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

Sympathetic to your plight To many "grown-ups" aren't nice to each other!!

Myself, I'm half-un-half (as it were) ie living near a (medium) town and out(ish) in the country. Was living in a city for 15 years and it eventually caught me up

I love nature and am wondering what it's like for you at night. Are there many noises? Is it "scary" at times? Do you spend much time out at night? Once lived at a place where many bugs un creepiecrawlies used it as a thoroughfare! It was fantastic
Do you have a garden?

Yours being nosy
Yamshark

PS. Here's to your future

I have a garden but also LAND, Sky and tons of space. The 'do you spend much time out at night' sounds a weird question BUT perhaps you meant 'do you spend time outside at night'? There are no town lights within any sort of distance so there is just a huge black canopy full of millions and millions of stars, constellations, planets - whatever. No it isn't scary - at least nothing in nature scares. During the year there are visitors such as wild boar; badgers; foxes; serpents; hedgehogs; pine-martens; weasels; as well as an insect and bird life )and butterflies, bats and moths)which makes one feel as if one is living amongst a multitude. Therefore, never lonely. Thanks for asking. Hope you are finding some respite from city life. Thanks for the wishes. 'Moving Rivers'

Didn't mean to sound wierd - soz

Wild boars? What country you in then?

Starry nights are fantastic. That's the first thing I noticed moving from the city. No (at least very little) light pollution.

I can also understand why "hippies" say "hug a tree man". Just do it and feel nice is what I say.

Haven't hugged a tree recently but I did go on one of those ghastly (expensive) New Age type Stress management courses where we were blindfolded (weird stuff) and had to find a tree (not too difficult when you crash into one)hug it, and then later, blindfolds removed, we were supposed to 'find' our tree again... I'm in europe now, much healthier. And I plant trees - mainly fruit and the Jays plant the oaks.

Sorry about the hug a tree bit seeing as you forced through that experience.

Good on yer for planting trees. And the Jays will supply a great flash of colour at times.

You're a lucky bleeder

Yours jealously (in a nice way)

Yam