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

Yoou mean there's a difference between Dutch and Danish? It's all gouda and bacon to me from this side of the channel

What's a 'Mutt' It's colloquial fro a mongrol dog here, in an affectionate fashion.

Don't be sorry, Alexander. The blue lettering against a light green background is hard for me read, but the biggest problem is with my eyes.....

Anyway, maybe prof animal chaos will have a broken washing machine someday, and when he does, he'll have some options to consider.

Yes well I'm pretty stupid as regards anything the other side of the channel. Only ever been to Boulogne and was followed around by five fat ladies, accosted by an old chap who insisted he rescued me in the war and was deported for asking a girl what is 'une facon' ; all in five or six hours.

I got green lettering on a green background paul

My very special friend from Denmark, who is Danish. !!

I read the posting and I thought to nyself.

"Oh la! la!" There is going to be a bouhaha.

There was not because you are a dear sweet kind fellow.

I had a wonderful friend in Zim in the middle of the last century who was Danish. She was the most wonderful houswife and one could have eaten off the floor. Unfortunately she could not cook.

I, on the other am a lousy housewife, but I can cook. She had a dear English husband, ex Army who loved both a clean house and good cooking.

We toyed with the idea of both being his wives, and sharing the work.....but decided it might lead to complications.
So he continued having a clean house, and eating atrociously, and I continued having a untidy house and eating well......
There might be a moral but cannot think of it unless each of us must have either two or three specialisits to keep us happy...

CME
AR80

18/II/2010 18.00

nice, christiane

and good to have you back

as for posting 201: mongrel? oh yes. i am half danish, half german and half polish - the latter half accounts for my overweight

(to those who have heard it before: forgive me, but it had to be said again, apparently)

After all these years I have translated 'une facon' as 'one way' but it was the name over a sort of cafe

half + half +half well I'm three quarters english one third scottish and a fifth Polish with a bit of Saxon Viking and the rest thrown in.

That's why I drink a lot

you and me both, PAL

My ancestors came from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and probably France, but none of them ever expected anything like *me*.

Christiane, you may have been a poor housekeeper in your youth (though I suspect you are overly modest ), but that is no longer the case. Housekeeping is someone else's job now.

To be honest, I am a reasonably good cook and a terrible housekeeper. I will soon retire from the housekeeping but keep the cooking, as I see little chance of forgetting how to eat.

I'm not a good housekeeeper; I just don't care about housekeeping until I've got a bird interested. That don't happen anymore and if it did, shock horror.

I keep it clinically clean but nothing else, by the way IT IS SNOWING again.

So no buses tomorrow again, if isn't roadworks its snow. I can remember when I had a series one supercharged mid engined (bragging since it was only 250 hp and only did 8 miles to the gallon until I swapped the supercharger for HIF manifold) I was the only person able to get out of this place.

But now I have to walk.

If the people in your area get snow consistently, you might want to get some snowshoes.

I can't remember snow for ten years; I had a landrover from 1989-92 approximately and got rid of it because it was a money drain and continued to be so even after a new engine and all bits, chassis, custom exhaust, brakes, brake lines, clutch and is there anything else; you bet. That is why I got rid of it. Have you fitted series one landrover springs no, neither have garages, swivel pins, forget it they can't even get the wheels off. I had to do everything apart from the engine myself and even the engine fitting had to be designed and bits supplied by myself.

Lot of bother but great in snow and mud.

I had a four-wheel drive vehicle, but it was a tiny little thing that would fit in almost any parking space. It was a three-cylinder Subaru Justy with Electronic Continuously variable transmission. It could cruise easily at hihghway speeds, but get 40 miles per gallon. It had four doors and a hatchback. I kept it for 9 years, and have not found anything comparable since.

check out the audi's. built of aluminium and many of them four wheel driven

they cost a bundle, though

I only recently sold my venerable Audi I had it from 2 years old an Avant TDISE. We did over 300,000 miles together If that car could talk, it would have probably been in German anyway
It's still going strong the only things I had to change apart from the obvious tyres etc, was the hose that connected the intercooler to the turbo (It perished with age) at £66.00 + the VAT and the front wish bones, quite regularly for the latter, naughty Audi designers - the rest was impeccable.

300,000 miles. My Landrover used to get to the end of the street and that is about it.

Cor my street has turned into a red light district, I wondered why cars kept stopping but hardly ever go out after dark.

Time for a dinkies

Are there a lot of comely on your street?

I went out to replenish late last night and I heard one by a car parked too long say in a foreign accent 'it is £20' while the other was looking on from the side of the road. Plus they was too young and didn't have enough clothes on.

But I could be wrong.

Could they have been gypsies?