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

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Visiting. I can sleep better there. And I want back to my room.

I've never heard of anybody being homesick for a room. But maybe I'm just weird.

We moved a fair amount when I was growing up, so I wasn't attached to a place that much.

no, I am just weird I guess, I get very attached to places. I am also still sad about the house of my relatives whee we always staysd on holidays. I have to cry every time we visit them. My aunt has *modernised* it, which means destroyed it completely.

That's a shame.

I remember the houses where my grandparents lived. Both were special because of all the little things, smells, etc.

Also the beautiful old house where my piano teacher lived.

This one was an old farm house. Outside one part was thatched with wood, the other was white painted (and plastered) stone. A big rosebush was growing next to the entrance and at the other side there was a wooden bench.

Quite cold in winter but also very interesting. It still had an earth cellar and the old kitchen for open fire still existed, it had completely black walls. We also didn't have an electric stove but an iron stove for wood. There was no electric heating at all. We also had no sink in the kitchen but a water tap with a bucket underneath. In the 'Stube' there was a long bench all around the room, which is also a common thing and the walls were planked with wood (vertically) with thinner parts of wood to fill the gaps between the boards. There was a big green and white door with an also very big old key. In winter we hung a blanket inside of the door so the wind didn't come through.
A quite steep wooden staircase led upstairs to a quite big but dark room. All kinds of old things were there. An old painted trunk and stuff from the farm like Kummets and an old birdcage and many other things. And a chimney was going almost horizontally trough the room.

Opposite of the stairs was the entrance to my grandparents rooms, that was the stone part of the house. They had a small living room with a table and chairs and a bedroom. Granny had a Waschtisch as decoration.

We lived in the wooden part, my parents and I shared a room. It had redish wooden floorboards that creaked when you walked and next to the door there was a small iron oven to heat. I was sleeping in the back, parted from my parents with a curtain. There was an old painted wardrobe and my bed was old and painted too.
Next to this room was also a small guestroom at the north side of the house, it had three beds, two of them also old and painted. But it was too cold in winter, I think there was no oven.

And then there were the stairs to the attik. You could hear martens playing and fighting up there at night and in summer there were always wasps living in it. It was really big and had a balcony with a quite wobbly railing looking out to the orchard and the vegetable garden. I was often playing up there when I was not so small anymore.

It was really a great house.

That sounds wonderful.

One of my favourite houses was the one my great-aunt and -uncles lived in. It was in Mississippi, which is very hot.

It was made of wood. No paint.

In the summer, all the windows were nothing but screens.

It had two rooms, but they were open-plan. There was a tiny kitchen in the back.

There was no running water except for a pump in the yard. There was a wooden outhouse for a toilet.

And all the doors (screen doors) had old thread spools on a nail for doorknobs. When we were kids, we thought the house was .

Oh, and we had this huge red pot for warm water constantly standing on the stove. In the bathroom we had a small boiler.

Oh, . I remember those boilers. I thought they were interesting, because we didn't have them in the US.

For me as a kid it was an adventure. there were many cats and cows and the forest started about 50m behind the house up the hill. We even only had a black and white TV until it was finally kaputt. Not even a telephone, we had to go to my relatives for that.

I like being out in the country like that.

My grandparents had a telephone, but it was a party line. And we had to unplug the tv if it rained, because the antenna was on top of the mountain.

But cows, pigs, chickens, horses...lots to see, also wildlife. And a hickory tree, about 100 ft tall...

wow, that's big

Our antenna was a small one standing on the TV set

We had those, too, when I was a kid. They were called 'rabbit ears'. What did you call them in German?

I think it's just Zimmerantenne. Nothing exciting. I don't know if there's a different name.

How uninventive.

Have you ever seen 'My Favourite Martian'?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1499109376/tt0056775

I've heard about it but I don't think I've seen it.

I tried to find it on Youtube and archive.org, but no luck.

You would enjoy it - it's a very old series, but still witty. Uncle Martin is a very sarcastic Martian. He makes fun of Americans in the 1960s.

Sounds interesting!

I have to go to bed, good night

Elektra is going to put some anise water on the stove. She made tzatziki, and all I can smell is garlic...

Good night, sleep well!

hi

I'm going home this afternoon. But unfortunately my rash got worse yesterday.
I want to go on writing entries but somehow my brain just doesn't do it with these pills.

Have a good visit at home. I hope your rash gets better.

I wrote a guide entry: A87720933

You might enjoy the song. You can tell me what you think we need for an illustration. I'll hunt for pictures from archives.