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

Outsourcing... it's less expensive to pay another company to do a less personal job. I've been waiting for the outcome of the bid process since March so it's a relief to know for sure .

My home town is mentioned on a Floyd album - at the start of the Final Cut!

Live recording only really work for me if I was at the gig, otherwise it's alway got to be studio

Well at least you know for sure now, even if you are a bit gutted by it, it gives you the chance now to look for something else

Whats your home town then?

Same here really regarding live albums, but there are some brilliant live albums that i have not been to the gig for.

AC/DC - If you want blood

UFO - Strangers in the night

Status Quo - Quo live

Motorhead - No sleep til Hammersmith

Whitesnake - In the heart of the city

but to name a few

I think the most gutting thing about the job is that I currently have a 6 minute walk to work and I don't think I will find such a cushy number elsewhere. You never know though - as one door closes...
I am off sick today with a heavy cold, sniff!

There was me expecting you to quote "The government have announced plans to build a nuclear fallout shelter at Peterborough in Cambridgeshire" (which apparently they did and there are various rumours as to where!)

I have something like 350 CD's and 150 vinyl LP's and I think 2 of them are live albums! I have a lot of live tapes though of lesser known bands I have seen.

Sounds like your music taste is very similar to my husbands. I met Lemmy once, about 12 years ago at the Limelight in London and he tried to chat my mate up, who was a very petite 21 year old! I have to say he made my skin crawl!

"three high court judges have cleared the way"

Sorry i changed channel to quickly and thought you lived in Japan or Bolivia

Lemmy is a skin crawler make no mistake, i met him at Wembley Arena during a Deep Purple gig, my mate asked for his autograph on his t-shirt and Lemmy just spat at it, and said 'there you go'

My cd collection goes through the roof, which hacks the wife off big time, i have tons of lp's in the loft, but alas no record played anymore

My taste of music is mainly rock, especially AC/DC, they are my gods, i have met them about 3 times now and seen them well over 40 times covering 27 years (getting old me)

But i will listen to anything if the music gives me a buzz, 70's glam, classical, some naff pop if its catchy.

I suppose I could have been a sheep on a hillside in the Falklands harmlessly passing my time in the grassland away or something! Ha Ha (charade you are)

I have a stereo that everything is knackered on with the exception of the turntable and I will not throw it away

My music taste is very varied - anything from Punk to classical. I recently got to see one of my teenage favourites, Depeche Mode, and am still obsessively listening to Playing the Angel. New model Army and the Smiths also got me through some tough years growing up.

In the last 12 months I have also seen the Offspring, Franz Ferdinand, Sisters of Mercy, Jethro Tull and still have the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and the Cult to see. Not buying anymore tickets now until my job is secure (my husbands factory closes 4 weeks before I am out of work - not the best timing and doesn't help the drink issue much!!!)

For sure not the best time to help drinking, so you will both be out of work, thats terrible, what will you both do??

Depeche Mode....., never mind

I havent been to a gig for ages now as not many interesting bands to me are touring at the mo

We are both willing to work for minimum wage if we need to. Rather be out earning my own crusts than sponging off the state and I am prepared to work in a factory or as a waitress to pay the bills. There should be work out there for a coded welder and an IT helpdesk engineer though. Its unsettling though... he'd cut down the after our last talk but its creeping up again. Last night I overheard him on the phone saying he was going to see how many cans he could 'get away' with!

Hubby felt the same about Depeche Mode so in return I was going to a Twisted Sister gig with him (but that unfortunately got cancelled ). He really enjoyed the gig though, said they totally surprised him and when I am not obsessively playing the new CD he is!

..we are online at the same time

Agree with you on the benefit front i have never claimed benefit for anything as i have always been able to work or keep my head above water when i wasnt working.

Saying he could 'get away' with it, means that he could be hiding his cans somewhere, so that you dont rant at him, still think a blood test would be advisable for his sake really.

Twisted Sister, i love them, i first remember them on 'The Tube' in the 80's, all my mates said do what, i said they are excellent

I was quite interested in going to the gig - I don't dislike what I have heard - but he played me some live stuff that scared me a bit and I was starting to doubt the wisdom!!!

Oh Yeah, and in the excitement of instant replies I forgot to say... he is still hiding cans - I found two in a plant pot on Monday

To be honest they are sh*t live, but still put on a great show

I always put water in my plant pot, it helps them grow, i would hate to see a drunk fuchsia or a climbing rose rolling around on the lawn

I used to hide my beers, its not a good sign really

The cans didn't have to share - it was a supposedly empty plant pot - although drunk plants might be interesting - ever seen the little shop of horrors!??

