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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7LR46zrQU

Oooo - how lovely. But I can't watch it on my dial-up. I will look at it on my friend's computer later today. Thank you.

I watched it at my friend's home this afternoon. It was lovely. Thank you, Rick.

Hi Polly,

Hi Sweetie,I do hope you are not in bed poorly,it's been a couple of weeks now and not a peep from you,I'm writing on this thread in case you dont feel like speaking to anyone at the moment and to let you know that as always I'm missing you.

Hi Polly,
I don't want to jump all over Rikii's thread but, although I hear through the grapevine that you have spoke to Mad, I just wanted you to know that I'm thinking of you and hope you can rejoin us again soon. We are all worried about you and missing you very much.
Love,
Toots.x

Hello darling Rick, and my dearest Toots.

My life is in a turmoil at the moment..... I am utterly heart-broken....

I haven't spoken to Mad! Maybe you meant Mathos, Toots. He - and our Rick here, go back a long way. He (Mathos) and I kind-of keep in touch with the odd phone call.

I haven't picked up any of my emails lately. It is 4am and I haven't yet slept. I have tried to but my mind is so full of 'things'. So I thought I would check my emails now. One of them was from the BBC, sent to me 2 weeks ago, to say that a totally innocuous post of mine had been removed. I couldn't think what they were talking about so I clicked on the link. And that in turn has made me look at this MB.

I haven't been able to face anything that is daft, silly, or funny recently, and therefore I have not bothered with the R4 MB or with Sin's MB.

I have spent many a night recently deep in prayer, and full of tears. It is agony. Tonight was the same so I decided to get up, make some tea, and maybe do some ironing. Pixie is enjoying it though! He has been allowed out! The cat-flap is always closed at night until the next morning.

Thank you both SO VERY MUCH for your loving messages. I am sending into the cold night air a huge hug to both of you. I feel that my world was turned upside down a few weeks ago. The pain and sadness is awful....My sweet darling daughter is so very very sad...The whole thing is unbearable.

So, my two lovely friends, I shall bid you an early 'Good morning' and read the rest of my emails.

I pray that you are both keeping well and warm.
Rick, I am using a tiny fan-heater here in my sitting room. It is brilliant! Far far better than the CH in here. The room is warm within seconds. It is probably expensive to run but quite honestly I don't care. I need some warmth. The rest of my home is still horridly cold though.

Lots of love to you both. Thank you again for your dear messages.



XXXXXXX

Hi Polly,I am so sorry you're feeling so wretched but I am glad to hear from you.

If I could light a candle
And send it to your room
Hoping that it's tiny glow
Could dissipate your gloom
If I could Write a rainbow
To sparkle in your eye
To wipe away your grey skys
With no need for you to cry
If I could send you my arms
Just to squeeze you so tight
Then maybe you'd realise
You're not alone tonight.

Hello Polly, Rikii has put it so beautifully. Sending you unlimited love.
Toots.x.

I'm sorry you cant be with us all Polly and I know you would normally be sewing stuff or whatever for the nativity at this time of the year but if you dont feel like resonding at the mo' well I understand that too,goodnight Polly and my thoughts do go with you.

Hello Rick and Toots.

Sorry Polly,I missed this posting,as Im sure you already know you are always on our minds and we are all happy to keep in touch with you I just hope you are not feeling down or wounded somewhere

Hi, dearest Rick.

Yep - I am 'wounded'! I don't take disgraceful remarks well at all - and see nothing funny in them. Maybe Mr. RC Whiting's offensive remark about me was supposed to leave me laughing uncontrollably! If that is the case, unfortunately my sense of humour differs from his. A silly joke I can put up with. But damaging personal remarks are not nice at all. I would never do that to anyone - no matter how much that person has annoyed me. Plus, his remark is slanderous.

But what he said about me was obviously not a joke. If it had been, he would have apologized by now.

I do hope that you are keeping well. I have got yet another bad cough. I have already had 2 chest infections this year - and 5 colds since December. I am thoroughly weary of being unwell. But my daffodils look gorgeous, the rooks are busy high in the trees, the early butterflies will soon grace my garden, the Common Tern will return to my bit of the coast -- and I've got my new TV .

