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

James Clavell doesn't ring a bell, no.

I'm frustrated because i don't dare shoving any discs with my stories into this pc, had a worm yesterday, seems gone, but you never know.

I enjoyed his novels immensely....noble house...shogun...Tai pan to name a few....in fact at one stage Noble house literally had me sitting on the edge of my seat!!!!....

sounds a bit scary hun...best to make absolutely sure first...or go and make some reserve backups.

Shogun, now you're talking! Long time ago, but i remember it was terrific. Must read it again. Thanks for tip.

great read...but the others kinda interlink with the story although it really moves onto hong Kong...i think it is Tai Pan then king rat then Noble house....check it though , its been a while since i read them...great reads all of them.

i'll read Shogun again first ... remember it sort of vaguely but favourably

Do you write poems sometimes? I don't really like poems, except ballades, Schiller's and Poe's and Byron's ... but i keep ending up writing them, sort of accidentally.

not really delicia...i have written one or two over the years...normally if i have been sad for some reason.

Hm, i'm wrestling with one right now. It was meant to be prose really, but the lines sort of popped up in places, and now the thing is there, with a strange mixture of metres. It's on my frontpage, btw.
Oh well same may happen to you yet, once you get going with your writing,

Ok...i'll go through and read it. maybe, i certainly enjoyed the product of the couple that i have written.

If you do, tell what you think, honestly mind, i'm past the stage when i need flattery. You can't be worse than my editor, now she is a master of scathing remarks.

You said you had land in the Transvaal, was it? Is anyone working it? Just asking.

Thats me Hun...if i cannot speak the truth i don't speak...will read it in a bit.

Gauteng...no longer Transvaal...bit like calling Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

No it is a coupls of acres at the northern tip of Joburgs suburbs.

Gauteng of course! uh oh, un-pc, have i been? tsk, tsk. I haven't been up there much, just to Roodeplaat where the agricultural institute is, and once i did one of my largish tours north, up to the Zimbawean border. It was the time when that purple tree flowered, what was the name please? i hate it to forget names. And i couldn't believe the baobabs and the fever trees.

Jacaranda! Got it at last.

Jacaranda! Got it at last.

Pretoria is a great place for the jacarandas...avenues of them...it is actually called the jacaranda city. Some of those baobabs are quite astounding ..hey?....but all of them...fever trees..giant figs...various thorn trees...i love it. Some of the flowers too....especially up north there or places like Nelspruit.

Hi hun...i couild not find the prose...what is the title and where is it exactly.

Is the kitten you or your pet?...it has been said that dogs think they are human , but cats think they are God!!

it's in me journal, the very first entry.

Yes the plants, be it trees or the fynbos, and all those different landscapes, i love to remember them. And i learned a lot in SA, about humans.

SA can be like that...one can learn a lot about themselves too...and the world we live in, especially if having come from Europe. Somehow, over there it is easier to see the world for what it really is, everything seems clearer.

east - west...who was pasha...a lover?...i need to read it again.

well the east-west thing is another and entirely different axis going through humanity, the whole subject might be strange to you

Not strange to me, although i may not be as informed as you are. Just trying to understand where you stand in regards to it...what is your perspective...where exactly on the axis are you.

East, every time. Sould have been clear from the Dancing between worlds ditty. I'm East German, see.