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

Flip, if I've written

Got interrupted by a long telephone call! Unfortunately you and I will never know what exciting thing I was going to say on that sentence now as I've forgotten!

Glad you put an intro on, as yesterday I couldn't speak to you!

Now I can, and I'm not bound but health and nutrition, I don't know what to say, you must put up more info to spark me off!

I wrote three programs yesterday with the message board being down, how boring is that! I hate programming, its a career for people who don't enjoy life! Unfortunately when you run a small business, you have to turn your hand to all sort of things.

Happy to have found you, hopefully the next post won't be so mind numbingly boring for you!

Ian

Those introduction things are difficult - not because of my use of the English language but because it's easy to unwittingly open yourself up to ridicule!

I too found myself getting rather a lot more done yesterday. My job is normally very varied and interesting but we're about to change accounting systems which means endless reviews of our client's accounts. Very, very, very dull. The messageboard has helped me while away the endless hours at my desk.

I have a plan to leave the rat race however. Stage one is complete. I have bought a house in the 'country'. Stage two involved buying the field next to the house. Stage three is to pay of the mortgage (I'm chucking everything I have at that!) Stage four is to give up full time work, get an easy peasy part time job somewhere and look after pigs, chickens and veggies instead.

Can't wait to chuck all my suits out and don a pair of wellies!

Well where abouts in the World do you live!

Is English yer nitave ting?

I think your use of the langauge is fine, get that intro writ!

When I first saw a post form you I thought heck, even the Special Air Squadron use this board, and they're pretty fit.

I work around twenty hours a week, but haven't really left the rat race! In fact I have done some jobs for my ex employers, and divisions that were subject to MBOs. Which is amasing as I thought I'd burnt my boats when I left! I'd had my second meteoric rise in my career, and was again a senior manager, great salary, pension and car. However once you got there, there was no prospect of further progression! Well we had a new director in charge of our division, who was a complete prat! Yes I let him know that's how I felt! Nearly as subtle as:

"It would be wrong of me to call you a complete prat as a director of the division"

"Yes"

"But I could think you're a complete prat"

"Well I suppose you could"

"I think you're a complete prat"

So there you are! Be carefull when you first abandon your job! I went into a business partnership with the previous encumbent of the director position when I left! I found out how bad he was at running a small business quite soon. From being pretty well off when I left my job, with eighteen months of leaving, I had no income, and a five figure overdraft. My wife wasn't working then either, and I had two children. I set up under the stairs with a desk, and fortunately I was pulled in on a job by my ex employer!

So the luck of the Irish eh?

So there's a bit more of an insight into me!

I hope to hear from you again soon!

Katy Chiro has left the rat race too, could be worth a post!

Ian

English is the language I speak most of the time although my first language probably consisted of grunts, groans and a few wild screams.

I live not far from St Malo in France so the UK's pretty close but France is closer!

It is beautiful here and I consider myself a very lucky girl to be living here. I woundn't want to live anywhere else. (Apart from maybe one of the Greek islands during winter time - not hot but no so cold!)

Crickey Flipper, what causes you to go into your other tongue? I'm such an innocent, I can't imagine!

Now I understand something else too, because of fear of sun burn and heat exhaustion the hares in St Malo run slower!

Ian

Hmmmmm sun burn is unlikely. You haven't been to St Malo then?

It has pretty much the same climate as Cornwall. This means there's a lot of rain in the winter and there's nearly always a sea breeze to cool things down in the summer. Not that I mind - I'm not a great fan of baking hot conditions.

Yes I've never had the pleasure of visiting in St Malo! Now I have exposed my higgerance of its climate to you! So what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that? Where did you originate? How did you end up there?

Are you ready to understand why I'm sad! I live in Bedfordshire! Yes I can't think of anything ineteresting about it either!

So there we are!

Tell me were you ever out of shape and hence your ineterest in the H and N board! You always post with such authority that I assumed you might be a professional.

I do miss the interaction of the other board, all this freedom on what to write, I'm worried I might expose more of my lack of knowledge!

See you soon

Ian

I was born here but I've lived here and there in Britain too but not for long enough to really get to grips with anywhere in particular. Britain's a great place, shame about the politics though!

