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

I forgot to bring lunch with me today (well, I'm on a half day so it's no big deal)

So I took a stocktake of edible things I have in my office and handbag.

1 pack rice cakes
1 tub lemon and coriander humous
1 soy dessert (caramel flavour)
1 bag dried sea lettuce
1 bag of roast edemame beans and almonds
3 rather wizened clementines
1 box green tea, and 1 of magnolia

OK, so I won't starve, but even for me, that is - as my children are wont to say - totally random!

That looks dreadfully healthy randomness, I've only got things like half a dozen After Eight mints and three carrots.

I really do need to walk to the shops today.

I always like the Laurel and Hardy short where Ollie is in hospital with his leg in a cast:

'Hi, Ollie. I've brought you some hard boiled eggs and some nuts.'

I never have food in my bag, quite frankly it'd be mouldy and horrible .

Just had a look at what *do* have in there:

Spare Gabapentin, for hubby when we're out and about, a large pen knife, a multi phasic screwdriver (don't ask) a couple of video games (they need skimming, but I keep forgetting they're in there) a Tom Baker book and loads of canvas bags for life and a mini tape measure (it was in me Christmas cracker and *has* been used when out and about)

Looking through my 'Man Bag' I find I have:
- A collection of papers on the environmental psychology of airports.
- A sock
- A roll of Sellotape.
- A big bag of Minstrels
- a newspaper fro OccupyLSX
- A map of Copenhagen
- Lots of other shit.

Am about to hit Gatwick. Give me a the shortened version of the airport psychology malarky.

They're about how to arrange the space and place the signage so that people go where you want them and are able to find their way around.

The psychology of going through Gatwick amounts to:
- Hurry up and wait.
- Be patient.
- They'll only make it worse for you if you express annoyance.
- Visit every toilet that you pass: it might the the last one you'll see for a while.
- Wear comfortable shoes.

In my bag - nothing edible.
At my desk - nothing edible. There's a jar for ground coffee, but it's been empty for weeks.

Well, most of those are my life philosophy anyway!

I could give lessons in patience, and my comfy shoe collection is legendary (how many pairs of crocs? How many????)

Have started creating recipes now - added the almonds to the caramel dessert as a pre-gym snack

eeek! No cheese amongst that little lot! Surely that must* be an oversight...
When my Father was in hospital we bought him actual food, rather than snacks and things, as the hospital food was making him even more ill than he already was... Lots of cheese filled rolls and other sandwichs I seem to recall ... People used to smuggle me in booze when I was in hospital a long time
don't have a 'man bag'... I feel left out

I have a very capacious man bag. It's like the one JK Rowling plagiarised...er...referenced from Mary Poppins.

My current one is a canvas, diagonal-across-the-chest type with a nice, sturdy, wide strap. Its main advantage is that it's completely crappy, which means that I can bung it somewhere crappy and not have to worry about it getting crappy. It's developed the beginnings of a wee hole, mind. I might have to get the Duck Tape out.

Generally what won't fit in my trouser, shirt, or jacket pockets, doesn't day to day leave the house with me... phone, fags, lighters, tissues, keys, plectrums, any random audio adatptors and/or screwdrivers/allan keys that happen to be being carried and spare hairbands... Oh, and useually some emergency cheese which I have sewn into my clothing... just in case

In my rucksack I have:

lots of sugar sachets
a lemsip
about four or five toffees, individually wrapped
a banana, slightly crushed.

I figure I could last a couple of days in an emergency. After that I eat the laptop and all its attachments.

I have a seven-year old bag of Quavers in the door pocket on the passenger side of my car.

I'm scared to touch it now...

B

I found a cereal bar in my gym bag, soi was well set up for my workout (30mins on the treadmill, prep for Monday's marathon relay)

And folks, I am now coming to you from a beefeater in Woking,! Ah the joys of wifi! And cheap flights!

just had a look in my rucksack

1 camera
2 a rain mac
3 ipad
4 phone
5 other phone
6 3 pairs of socks
7 4 pairs of assorted glasses
8 a hat
9 a cold water tap
10 pain killers
11 toe nail clippers
12 an orange
13 an apple
14 smokey bacon chrisps (no bag)
15 toilet roll (soft, non tracing type)
16 a left, flip flop[
17 4 m10 nuts'n'bolts
18 an map of the city of Bath
19 a sorted case of pencils
20 my small drawing book
21 a 10mm spanner
22 a photo of someone I can remember, but i remember when i took it
23 a pp3 battery
24 fluff

and thats about it really

hope this helps

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25 sand from Gwithian beach and its just so beautiful


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What I have in my bag:

diary
camera
ipod
phone(s)
bottles of coke and whatever else i deem drinkable
kindle
make up
netbook and charger
leads for charging phones
map of poland

My PH for the day: been looking up Iron Maiden's 2 Mins to Midnight on Wiki. Go read the section on N. Ireland, that's why I say either Wiki talks bollocks or someone's edited it or both. (And if it IS true, I've never seen it.)

I've usually only got a cereal bar or something in my handbag, but there's enough in the car to last a while - I tend to get really grumpy and unfocussed with low blood sugar, so better to be on the safe side!

The emergency food compartment currently has two cereal bars, a packet of dried apricots, some extra-dark chocolate, a bag of baked pita crackers and, for some reason, a trowel. I also keep bottled water in the boot, just in case.