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

Hi Jim

I hope you are not feeling too tired today.

Thanks for the advice on using the Polish translator service. I will remember to use capitals.

I have been sorting out my bedroom andgetting all the posters of the built in wardrobe door. Iwant to make full use of the room and try and get space saviung storage equipment.

Carpet tiles sound like a very good idea. I contacted the carpet retailers by email for price lists but they said they do not have them. All I wanted to know is what the average price per square meter.

Thanks for the advice on the carpets.


Take care Jim
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hi kat
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there is no price in a way, as there are wilton,shgpile, smooth pile, if you have one colour it will no doubt be cheaper than a patterned one, some will have a rubber backing, others could be material such as woven strings
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your best idea if your going for carpet is to measure the rooms size and get a room size one that size at the price you are comfortable with.
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if sqares then you will have to decide on the size of each and workout how many you will need for a room, with as less waste ie less cost.i should have been a salesman loljimbobxxxx

Hi Jim


Thanks for the advice, I have now found a wholesale carpet retailers and I have sent an email asking for what price range they start form. Apart from the bedroom there is the passage way to be carpeted. It is not a long passage way but it gets wider going to the kitchen. 2 foot-3 foot width at the bottom but a foot everywhere else. The bedroom length is 12 foot by 3 inches and the width is 9 foot by 4 inches. I am not sure what length I should go for. Should I round it up to 13 foot. I think the passaway is 13 foot in length.

Take care Jim
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hi kat
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you would be better getting heavy duty carpet for the hallway, as it will be used more over time, and a darkish colour, as a light one will show dirt more.and it will mean you will have to hoover up to twice a day, and if you spill anything on it,it would show like a soar thumb.i said i should have been a salesman.
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well had two hours in the lib this afternoon, but it was worth it,
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i found a stoy that was from a pow raf mans diary.
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camp 7 in poland was closed when the russians where knocking on the door, on 19.1.1945
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over 21 days the 1,500+ pow,s where marched, taken by train, on trucks till they got to camp 111a in luckenwalde outside germay.
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20 at least died on the trip, another 30+ managed to escape along the way, and it said that some guards did a runner as well.
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so saturday i,ll have to look up 111a,
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found these for now
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http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib044.htm
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A2974944A4920077
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now all i have to hope is billing and craig went to the 111a camp.
jimxxxxx

opss, to read the two a guide ones, you need to click the editorial title link for thr story ie my dads----jimxxx

Hi Jim

Thanks for the information about the types/choice of carpets for the passageway and bedroom. I will try and get one that is easy to clean. I have been given a recommendation of two carpet retailers. I have had still had some extra painting to do. It was the built in cupboard doors. The paint was to thick and difficult to use and it also made cleaning the brushes was nightmare as usually it is quite easy. I have got some white spirit and put a few drops in and it is alright now.

I have just saw a very clips of the Wooden Horse a film that I have seen a few times before.

In 1943 Stalag Luft III, a Prisoner of War camp in Nazi Germany. The prisoners know it is every Prisoner of War duty to escape, but security at the camp is very high. After watching other prisoners playing at leap-frog, it gave Peter and John hatch idea to use an exercise yard vaulting horse to cover the making of an escape tunnel.

They make the large wooden vaulting horse, and using it as 'maintaining morale' through exercise. Every day Peter or John are hidden inside the horse and taken with it into the camp yard, where they dig their way under the fence, the noise of their tunnelling covered by the noise of their fellow prisoners exercising. At the end of the day they would cover the tunnel entrance, return to the horse and are carried back to their huts.

After months of digging, both the tunnellers and other members of the escape committee above are growing weak. After a tunnel collapse that is quickly covered up by the vaulters, and in which Peter escapes detection. Peter and John then realise they have to change their approach. In an effort to increase the pace, they invite Phil to join them, by organising the vaulting while they both go down into the tunnel.

German guards search the hut where the tunnellers are hiding their dug up soil, but their attention is distracted when another group of guards discover a different tunnel. This causes the pace to increase in the tunnelling, and in the preparation of maps, German money, fake clothes, identity papers, and passports.

As the vaulting horse can only carry two at one time, John agrees to be sealed into the tunnel to wait for Peter and Phil to join him. The Camp's senior British officer stands in for John at the roll-call to help the trio avoid early detection. The other members of the escape committee join John and wait for nightfall. At an agreed time the Camp goes into a caphony of noise by shouting, tins banging, stamping of feet which distract the German guards from Peter, John and Phil emerging from their tunnel outside the camp 'wire'. As they agreed, Phil heads off on his own way, and Peter and John disappear into the darkness together.