The hiding is what worries me - I have tried getting across to him that I don't have to see him drink anything, it is the atmosphere that enters the room with him and the way he talks to me that I object to. As soon as he starts arguing with everything I say and not letting me get to the end of a sentence I bail and go and find something better to do than walk on eggshells round him.

I have tried to get through to him and asked him to get some professional help but he tells me it is none of my business - obviously missing the point to marriage at the moment as well!!!!

Motorhead are touring in November! All the oldies are making come backs!

My neighbour has just been in her garden in a mini ra ra skirt and now I cannot shift the image of a hippo in a tutu - ouch! How cruel am I?!!

'Feed me Seymour, feed me now'

It sounds like you are banging your head against a brick wall, and the eggshell bit, well that just puts you on edge all the time, i really do feel for you here.

And it is your business, thats what marriage is all about, ask him to just do this one thing for you and see a doctor, where you both go together, if he doesnt want to, then you can make your own assumptions from there as to what he feels about the marriage, hard i know, but you cant live your life like this.

Dont start humming Nelly to Elephant to yourself now and your neighbour might hear you

I saw it live on stage and the plant was fantastic - scared the life out of the audience when it shouted "where do you think you're going" as we were all leaving!!

This may sound callous but I have already decided he has until I am secure job wise; I have told him I do not want to do this for the rest of my life but I don't want to land myself in financial straights either. If he is not listening then I will eventually have to stop trying to talk. Did your wife ask you to go for help and did you go?

There is no love lost with the neighbours - the son (aged around 12) is an ASBO waiting to happen and if you dare to suggest disciplining the little darling you just get a mouthful from the mother - the hippo is the eldest daughter. Last week we had armed response searching their house because he took a replica gun to school! Who needs soaps!!

It was only when she threatened to leave about 6 years ago that i cut down, didnt stop but cut down, then i started to hide it and drink loads when she went out somewhere, then a few years later i also found out that she was having an affair with my so called best friend, which she said she needed as an escape from me cause of my drinking, it was then that i thought enough is enough (after putting my friend in hospital) and spending the night in a police cell, i went back home and we chatted.

She said she would do what ever it took to help me off the drink, so next day went to doctors had bllod test and found out i had cirrhosis of the liver, went for detox on some hell kicking tablets, and here i am now, but if it wasnt for her i would for sure be dead now.

Our next door neighbours son is in prison for the second time in 2 years, drugs based, he was a real barsteward, breaking into cars and houses, its so much quieter now he has gone, but like you all the action used to happen every night at their house, police searches, drug raids, stolen property raids, it was soooo much fun

I get the feeling it will take something drastic like that to spur my hubby on. It would be easier if I could just leave, then I would go to my dads and be done with it... but the house is mine and has never been transferred into joint names so I would have to kick him out and that feels like kicking him when he is down. I will try another chat soon and see how it goes.

We used to get loads of trouble from the neighbours kid, smashed windows, breaking into our shed and stealing craft knives and hammers which he took to school, he punctured our pond throwing rocks into it the day after it was lined and filled but the pond was the last straw and hubby scared the life out of kid and father (all he did was should but he can look really mean!) and all the trouble goes elsewhere now. Still not ideal but at least we have a little peace of mind. The hours alarm and CCTV in our garden help too!!

Lass, it wont be easy, but stick there for as long as you can for his sake, as i take it that you still love the guy, if you do fall out of love then really thats it and then you have to do what you have to do.

We had alarms set at our house and still got broken into about 8 years ago, so since then we have had rotweillers, never had a problem since as almost everyone around us know we have them.

I remember a great line from a book on these dogs from the author said

"The rotweiller may by accident let a burglar in, but for sure in hell it wont let them out".....i love that line

I wouldn't still be doing this if I didn't love him - he finds it so hard to accept that love though. I find it hard to think of life without him but sometimes life with him seems to hard ... and round we go again!

I would love dogs but we don't have the room and our s don't do a very good job of guarding unless you are a bird, or frog. Maybe a 'beware of the ' sign might work for arachnophobic burglars!

There has just been a load of F-ing and blinding next door and the kid has stormed out in tears and is now in the street screaching about what a bitch his sister is! There is an old Smiths song 'Vicar in a Tutu' and it works surprisingly well substituting the word Hippo!

I love your quote too!!

>>'beware of the sign might work for arachnophobic burglars!<<

excellent

It is a circle that will only stop when he realises it.

How old is the kid?

Have to go now, things to do, dinner to start.

Bye for now