with way.



And then we saw a lady in a red and white striped outfit happily flying through the air, greeting the world below her with a loud screech. She was doing a bungee jump.

She was a different lady to the green tree spirit, with the flirty pout. At least I think she was. Unless the green tree spirit is a shape shifter.

Brighton must have been completely crazy this weekend!

We weren't there but we walked up Wolstonbury Hill, which was lovely, because there were cowslips and early purple orchids and we even saw some green hairstreak buterflies.

The h2g2 Post is up at A87931218
Find out why the Post Editor denies being a dimetrodon.
Admire the cool architecture.
Do all FIVE quizzes!
Explore nature.
Thrill to the pulpy fiction.
Seriously: This issue is full of great Stuff!

Wow minorvogonpoet, thanks for buying my book! Please let me know what you think!

Tomorrow we're going to France. It might be too early for fruit, unless the cherries are ready.

But there'll be wild orchids and I hope.

Folks, my sister is treating a lion at her practice at Muelmed Clinic in Hatfield! Chaos the lion, 16 years old, of the Lory Park Zoo, has a tumour on his snout for which he's now receiving radiation therapy. Here's the vid, my sis is on from 0:55 to 1:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA0hmOqqW-Y

That is so ! Give her (and the lion) our best regards and hopes for a full recovery!

Thanks for sharing, Willem

That was an Interesting video looks a tough patient.

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More nature than you can shake a tree root at!
Cats, cats, cats!
Awix's 600TH REVIEW!
Sad stories, thrilling stories, funny stories, and a new photography challenge.
Poetry that you've GOT to read. Srsly, you have to, or we will Take Measures.
In honour of the Eurovision Song Contest, now mercifully at an end, the quiz is about European national anthems.

Greetings all!

Will check your video in a min, Willem, have to change skins, doesn't seem to come up in Brunel. These skins are just being sooo difficult.

Et bon voyage, mvp! Hope France is warmer than it was last time! Perhaps you will have summertime fruits in your garden.



Life good, been sitting in the steam room a lot, also setting word paintings to music and contemplating the mystical marriage between white chocolate and brandy.

Strange, I've had this tiny portable four track recorder for about ten years, never could work the thing. I tend to avoid it, lots of complicated digital settings. Or so I thought. However, just the other day, I took it off the dusty shelf, and bonded with it like it was a long lost spaniel. Now I take it for walks, and comb its ears, and it thanks me in four track harmony. woof woof woof woof

Actually, that's stupid, the spaniel part, but the rest is true.

If you want to post a video in Brunel (or any Ripley skin), please remove the 's' from 'httups'. That way, it will show up clickable.

Don't worry: clicking on the link will reconvert it to https. (Ripley was built before https existed, that's how ancient and mysterious we are. Eons in Internet Years.)

If somebody posts a link that begins 'https' by mistake, just copy that link into your browser to see it.

Speaking of recordings of all kinds, here's what our town looked like yesterday - a magic explosion of blooms! I wish I could digitise scent - the lilac smell was so overwhelming, it flooded the inside of the church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbjXxtxwkg

Sorry, that's 'https' (no 'u'.) I need ....

Strange, Willem, I can't seem to pick up your link in Alabaster either. Perhaps the skins heard me saying that they were being sooo difficult. Later, I will go to youtube and type it in the long way round.

Hah! Coffee and lilac scent!! How wonderful. I adore the scent of lilac.

Have to dash. . Will check all links later!