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

I hope my post doesn't upset you. I actually came over to see how you are, having heard on the bush telegraph that you were confined to barracks, as it were. Your name got bandied around a lot more than I thought was necessary (I bandied it elsewhere when push came to shove, sorry about that I do wish I'd learn to button it - it shouldn't come down to personalities)

I think that you can disrupt threads, I don't know how much of it is intentional, winding people up, playfulness but I think what is obvious is that at times a lot of people have a lot of trouble working out if you're joking or not. I know you thin it takes something away from the post, but a can work wonders.

I finally got into PR a week or two back and read your caddis fly entry. Way back when I was a fit young thing, fencing was my sport. One of the girls from one of the other schools was a tall, skinny langy thing - and her boyfriend called her Caddis because he thought she looked like the fly when she was en guard. I was too lazy back then to look them up but now I've got a better idea

Do you plan some more entries? I think you like being on h2g2 and I think we need more people to write entries, and that Caddis Fly one is written with a different approach to a lot of other entries and I think a couple more in that vein (or whatever vein you like) would be good.

For what it's worth, driving home (a flippin' hour in horrible traffiyc) I was thinking, as I think I mentioned to anhanga earlier, I wonder if the site would be helped more if people would yikes more. No ideas about that - it might help though.

Anyway - I hope that the bandying and nastiness doesn't bring you too down. It's a website and it's not worth it, but I have experienced nasty internet stuff in the past and I know it can't just be shrugged off.

And now I'm going to do what I should be doing and not hanging around the interweb.

I'm not reading your last post I decided. I won't that ASK thing anymore.

I got into some practice since I came back of not reading a lot of posts...

Yes I'm a difficult so and so. I don't deny it. But I truly do essentially have a heart of gold..but if someone is vicious and nasty I want my pound of flesh sooner or later.

I do like you Sho...but I am an acquired taste..and yes half the time I don't know if I'm serious or joking..that's normal banter with people I mix with.

And some people here don't have a problem with that..but quite a few are now gone, like blicky..ages ago, tarrantoes, Taff...2legs is 'gone' for now with his grand passion..

I think maybe that works much better in real life because you get to see the body language..the dancing wicked eyes..the supressed grin..all the hand movements I do I'm told I'm quite continental...I think I'm just old English..anhaga likes that

It's so nice you came by though.


And I'm feeling happy as i just had a good long natter with another neighbour across the road I like so much...and she seems to like me.

I don't remember the last time I was quoted in a convo, Effers,


Sho, there are lots of people here who have "made me cross, laugh, angry, laugh, and then just flippin' exasperated" over the years. I just keep reminding myself that they are represented here by letters on a screen, pixels on the page and their own special driving force that can only be understood by knowing their entire lifetime. Which of course is still another impossible thing.

Here's to the weekend and healthy happy people.

And if I ever start to feel settled down again here I'd like to write some more stuff for the Guide.

(But that running sore really is a problem I can't deny it..and it hurts both of us..it's very complex because my way is always to talk through something..and hers in this case is not. And it's not as if I'm expecting things to ever go back. But some resolution needs to be found.

She's perfectly happy with resolution she got from not talking...or just talking a bit and abruptly stopping. It's the opposite for me..so there is zero compromise going on.

And I will no longer talk to her 'second'.)

zoomer. You one of the best.

It wasn't a bad post, just long and waffly...

It seems like a lot of people have gone, but a lot of people have come back too, which is good.

I think we could get on pretty well if we don't wind each other up.

You seem a lot more perky now - the chat with your neighbour must have been good. I don't know any of my neighbours - typical German village, just about everyone has lived here forever and since I'm out at work all the time I never meat them apart from the totally batty old dear on the end of our row who is always looking for her cats.
arrived with my dinner. Yum

'I don't know any of my neighbours'




I can't imagine anything more horrible than not knowing one's neighbours (actually, I can imagine more horrible things, but not in the normal neighbourhood sense)



'I'm out at work all the time'


*all* the time? None of my neighbours are out at work *all* the time. That sounds about as bad as not knowing one's neighbours.

Yesterday one neighbour suddenly showed up with a huge bunch of balloons for my daughter because she was going to be out of town and wouldn't be able to be at the birthday party tomorrow. And, as I mentioned somewhere, a former neighbour who now lives way on the other side of the city dropped in for a surprise visit last night. Neither of them *had* to do what they did, but doing it is part of being a community, I think. It takes effort to have good neighbours, and it is certainly worth the effort, I think.

That having been said, an online community is a pale and sometimes grotesquely distorted imitation of the real thing, I think.

we moved here when my girls were tiny, but we had both gone back to work. I get home, generally between 8 and 9pm having left the house at 6:45 (it's a long commute)

Weekends are full of all the stuff I can't do during the week, plus on the occasional evening I have school functions (I'm on 2 PTAs and am the parent's rep for each of the Gruesomes' classes, plus I'm the parent rep for 8 different subjects - english in both schools, physics & chemistry, politics, philosophy and something else... er, probably maths - divided between them)

I'm also in the middle of an OU degree, plus I run and go to the gym... to be honest, I'd not manage to fit contact with the neighbours in

In other words, I'm an anti-social sad-sack

having said all that - I am a good neighbour and we cut the grass, trim the hedges and clear the snow for our neighbours who can't do that for themselves. I also collect groceries for some of them, and if we're going into town and there are people at the bus stop, we drop them off (no weekend bus service but everyone tends to do that)

when I come home I drive past the bus stop at the station and bring anyone back who needs it. We also join in other village stuff, time allowing.

Still, I am a complete reclusive sad-git