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

"Best" from Jan 1992. No, me neither. I think I was given it by a friend.

Fashion - well, at least it's wearable. Dungarees are back in fashion , but the rest looks OK. And nothing over 40 pounds (sterling).

Some legal advice and answers to questions on legal matters. Most of them common sense, but sometimes you wonder about people..... E.g., When dealing with tradesmen: "Ask for a receipt". "Get an estimate". Who *IS* this aimed at?

Now, what often stands out when reading 20 and 30-year-old magazines is that they are already noticing and drawing attention to problems which have in the meantime got out of hand as no one heeded them at the time. In this case - in 1992! - they are already warning about overburdened carers "Carers 'are close to cracking up'" and "Students are dropping out because of financial difficulties".

How to get on a game show - "We're not looking for an Einstein!" (That's why GB hasn't been called up yet: She's too good for them!)

Make-up tips: You can see the move away from the 1980's look.

On New Year's Resolutions: Tina Turner (looks amazing in the photo - despite still having her 80s hair. Come to think of it, she still has it today) - Anyway, she is into learning German to speak her boyfriend's language. What happened to him?

Bob Hoskins is trying to lose weight. Has stopped smoking and lost 2 stone.

Gary Player has changed to a harder mattress and feels better for it.

On the medical pages, Ayurvedic medicine seems to have just been discovered in the Western world.


Jonathan Ross has just had his first child.

Goldie Hawn - that is her real name! Whereas Woody Allen is really called Allen Stewart Koningberg. Clint Eastwood,Elvis Presley, Gina Lollobrigida and Dustin Hoffman are also the names on their birth certificates.

Top tens: British cats are called Sooty, Smokie, Brandy, Fluffy, British houses are called "The Bungalow", "The Cottage", "Rose Cottage", "The School House". In that order.

A handy tip that I have always done anyway: Buy stuff for next Christmas in the January clearance sales. Wrapping paper, decorations, spare bulbs for the tree lights. Trouble is, I always forget I have them and start again at the end of November.

Recipes for a New Year's Eve buffet. Not a melon and cocktail-stick-with-cheese hedgehog in sight!

"Home Alone" has just come out on video. As has Katharine Hepburn's autobiography as an audiobook read by her personally. (That woman has always fascinated me - as I say, I must be a closet celebrity-watcher)

My horoscope predicts "A surprise reunion in the autumn could fulfill all of your romantic aspirations". Autumn 1992? Ah yes, I remember it well.

Off to England this weekend, so I'll chuck out this mag, but tear out a couple of pages of stories in the middle to read on the plane.

It's a clever idea to have a horoscope that predicts something that is to happen nine months later. By then you'll have forgotten the prediction.

What no 'Dunroamin'? That's what I'd call my house, at least by this time of life. Such a cliché but I so want to do it Even though I'm not sure I'm done roaming.

Dungarees never went out of fashion here

I so have to go out, right now, and buy me a pair of Dungarees ! will anywhere still be selling them, in this centuary? home alone? just come out?! Oh! gosh... I suddenly feel so* old humm....... floral Dungarees woul dbe so me, no?

"Dunhitchin" would do for me.

" Tina Turner (looks amazing in the photo - despite still having her 80s hair. Come to think of it, she still has it today)" [TC]

I don't know whether she still makes public appearances or has retired. If the latter, then she can wear her hair any way she wants, and no one has the right to call her on it!