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

sing rain rain go to Spain, and let´s see what happens

I don´t know about truffles, but dogs go for those areas to find them. It´s another business...and cork... I should write an Entry about dehesas!

I used to like bullfighting, now not much, I don´t like to see the animal dying... but there are other elements of the fiesta I do like, but then, my sensible mind tells to the sensitive one that art doesn´t justify the death of an animal.

to fix your browser, don´t know which song to sing

good luck with it

I've only been to Spain once, as a 11year old on a 10 day school trip/holiday and the to Mallorca in the early 80's with some friends (inc me, 5 guys)

I have just reinstalled the last version for now

may I ask a personal question please?
is Mar short for Margareta

hi Prof,
you mean Margarita (Daisy). No, it´s for María.

thank you loveI'll still use Mar as everyone else

I like Mar, but call me María when you please

I always try to please a ladyI will stay with Mar

You know I didn't realise the old misc chat thread was dead in the water, surely people out there want to talk about something? what about the weather? I'm in Oxfordshire, haven't seen any snow yet, seen some lovely pictures of my home county, Durham, where they've had a fair smattering. I went to Oxford on the bus today, everyone dressed like Eskimos, but you need a bit of the white stuff to complete the pictrure.I have family in Canada where they're suffering cabin fever, can't get out. What's it like round your way?

I see I'm unlikely to get anybody chatting as I'm the only one online! I wonder why it's gone so dead on here, Facebook (spits) I suppose, I don't like it but this site is so much more civilised, it's a shame to see it so neglected, I'm as much to blame as anybody, there used to be some lively conversations on here.

A lot of people got crushed in the rush to the middle ground
on every issue worth discussing. Fighting and fussing was made
a cardinal offense. The no spitting rule really dried things up.



~jwf~

A bit enigmatic for me mate, but if we're talking about the 'modding' thing, in all honesty I'd rather that than some of the awful stuff you see on other less regulated sites, though it does feel like you've got someone sitting on your shoulder, I remember once I had a post taken down for having a go at Nicky Campbell! You would think that he's fair game! and it wasn't even rude! It would be good to see people rushing again, and it's good to talk to someone on this thread, cheers.

The Prof is still here, likewise Maria. And me

sometimes old threads like this get superceded by new ones!

I think I prefer threadbare. Well our sleepy little corner of Oxon has been at the centre of national news today, someone decided to firebomb our council offices, an undertakers, and a thatched cottage! This is the first time we've made the news since the last pancake race.

Snow here in Norn Irn, and I'm meeting someone who is on my phone's contacts list as Barack Obama for lunch at the new Simply Crispy eaterie downtown, which serves crisp sandwiches. (It made the news earlier in the week).

Beatrice, you're from NI I see, I'm just finishing a great Edna O'Brien book, Down By the River, which I've read with horrified fascination in three sittings, what a fantastic writer, how has the whole of Ireland managed to produce such fantastic literature? there can't be anywhere in the world that punches so far above it's weight in producing great writers, Shaw Yeats Joyce Heaney, Wilde, that's without thinking, amazing.

And with a bit of thinking James Stephens will come to mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stephens_(author)

He's one of the most important voices of Irish literature,
especially when it's considered part of whirled literature:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1605/1605-h/1605-h.htm


~jwf~

Lovely Beatrice, I'm afraid I hadn't heard of him but any friend of Joyce is a friend of mine! I'll look at the Guttenburg stuff, thanks. Synge, He's another one that Playboy of the Western World, that was him wasn't it? I've seen it on telly and meant to get to a good live production, of it, hilarious!