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

Hello Bishop.

Are you perchance related to Bishop Odo of Bayeux, erstwhile companion of King William the First of England?

I think we should be told.

Ha ha, I've been spotted! Yes I know Odo was a real person and a younger brother of Willian the Conqueror. I'm fairly certain that I'm not related to him in any way . Quite reassuring really he seems to have been a deeply unpleasant character, very much a kind of Black Adder figure! Although to survive all the political manoeuvring of those times you'd have needed to be quite a character!

The story behind me using this name is quite a long one but I like the name. It's great for the guide because when I first arrived I could be completely anonymous behind it!

Is Middenshire a place?

If you go to my space and click on the conversation "Middenshire," you will find out a little about this smallest county of England, sadly now defunct.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

s off to look for the link.

Hello again.

Did you find your way to the County of Middenshire?

William.

I found it,

I'm only part way through though, they keep making me do this w**k stuff and I can only log in when I'm at work.

So how are things?

Oh, not too bad, thanks. Like you, I seem to spend all my time working. I work shifts, which sometimes seems more tiring than "normal" hours. The only bonus is that you miss rush hours.

I note you are keeper of the Secret Seal. I was recently appointed Keeper of Mammals beginning with "W" and Goatee Beards, so we sort-of share a common interest in keeping things.

Hope you like the Middenshire stuff. It started out as a bit of a joke and ended up as a hundred-odd pages of spoof history. I might even try to polish it up and get it published one day, if I can find a publisher mad enough!

Yours,

William