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

...that it's your birthday?

In that case, happy birthday!

If I interpreted your posting wrong, blame 2legs

It is indeed.



Blame 2legs anyway.

Oh, naturally. He does pine if you don't blame him often enough.

, or do you want to skip straight to the ?

Way ahead of ya'.



Should you have Winamp or VLC installed you can listen to me spinning some tunes here, should you be so inclined: http://213.229.86.7:8008/

I'm staying in with my cold, getting steadily drunk and broadcasting tunes to the internets.

Not the best birthday ever but far from the worst.

Singing along is proving to be quite painful though.

I just might have to go click on that link, since I'm only listening to the Red Elvises at the moment.

And I've also got a very annoying cold, but the closest I'm doing to getting drunk is putting advocaat on my chocolate pudding.

Hopefully, you'll get a chance to go party when you're feeling better!

I'm off to Glasgow at the weekend for the PCS Proud (PCS is the union of which I'm a member and rep, Proud the LGBT group within the union, for which I'm a regional rep) seminar this weekend.

There will be partying.

Advocaat? I'm liking the retro stylings!

A union seminar is partying?

It's never *really* gone out of fashion here.

You ain't seen our seminars.

Actually, it's only the evenings that are the partying bit but we do tend to go for it somewhat.

Speaking of fashion: do you eat prawn cocktail for a starter?

Have fun, then!

Prawn cocktail? I presume that involves prawns, so no.

Ah, fair point!

It's still the starter of choice at my folks' place.

They've managed to move on from the Blue Nun though.

It must be either an English thing, or before my time, because I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. Sorry.

Dodgy 70s white wine (Liebfraumilch I think.)

'Twas very popular at the time.

Possibly not in Germany.

We were English folk abroad.

Ah, right, Liebfrauenmilch I know. I didn't know anyone ever actually drank it.

It was the 70s.

Actually, I used to drink it in the late 80s. It was cheap and got me piddled. Practicality overruled taste.

Ah, that must've been before the wine in tetrapacks days.

Indeed it was. It made Broadstairs seafront a lot more fun though.

£1.69 a bottle.

*hic*

I bet it made Broadstairs seafront more littered, too...

I'd like to think that we were good boys and properly disposed of the bottles.



I'd *like* to think that.

I'm sure somebody is now happy about the sea glass they found

That's a mark of how considerate we were.

If only I'd known at the time that I was leaving a legacy for the future I'd have turned it in to a school project.