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

Great stuff on the Bohernabreena reservoirs! I never knew any of that, though it has been our autumn and winter walk for forty-six years.

I wonder is it necessary to use quotes in >the river was used to provide power for a number of 'mills' ?

Paper mills were powered by water everywhere (I have visited one in Switzerland that is still kept running). Most readers should be aware of the fact that corn mills were only one of the many kinds.

You're probably right; I don't need the quotes around mills.

But I think that most people won't know about mills being factories. "Trouble down at'mill" aside, people learn about windmills and watermills, but it is always in terms of grinding corn.

Aren't England's mills always dark and Satanic?

Sasha, if you're still there, you're probably right. There's no reason why I shouldn't put my entries in the Edited Guide as well as into Gnomon's Guide.

I'll have to keep two versions of each as the standards are slightly different, but it shouldn't be too much work. If the entries in Peer Review are ignored, I won't have lost anything and if they're picked I'll get to put pictures on both versions.

It'll also mean that I might get to beat Bluebottle's record for most entries in Peer Review, at least temporarily.

Go for it!

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That's a good idea to keep a different version as well, but put the information into Peer Review when possible too Hopefully it is the best of both worlds.

Thank you - I do my best to have a look at all your Entries, but I will have most time for the subjects I'm most interested in, I admit.

... which are Maths and Liverpool, no doubt.

Sounds a great idea!

One tip – stagger the entry over a few days, as if you add them all in one go, at least one or two will be ignored in the rush. That's what happened to all my entries.
Unless people just generally like ignoring my entries anyway, which is also a possibility…

(At first it is 'Yay! An article about the Beatles!' and 'Oh good! A second article about the Beatles!' after a while you get 'Oh please no! Not another article about the Beatles….<groan')

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Well, I like *writing* about Maths and Liverpool, amongst various other things, but I like *reading* about most things (including Maths and Liverpool) - Tolkien is a definite exception, though... I just about managed to finish the Hobbit, but it wasn't to my taste at all...

Hobbits require a special sauce in honor to taste good.

There's only one way to eat a brace of Hobbits. What you need is a few good taters. And coneys, of course...

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Did you know that the word coney was the common word for what we now called rabbit, but because it was pronounced "cunny", it allowed ample opportunity for crude jokes, so the Victorians discouraged its use.

Just as the Americans are now doing to the word cock, a male chicken.

Sasha, The Hobbit was quite a different style to Tolkien's other books, since it was intended for children. I'm not saying you'd like The Lord of the Rings, but it might be worth a try.

Ah, that's interesting. I was quite young when I read it, but I didn't like The Hobbit because it seemed to be very dark in that world, whereas CS Lewis's worlds were somehow brighter.

I'm reading for an Entry at the moment, but don't have anything specific lined up after that, so I might give LOTR a go...

Both Tolkien and Lewis were highly religious in their 'good vs evil' theme, but I found C S Lewis's books oppressively Church of England, while Tolkien was more pangothic...

Off topic, but still... from Tolkien's online biography: "... C. S. Lewis, who became one of Tolkien’s closest friends, and for whose return to Christianity Tolkien was at least partly responsible."

Tolkien's mother, plus himself and siblings, had converted to Catholicism when he was a child. I suppose 'pangothic' is a fair approximation. No, that's a joke. Gothicism was (according to Bertrand Russell) a more ecstatic opposition to the rationalism of the early Catholic Church. Sorry for the distraction, where were we?

Whereas Goths have become a music subgenre

To be the ultimate Goth you have to come from Anglesey, specifically Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogothgothgoth...

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In both Irish and Welsh, the island of Anglesey is called Mona, a good description of a Goth.