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

...and The Observer lies unread in a carrier bag. This is what happens when writing a trivial Guide Entry becomes researching a fascinating Guide Entry.

In other news: I got the new specs today. I wish I could mention the opticians (they're a local bunch) because I've never had such good service from an optician. Top notch.

I'm worried about my recent Keane/Coldplay/Take That listening shenanigans. I know that this is because certain internet sources render it a cost free listening experience, but I could still be listening to something else.

Oh Bob, I'm sure these are bird's glasses I'm wearing...

Look in the mirror with those glasses on. If you start wondering if your bum looks big, they're birds glasses.

That won't work - I have it on very good authority that, despite my mid thirtiesness, my bum is a joy to behold. Mind you, I haven't been told that by anyone under 50.

What you doing up at 3.21am on a schoolday?

I was finishing an entry which became a bit of a researching mammoth and, as a result, am now slightly .

I just had a squint at the thread in your honour. Careful mate, you're in danger of being dragged down to his (I say his as I'm increasingly of the opinion that Fanny is a BB sock puppet) level.

Hmmf, think you've got problems, it's 4.42 here & i am wearing ancient glasses & have never ever wondered if my bum looked big full stop; i'm more concerned that it actually exists.

One of the strangest things that anyone ever said to me was an ex Bf, who, in what i imagined to be the rosy glow of post-coital bliss, gazed at my & said "that's the best case of symmetrical acne i have ever seen."

However, 20 years on he might find things have changed a bit in that region. Still no bum though.

zdt

I never thought of that, but I doubt it. Fanny could probably spell sycophant.

I agree, I shouldn't really have retorted but I'm sick to death of months of constant personal abuse from him. He occasionally makes good points, but he loses them by seemingly being totally unable to complete a post without adding an insult.

What's the mammoth project then?

SWL: it was condensed to this: A20160118 but you have now idea how many bookmarks I've got and how much I've had to leave out. It started as a quick entry about about a brewery and turned into a dynastic history topped with a bit of corporate shenanigans.

T&Y: symmetrical acne?

Bee-stings

Ah, the brewery

You

Writing about Vaux, and you from Margate?

What about Cobb's or Thomson and Wooton?

But good, even so.

Go Bro, Go.

And smart glasses!

You know what they say,

'People make passes, at folks wearing glasses '

Yep, the brewery, though my current state is more down to spending the day in front of a PC with a fair few s and now a bottle of than the subject matter.

Bee stings?

Fried eggs

I've just spent half an hour ironing a black shirt & trying to get the cat hairs off. I've come to the conclusion that Mussolini's mob obviously didn't have cats and it was probably Eva Braun that advised Adolph to get his mob into brown shirts to match his alsation.

MMF, Sunderland's the ancestral home! Mind you, the Gadd's Brewery Porter is frightfully nice.

So Eva Braun didn't found the company that makes irons and other products that make blokes' shirts look less grotty? Seems like she n=missed a winner there:

The Eva Braun Cat Hair Remover. She handled Hitler, she can deal with your pussy fluff.

OK, historically inaccurate, but worth a shot.

I'm quite chuffed. I've got two credits on the front page just now. The cat skinning & the garden shed.

Simulty-thingy

I'm really stoked on your behalf! (I mentioned somewhere else how stoked I am about the cat thing being on the FP over the weekend!)

Of course, my flounce reflex will be fully active until somebody comments in the Vaux PR thread.

Cripes, I'm listening to Oasis B sides. Rather good.

Oh, okay. I'll go have a look.

I'm thinking of winding up the veggies on HooToo next week. A good site to start with -
http://www.douglassreport.com/healthy/newsletter.html

Blimey, thanks for that link. 'Tis good stuff!

I'm going to have to go soon.

Me go on big bird that roars like thunder.