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

Hello!

Sorry to bother you with this, this is what happens when you start hiring staff

I'm editing and putting up the third chapter of your trip to Florida for The Post this week, and I'm coming across a few things which I'm not understanding. This is probably mainly me being tired, but hopefully you can clarify them.

"Writing from memory, that is the way it was and how it will stay with me for the rest of my life. The little cottage is not there anymore near the water as we just taxied next to our lodging with the plane. The owner soon greeted us, offering a choice of cottages to choose from in which we could stay. No hotel, no check in, not even any other humans to see. Those were the days. Ah, so happy days! They have gone, just gone."

I don't understand the sentence starting "The little cottage..."
Could you perhaps rephrase it for me?

"Persimmon: a mighty pretty reddish-orange colour fruit grown right there and ripening in the winter months January, February for a delight"
Could this perhaps be what we know as Pomegranate?


Thanks for taking care of these two small points

Kat

Sorry me again,

Walking back to our lodging we passed the "Ding Darling Bird Sanctuary"
It was the time for the birds to find a place for the night. To me was a most enjoyable evening learning about this sacred place! It touched me so deeply, that I wanted to come back to watch, just sit there and see the wonders or Nature. During this trip we did not get to this wonderful event, but next time I gathered so much to talk about, that will have to write a short essay about as The Birds Going to sleep.


I REALLY don't understand this whole paragraph.
You say that you passed the Bird Sanctuary. But then you don't talk about the sanctuary itself and don't actually say what you saw there. What wonderful event? Sorry I'm probably just missing the point but could you talk me through the paragraph?

Thank you

Kat

Hello Kat! Thank you for helping Shazz!

To explain a little more about what I am trying to say:
"Writing from memory" I mean I'd like to keep it the way it was, the way I saw that beautiful place.

Unfortunately I know it has been greatly "developed" with fancy hotels etc., BUT what my memory keeps it is the wilderness as it WAS!!

I never went back to see the destruction with the fancy hotels. Only heard about it with sorrow in my heart.

I have a feeling Kat, that you did not have such an experience yet, perhaps being so young, and hard for you to associate with my words.

Perhaps if you would read the previous chapters may be would be more understabdable. Basicly a simple story: we traveled with our own plane, landed on an airstrip and the lodging, which was a cottage ( a little house) was right there. And we stayed there a couple of days.

Persimmon is a soft juicy fruit when it is ripe. I think the Pomegranate
has a hard shell from outside. Not sure.

A Bird Sanctuary in the USA is a protected territory kept for birds.
I sent a map also to include into this chapter. Shazz did a faboulis job previousely with my photos.

On the map I marked the Sanctuary as it was at that time. As I wrote the birds activity can be so fascinating, that I will write about it next time. In this trip simply I did not have the time to gather that much information. Now I am just saying the same thing as it is written.

I think is very late as you working with this script. You are tired Kat and I would love to see you to get a good night sleep.

The way I write, the way I speak is very different from your english,- but in any case: we have to understand each other.
If you read the previous chapters I am sure would be easier to do this job.

Thank you very much for your efforts and above all to help Shazz. It is very nice of you. Blue Bird

I'll take a look at this in the morning.

shazz

My apologies about the fruit! I was just showing a lack of knowledge there. I have since looked it up in the dictionary.

Shazz has taken your piece back and will edit the rest of it instead of me. I did do most of it, but due to my slight stumblings we considered it best for her to grab it back

Thanks
Kat

OK Kat! Nice from you to give a try! I am sure with practice you will do very well next time. Don't give up, perhaps this is only the beginning and to gather knowledge takes time. Keep up your goodwill
you will be successful if you keep working further on!

I read your home page. Nicely done. I just don't have time with GML!
I did once a page and got bored with it, deleted it and now I just change it often in Plain Text! and many thanks Blue Bird

I did all of your piece except for the bits mentioned...so in the end that was two paragraphs. I think it's partly due to the fact that you are having to write in translated English. It often means there is a slightly twisted path between the meaning and what is written.

Thank you for complimenting my PS. I do a lot of work with GuideML for various guilds, articles, and of course my own PS and other people's. If you ever feel a desperate need to adorn your PS with GuideMl I'll be very happy to help.

Kat

You did a very nice job Kat! Certainly your knowledge of GML is faboulus.
Like I said: I did struggle with it with the help of couple GURUS and did a page. But I did not enjoy doing it, because with the Enhanced WORD I can make very fancy presentations in a very short time where is no coding needed.

Here is something for you, take a look:

http://www.geocities.com/giselanagy0026/Hawaii.html

http://www.geocities.com/giselanagy0026/All-my-children.html

I am working to establish a Web Page. ( Have no domain name yet.) Bbird
P>S> Thanx again, again!

I have started again from scratch and also sorted out the pictures now Bb. I just need to wait for the pictures to go live to see what it looks like.

shazz

Oh, my God! Shazz My Dear! So much work! I am starting to feel guilty and promise never do it again this way.
Text will have to be linked to my Web page.
At this moment I don't know yet how to LINK?

These testing Web pages are working. I sent the URL to couple of people and they can get it!

For domain name I have to pay, but I still go with the E-mail ( it is long) but it is free and I don't know the process so well yet!

Now this week ends the story about my first flight. The following stories will be just very easy, light stuff, may be some poem,- no pictures.

Thank you, thank you so very much! bird