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

hello there,

thanks for your help...i see you are an arty person..me too. when i get the time.. i was doing a ba in art and aesthetics in 1995 but left to have daughter.. i didn't like the course much as the philosophy part of it was a bit over my head...i'm a very down to earth person.. it just wasn't for me.

i intended to go back into education but alas didn't.. instead for last 7 yrs i've worked in a photo lab which satisfys a small part of my artistic nature....

i loved my foundation course though..what fun i had...
good luck with your degree..its much more specialised than the one i was doing...
would prince charles approve of your designs?

Prince Charles? No idea! It's safe to mention photography around me again, that course is over for the Semester

And it's never too late, we have retired architects and other retirees coming to lectures!

prince charles is very outspoken about modern architecture...has called some of it very derogatory terms....thats the royal family for you..they hate to move on except their behaviour bears no resemblance to old fashioned values...hypocrites they are.

funnily enough i hated the photography module too.. got my lowest mark for it 64% and here i am working in a photolab...ironic really.

its nothing like the college darkrooms though.. the machine does most of the readings itself, automatic...we just feed the machine with negs etc. very repetative work but we do have to check the prints for quality so you can imagine the sights i have seen

Oh yes - hundreds of nearly identical snaps of drunk people at parties and small children at the seashore, interspersed with a few pets

those are the usual ones and loads of student things such as puking, passed out in unusual places and mooning shots...then there are the porno ones...yikes

I still don't understand those of my peers who consider vomiting an art form...

And the porn people should just get a digital camera and a printer!

yeah they are very predictable [students] this time of year we've just had all the student balls.....my older daughter just graduated i've got some of her ball pics via the web site...she was wearing a tight dress for a change and not those awful baggy trousers..

I'm not much one for dresses either, in fact last time I wore one was my sister's graduation ball!

its very rare i wear a dress either.. i like all the hippy stuff coming back in.... takes me back to my childhood.

i love all the loose flowing tops to cover belly with

Well, I wear that kind of thing anyway as medieval dress, but I'm more of a jeans and a t-shirt person.

jeans and t shirt is always fine with me.... even at our wedding my husband wore jeans... [white shirt leather waistcoat and boots]
i didn't want any of the suits and big dresses thing...his family didn't really approve that i allowed that...but then my hubby was never a suit type of guy.......his best man dressed the same, but they were bikers back then

My favourite teachers showed us his wedding photos, they wore (very little) tie dye and married in a field of daffodils!

ohh in a field of daffodils...my hubbys favourite flower, and very associated with wales is the daffodill. i like bluebells myself could see myself married in a bluebell glade in a wood.

i did the church wedding 1st time round...it was horrible.. my 2nd wedding was much better... better groom for a start..for the dress code...there WAS no dress code, and the night do was held in the meeting room of the taff riders bike club..we had a mad dj who played rock music most of the night

mind you don't know if i could stand full blast rock music now...getting too old..

I don't like loud music that much, unless I'm the source But i do appreciate rock, much better than the cursing to the beat that seems to be the essence of modern "music"

so mal anyone special in your life...or are you just getting on with your studies...

Well, not much of anyone at the mo, mostly studying - no time for anything else!

probably the best really as relationships only confuse things...
my middle daughter has just graduated in drama and media studies halfway thru she found relationships were interfering with her work.. trouble is she always got so involved..and then ultimately hurt.

I asked my first boyfriend to marry me, and he said no, his mother wouldn't allow it

oh my god you are well out of that then....never..i say NEVER marry a mummys boy.............they are the worst...you will be in direct competition with the old bag mother in law the whole time..

i have no problem with a son loving and respecting his mother.. thats fine but when they allow mother to rule their relationships..ooohh no nasty...lucky escape for you there.

Well, we were both four years old