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

I just wanted to drop you a note to say...Thank you for commenting on A619049 William Wallace in Peer Review :o)

I just wanted to drop you a note to say ta for the advice on my "cafe culture" Guide Entry. So, the third person then? I shall take a red pen to it immediately! Frenchbean also advised using Guide Ml thingie and website addresses if they exist. So, being a degree qualified - an HONOURS degree qualified - teacher, and being able to programme the VCR, I shall away and learn how to use the thing. I hope.

Glad you found it useful!

It's really there because a lot of Edited Guide Entries get updated by another author eventually. So say in three or four years time when there were new Cafes in Aberdeen, another researchers might add one extra information - and then it would be really odd if half of it was first person. You can say things like 'in this researchers opinion'.

What's Aberdeen like btw I'm tempted to move there!

Ooh and don't worry too much about the Guide ML!

Lots of people get entries into the edited guide in plain text and the sub editor adds in the Guide ML. It just makes it look prettier that's all..

What's Aberdeen like? Well...see reference to "world's largest fishing village"; there are times when I'm astonished that this place calls itself a city. Think of a declining scale from Birmingham, through Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee to Aberdeen, in terms of size, cosmopolitanness, facilities which form living a civilised life, and local - newpaper - awareness - of - the - outside - world. It is also bloody expensive to live here, without any of the "London Weighting" bonus in your paycheck. The weather is laegendary - you want snow? Get yourself here for February.
On the plus side (there is one) if you're remotely an outdoorsy type, then you're barely a short drive from some serious climbing / hillwalking / gliding / skiing / snowboarding. There ARE some interesting things to be found in the city; a reasonable club scene, some good pubs and restaurants, a small but rewarding city art gallery / museum set - up etc. but you would need to pick the brains of a local quickly once you got here.
My advice would be - if you have some money / secure employment, by all means, try it out. It's just that, after Birmingham, it might come as a (lack of)culture shock!

Well I really want to work in the Outer Hebridies but the only jobs for junior doctors there involve four months in the Hebridies, eight in Aberdeen, and a year in Elgin - (which I've never heard of!).

Aaah, now I understand - you LIKE rhe quiet life! You LIKE the wide, open spaces! Elgin's all right - it's the biggest town between Aberdeen and Inverness, which means it's the social hub for quite some distance. It's shut on Sundays, but other than that, it's fine. You'd probably get a good range of medical experience living and working in all three areas. I seem to remember a news item on Reporting Scotland which suggested that they are in dire need of medical staff in the rural areas, so go for it!

Hi Z, we meet again - was just wandering about in the Guide and found your Entry. Wanted to let you know that the first of your links at the bottom of it now goes to a dodgier page than it presumably once did. At least from my machine, anyhow! It may be that Entries can't be altered once in the Guide but wanted to pass this on in case you wish to do anything. JulesK (spending a bored evening wandering the site!)

Just wanted to say HI! I'm still not too sure of my way around h2g2 - perhaps you could help? Then again, I am still trying to find out the answer to the great question of 'Life, the Universe and My Purpose in it?!' Don't suppose you could help there too?

Hey, welcome to h2g2, don't know the meaning to life the universe and everything yet, though of couse 42 is a good start.

There's more ways to communicate than leaving people messages... so do have a lurk around click on links and find where people are talking ad see where you think you'd fit it.. lurk around people's recent conversations..

Z When will you become a "doctor" = teacher like an M.D.?

You "killed the mocking bird" remember me? A was gecko, but evolved to become by name: Blue Bird. endangered species.
Now who is going to save me?
Never mind, I do my own thing: til my flickering gems will come to light.
In the darkness humans don't see well. It's OK. BB

I just wanted to drop you a note to say...Hello

Have just dropped an entry on Andorra into the Peer review, thought you might be interested.... A3092654 Check it out when you get chance! Thanks for all your help so far by the way....

Hi Z

I'm not sure how to do this so I'll just plunge into deep water. I hope it'll be (?)

I 'know' you only though the conversations at Lil's Atelier.

I like your attitude to life and people. Your opinions, your political views, your (in my opinion) humanistic values, your courage and your humour.

I think that you are a person who - like my daugther (a bit older than you) - can enrich and enlighten me in conversation.

So - if you like - and when you have the time - I would like to talk/write with you.

Greetings tartaronne

Thank you thank you ever so much for your kind words... I am utterly stunned!

I'm not really sure what to say, other than *of course* I would like to talk/write with you..

This approach wasn't supposed to come in an on-going thread - but I'm not too sure about all the technicalities, gadgets and gizmoes on different sites.

Never mind. I can bear to appear stupid

"*of course* I would like to talk/write with you.."

Good . I'll return when I've been to this meeting about a union's communication policy - well not really . I'm part of the communication - freelance journalist - so it's some of my bread we shall discuss. I'll fight for it.

Ooh you're a freelancer.. how interesting.. I would love to able to make a living out of writting

I got a real buzz, for my grand total of one published article!

(And it's really big of the BMJ to give full BMJ rates to students who write for the Student BMJ, the came in very handy)

After 27 years of journalism I still get a buzz when I deliver an article I'm satified with. It is also thrilling to research a good story. It's the proces from research to pressing til send-button I'm not too keen about. .

Well, not entirely true. . I enjoy the work with words and sentences. Communication in all forms is amazing - and amazingly difficult - to get one's message across to somebody else - intact.

I've just published a book with two other freelance journalists. A tutorial on journalism for young people in the three years education after secondary school (after the ten years of compulsory education). I cannot remember what it is called in English.

The book has arrived fresh from the printers - but I haven't dared to read it. What, with five times of proof-reading I'm fed up with the contents and want to rewrite the lot. I've learned a lot about discipline though and how to make agreements even with people you trust . I also learned a lot about journalism.

And Denmark played 1-1 with Turkey tonight. Not too bad. What is BMJ?

A s Congratulations!

I think in England it would be called A levels, except it only lasts two years, because we have 11 years of compulsary educations.

I've just realised I'm in my 18th year, which is actually quite scarey isn't it?

Er the BMJ, is the British Medical Journal, which is one of the most well read UK medical journals, the *student* BMJ that I wrote for, is on the other hand a magazine for medical students, and less prestigous!

18th year, eh?



Here it would take 10 plus 3 to graduate for University. Then approx. 6 years for the medical study - a total of 19 years. Haven't you had a break in between education?

I was supposed to study English litterature at university but first I wanted to sample real life - outside school. I spent that year mostly as an au-pair in Dublin. Met an Irish musician - and we moved to London for three months to become famous folk-singers .

Went on to Denmark because I wanted an education - I qualified for the School of Journalism, got married the day after I started and had my first child three months later. .

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You could say that I live from writing - or survive. I recieve supplementary dole for the weeks with no work.

Actually we - me and my second husband - have a good life. A roof, enough food, four kids - we work, play music and are able to travel once a year. Mostly to visit my husband S.'s family in Italy. No complaints from here.