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

Hah, yes.

You know those random scenes or phrases that appear, for no apparent reason, somewhere between sleep and waking?

Well, this morning, in one of these strange states, I was visited by a fellow in a long coat who said I was to meet him near the Alphabet Muse Stones. He didn't really give much else away. A map, or a translation would have been useful. Or even a coffee.



Later, in my mind's eye, I imagined vast stones with strange alphabets carved into them. An alphabet henge. Kind of a beautiful scene, in fact, so I wrote Alphabet Muse Stones in my notebook and doodled some odd looking letters, which meant nothing at all, except I liked the design.

Then a few hours later I read FWR's ending, about Thor's Stone and the carved initials. Funny thing, the Collective Unconscious. heheh.

The folds in the curtains.

Oh, I've run out of time.

The folds in the curtains will have to wait.

Do I hear sighs of relief????

hurrumph.

Ancient messages carved in stones, awaiting someone who could decipher them. In 1799, Napoleon's army engineers discovered the Rosetta stone in Memphis, Egypt.

here's a link to the edited guide article:
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[Nowadays, Rosetta stone is the name of a company that provides language learning materials]

Mayan inscriptions: A87824839

And now there are dream runes?

Good luck with those!

Wowzum! What about that?! The Rosetta Stone! And Number Systems Through The Ages. How incredibly amazing. Thanks for links, paul!

Dream runes. I like it. Dream runes. mmmm yes!

As I lose some of my other strengths, I can still find links if people want them. Please forgive me if I give links when people didn't want them. You can always ignore them.

Morning all!

Heheh its good, links make me think, and add aspects and textures to the manic organic ever changing shape that is my sensory collage. heheh.

Manic Organic, I just remembered it, the name of a cafe at Glastonbury Festival.



I had an amazing dream the other night.

Parcels were appearing in my life, an online shopping situation. At first there was a regular invoice in with the contents, the one you send back with a return.

As I opened an increasing amount of parcels (I can't remember any of the contents) I noticed that the invoices were turning into crumpled pieces of paper, with extraordinary messages written on them, poems, or sayings, tiny stories, inspiring magical messages.

They appeared to be communications from a variety of sources.

I can't remember any of these messages either , but I knew, upon waking, that the point of the dream was magical communication.

It was kind of like online shopping, mixed with an h2g2 soul.

I've submitted an entry on Coneflowers/Echinacea to peer review. Any errors or infelicitous expressions will be discovered.

Echinacea! I had a jar of echinacea honey once, it was lovely!

Peer Review eh? Well done! I never go to Peer Review, I'm not qualified to venture.

I admire the work of those who do go there, and want to offer cupcakes, blueberries, frankincense and myrhh.



However, I think I'm evolving, slowly and merrily, with my stripes and pink hooves. I used words for an entire month with the Hey Jo project I did here in November, to see how long it would be before I felt like an x-ray.

Its been a few weeks on now and I still don't feel like an x-ray. In fact I even emailed copies to people and they hope I will be able to go on trains again next year.

I wonder did they mean so that I could travel greet my fans? Or maybe they meant just randomly go on trains. Like, cheerio then! What??



If I don't see you before, I hope you all have as best a holiday season as possible, in the circumstances.



Take care all

I've been a busy beaver. After the Coneflower entry, I wrote one on Dwarf Alberta Spruces, and have started one on Common Juniper. The birds always seem to drop juniper berries beside my trailer, and they sprout.

That's amazing, to watch the juniper berries sprout!

Greets all! Here we are in 2021! At time of ... well, who knows.



We are now a vaccination-nation, dealing with a national crisis over Christmas, involoving The Variant, and now back in lockdown.

Living even more simply than before, keeping creative, and seeing a lot of my room through various inner and outer light effects.

Hey Jo(urnal)

I know I know its not November 2020 now, but I'm grateful for that h2g2 NoJoPoMo discipline, because I've continued Hey Jo every single day in my (paper) journal, and continue to do so.

Then I translate my pieces to beats. I've worked out new beats including vocals on every synth device I own.

If lockdown ever ends, I may never leave my room. I'm used to living this way now. Who will I be?

Right now I feel like spaghetti. I don't know why. Its OK to feel like spaghetti. I think the feeling has potential. Every two days I pour bolognese sauce on my head.

I don't know why I said that. Hey h2gtwooo, I like to have a laugh with youuuu.



True to my vocation, I used words used as a rather peculiar healing art over Christmas. A young relative couldn't get to her family home for Christmas, first time ever, so we did an email writing group to cheer ourselves up, poor kid, she got us .

In fact we had a great time, we became characters all meeting on a fictional online writing site.

I became a psychic lady who spoke to a Spirit Guide named Rupert, and had a few dealings concerning a diamond lizard brooch, and a trumpet player who had sold his soul to a spiced crawfish.