Peter and John head towards the railway station, where Peter's lack of foreign language skills leave him skulking in the background, as John orders the tickets, both travelling as immigrant workers to a port town. Their escape is nearly foiled when one of the principal camp guards disembarks from a train and walks past them. Not noticing them out of the Camp context, he then departs and they then jump onto their train as it leaves the platform.

The escapees are successfully on their way, the Camp Kommandant parades the remaining prisoners, listing the loss of their privileges which forms their punishment. He is met with jeers, which turn to cheers as the wooden horse is carried away from its storeroom by the German guards.

Peter and John make their way to Lübeck, climbing into the docks in an attempt to contact the Swedish seamen who may help their escape. They are then discovered and chased by German soldiers, closely avoiding capture, and similarly evading detection by a policeman when back in the town. They decide to stay at a hotel, and then make contact with a group of French Workers, who then agree to help them.

A Danish resistance worker smuggles them by boat to Copenhagen to stay for a short time with his sister. When he returns with the news that the occupying Germans and the local police are looking for them, he takes them to a small fishing village. Found by a German soldier, Peter is then reluctantly forced to kill him or face re-capture. They are then taken onto a small boat and cross the sea to neutral Sweden.

Safe on Sweden in a plush hotel restaurant, Peter and John are overjoyed to meet Phil who has also avoided being re-captured and then they adapt uneasily to the luxury around them, far from the hardships of Stalag Luft III and their escape.

Thanks Jim for the links and for your information. These articles make a very interesting read about the conditions in these prisoner of war camps. It shows that the conditions are a lot worse than portrayed in the films.

Another war time film about the p.o.w stalag camp was the Great Escape. I do not if Coldtiz was a stalag camp.

hi kat
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i saw the wooden horse years ago, if i remeber right, two are in a posh caffee insweden, and see two germans heil hitler, and laugh,the end.
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colditz was a castle,only a few managed to escape, two frenchmen i think built a glider and got on the roof, and glided over the border to switserland,one went mad and was returned to britain.
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i dont no if you know this or not, but as the americans moved to the castle, the guaurds had run off,and the americans beleiving it to be a german stronghold where minutes away from shelling the castle, but a few pow,s put up a flag, not sure if it was white or english.
it was a csstle, dont thik it was called a stalag
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the great escape was half true, they whernt shot at the end.
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but there was a group of pow,s that got out of a camp and where captured and taken to wood and all but two where shot by the gestarpo.this was the atrosity that made the allies more determined to beat the germans
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jimxxxx

Hi Jim

Thank you Jim for the information on the second world war films and about Coldtiz castle. I have both the tv series and the film.

I think I am starting to see things. I thought I saw the handyman/gardeners hedge cutter in the back garden. I telephoned him and left a message about his hedge cutter. I have just looked in the back garden this evening and there is no hedge cutter.

I watching the audition tv progamme for the musical The Sound of Music for the character of Marie. There is not much difference in the singers.

Take care Jim

hi kat
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looks like the bbc is running out of things to put on the tele,lol
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its like x factor, for the beeb.lol, i havent watch any of the thing, somes yuck to me,
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well still looking for the two men, cant find anything to say they where on the 21 day march from one camp to the other.
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ive had an email reply for bostonspa,john warder,from the raf command message, he,s looking through what he as for me.
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ive two sites to check on monday or tuesday at the lib
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ive found a small lib just a mile from town,there is no restiction if its quiet to two hours, you can use one for up to 6 hours in my case.i have to wait till 9-50am to use my bus pass,and most days the lib closes at either 4 5 or 7pm.
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i see the xfactor is back on itv next saturday, they must be getting desparate now, lol.jimxxxxx

did you ever watch a film called (frieda)about a british pilot 1n 1944, that after being shot down met a german girl, after the war he married hae and brought her home, and evry thing was ok till her brother turned up and an ex soldier reconised him as a guard that was a sadistic nazi.
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A4680498
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its connected to the camp 7

Hi Jim

Talking about the X-factor, there is another but without Simon Cowell. It is X-Factor is a private organization helps super-human mutants and to help them. But then again Simon Cowell could be a mutant or any of the other judges.

Just imagine the X-Men meets the X-factor/Pop Idol/fame academy.

