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

Glad you made it back FB! Now I've got you in two places

to Sana!

Hi Scorpio

Yup, two places. And about to have a piece in which will be pretty familiar to you, about the third anniversary of earthquakes. Perhaps I should think about a "four legs good" column and indulge my love of talk? What do you think? Do I have the capacity to write another regular piece I wonder?

It is good to be back. I'm lurking a lot and I have rationalised (aka deleted some of) my Friends list so I don't read and therefore get wound up by some of the opinionated claptrap that certain people write

Fb

A Sana saga would be extremely good; even if you don't have time for a long one.

Incidentally, I lurked in your space the other day when you were talking to someone about Orkney. I have somewhere, a 1941 copy of the Orkney Blast; which my Father in Law got when he was serving there. It was apparently provided for the troops.

Morning Scorp

Orkney - ahhhh... that's my other place in the world. Grandpa was Orcadian and my surname is specific to the islands. We used to go there on hols every other year when I was wee - and my happiest holiday memories are related to lochs, fishing, rain, archaeology, Dad

The Orkney Blast was indeed published for the troops in Orkney in WW2. Most of them hated the place - cold, wet, treeless, a long way from home, not much nightlife etc. There's a poem somewhere written by one of them called "Bl**dy Orkney" They were there to guard Scapa Flow which was the base of the RN Fleet.

It's too far north for me these days - long dark winters and not enough sun. I'll stay here and just dream dreams of Orkney summers

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