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

Miss you, Kes.

Long time no hear! Missed you around the place, Zax. Welcome back. I'll be off-line and off to Arizona for a week and a half. Hope to CU when I get back.

did you have fun in arizona? hope all's been well with you. i came by again to get another copy of my poem. had to stop in and say hi!

how's h2g2 doing these years?

Hi Zax,
Yes, we had a great time. I had not been there before, so we did all the tourist stuff (Grand Canyon, Sedona, old missions, etc) and then thoroughly enjoyed my step-son's wedding. Since then it has been back to rainy England. All around us was flooded, but we live in a town on a hill top, so we were dry-footed, with interesting views.

h2g2 seems to be quiet (at least in the forums I post in), but sone stalwarts are keeping things moving along.

How's things with you? BIG HUG in the meantime.

hi again, kes! post holiday pause there. Hope you had a good winter season?

things here have been moving along. i have been dealing with one situation after another, and the recent traffic jam when they all piled up was enough to make me very... stressed! HOWEVER, things are starting to smooth out, and i'm dealing with everything one at a time, so with any luck, next month will see it all settled.

I developed a mysterious numbness on one side of my face about 5 months ago- all ct scans and mri are clear, and no one has any clue. then i got back into clases at the college here (hope to finish soon, since i'm 15 yrs late!) and my cat was diagnosed with a never-before-seen type of cancer in his EYE of all places. just a lot at once, but it's going to all turn out fine, i'm certain!

so im' in classes, and i'm working on a degree that will combine history, museum science, and botany. i know it sounds strange, perhaps, but i'm interested in doing research into the ethnobotany of the Anglo-Saxons, Norse, and Celts- specifically during the Viking age. strange, eh?

i suppose i COULD trace it all back to YOU, Kes. that willow tree poem all those years ago sparked a long-burning interest in plants as symbols, which morphed into an interest in plants in every-day life- how they were used and what they meant to people.

weird, eh? but i just feel like a kid in a candy store- finding out one bit of info after another, making connections, and following a trail like a bloodhound on a scent! it seems bizarre to me! but i'm loving it!

anyway, i'm about to head off to work (the job that pays the bills) so i hope to pop by again in the not-so-distant future!
Hugs, and hope you stay safe and dry!
~Z

Hi! Great to hear from you. I'm glad you are enjoying your new studies after a busy and stressful patch. Plants (etc) as cultural symbols are interesting. Round where we live there is a long tradition of part human, part plant creatures - Green Men, Woodwoses, and so on. I don't know how it ties in to Anglo-Saxon & Danish culture though. We live right on (what was) the front line in the 700's - the boundary between Wessex (Anglo-Saxon) and Mercia (Danish with puppet local king). The first king of all England (Athelstan - Alfred's grandson) is buried in our town. I'd love to know more about how folk related to plants.
Keep well!