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

Blimey, i saw this appear and that do what.

Then i realised that it was from you

Nope i am still here, but going in a mo, i am the taxi driver for many tonight, but i dont mind, it keeps them off the road.

Life is all good here, and seriously thanks for asking, sometimes i forget all the probs that i went through and came out the otherside to see, it reminds me of how good life is

Hope you are well and living life to the full.

Have a great evening and enjoy.

We must chat in the new year, hope you agree

All the best

Look forward to it

Drive safely

Well here we are in 2007, time to start all these months again

Did you have a good new years eve 'whatever you did' thingy.

Ours was ok, a bit boring, i did my driving bit and my drunken friends offered me money thinking i was a pro taxi driver, i told them this on is on the house

Why is it that drunken friends are such a bore when we are sober, but such a great laugh when we are drunk.

I had a 'dry' new year at home with the child, so it was peaceful and quiet.

Sad to say I've got to go back to work tomorrow and I'm still in lazy mode.

You were daft about the taxi bit, you could have made a fortune.

I dont know, i find them funnier when i am sober, cause i can remind them the next morning

I dodnt mind one bit about being the taxi geezer, at least i knew they were safely at home, what they got up to after that, who knows

Well, with the kid and all I spend most of my free time taxiing, so I know what you mean.

When my brother gets a skinful he goes all misty eyed about his childhood, and it cracks me up - he'll say 'Do you remember the day when ......' and I say 'I can hardly in forget it you talk about it every time you're drunk'.

At least he's not a fighter.

So, how's work treating you at the moment - not too busy I hope, are you still counselling.

Some of my mates get aggressive with drink, but i always laughed and laughed when i drunk, have something to eat, probably a kebab or curry and within 5 minutes i would be asleep

Work is going good, and yep i am still a counsellor, funny though is that this is the quietest time of the year, its not until about March that they realise they have a problem

What do you do? and have maybe asked before, where do you live

Re: counselling - I expect your clients are like dieters or anyone going to give up anything - have to get that last big blow out first, then think about it.

I'm in Northern Ireland, and still working for the health service - such as it is. Big changes over here with the amalgamation of a lot of small Trusts into 5 biiiig ones. I'm nothing as fancy as a or , but manage the admin for the specialist nursing teams (heart failure, copd, palliative, diabetes, tissue viability, phlebotomists, continence and private nursing homes) - interesting, stressful and very tiring, but hey, someone has to let the know what she should be doing, where and to whom.

We've recently piloted a scheme to take nursing staff out to the masses in the pubs & clubs, to reach the disenfranchised who don't attend their GPs etc, do you ever take your business out on the road It might be an idea when business is slow.

Do you enjoy your job then, it sounds like you are puppeteer guiding the unknown into the unknown

I dont think going to the masses with my line of work in pubs and clubs would work, i would probably get the shite kicked out of me

I do enjoy my job Bov, as much as I can given that if I've won the lottery tonight -(must check those numbers) I won't be going back to it next week.

I see your point about taking your message around the pubs and clubs - perhaps you'd be better hitting the emergency rooms the following morning. There you could pick up all the folks who are awakening to the dangers of alcohol.

If I were you I'd take the good of the slow period, I expect you are very stressed when business picks up.

I dont tend to get stressed anymore since i gave up drinking and had the op and this and that, i look at life so differently now and enjoy it even when i am working

The slow periods at work are nice as i just chill out with the wife during the day going places and things, plus more time with the kids, well kids maybe not, as they are 19,16 and 13, so really they are devils in disguise, i am sure of it

Now Bov, you know that's one of the first rules of parenting, we never stop being parents and our kids are always kids even when they're 40 ...... ok so if we live long enough the roles reverse a little, but I realised when they handed me my baby ......... Oh God, the rest of my life is sorted now.

I can remember wondering why my Mum would wait up for me coming home (when I was in my late teens and early twenties) and used to think - Why doesn't she just go to bed? When my daughter arrived ll years ago I knew I'll not be able to sleep until she's safely home.

Now, you have 3 children, and all three of them at very 'special' ages, and you claim to have no stress.

A little brush with the medical fraternity soon puts our lives in perspective doesn't it. I lost a very good friend in August - very quickly to cancer - and I still can't really believe it.

I'm a great believer in tomorrow may never come, so live life for today. This means of course that I have no savings worth talking about (no pockets in shrouds), my house is a mess (the house will be here when I'm not), and I'm always happy (sure it could be worse - we could all be dead).

I'm enjoying getting older - the alternative sucks.

Nah, they dont stress me in that way, the only time a get fretful is like(last night for instance) the daughter goes out, and i know she has a key and i know where she is, but come around midnight its like, is she ok, emm what time is she coming back, what if anything has happened and she cant get hold of me, so i end up not sleeping and ringing her at about 12:30am......she ok, she at the same place that i knew she would be.

Then she says what are you still doing up....oh i was just watching something on telly, erm i didnt feel tired yet, erm the dog wanted to go out for a wee...by then of course i cant really sleep until i hear the key in the door, then its

Great line from an AC/DC song "forget about tomorrow, take it today, forget about the cheque, we'll get hell to pay"

I love that

I used to think daughters must be the biggest worry, and I'm not looking forward to when my girl gets old enough to go out into the big bad world with her chums. But, I now think boys are as much of a headache really - there's plenty of trouble for them to find out there too.

I'm glad you're not finding it too stressful.

I often wonder what The Who think about their lyric - 'I hope I die before I get old' now that they are old.

I will worry about the boys when the time comes, although the 16 year old is at that 'do what' age, he took a girl to the cinema on saturday and took a different girl to see the same film on sunday, emm does that make him a stud or a tart, or maybe a film buff

Yea, really The Who should have killed themselves in the 60's

Sounds like he could be the next Barry Norman or Jonathon Woss


or alternatively....


Peter Stringfellow


either way ....... the pay is good.


I've never really been much of a Who fan, although I do like I'm A Boy. I really like that new track from Mika at the moment ... Grace Kelly, the only problem is every time I hear it - it runs around my head for hours later.

To me its always the songs you hate that stay in your head, in the car on sunday the radio played Tight Fit - Lion sleeps tonight, and i have not stopped humming it...arrrrrrh, and now typing this i am humming it again

Well, thanks so much for sharing that, now I'm singing it in my head.

I remember a lot of years ago there used to be an advert, it was a really rocky sort of tune - but for sanitary towels, Body Form I think. My instruction manual came home from work one day, he'd been standing in work humming it all day before he twigged what it was for. Ooooooooh body fo-orm, body form for meeeeeee!

I had not been singing it all day, but since i saw your last post i am singing it again

Not only that but i also have the body form tune in my head also

Think i will stick some Metallica on RIGHT NOW, and drain the brain

Damn, now i am humming 'ALL RIGHT NOW' by Free, think i'll take dog for a walk

Well, I aim to please.

We saw Paul Rodgers and Queen a year or two ago in concert and it was brilliant, he's a great singer, they did Free, Bad Company and Queen tracks, we really enjoyed it, tickets were £50 a throw which we thought was a bit rich, but sure - no pockets in shrouds.

Be careful walking the dog now, mind you don't start humming that little road safety hedgehog song......