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

- from the 'Keep Christmas in December' campaign



(sorry, Christmas is bad enough that I don't need to be reminded about it before we've even had bonfire night!!!)

(again for good measure)

love J'au-æmne xxx

O poor J'au!

I was just so excited about the Christmas cake...and my Mum demands to know what i want for Christmas about now...but actually I totally agree with you.

In the States they have Halloween, then Thanksgiving and then Christmas so everyone has a different festival each month through the dark days. It works very well over there and it also makes sure Christmas doesn't start until 26th November.

Mind you, it's over by 1pm on Dec 25th which isn't much fun either!

xx

I believe in the twelve days of Christmas being *after* Christmas. I'm fed up with this whole 'anticipate, anticipate, anticipate' thing that society is going through right now. I mean, whenever a report is out they say, 'tomorrow a report on such-and-such will be published. It is expected to say blah, blah blah' - why couldn't they have waited 'till the day?
And then, the other day, I realised it was a month after the anniversary of Septempber the 11th. And I realised that there was enough fuss before hand to make me completely sick, and it all died down within a week of the anniversary taking place.

Still, it is time to bake the cake right about now...

I believe in the twelve days of Christmas being *after* Christmas. I'm fed up with this whole 'anticipate, anticipate, anticipate' thing that society is going through right now. I mean, whenever a report is out they say, 'tomorrow a report on such-and-such will be published. It is expected to say blah, blah blah' - why couldn't they have waited 'till the day?
And then, the other day, I realised it was a month after the anniversary of Septempber the 11th. And I realised that there was enough fuss before hand to make me completely sick, and it all died down within a week of the anniversary taking place.

Still, it is time to bake the cake right about now...

Happy Diwali! We just got the lights up in town [Loughborough is right next to Leicester, the largest settlements of people from the Indian subcontinent outside India..]

I was the wicked stepmother *three times* in the Divali play when I was in primary school! (typecast or what)

Happy Divali! (I used to know the proper greeting for Divali, but I've long since forgotten...)

One of the things I liked about working at the World Service is that they have a policy against 'announcing' things. They just report them when they happen.

I'm with you (again - this is worrying! ).

And happy Diwali to you Gnashers! Are you also celebrating Ramadan? No food (nor sex) in daylight hours.

Jau...typecast, never!

I don't celebrate either [sex...no problem, but food!!] but I do like the lights

*remembers all the arguments in the playground between boys who were alleging that one another had broken the fast for that day*

My best friend at primary school was muslim, and he didnt fast, because he wasnt old enough [i think]

I do remember that he was susceptible to fainting fits though, and he used to not like reading out loud...so when it was his turn to read, on the day [a thursday methinks], he used to come to school wearing this massively thick woolen jumper all year round [in summer, naturally hot, in winter central heating made it hot], so he'd collapse just as he went up to read... except once he was sick whilst he was under, all over his book....

Not really relevant, but it still makes me laugh!

Outrageous! Usually I'm glad to be as tough as an old boot...but something like that could come in useful...

He was only 8-9!! After that little spate, he always used to pretend to faint to wind me up...and when we were in yr 6, he did so, and I was going 'Not gonna fall for it this time'..and the headmaster walked by and goes. 'Hes fainted!' ANd he had: boy was my face red!

Ah yes, the old double, double, triple bluff ploy. Works every time...

It does

Did you have a good Christmas J'au? Had to get that in as it's about 350 days before I can say the 'C' word again

My christmas was okay, thank you Personally, I tend to ban the 'c' word from about August to the end of November...

Happy Easter everyone

had my first creme egg on friday...

O yum!

I once ate three in a row because it was Lent the next day and I wanted to go off chocolate. It didn't work....

except it was so small! Plus I got hot cross buns because they were a BOGOF...