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

*hopes the stray story isn't on a sugar high elsewise cc will have to be sitting on a rubber ring when she gets back*

Morning

The sun is out it has been days since we saw sunshine

I have become an official foster parent to one of the naughty kittens as the other has been hit by a car , he is going to be in plaster and need a lot of care for a while and certainly no wrestling with his sister till he is more mended

She is a love and has been spending most of her time here recently so it is no hardship at all, I'm glad to be able to do something to help

This caught my eye

The Foghorn Requiem

A foghorn, 50 boats hootin' and a-tootin' and brass bands will form an orchestra and perform a requiem for the last foghorn in the UK

What an amazing idea

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/mar/26/lighthouses-foghorns-newcastle-tyneside-southshields-music

Morning luvvy! Sunlight! Yay! Now we can bounce around. How light makes a difference eh?



Awwwww poor kittie , being in plaster, you're so special, I imagine you're a wonderful kittie carer, and kid carer . Lucky kids and kitties to have you.



That's amazing! The foghorn requiem! Thanks! So inspiring!

Just today I was in a musical inspired state, and I understood something about musical interpretation, although I forgot it now. .

I was playing the music of the moment on my synth, which took me a thousand miles into a dimension of luminous echoes, fragrant shadows, flickering neon, chant and pizza, (although I don't know how the pizza got in ) and the stray story howled along with it. yeeeeow!



I grew up with a foghorn sound, because my family home was just a couple of miles from the Sussex coast.

dooooooo doop dooooooo doop, a strange low tone, a curious heartbeat. I never knew what it was for years, I just accepted it as that strange echoey sound I always heard. Funny how we do that in childhood, we adapt to the mystery of the world.

Goodbye foghorn, my childhood friend.

aww thank you CC

I don't think I have ever heard a foghorn, my Mum would have living in Dungeness. Sometimes she used to say to us 'Quieten down you lot, you'll drown out the foghorn.'

mmm, I really want pizza now, with anchovies, and cherry tomatos and extra

mmm me too! Pizza!

heheh. I love that, wild kids competing with the foghorn .

So you spent some time in Dungeness during your childhood?

I am obsessed with that part of the coast mainly because of the late great Derek Jarman, and his collection of journal writings, entitled Modern Nature.



I am crazeeeee about Derek Jarman, film maker, writer, artist, gardener, gay activist, who lived in Prospect Cottage on the beach, near to Dungeness power station.

Ahh yes.


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Up the road tomorrow, Brighton! yayeee! yipeee! Have a wonderful Easter, or holiday equivalent, one and all.

Can't believe it's Easter already. I used to get very intense at Easter, when my father was alive, he loved Easter, although it haunted him also, being a spiritual man. Thoughts of resurrection, and I remember reading T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday and thinking deep and intense thoughts.

This year I feel different, in a good way, I intend to chill out (literally sheesh! it's sooo cold) to my music, stare at the sea, and sit in the sauna to think about donuts , dominoes, and orange swirls.

Plus of course there's a family wedding, so I will have to polish my false teeth and put a shine on my smile. .

I'll be online though, from time to time, on the netbook screen which is so small it makes my eyes go funny. I will have to edit the stray story to six pawprints per posting. As if. More like 6,000 pawprints, running backwards, in a spiral shape .

Happy hols!

And to you, too.

Happy Holidays to you too

I have visited Dungerness, once as a child, Mum grew up there

the flaming stray 'r', it makes me because I can hear Spiller saying that because of our accent we put extra 'r's in everything

Morning daydreamers

Some great pics here

The champagne supernova definitely deserves a toast

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2013/mar/28/champagne-supernova-in-the-sky

Despite the freezing weather , there has been a thaw in the relationship, the kitten and Scratchy sat next to each other in front of the heater for a while

They kept on giving each other sideways glances but I think it was a kind of truce

Yeah for feline . Very pics. Thanks for sharing them.

Hey Peanut. Here is an interesting thing to do with your pussy cats, tease them with an optical illusion.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/humans_fall_for_optical_illusions_but_do_cats.html


Cats have excellent peripheral vision and this illusion simulates movement in some of its elements, hence encouraging the cat to attack a two dimensional flat prey.

Thanks Elektra, she loves playing with paper, especially the one the one you are reading

the one that you are reading

I'm glad you liked the pics Dmitri

*sweeps up ashes and blows on embers, stokes up campfire*

wouldn't want to attract hooganods, especially as they fart fire when spooked

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That is soooo true...

You want to beware of those dinosaures, too...see Front Page...

Of course, I'm bringing some of Nigel's soup to go with the beans: A87789370

being allergic to bees I might just give that soup a miss

still thinking of all those very difficult conditions that I have been called to light a fire I am starting to wonder if a Hooganod is tameable

I feed it charcoal, if a little boo will fire start

(slinks into campfire, attracted by embers, and interesting company talking about Hooganods and yellow jacket soup) Ah just another evening on hootoo, heheh, I love it.)

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Remember I can't type on this little netbook, so all peculiar codes and typos are in fact part of a greater plan, and an equals sign ==== . I think they put the equals key in the place where something else once was on my laptop at home. If I was suddenly brilliant I could write equations.

The Hooganod = mc42 (squared)

Wait! I must read other postings ...

I love the Champagne Supernova! Incredible!

And do Scratchy and the Kitten like the optical illusions? . I see kitten eyes spinning like spirals .

Amazing.

I do love an optical illusion. Was Escher the first optical illusionist? No! I think the optical illusion is ancient, perhaps to do with architecture, perhaps the Greeks or the Romans, or maybe not.

Who invented the optical illusion? I ask myself on this cold fresh saltsea Easter Monday. Perhaps it was Leonardo da Vinci.

Admit it kid, you know not.

OK, I know not.



We're having a very restful time here on the coast. I have been reading this amaaazing book called Supernatural by Graham Hancock. It's all about shamanistic cave paintings, and shamanistic visionary experiences from the spirit world throughout the ages, and DNA, DNA is extraordinary! whoah, I'm well away with DNA .

The thing is ....