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

I love it that the roses have come back stronger than ever smudger!
I have heard so many stories of angry people trying to kill plants, only later they are twice as big and beautiful!

I was just thinking while reading this thread, about how long I have been on this site, and about all the folk who have come and gone

I recall we used to have a fair crowd of us all nattering away about different things. Still its good to know that there are a few of us early pioneers left
Who can sit on their rocking chairs on the porch and tell their G/kids all about the early days of H2

Ah! yes, I hear you say, those were the days
Smudger,

Hi again smudger,my grandchildren already know about h2,and some of the lovely people i chat to.
I'm usually on here when they arrive in the mornings during the school holidays,,and i've told them all about websailors badgers too!!!

That's Smurfles as maybe they might grow up to be H2ers as well We could do with an increase in our numbers, well in this part at least

Smudger,

That is a nice thought smudger.
There are several parent-child subscribers and extended family(cousins et)

I am not aware of any sets of 3 generations of family but I bet there could be now! Might be fun to ask on one of the forums

I have run across people from 13 to 77 are on this site.

Well that's a well varied ago group Abbi
There is a bloke on that Ex service site I use who is 74 yrs old! He got his first computer when he was 70! His grandson kept his PC in his house so that he could do his homework in peace, and his G/dad started to show interest in it

In the end his son gave him a lap-top of his own, as his G/son couldn't get on his own PC! He is now a PC boffin, as he has learnt a lot from taking PC lessons on-line
Smudger,

*waits for smurfles return*

Happy Homecoming smurfles!

I was watchin an old movie on TV recently, and saw something I had totally forgot about? Does anyone else remember thos chocolate machines we used to have at railway stations?
You know the ones where you could buy that Frys Chocolate Cream bars!
or that one with the picture of the three little boys on it (3 boys) I think thats what it was called
BTW, welcome back Smurfles!
Smudger,

Hi all.what a lovely welcome home abbi,thank you,and smudger too.
Smudger,,it was called five boys chocolate,and it was in a red and white wrapper with boys pictures on it...not bad to say i can only just remember what i did yesterday!!!!!

Ah! so you admit to remembering that then!

Its funny how things just go out of your mind altogether, then when you see it on an old movie, you suddenly remember it

There is a lot to be said for the "old days" as we call them, little things like folk getting on with their neighbours, even helping them out at times. These days, its nothing like that at all?

In fact, most people these days don't even show any respect their neighbours Its really sad, but a fact of modern life
There is a group of 10 year olds around us, who are utterly terrorising the neighborhood, and no one, not even the police, can stop them! Its all down to this political correctness and human rights
Smudger,

can I be rude and so I can come back later and read the backlog. Thanks to Abbi for the link from that other thread.

I personally do not think it's rude if you say you want to come back.
I am sure smurfles feels the same way!
So Welcome!

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Hi Smurfles
I pointed Osh here on another thread about the good old days.
I cannot spell the word used or I would tell you the title!

I personally do not think it's rude if you say you want to come back.
I am sure smurfles feels the same way.
So Welcome!

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Hi Smurfles
I pointed Osh here on another thread about the good old days.
I cannot spell the word used or I would tell you the title!

F135418?thread=1307195 thread in reference

Ooops I'm a repeater

Nostalgia has started to hit me a lot more now I have children and have started to show them photos of our family from my childhood and before.

and the worrying thing is not that sort of morbid sense of my own mortality that it brings (although that is bad enough) it's the worry that they won't look back on their childhood with similar nostalgia.

Right, I've got coffee and chocolate. I'm off to read the backlog.

Hi abbi,thanks for sending someone to read the thread.
Im always pleased when people add their memories,and it usually spurs the rest of us on to recall things we haven't posted yet!!!
Hope you enjoy the backlog "osh",feel free to add to it...please!!!

Flaming Norah! you lot could have warned me.... over 1,000 posts there.



I have some lovely memories of the time when I was about 6 or 7 and my borther about 3 or 4. My dad used to take us on long walks in the woods (probably only about 2 hours, but you know how time is for little kids). He used to cut each of us a walking stick, and we'd go around for ages.

Recently he told me that the "woods" weren't that big at all, situated as they were in and around the ranges by Sandhurst. He knew them like the back of his hand.

Sometimes there would be big half dried up puddles of mud, and he would say it was a bog and that we would get sucked under if we stepped in it (didn't mention the Dire Warnings my mum had given him if we came home filthy - we didn't have a washing machine then).

And he would regularly produce "soldier" sweeties and Tiffin Chocolate (from Army ration packs, he saved his for us) to keep us going.

As I see the trees turn now, I remember those times and try to do the same for The Gruesome Twosome.

Oh and thanks for the welcome.

I'm usually called Sho (some of you know me already) but I'm anagramming for Halloween. Not so easy with a three letter name!

Hi sho...i remember tiffin(i think),sometimes my memory gets a little mixed up.Didn't it have little biscuity bits in it???
You brought a thought to my mind....i was five when my dad died,but i just got a mental picture of going to the sweet shop with him on a sunday,after sunday school...i can even see the black painted railings round the steps to the shop!!!!!I must have only been four...

That's right - Tiffin chocolate had nuts, raisins and little biscuity things.

It must have been hard losing your dad so young.