And on April 7th, watch out for dust from Comet Halley (in the evening of-course!).

Apparently, rain is on the way this afternoon, but it looks so bright and sunny outside at the moment. I must keep an eye on my washing. I did a bit of border-tidying early this morning. Golly, it made my back ache a lot! But it has made the soil look nice.

Have a happy weekend, and also a very happy Easter, Rick.

Thank you for your kind words.

Hi Polly,lovely to hear from you,Im pleased you got a new tv ,all you have to do now is find something decent to watch.

I am starting to get impatient with my garden last year the weather was so bad here I only had a few veg( mainly beans)so Im hoping for a bit of dry weather although rain is forecast here most of next week already,anyway I hope your back gets better soon please keep in touch as you know you are always welome,how about a few more smitterings from your pen my hy head has either shrunk as I seem to have dried up myself,I think we all need inspiration at times.

I have made an appointment to have some blood and an ecg on the 1st of April although if I get any work Im afraid I'll have to cancel it it's always the same at my doctors I make an appointment and I have to wait 10 days,yet I've been home all week with no work,why cant doctors have an open surgury like the old days,appointments are for office or local workers not for travellers like myself.

Good morning, Rick.

There's a frost this morning - and I cut-back my potted fushias the other day. I hope they will be alright.

Yes, a new television is lovely. I had to buy a flat-screen, which was quite expensive. All I need now is a proper aeriel! I have only got an indoor aeriel so Freeview is almost non-exsistent. I did manage to get BBC4 last night - and it was a perfect picture. I couldn't believe it! So I watched the Oliver Postgate programme. Didn't he make such lovely childrens programmes! Bagpuss, Ivor The Engine, The Clangers, Tottie....

I am meeting my daughter very soon (and I am so tired). So I must now get a move on and make some breakfast.

I was beside the coast yesterday and it was so cold. So I must take a peek at the weather forecast for today before logging-off.

Keep warm.

I'm envious of your Blue-Tits nesting in your garden. How lovely! My friend has a Long-Tailed Tit nesting in the hedge beside his garden path. The Blue-Tits do nest just over my hedge though, and I get the little family on my feeders.

Anyway, have a happy day.

Hi Polly,lovely to hear from you again,weatherwise we had an icey start with a lttle sunshine but now alas we are back to wind and rain.

Your fuchias will be all the better for a good hacking down ,within a month you will have loads of new shoots,as I have put my bird nesting boxes close to the sloping roof of our summerhouse I have planted three plastic troughs along the edge of the roof where the nesting box is to keep the cats at bay, the trough directly over the box has trailing variagated ivy in and I've put nastertiums seeds(?)either side in the other troughs as they attract aphids for them to feed off,anyway Polly enjoy Easter and try not to catch another wretched cold,I havn't had one for more than a year,I take rosehip tabs and cod liver oil capsules daily.

Hello, dear Rick.

I trust you all enjoyed the Easter break. I was on my own most of the time. My daughter had to work during Easter so I couldn't see her.

I'm hoping that my potted fushias will be alright. The garden borders are certainly starting to sprout. I didn't think that the phlox would grow again this year. I wasn't very successful with them in my last garden but the two clumps are alive and thriving. I am so pleased.

I am also waiting with anticipation to see if my Hydrangea Panniculata will be ok this year. It was absolutely beautiful last summer, with massive white pannicles. It is apparently a problem-free hydrangea but I'm worried that the snow and frost could have damaged it. I have already lost my potted jasmine. My heucheras seem to have survived too. I love their coloured leaves.

Tonight is the dust-trails from comet Halley (I think anyway ). I really ought to check.

Even though it is getting warmer, my little home retains the cold. It is probably a major factor in my constant chesty cough.

Take care. Have fun.

x

Hello Polly & Rikki,

I hope you are both well; I'm taking advantage of a lull in work to catch up a bit. I finally got round to replying to your PM on Sins Board Polly but you have either given up with me or you haven't been back there since the unpleasantness.

