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

Hi anoldgreymoonraker,

Well you certainly celebrated with Hanabee - lovely word. !1 I love fireworks.

thank you for all the information about your mother-in-law's garden. You will have to tell me when you have taken photographs and then I can see them. I did not realise that they also sort of bonsaied big trees. I thought it was only little trees in pots that they pruned and so bonsaied.

I would love to see some of your pottery. My son also loves pottery and he has had several exhibitions. But hispottery is very abstract People look at it and say

"But what can I do with it?" they say miserably.

I want to bash their heads together and say

"But it is a work of art".

You do not ask what you can do with pictures. If you like them you hang them on the wall. You do not eat off them!!

So there I go again.

Kind regards and if you do not mind I would just love to conitnue heaing your stories. I shall contact that other person that you mention.

Christiane
alsoRan80

a little whisper into your ear - I have just had something - a journal entry of mine on whales - published in the Post. I am really chuffed,

Hi Christiane
I did read your piece about the whales , very good I think ,I too have seen Whales in real life ,when I lived in Davenport Cal just above Santa Cruz , I lived in what used to be a factory office, the factory produced ice for packing the whale meat that was brought up to the beach from the whales caught when passing the bay early last century , I could watch them both going down and coming back from their breeding place in Monterey bay I often watched them as a way of relaxing , I could even see them from my kitchen window .

This afternoon I found we were very low on rice so I went over to Obachan's (mother in law) house to get some more , of course I thought of you and carried my camera , took a few pic's of her front garden, also because I no longer have pictures of my work(pottery) I recently took a couple of pic's of my beer mug I made for myself a long time ago ,It was fired in a gas down draft kiln I built myself with again my own glaze I enjoyed developing, It has a very rich feeling and is a pleasure to use . We also have a clock hanging in this house I made a long time ago but I don't want to start taking pic's in my house as I want that to be a little more private , hope you understand
Please look at at and enjoy these new pic's just click http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/dna/h2g2/brunel/F1694533/ext/_auto/-/http://www.flickr.com/photos/21128589@N02/

Hi anolegreymoonraker

Well I have been looking zt the first set of photographs with much interest.

Fascinated with the bonsai being used on the bigger trees. when you coment and say that the at the big tree has had lots of little bonsai clipped on it's branches do you mean the one right on the top right hand side of the photo?

I sadly could not find your mother-in-law's hat anywhere!!. I must write down her name so that I can use it.
It is extraordinary how much is put on so little land. The whole area must be a maze of intertwined, knotted roots.
How on earth do cars pass one another on the street?

I know that in Hong Kong car ownership is kept down by making the tax on the second car inordinately high. Presumably the same rulen= possibly applies in Japan.
Ishall look at the others in depth tomorrow. They really are magnificent photographs. I undestand abou keeping you own home private.
Regards

CME AR80

Obachan's hat is on the chair just inside the gate ,left hand side , on the big tree just one branch has been allowed to grow outward,on that branch only upward growth has been allowed to grow and each piece has been clipped as in bonzai cutting.

As regards to cars you can only buy a car if you have private off road parking space for it ( the police come to check ), we have a double carport so we can have two cars .

Hi anolegreymoonraker

I am absolutely horrified at the three smileys which are at the end of my posting to you. Please accept my apologies. goodness knows who could haveput them there.

I am very interested in bonsai and actually tried it on sveral little potted trees at home. There was also a bonsai garden in Cornwall which my son and I visited on one of our visits.

Anyway I shall look for Obachan's (Sp) when I have recovered my sang froid. !! Brr.

So it is the off street parking that controls the number of cars which one has, Interesting, It might help with the traffic congestion that exists here on this island. !!But oh my goodness the howls of protest!

Greetings
CMEAR80

I Who on earth could have done it.
I have looked it up and breally......

Happy birthday.... and have a good bash this year too!
cheers

Ta very much , will do I'm sure