I'm not sure whether I should be flattered by your comments that I have an authoritative tone or if you're gently suggesting that I may be slightly patronising. I do hope it's not the latter :0)

All I can say in my defense is that I tend not to respond to subjects that I haven't researched for myself. Not that I pretend to have personally performed any clinical trials but I simply wouldn't eat the way I do unless I was totally convinced that's it's right. And, of course, the only way to become totally convinced is to read as much as you can find about it. If what I read fits in with my sense of logic, then that's great. If it doesn't, then I want to find out why. That's when I can get annoying...

I have been facinated by nutrition for a long time. The way I see it is that our bodies are entirely made up of what we give them. Everthing we eat and breathe is used or dumped somewhere and, if something goes wrong, it's either pre-programmed, a system error, a virus, or crappy input.

There's only one thing in that list that we can do anything about. We have to get the input right.

Practising inputting is always worthwhile!

No I don't think you're patronising! Not even heavy, that's me!

I don't want you to get defensive with me, I'm delicate!

I don't have time for any research, too busy reading Nige's.

Ah as we're not on H and N:

Au revoir ma cherie!

Ian

A bientot!

Well Flip, I'm hot and bothered and that's before I've written to you!

You still told me why you're Sas Flipper! Do you trampoline?

I've been doing some of the homework Nige gave me! I'm getting more and more hooked on understanding nutrition! I'm not sure why! Before I was I couldn't imagine being interested at all. I hated blodge at school, couldn't wait to give it up! Perhaps its because its so fundamntal, or because of my needs.

So is the weather on the other side of the Channel (sorry La Manche) as hot as it is here?

Our house is designed to solar heat, and has huge picture windows on the south side. We have to have the curtains drawn most of the day right now. We also have a walled garden on that side of the house. Yikes it's hot out there! i venture out to water it and then back! H my wife can soak up any amount of heat, and strips off and just chills!

Just about to leave work, won't be on the boards tommorrow as I'm of to Brum to see some clients. Well it keeps a roof over my head!

A bientot!

Ian

Salut Ian!

Glad to here you're making progress with your homework. There's a lot to get through on that list. I've read most of it before but there are a few articles that were new to me.

Flipper is a nickname I've had for sometime now but it has nothing to do with Dolphins! It's all about being much more narrow when standing sideways than face on. So rather than being a roller, I'm a Flipper. (It's one of those things that was very amusing at the time and doesn't make much sense now!)

The temperatures here have been in the mid thirties but strangely we haven't had any sea breeze. Most peculiar... Nice for us but not for the sea creatures. Lots of sand living sea life has been dying from lack of oxygen in the sand. The hot weather and lack of cooling breezes has caused a change in their environment and they are climbing closer to the surface for air. Unfortunately they are frying to a crisp in the process.

I wasn't around to reply yesterday as I was having the dreaded blood test. I'm due to get the results on the 11th Sept which is a bit of an ominous date!

Take care

Flip

Bonjour

Well you might as well tell me about Sas too! When I was in Texas Sas meant cheek, but you don't come over as too cheeky, but that might just mean you behave yourself when you're posting!

Five weeks is a long time, but I'll be thinking about you! Remember finger nails are made of carotine (haven't a clue how to spell it) so it'll be highly indegistable!

Good luck!

love

Ian

Sas is another nickname which sprouted from my interest in wild and edible plants. (This interest was first ignited by reading the SAS survival handbook so you'll see the connection)

So you are the outdoor type! I've always wanted to pick wild mushrooms, but have been disuaded by H (wife), on the basis I'm not always the most careful of people!

Are you good with the stilleto and the crossbow too?

Should I make a note not to upset you?

Be afraid, be very.........

A slightly scared Ian, naw just kidding, why should I be scared you're the other side of the Channel........

Kindly disregard the bravado, I am frightened!

IH

You've no need to fear - you remember my hatred of blood?

Stay off the mushrooms unless you've grown them yourself in a sealed box! wild Mushrooms can be very dangerous.

The board's very quiet at the moment. I'm begining to wonder if we've started to convince people?

I know wild mushrooms are dangerous, but Carluccio (not sure of spelling) the TV chef makes them sound so delicious! When I lived in Cheshire, we had big flat mushrooms from a local farm, they were scrummy!

Yes it was quiet yesterday, I could do with a bit of excitement as I'm writing specs, enough to make you grind your teeth and tear your hair out.I have a number two on the head so I can't grasp handfuls. So I'm not bald yet!

You didn't back up that French post, so I can have it here! I felt so disappointed about that! My French is really bad, I'll tell you a few tales when I have more time! I've sent Nige a post in Latin on the H and N board, will he get it?

Ian