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

Hey Kea, Could you contact me via email?

[email protected]

It's fine if you don't want to. But in case you do, I'd like to speak to you about something I don't want to post on h2g2. And it's nothing bad or horrible, I assure you...

I know as you are not here much, you sometimes miss messages, so I'll give you a nudge if needs be.

Hey great email address

I don't do email from h2 sorry. Please don't take this personally, as I haven't given my email to anyone here. My life is so full that I don't even keep up with emails in RL. My time on h2 is a break from that life, an important part of my stress management, and I like to keep it relatively obligation free. I feel that if I gave my email address to hootooers and then didn't reply to emails and then they see me here posting then they're going to be offended/hurt/annoyed. It's bad enough that sometimes I don't reply to people's posts and go and play elsewhere on site instead

But you're definitely on the list of people I'd give it to if I ever change my mind


How's things with you? Got any interesting threads going?

Hey no worries. But you don't know what you're missing..Go on take a risk...But I accept your decision without taking any offence. And if you change your mind, you know where I am.

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Real life is excellent lately. I've been doing lots of film art stuff. Getting back into doing art again is fantastic. i stopped about a year ago after a particularly traumatic split up of the performance group I was in. I wrote all the material and was the main performer. I was very bitter and disillusioned because of what happened.

I'm feeling really fed up with h2g2 lately, for all sorts of reasons, I'd rather not say here. Some others may like to gossip in public, but I try not to. Though I certainly have in the past as you know.

Hi Kea, have you checked out my photos I've been taking in my garden for the last couple of months; I give the address in my journal entry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F2082070?thread=5608319 I'd love your feedback, because I know what a nature freak you also are...

I look forward to having a look at that, thanks. I should be around more over the next month...

Hey kea, how you doing?

Good to see you about again.

It's boiling here today. Will be at least 30 degrees here in London. Bit hotter than you've got it, I expect

Am still waiting for a bit of feedback on the cult of nature here...

Hey Effers

Yeah, the thermometer outside reads zero every morning Nice you are getting a bit of heat!

I'm still in fullout random play mode, having internet access and time for the first time in ages. Will get to catching up properly in a while

H2 seems very quiet. All that good weather keeping people outside?

blimey zero? Has to be south island where you live then. And is it part way up a LOTR mountain set?

Actually it was a shock today. We've had a couple of weeks of truly British weather.

My cult of nature photos are a bit of a fantasy I'm starting to realise. Rainy bits are very much excluded. The next bit of rain we get I shall have to include.

>fullout random play mode,< I like that description.

Minus eight this morning It was so beautiful. And not a goddam hobbit in sight (not that I have anything against hobbits, just Peter Jackson).

But yes, snow on the hills. Today was that coldest day so far, as the cloud came in before it had a chance to warm up. I did go for a walk though

Posted on the cult of nature thread.

Do you know Richard Maybey's work? I've got a book of his, from the 70s I think, on city weeds. Plus some of his edible plant books.

I watch a bit of UK TV and am always keeping an eye out for the wild plants and overgrown areas that seem to be everywhere whenever they're shooting outside. I just watched a whole bunch of The Professionals, which was filmed in London in the late 70s early 80s. I often freezeframe and try and figure out what certain plants are. Bodie and Doyle always seem to be running round in vacant lots full of weeds

Kea I came across this excellent site about NZ ecology in general

http://www.terranature.org/index.htm

I thought it might interest you if you didn't know about it.

That was a great post you just made in the peace thread, explaining about human co-operation.

And I agree about the goal posts being shifted Not sure what can be done about that

I hadn't seen that nature website, thanks.

Yes kea, I have become excessively intolerant and bored with that tactic now in more serious debate. I've seen it done to death on TGD thread by various Christians there, overtime, again and again. But it's certainly not confined to them. AFAI am concerned it renders proper debate meaningless, once that happens, because a few posts later, the same tactic is used. It's often difficult to tell if it's deliberate or someone is just constitutionally unable not to do it or even properly realises they do it...To be honest I've stopped even bothering trying to work that out. And in any case once someone resorts to it, and won't admit it, they've already demonstrated that they've lost the argument. There maybe a temporary change in this particular modus operendi but as sure as eggs are eggs it will come back again.

I just walk away now when it happens. But it does at least help that I've become more familiar with it, and can mostly stand back and realise what's really happening, rather than getting sucked into the utter pointlessness of it, as I see it.

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On a more cheerful note, I've become quite fascinated by the whole NZ ecological thing. The fact that it broke away from the ancient continent of Gondwana land, comprising Australasia, Africa, S. America and Antartica around 180million years ago, and so in isolation, some birds took the ecological niche that mammals had which evolved to utilise elsewhere. And also some insects got really huge and took the place of tiny rodents. That site says you only had 3 species of bat when NZ broke away. David Attenbrough in his recent programme on mammals featured ground dwelling NZ bats scabbling around on the forest floor for food.

And of course when homo sapiens did finally arrive all these ground dwellers were incredibly vulnerable to being hunted, not being used to having any natural predators feeding on them, and also the problem of introduced species of mammals predating on them. It's really very interesting.