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

I've tried killing the thing offit sprouts up all over the place

I used to love picking crab apples and watching my mum turn them into jelly

we didn't have a garden when I was a kid and no where about to err pick owt from

unless me and mates went apple/pear borrowing

Didn't you have blackberries where you grew up, I thought it was part & parcel of childhood, blackberry picking.

Alex has discovered it now

no spare/waste ground in Ponte' and due to my back, as a kid I never got to to the country as such

Ah, I see, we've been bottling blackberries and apple for pie filling in the winter

plus dad wasn't that type of bloke - he work/telly/bed - nil humour and I mean nil, but leaving him alone

very rare we had tarts etc, mainly buns/cakes when mam baked

I prefer making cakes too

mam used to complain that when she baked, the buns didn't last long and dad replied but doesn't that prove they are great - she shut up

Exactly

have you noticed how time fliesa 1 hour posting as soon as you err post

I see the BBC has top of the range servers again

there's always a glitch/hiccup - after! they do a service

You'd have thought they'd have learned by now

Londoners, beeb HQ

No, seriously, everytime the server is upgraded h2 suffers

remember when it used to happen around 12 midnight on a Sunday, every week

I was never up at that time.

I remember the BIG upgrade they did a few years back and nothing worked for months, in the end they had to upgrade the upgrade

I don't remember that one,might have been before I joined hootoo. I worry on the fact that depending on the license fee, beeb cutbacks and technology in general, what will be the future for hootoo ? as in merge with other beeb chats,stay independent or even shut

I'm sure someone will restart it somewhere else