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

Hoggy, your mind boggles easily!?

My mind is boggled, lunchtimes doubly so...

I won't be home to do my own spring cleaning until May. I'll have to rely on my caretaker to take care of anything urgent out of doors. Home just in time for the lo...ong, ho...t summer. Hopefully we'll have summer doldrum rains this year. If so, I wouldn't want to miss it. That's when the smoke trees germinate and the desert hibiscus blooms.

(Summer heat in the Coachella Valley was the inspiration, I think, for the "heat death" of the Peace-keepers from the "Farscape" sci-fi serial. Newcomers to the Coachella Valley make the mistake (once) of turning the air conditioning off during the day while out and never repeat it.)

Somehow Pierce don't seem wimpish enough to be thinking of tetanus shots - or are you using cutlasses dipped in the stuff?


- wot no maids?


Er this now. Is it the stuff which has been dahn the side of the bed for yonks and the maid can eat what she finds if it's in a fit state or have I got the wrong end of this discussion somehow?

arh, we've come a long way since we discovered rum spiced with gunpowder, matey