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

Good luck with your school visit. It may be down hill there, but it's uphill on the return.
Still very busy here. Sooner it busy,. though than sit here twiddling my thumbs.
Have a good day. In tomorrow again
Tony

Back from school allright- and was able to go there by car
Just seen about you having a quiz tonight, I quizzes, so please tell me all about it
Have a nice day
See you

Claudia

We won, of course we did, we always do. We took out the entrance fee it cost us from the winnings and put the winnings into a box for Blind Children. Least we could do. We always feel emabressed about always winning.
There were some stinkers. How many miles is the centre of Paris from the centre of London. I didn't know and no-one got it right.Can't recall answer. An easy one how many languages does the world service transmit in, knew that as I work here.41. There are 7 of us. Bob and his wife Lesley are in the Navy and we leave military stuff to them. Bill and his wife Jackie. Bill's pretty good on geography and Jackie is a nurse and up on medical and gardening stuuf. Alan and his wife Heather, Alan is the maths genius and Heather's good on current affairs. There's Brian who knows anything and everything about sport. Then there's me. My topic is No seriously. I deal with arts, literature and films and TV. You are allowed up to 8 members and the team we beat had 10. They said that two of them were only children so it didn't count, but one of the boys was 15 and the other 16, so I think it does count. They have sworn to beat us and try to cheat and other things, but they don't get away with it. They argue every point. Our team name is The Old Crocks. The other team I'm in is only four strong in another club. And we do very well. Our name is Ye Ancient Grande And Noble Order Of Ye Olde Bastards.

Hi
Haven't managed to go online for quite a few days now ( it's really odd sometimes ). How are you?
Sounds fascinating what you told me about the quiz, so it's a regular feature? How much money can you win in one session ? And why do you have to pay an entrance fee?
The only time I can do a quiz is when I can convince the boys to do a party of trivial pursuit ( junior edition ) with me, and I sometimes watch " who wants to be a millionaire" and answer the questions to myselfDo a lot of crosswords too, but that's routine, most of them only keep me busy for about five minutes
I never send the solutions in though, don't want my my postbox to be stuffed with ads.

It is suppose to be non profit making for the club. So you pay £1 each to enter. Who ever wins the quiz takes the money that's in the enterance fee box. The other club does a free quiz and you win a bottle of wine. I have some liebfraumilch and hock at home I have won in the quiz there. I too have a trival persuit game, but haven't played for ages as no-one will play with me.Not since the night I won the game, and we decided to keep on going to see who came in second. One of my mates wife retired and so I took over her piece and won again. Having came in both first and second, the others were so disgusted they wouldn't play with me again.?

I know what you mean, it's the same problem here and the boys don't play so often. My own edition of trivial pursuit is very old, bought it soon after it was released, but it still looks quite new.
There are some quizzes on hootoo, but they are too difficult for me, I don't know many English celebrities for instance, and I don't associate the same things as a native speaker, so never get the answer

Yup, I have one of the originals too. Only thing is the box is battered from being carried about from friend's house to friend's house. I enjoy crosswords too. It's a shame your lads are not in to it. It's a good way to educate them and it's fun too. I think,as well, it's much better for families to sit around playing games like this together, rather then them retiring to their rooms to do their own thing in isolation. In a course I did in psychology there is an expression; The family that dines together stays together. the idea being if the family gathers around the table and have the meal together they talk to eat other. They discuss the day and what has happened. Problems can be thrashed out. They open to each other. This is good for intergration into society and helps people skills . sorry, was I being boring or what? Hiw old are your lads then?

Going to luch back in an hour

You don't bore me , but I can't fully agree about the dining together, there are occasions when we discuss all sorts of things in harmony, but unfortunately it's often that hubby tells the boys how to sit and not to spill anything and so on, so they prefer to take their meals without their father
If it's just the three of us taking our meal together we have lots of fun though.
My oldest son is 15, the small son is 12 .
Enjoy your lunch

I agree, that sort of sit up straight stuff never works. You seem to have the right idea, though. I brought in sarnies, nothing ponm enuy I fancy. The canteen was good until it was poperated by outside contractors, now it's riubbish. I had a cheese sarnie, a corned beef sarnie, two satsumas and a banana. I have left two bags of crisps, two kitkats and a tomato left. Will nibble them over the afternoon.

just finished the corrections of the records of the working experience of my oldest son
What's a sarnie? And I don't understand ponm enuy either, I'm afraid

Sarnie is an East end expression for sandwich.

Nothing on menu I fancy was the other expression ,just my steam driven keyboard cocking up the posting again. Not cocking up. I should really say saying messing up, nicer expression.

How long will you be at work today ? I'll be off soon, as there are appointments with several teachers of my small son to keep

Offically till 18:45, but I'm hoping to get off earlier.
Seeing your son's school teachers? Hope he's not in any trouble!
JOKE:

A little boy was very bad at maths. He wouldn't study, he wouldn't learn. In desperation his parents sent him to this very strict Catholic school, where the nuns had a reputation of being first class maths teachers. The first day the lad came home, went to his room and studied. He refused food and was finaly forced into bed at night. This went on until exam time when he passed with top grades. The parents were so pleased they said to him what brought on this strange change. He said the minute he walked in the door and saw they'd nailed this guy to the plus sign, he knew these nuns meant business.

Have to get ready now. Not exactly problems, general informations about what they think how he will go on in school.Will know more tomorrow I hope.
for an early finish

Claudia

Have a good evening, catch up with you soon
TONY

Hello, hope you are fine
Talking to the teachers wasn't exactly what I had hoped it would be, took an immediate dislike to the only teacher I hadn't seen before and had to pull myself together not to show it
Don't like to think about the fact that school will keep me occupied for another 4 - 7 years
Hope to see you soon
Claudia

It's funny how you can form an instant dislike to some people. I know I do.There's a fellow that goes to our local club. Sometimes he joins our team and I just totally dislike him. There's something not quite right about him, if you know what I mean. I can't explain it, it's like hes not letting us see the real him, as if he's hiding something. I don't know what it is. A friend of my mate called Shelia says he makes her skin creep. And yet he's always friendly, always cheerful. Takes turns in buying rounds.Helps out if we're stuck on a question without being big headed or arrogant. But there's just something there, you know.

Yes I know that.There's the wife of one of my hubby's mates, she never did anything to offend me or something like that, but I can't stand her.Don't like her husband much either, it's probably because I'm such a snob, I don't like the language they use, if you know whatI mean. In German we call it " Ordinär" oh, now I now, must be something like "vulgar" in English. I know it's not their fault and that they just don't know better, but....
The teacher upset me because of her behaviour, I was late, but it wasn't my fault, I had to wait for the appointment with one of the other teachers because they were late. The moment she opened the door, the parents who should have come after me, arrived, and she greated them with: hello Tina, so they knew each other. When I pointed out that it was my turn and that it wasn't my fault that I was late, she told me that it she couldn't keep the other parents waiting, and that I could PERHAPS have a chance if the parents for the next date wouldn't come. Really I was speechless and I would like to make an official complaint about such behaviour, but it would change nothing I'm sure.