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

I have just attempted to write, for the first time since I have been a researcher on hootoo i.e. 2001/2002 an entry.

I do not know what happens next. Does someone read it? Do I get feed back. I do not even know how to find it!

Oh dear.
Christiane
Alsoran2
radiantantjoiedevivre
andnall the other names I have "lost"

Hello Christiane,

I was pointed in this direction, to see if I might help you regain your last account.

If you contact h2g2.support@bbc(dot)co(dot)uk

They may be able to help you get back into your radiantantjoiedevivre
account.


lil xx

Dear Lil.

How charming of you to send me that note. I do not particularly want to gain back that quite idiotic name radiantjoiedevivre!!. I am nearly eighty - I think I am a happy person, but raidiant - Well I have my doubts!!

As for joiedevivre - I certainly had it wen I was young, but now......So quite honestly it really does not bother me that that bane has disappeared into cyberspace!!.

I chose the name Also ran because that has been my role all my life!!. I am quite happy being an Also Ran and never being first past the post!!. Had I known that I could have been Alsoran2 when I first lost my other two Also Rans I would have gone on with that. !!

I have never been to your atelier - I always thought that it was very grand and far too intimidating for me!. Perhaps when I am safely installed in myt lovely new flat in Folkestone I shall gather up te courage to cross your threshold.

The only thing that bothers me now is that I have at last taken my courage into both hands and this morning wrote something which I hoped would be edited/reviewed and criticised . I wrote it under the name of Alsoran2 - and I have absolutely no idea how to find it!!.

I am not surpirsed that the majority of researchers find me wearisome. It is difficult to leap into all these strange waters when one has never swum in them before.

I do hope that the cold weather is not too bad for you. I have a very efficient friend coming to give me help with my organising of packers and removal people. So much to do. But then I have always had to organise things. So my great age should be no handicap.

Thank you for your concern. Please thank the people wyo would like to help. However I really do NOT want to being radiant etc. etc. !!

Very sincerely,

Christiane.
Alsoran2

Aww Bless!

I am not Asteroid Lil (we're not worthy ), although I am sure she would welcome you into her atelier with open arms

Christiane, if you are happy in a new account, then I will not interfer with your decision

I am very glad that you are happy with you new flat in Felixstowe. I wish you many happy years there.

Love and Best Wishes,

lil xx

Hi Lil - (not the atelier one!!)

Apologies!!

My new home is next to the sea - overlooking the Channel, and twenty miles away La belle France - at FOLKESTONE KENT!

Where is Felixstowe?

Thanks for letting me remain Alsoran2

Go well,

Christiane
Alsoran2

*giggles*


Hi Christiane,

My mistake! Felixstowe is in Suffolk.

I used to work for a haulage company which had a depot in Felistowe and dealt with Folkstone too.. Sorry about that

Sweetheart, you can remain here in whatever account you prefer.


lil xx

Hi Lil,

Thank you so much!!

Go well,

I am so upset; someone has been trying to get into my email account - sadly I think I know who it is. and now I am informed that my password is inaccurate.

This is one of the tragic frailties of this wonderful invention/development. It can be misused. Anyway, I shall have to phone a friend who can hopefully fix it up.

Have a good day

Christiane
Alsoran2

Hi Christiane,

Good Lord! I've no idea how anyone can manage that! Nor why they would want to even try it!

I hope you get things sorted soon.

Best Wishes,


Chris xx

aka lil xx

Traveller in Time collecting
"The Entry you wrote:
< A30818487 > 'Getting started' Written and Edited by Alsoran2

Some Previous Researcher accounts to recollect friends and contacts
< U9487216 > 'Radiantjoiedevivre'
< U186829 > 'Also Ran 1'

Welcome back in the new year "

Very dear Traveller in Time,

I was trying to write my very first piece of writing - as we were instructed to do.

I did not want to edit it I saw a button which said Edit - pressed it thinking someone would edit it!

Honestly.
I really think I am past all help.

Anyway, There we are, and now my telephone has gone on the blink.

Thanks for your good wishes. I shall enjoy and need them

Sincerely,

Christiane.
Alsoran2

Hello Christiane,

Do you REALLY want to write for the guide?

You don't have to. It is not compulsory to do so.

What you read was a clarion call to those who do write, and a bit of a nudge to any new researchers who might have been waiting on the sidelines.

If you prefer to chat with your friends, then you do so.


love,

Chris xx

aka lil xx

Hi Chris/Lil

Well, I really do not know what to say.

I thought that perhaps I could write something which might ibe interesting. I have led a very wonderful, exciting and fulfilled life.

I would like to share some of it with others. The reason why I was put off initially was that we were told not to use the word "I" And in fact I always say that I have no imagination and that I LIVE my life

I can remember years ago that I was asked to write to - I think it was Hypatia to see if she could help me. Anyway, I still think I have no imagination.
Well thanx for your help. I think that I have a lot on my plate with the move, so will quieten down until I am overlooking the sea and then can perhaps regain some serenity then.

Very sincerely,

Christiane.
Alsoran2
Thanx for writing to all my friends. Sadly Zantic, such a special person seems to have "gone to ground."

How on earth do you know so much dear Traveller in Time.

Thanks so much for the information.

I think I shall calm down a little and attend to the boring things that HAVE to be done when one moves home.

But very grateful thanks for identifying me with all my names and numbers. !!

You are "veree clevaire".

Regards

Christiane

Traveller in Time just knowing the way around in the Guide
"It is all in a days work, you can not imagine some questions asked (or even more difficult not asked) I answer every day.

Made some comments on the Entry you wrote. Seems to me it is more like some 'prose' for The Post then something for the Edited Guide. And as official < <./>ThePost</.> > contributor she is, I think 'lil' is a more appropriate authority to Guide you to the post.

In the mean time you can submit your entry for review to the 'Alternative Writing Workshop' (open the A-number and look for a button 'Submit for Review'). "

Thank you so much for the advice.

Now do tell me -I know I shall probably take a while to remember

Who was the god who had wings on his feet?

Because that is what you have.

You are wonderful.


Christiane

Hi Christiane,


It is nice to see you getting your friends back

I too have read your story. You have some wonderful tales to tell, how about making them into a short series for ?

You can just write as and when you feel like it. Once completed I can pick it up and do the editing for you.

With your permission, I can pick up this current story and it will be in next weeks' issue of <./>ThePost</.>.


Chris xx

aka lil xx

Very dear Lil/Chris

Are you serious?
My goodness.

Well you tell me what to do!
Wow!!

I shall have to go back to it. I was just writing down random thoughts. I have always had that problem of setting off on one path and then finding another equally fascinating one to follow!!

I do not even have a copy of it. I shall have to try and find it tomorrow!!

Abd the sotry of the sprites was so wonderful it puts me to shame!!
Sleep tight

Christiane
Alsoran2

Traveller in Time on another computer
"Oops must have flushed the comments, well it was not very much anyway.

< http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html > "

My dear Hermes,

Sadly I can harly see this evening. But thank you for sending me the name of the God with the winged feet. This is a interesting pictorial representation of what I imagined your looked like.!!

Interesting and strange is it not, that the majority of the gods were male -except of course Venus. !

I must go and rest my eyes.

Go well and thank you again for all your help.

Christiane
Alsoran2