Thanks Jim for the link to the entry on - My War Story Became a Film! I have never watched the film called Frieda but its sounds like a very good film.

hi kat
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its a very old film, i watched it on the tcm channel on afternoon a while back.
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i see b.bro is playing the one rule for one and one for another.
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the other night it was gracies birthday, and she got 21 mins,as she was 21 in the main house, during the time, analise challeged her on the water throwing at susie,
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gracie replyed, (no exact words)
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ho there as been something found out, she was a stripper,
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this was something from outside, so gracie broke the b/bro rules
nothing about the outside to be said.but b/bro did nothing, not even a repremand,so b/bro broke its own rules,and did nothing for the infringment,especially when grace was given the 21 for her 21st, and she talked about the outside.
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maybe they knew that out of the 4 she was never even in 3rd place to return,so why punish her, what with lol,jim

Hi Jim

It has been a very tiring and distressing day starting at 8:30 am with a telephone call from the care line (sheltered housing) telling me that they have telephoned for ambulance for Mam as she was having problems with her breathing. I knew that there was not anything wrong with heart or her lungs. She has had a few times in the past said she has problems in breathing but it they were all panic attacks. She has even been to hospital before to be checked out and they found nothing wrong with her. When one of the temporary wardens that used to work at my Mam's sheltered housing complex (she was an ex nurse) a similar sort of incident had happened but found nothing wrong with her after taking her checking her. Ambulance crew were telling me off because I was trying to get Mam to talk to me by asking her if she could hear me/understand me. I knew it was a panic attack and was not surprised that when they checked her pulse/heart/blood pressure that they did not find anything wrong but that it was very healthy. The doctor at the hospital told me that she was confused and did not knew where she was. I asked my Mam where she was and she said in hospital. My Mam did not answer the doctors question on what day, month or season it was she got it wrong but after reminding her and asking the same question a few times over a period of time she got it right. As the time went on her memory was improving and her confusion disappeared. My Mam had blood/sugar/urine tests and they all came out as negative. As my Mam was still in her bedclothes we were given a patient transport ambulance to get home. My Mam and I waited in the patient discharge lounge for 3 hours for an ambulance in that time my Mam had lunch. When I got home I learnt that earlier on my Mam had wandered and she tried to get into the sheltered housing hall. She is all right now and her confusion has completely gone and her memory improved.

Later on in the day I did put some washing in the machine and found that the pipes going into the machine were leaking. I tightened up the pipe and the leak stopped. It was happened before as the pipes were not properly installed.

Take care

Kat
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Thanks Jim for the information on Big Brother.

hi kat
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sorry i didnt come on last night, but from 10am ish i was on the way to the lib, two hours on the pc, then went to town shoping for a few bits till wednesday payday.
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b/b punished nikki last night(from yesterday)for the same thing grace got away with.
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i registered yesterday on a site, that a type of updated ld.
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i know what you mean about your mum, my sister was the same, the abulance was here evry weekend, i think one of the drivers said one time, in fun,why didnt we book one for sats.lol
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im a bit yucky today, the change of weather,ive a soar throat, i have to go out, but only to the chemist for my tabs, and get milk on the way back.
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i dont know if i told you, but a lady in the local shop asked me to get her some boys and girls names in english with gaelic
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on saturday, i only found out from a friend,she had a miscarraige,
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well this wont get me up and ready loljimxxxxxx

Hi Jim

I am sorry to hear about your friend.

I think my name is Gaelic - Katrine as I was named after a Loch in Scotland. I used to have cassettes and a video of Runrig a Scottish folk/rock band that sung songs both in English and Scottish Gaelic.

The only words I know in Gaelic is Eillean which means island and (I do not know how to spell it) whoskyvaha - (whisky) water of life.

I have been getting ready for my Mam to move in. I have got some old furniture put out to be collected tomorrow morning. I am also going to do a big clear out tomorrow at my Mam's flat. Then I will telephone the council and have the unwanted items of furniture (which is quite a lot) to taken away. Then I will ask around for a plumber to have my Mam's cooker, washing machine to be plumbed in and for a reasonable price removal firm. Apart from the cooker, washing machine and fridge/freezer the TV, DVD, VHS equipment will be coming over to my flat along with a large chest of drawers. Once I got all the excess furniture taken away and new carpets fitted in my flat, there will not be much to organise.

I have got the link for Ld but I have not got around in registering yet.

I have not been out much just around the corner shop for a few odd items.

I am taking Lemsip extra strength capsules, they are starting to work after a week of starting taking them. I am on my second box. I hope that your sore throat is not too bad. The weather is up and down, one minute cold, windy, wet and the next warm and sunny.

It is a Doctor Who night on channel ITV4 tonight.

Take care
Kat
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Jim I meant Doctor No on channel ITV4 not Doctor Who.

hi kat
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if its shown anymore times it will be growing whiskers,it should be renamed dr,no no not again lol
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underneath the mango trees,was connerys atempt at singing yuck lol
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are you getting the phone alarm with the button your mum can wear around her neck, thats what for the last year my sis had.
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my throat as been like its on fire since last night,i think within a few days i,ll probably have a dousey of a cold.
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the shedevils ld you mean, im on the site as jimcracker but dont know when i,ll get a go on the pc as the throat is soar and i dont feel like going far for now.
jimxxxxx