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

good morning fellow traveller
just thought i'd drop u a wee

feel free to drop in for some alien chat, and

SpaceGirl

Hi Spacegirl,

I'm off to work in about 2 minutes! Just wanted to say "Hi" and say I'll be glad to chat about aliens! What should I bring?

SC

bring and , or

What I'd really love to bring is some as the diet I am on won't allow them, or the ......

D**n diet!

I read your page, and you seem to spend a lot of time cleaning.

I wish I was like that but unfortunately I am a (why is there no smiley for this!! It's hardly uncommon!)

I tell you what ... how about I just bring a single bar of "Dove", milk or dark?

SC

oo very dark please, never had dove, i'm assuming it is a bar

the frantic cleaning is just a ruse, my mum is coming round to visit, and you know what they are like

Dove chocolate is very nice, but I have to admit no match for some of the Euro greats! American chocolate is usually soooo bland, the only way to tell if it's milk or dark is the color! LOL Valhrona is very, very, very good, but haven't had any for ages! So many different degrees of Dark!

My mother is, unfortunately, the one who taught me my housekeeping skills, so the closest I ever came to the "white glove" test is my mother-in-law!!!! Don't think I passed, either!

SC

even worse, my nephew, six years old and a complete darling, is coming to stay this weekend, so am frantically trying to make flat child-friendly . got to hide all sharp dangerous and embarrassing objects !

on the subject of am at the moment thoroughly enjoying green and black's organic 70%cocoa mmmmmmmm

Hope you were able to stash all the incriminating evidence and lethal accoutrement in time! Still, 6 year olds can be a bunch of fun.

That sounds lovely! I pretty much have to stay away from it, but it reminded me of great I have known.

I spent the weekend with a bunch of 1200+ year old Sequoia redwood trees, myself. I've lived in California for forever, and I had never gone to Yosemite National Park. Have I ever wasted time; should have checked it out long ago! Truly Awesome!!

Getting home was pretty good, too. My cats were glad to see me (or maybe just excited to explore my empty suitcase!)

glad you had a good weekend, i had a somewhat similar experience - suddenly discovering how wonderful trees were !
we don't have giant redwood growing wild across here, just a few planted in gardens of stately homes, and even then they are only a couple of hundreds years old (mere youngsters)

now you know that the cats weren't glad to see YOU, they were just happy at the return of their slave!! . i am a cat person and would love to have another cat. my last treasure lived til he was 20 ( i think it was just stubborness that was keeping him going at the end )

had a great time with the nephew, but it was exhausting

Glad to hear the nephew didn't finish you off! Kids are exhausting, but I love the way they take whatever you tell them as an of-course-this-the-way-it-is and turn it upside down for you. New perspectives keep me young!

After spending last weekend in the trees, I SO wanted to take one home (they do sell them, tiny little seedlings in a tube!). Only problem is, it'd only be knee high, when I shuffle off this mortal coil!

SC

ah but the tree would be a reminder of you, when my godmother died we planted a rowan tree in her memory. it sort of means that part of her is living on.
to be so morbid, it must be something in the air

That's not morbid at all; it's a lovely idea, actually. I've heard of Rowan trees (they figure prominently at least by name in the LOTR books!) Don't know if I've actually ever seen one, though.

In the states, oaks seem to be the more common trees, I think. At least in California, there are something like 9 differnt kinds of oaks which are native to this state. I grew up in Michigan, and we had oaks which were totally different from the ones here. Much larger, more like the concept of the "mighty oaks". California oaks can be as old, but they're small things, comparatively!

Now I'll have to go back to the park and get a tree for posterity!

SC

Now what H2G2 needs is a tree smiley! Might lend a little dignity to the place (or just fuel for the fires! )

rowan also known as mountain ash - lovely shimmery trees!

how are the cats doing - feelingjealous that they have been supplanted by trees?

The cats are currently gloating -- seems big very old trees are prone to Acts of God or whatever.
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20030819/localnews/89180.html

On Aug. 19, some family had their Jeep Grand Cherokee smashed flat by a falling 1000 yr old tree. Luckily no one in the vehicle at the time, but they came all the way from Florida to see the trees. Probably didn't expect to view the tree top from close up, is all.


And, as previously noted, I was nowhere NEAR that tree!

SC

i know i shouldn't but
that is what you call divine retribution!!
i wonder if the insurance company paid up?

I'd think they'd have to, wouldn't they? Crystal ball scrying is not an effective method for choosing parking places, after all.

They should have checked with Bruce, the Parking Fairy. (Kinda like the Tooth Fairy, but driving a tow truck!)

SC

oh i dont meen to be rude or anything but just wanted to chat with someone . so how long have u been doing h2g2. im not that good at it i just started.

from miss zaphod beeblebrox and my rat

Well, I first stumbled in here sometime in the summer of 1999, but forgot my "nick", and then rejoined Nov. 3, '99. Been here ever since.

I am perhaps one of the least gadabout types on here, though. I lurk all over the joint, but only post to about 6-8 areas.

I hope you enjoy the site, and don't let it put you off! It's huge and can be daunting, but totally worth it. I came here to see what the rest of the world was up to, since the US is the worst place for world news, and got an eyeful! Worth it.

SC