All perfectly normal really. The other two characters were even more peculiar than mine.

Bye Jo(urnal). I be in again later.

Trumpet player? Spiced crawfish?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5MNK0_X_Q

Greetings cactuscafe

Glad you're keeping creative and getting on OK on Planet Orange Sofa. Similar here on Planet Purple Sofa - I found The Joy of Painting on the BBC so I've been learning to work with acrylic paints A88005882

Great keeping in touch via text form, too - the e-mail writing group sounds excellent for you and your relative

I bought some Sugar/Honey Puffs in your honour so I've been enjoying them for second breakfast when I'm at work (working from home). They do go soggy in milk, so that's why I just eat them dry like popcorn! Food texture is important as well as taste and smell I like Spaghetti Bolognese, too

As a night snack, I put a couple scoops of breakfast cereal in milk along with some dried fruit and nuts.

Hi CC, it's good to see you back here again. Hi Sasha, Paulh.

CC, I have a feeling we both wrote stories about a diamond lizard brooch. I suppose we've been hanging out here for so long, we've written about all sorts of things, from avocado trees to zebra crossings. If we mixed them up we'd produce something really odd.

No sugar puffs for breakfast here in my house. We have home made bread with home made jams or marmalade. My husband makes sourdough bread, which takes ages. He did once get up in the middle of the night to bake his sourdough!

In the early part of "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry, he main character gets up very early to bake the sourdough biscuits because it's too hot for that any other time.

Evening all!

Ah, the blessed Louis himself! Thanks paul! How amazing.

And a much deeper consideration of New Orleans than my story, where the trumpet player wrote a wrote a hallucinatory novel brought on by the aforementioned crawfish.

It became a cult classic, the novel that is, not the crawfish, although having said that, the fish was the protagonist, so it did become famous in its own right.

Well, glad I've sorted that one then. I think I'll find the scripts from the fictional Christmas writing group, and write a sequel. No! No! say those who knew the first bit.

Hullo Sasha!!

This is fine news from the Sugar Puff Galaxy!

I think FWR is the Keeper of the Sugar Puff Kingdom, it was all his fault. What was? That we got onto the subject, because he eats them all the time.

I think I like them soggy in milk, but you know what, its a good plan to make them into a popcorn type snack.

(Adds them to list). I'm still living on my lockdown specials, namely cream crackers, Spanish brandy and bourneville chocolate. Plus some healthy things in between. Like steamed cauliflower. And blueberries.



Greetings from Planet Orange Sofa, to Planet Purple Sofa!!!

You know what? Ohmigod! Planet Orange Sofa is now a legend, immortalised on film, because I've moved Planets.

I'm now on Planet Moonchair from Millets.

What??? Yes, the Orange Sofa went to live in Cornwall last summer, with the niece of Christmas writing group fame. So its still in the family. I'll see it if I ever get there again.

When I leave my Room with the Almost-Tulip design curtains.

What??

Laters for further update on the Almost-Tulip.

Hope you're doing OK me luv, in these strange and varied days of The Variant.

The Joy of Painting!!!! Bob Ross? We discovered this amazing programme recently, also!! Now we talk about a Bob Ross sky, and a Bob Ross light effect.

You're working with acrylics?? How incredible. Will post this before checking link, because my laptop is going peculiar and keeps eating its pages and its words.

What is it with laptops? One update and it goes mental.

I need a new laptop. I've had this one since 2002. It whirrs a lot, and goes hot.

How to know which Windows laptop to get? Mid budget, don't need fancy features. Probably get one of those cool looking slim ones I've seen them online. Mine is so old it has a CD compartment. I'll miss that.

Ooooh Sasha, how amazing, you're actually doing the Bob Ross painting lessons!!! I'm impressed indeed! They look great!

mmmm nice night snack, paul. How late do you eat this?

Does it affect our dreams, what we eat just before sleep?

Hullo mvp!!!

Really???? We wrote stories about a diamond lizard brooch? So I returned to the theme without realising. My mother had a lizard brooch, so that must be the connection. Hers didn't have diamonds in it though.

Heheheh, we should mix up our stories, we'd have a surreal masterwork.

Avocado trees? Was I there for that one?

The diamond lizard sat in a high branch of the avocado tree.

Can you access a quick link to your lizard brooch story? I could look for mine, but it might make me go peculiar, especially if its as awful as my white worm story. Remember the white worm stories??

Now that really is very dedicated and disciplined, to get up in the middle of the night to bake a sourdough loaf. heheh. What a well trained husband you have.

We always buy sourdough bread, I don't know what it is, in fact, sourdough .. what is sourdough? Its very tasty. Seems lighter than other type dough.