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

Yeah, you can see the stars out there really good when there's no cloud cover. Not too many neighbours, and they're up on a hill.

They also get lightning and mini-tornadoes.

The only chance of seeing the stars etc here are at our coast 70 mile away as the crow flies and one of my "many wishes" is to "see" the northern lights and the Milky Way ALL take the one thing I ain't got == many

I can't imagine how you can escape the light pollution in most parts of Europe. Just like American cities or suburbs. We can't see much in town - too many lights, and the houses aren't tall, but they're all together.It might be fun to climb the courthouse at midnight, if you were a rock climber.

Because "we" are in the north, all the meteor showers throughout the year, "we" miss because of cloud cover(industrialisation)
It's only when you are at our east coast do the skies clear as such.
I just wish that one day I will be able to see the expanse of our night sky - oh hum!

This I hope for you.

I've got to go now. Stay warm, sleep well!

Quiet day tomorrow.

A few year back, I bought a decent pair of binoculars and tripodto view the "heavens" but! the only clear skies we usually get are in the wintertime and I ain't sitting outside into the night freezing my ..... off

I hear you. If you light a fire, you'll mess with the darkness.

and IF I light a camp-fire, with my luck I'd burn parts of my anatomy off here we go gathering nuts in may (or December)

Can you sing in descant ?

Eh! I can't even sing in english

Good one.

I must go away and eat. This requires concentration, because I 'lost' a crown last evening at dinner - it isn't really lost, I have it in a baggie. The dentist won't be back until Monday, so I have to chew carefully.

So no more hard rolls.

Take care, see you!

a molar ? co's it can't be a incisor or canine

poly-filler is a cheap way

It's a molar. I've saved it. I think he can glue it back on.

I bet the pain of cost was worse than the tooth pain.

Old joke, that you can try of family/friends (they might have forgot it or not heard it ?)

What's the difference between an elephant and a letterbox ?

"I don't know ?"

It'd be all right asking YOU to post a letter then eh!

I've been messing around with the piano and keyboard. I'm still trying to get this old Tin Pan Alley tune right. It's called 'My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now'. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard.

Turns out the guy who wrote the music also wrote the tune to the 'Looney Tunes' cartoon intro.

My sisters went to an antique store and bought me a huge stack of ancient sheet music. This is going to be fun to go through.

'My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now' And I thought some "modern" had titles/lyrics

Depending how may tunes, you'll be in high heavenbecause I know that you'll play each and everyone

Yeah. I've already been working on 'Colonel Bogey' and 'Trees'. And this one.

Here's the famous tune this composer wrote. You'll know it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcVq9135EAA

'Colonel Bogey' I sing! "barracks! at top of Wakefield Road"
one of our main roadsand at the "top" there used to be an army barracks WWII changed to housing many years ago

OH! I remember mam/dad had some Brunswick records for their massive gramophone thingy (I was in single age numbers then)

They've got one at the farm. When we go to second-hand shops, we buy more records for the gramophone. Last year, I got them 'One Meatball' for Christmas.

Speaking of meatballs, I've got to go and eat now. Stay warm, sleep well!