The Easter weekend went by much to quickly it was Monday afternoon before I could do something that I wanted to do. After having the girls and mother on Saturday I was only fit for valium! On Sunday we trooped around to my younger sons house (he's the daddy of the girls), complete with the (cooked) turkey and all the trimmings for lunch at his house, just 7 in number this time, as other son and DiL to be went to her parents.

I have a garden waste bin now full and ready for collection by council on Friday. It's full of dead stuff taken from various pots on patio. I managed to re-pot various shrubby things and I now know the true meaning of "pot bound". The council men will be a bit shocked at the weight of the bin as I usually have a bit of grass in the bottom. I can't tell you the names of any of the things that died on me over the winter but I do now also know the meaning of the phrase "tender perennial". To cheer myself (and the patio) up a bit I have bought some garden ready Stocks, Nicotiana and a set of five different herbs; plus some tomato plants of the mini-tomato variety which Mum seems very keen on growing; I think she is planning a mini smallholding on my patio! looks as though I'll be getting a mini greenhouse to go with it.

I have a white hydrangea in a pot which I bought last year and it is sprouting all over I just hope I get some flowers - I love white hydrangea.

Well I've rambled on too long as usual.

Keep well and warm.

Toot.x.

Hi Polly and toots,I guess you are both too busy unlike myself who's scratching again for a bit of work.

I got the results back for the blood tests I had a few weeks ago and although my blood was OK the doc says my cholesterol levels are too high,so I've now to take medication for my high bloodpressure and statins for the cholesterol probs, Mrs cut-out is already going on about me cutting out all the foodstuffs I actually enjoy eating and talking about benecol(candle fat?)and no cheeseso I wonder if it's ok for me now to eat carboard?

Hello, dear Toots and Rick.

Toots - where did Easter go! This is awful but - I can't remember what I did. I guess I went to the coast for an afternoon. And saw a friend (maybe) during the bank holiday.

Rick, I think that most of us have high cholesterol at our age!! I was told that I have and yet I have always been active. But since moving here (now 3 years ago) I have put weight on because I no longer have to walk far to the shops. I though it was a great idea at the time but I now miss my daily shopping-walk. Have you started taking the statins yet? I'm not too happy about them and wouldn't take them unless it was terribly urgent. I'm surprised that you need much medication as you are an active man.

I have just had a really lovely few days. I was at Sherborne on Monday, and on the island (I.O.W.) all day Tuesday. I love it so much there. Even the half hour ferry crossing is fun. A friend and I 'did' the whole island. We saw one red squirrel which ran out of from a chine at Shanklin and drank from a bird-bath. One beautiful swallow flew low over the outward ferry - and I don't think that anyone else noticed. I have now seen lots of swallows. I also saw my first hare this year.

It was twilight when we returned on the ferry, and the sea was littered with black-headed gulls. Then out of nowhere flew a black-backed gull and attacked one of the black-headed gulls. It quite obviously killed it. I watched the event from my front seat in the lounge.

I was gardening at 8am today! I had several plants to put into the earth : 2 Valerians, 1 giant Angelica, 2 daisy-type perrenials(sorry - can't think of the name just now), 1 Centaurea. I have also got a new climber for my pot (I lost the jasmine this winter). I have got a blue clematis. And I will be at a garden centre tommorrow! I could spend a fortune there! I want so much!

I have also now got one of those bird-feeding stations. I have so far had a few blue-tits and great-tits on the seed tray. The other birds are still going to the other feeders. Mr. and Mrs. Blackbird spend a lot of time in the free-standing bird bath - bathing, drinking, and generally standing about. The two chaffinches also stand on the feeders doing nothing.

Well, I must pop along to the chemist for some lovely soap - for a friend's birthday (to go with the National Heritage jam I bought at Osborne House. I hope it is nice.). We didn't go into the gardens or house as it is so expensive -£10 each. And anyway we didn't have the time.

Have a lovely weekend - both of you. Watch out for the Swallows and House Martins. I'm not sure if the Swifts are here yet. And I haven't seen the delicate Terns at the coast yet.

Hugs,
xx