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

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Morning Miss Flori!!

Sleep well?

Hiya Hun

Slept too much, I think! Feel a bit braindead again today!

Or maybe I am just braindead!

Wish I'd slept a bit more!!

So how was your time at Lawside RC Academy and Robert Gordon Uni?? And do you know how many blinking Fiona Deans I had to go through - common as muck, you are!!!

I had a splendid time at both! You should improve your knowledge of Scottish geography!!! I'm the only one in Dundee!

I've had a little surf around, amazing what you can discover. Never knew you were classed as Dundonians, although I can't think what else you would all be, and I've even read The Courier, but its a bit of a boring rag!!

The thing that really gets me, is how loyal you all are to Dundee. No one will have a bad word said about it, although surprisingly, most people now seem to live in Australia, Canada and other far flung places, miles from Dundee!!!

Dundee is a stinking tip and the best place to be is away from it!!!! The well known saying bout it is that its a city that should have been a village! You get no outsiders moving in there and no passing traffic! Everybody knows everybody else and are all, dare i say, inbred!!!!

These people who miss it are living in a delusional world where everything is rosy! The people who really moan about it are the ones who never left! When I think bout all the people I went to school with who, 15 years later, are still going to the same pubs on a friday night with the same people and talking bout the same things......Arrrgh! For them, a weekend in Blackpool is the ultimate in seeing the world!

By the way, "The Tele" (The Dundee Evening Telegraph) is a better paper than the Courier!

Before I left home and moved here, I used to live in a village the other side of Norwich. There is a social club in the village, that I joined when I was 16. People I knew then, still go there, every night of the week, and have done for the last twenty years. They drink the same drinks, with the same boring people, staring at the same old walls and they cannot see that they have just let thier lives slip away. It's known as "wasters corner", very apt!!

Exactly the same as our local! But Dundee, even though it's a city has those same people in the "city bars!" So you get the people in the same bar as they've always been in only its turned into a Yates or a Wetherspoons! And they prolly didn't notice the renovations while they were sitting in the same corner they've been in since 1965!

I could go in any bar in Dundee and join in with the conversation like i'd never been away!

Man-magnet!! I said they'd all come running...

I'll not hold my breath!!!!

Bit of code for your PS!

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oooh, got swimmy fish! Thanks hun

I've got to go to an art gallery on Friday night. Lil sis is quite into photography and she gets some of the best shots printed on canvas and then framed. She's managed to get herself an exhibition slot at the gallery, and its a sort of opening night presentation, with wine and nibbles. All a bit cultured for me, but sounds like fun!!

Good for her, it's a hard business to get into! Very artistic, I'm impressed! I did a photography course while at uni and have a treasured black and white photo of a dripping tap!!!!!

Since then, I lose too many cameras so have given that up as a bad idea!

Culture doesn't hurt, you know! Next thing you'll be off to the ballet then the opera

I used to do quite a lot of photography when I was much younger. I was never very good at it, but I used to like all the toys. I converted my bedroom into a portrait studio, with back-drops, all the lighting, reflectors, flash umbrellas, you name it. And I used to do all the black and white processing, but I used to get moaned at for tying up the bathroom for hours at a time, but it was the only room in the house without any windows and of course it had water and sinks and all the stuff you need. The Studio was not a great success, I could never persuade any girls to model for me!!!

Why doesn't it surprise me that you only did it for the toys? <shakes head in resignation* And for the girly models

I used to do all my developing in the Uni's dark room! So much easier than in the bathroom.

I didn't JUST do it for the toys, I was genuinely interested in the craft, but the toys did help, and it was also a good excuse to buy the photography magazines, which were basically "top shelf", but perfectly legal to sell to a sixteen year old!!!

I practised all my lighting techniques on in-animate objects, such as bricks, in the vain hope that I would half know what I was doing if I ever did manage to find a model. I only ever got one, and she was a bit of a minger, but I was very shy and very clumsy at that age, and I couldn't think of what to say to her, bricks were easy, they did what you told them. So it all ended up a bit of a disaster and the pictures were carp as well!!!

Hence why I'm fond of my dripping tap photo! I spent about 3 days lying on the ground waiting for the perfect drip to hang on to the bottom of the tap for long enough to take the photo! It was an outside tap and got great brick tones in the background!!!!!(God we sound like s!

Never tried it with a live model, cos that's too hard