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

Just wanted to let you know there's a new canberra chickie here that needs adding to the list.

Cheers,
Winnie

Canberra! Even better!

Dare I ask which suburb? I'm in Ainslie...

Scullin here...but it's not like you're in Woden or anything. Cool. I wonder what the probability is on that? *pulls out calculator*

Winnie

I used to go to Canberra fairly frequently with my dad. We stayed in Kingston, it was a lovely area.

Scullin - what's Scullin like to live in? I've only been through it or past it a couple of times. (I w*rk in Woden...)

Stace - Kingston's rather nice, but rather expensive - and it turns into a zoo on Friday nights. But never mind that - I'd live there if I could. But Ainslie's quite handy for this that and the other, and it's closer to bushland and large friendly marsupials so it'll do me.

I was born in Calvary Hospital aparently.

Thought that contradicts my stern belief I was found under a cabage patch or the stalk brought me

Cosgit the Original

PS ARGH! the images!

Damn forgot to say I have no idea where Calvary Hospital is/was.

Cosgit the original, still not paying attention to himself

G'day gillians_gal There's a Meet on in Sydney on the 28th Feb details at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F72190?thread=350771&latest=1 Hope you can all make it :-D

I doubt I can get to Sydney unfortunately, damn not being able to drive.

Scullin is pretty nice. It's not a rich suburb but people are friendly and it's a convenient location.

I was also born in Calvary hospital. It's in Bruce near the AIS.

Sad, I've lived here all my life :P

Maybe someone should organize a Canberra event...even if it's just for a pint at Kingos or something.

Winnie

Howdy and Welcome aboard...

One of my best mate's lives in Canberra...she was in Rivett, but I know she moved recently, b*ggered if I know where ...

Anyways, Howdy from Melbourne

I don't know anyone from Canberra, but welcome from Sydney as well

A Canberra meet - I'm game if you are, Winnie.

I know there's other Canberra types on here somewhere, but I don't think I've ever been online at the same time as them. Not lately, at any rate. We should probably both go looking for them and see if they're interested.

A or two at the Kingo, or King O'Mullets, or the Phoenix, or... well, anywhere really, sounds like a good idea.

Ivan.

(I will be at the Sydney event, but I don't drive and am at the mercy of CountryLink, so that doesn't help you much... sorry...)

Ivan - I don't recall Friday nights specifically, I was relatively young. A lot of stuff passes you by before you're of age! We didn't mind the cost either - dad would go there on business trips, all expenses paid

You are lucky not to recall Friday nights in Kingston. There's not much to be said for it, really... Mind you, last Easter I saw Chapel St after dark, and that was much the same.

I used to work on Chapel St, I'd finish after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays on a regular basis. Gotta love those horn wars. I used to get my boyfriend (at the time) to pick me up after work, I'd have to walk for about ten minutes to reach somewhere he wouldn't get stuck in traffic.

I would like to meet you sometime before I go away on my year-long retreat to Mildura (I got an unexpected offer from Latrobe for Viticulture!!). And years 2 & 3 are in Melbourne, so that doesn't leave huge amounts of time for drinking midis (they don't have them in vic).

Early Feb is probably best - I have to go down and enrol next week (which includes a 12 hour bus trip - one way). O-week starts feb 25th, but before that is fine (just trying to plan it so my parents aren't broke at the time).

Well, anyways, off to bed for me.

Winnie :0)

Isn't a middy the same as a pot (or a hlafpint) ??

Yeah, you mexicans can't handle ya beer so they only sell it in little glasses (and charge the same as we do for a Schooner)

You can get schooners in most pubs down here I think......

...but say what you will...I drink my beer by the pint !

hehehe Thought that would get a bite

It tends to get confusing sometimes when in SA they call the equal of a middy a schooner and what we in NSW call a schooner a pint (which is wrong cause a pint is approx 600ml and a schooner is about 415ml) Then you go up north to banana bender land and they have a pony which in Vic is a pot or a middy to normal people.

Some pubs (and clubs) here do sell genuine pints, but most of us drink schooners [some of us drink several a day...]