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

A festival's not a festival without a fancy dress opportunity and my regular festival is no exception. Every year a theme is annoumced for Sunday. It's normally something deliberately vague so that all can participate, easy for the majority to find something but allowing inventive interpretation by the creative minority. So we've had such things as masks, hats and hair, spots and stripes.

This year's theme was 'animals'. I admit I took the easy option and dressed in leopard skin prints. The large group camped next to us had more imagination and organisation, dressing up as Noah's ark and animals two by two. The pair of owls had particularly nice homemade costumes and masks.The guy who'd drawn the short straw had to walk around all day with a cardboard boat round his middle above wood brown tights. I think they were the same group who came as a set of dominoes in the spotty year and spent all day standing in a line so people could topple them. I look forward to seeing what they come up with next year.

Your life sounds so much fun Metal Chicken - full of wonder, surprise, adventure and actual 'life'. Thanks so much for sharing it in these journals. I'm sorry I'd not kept up the reading as speedily as I should have, but glad I made it in the end. It's a joy to read.

(and arn't we all a little* envios o those who, like you, get to do actual exciting stuff, in RL!.... well...I am!) I'm struggling to keep up thi year too... though I'm reading more than I'm necessarily then getting round to also commenting on

Thanks for all your comments. I'm glad someobne's reading and enjoying

As to leading an exciting life - well I have selected a theme that allows me to pick out the good bits from the last 11 months. Maybe I need to balance things out with a journal entry that describes a typical working day...

I'm also trying to read as many as I can, even though I've not left many comments. There's so much good writing around the place this year it's impossible to keep up with everything.

[Amy P]