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Okay, what's next Frenchbean?
Posted Feb 27, 2009
I really enjoyed getting into writing a piece for the Edited Guide again (A47819523 
) and I need more practice 
PR is a scary place. I'd forgotten how vulnerable it can make me feel - and then how liberating to have placed my creation there for everybody to see and comment. I shall have to harden up a bit I think 
So... the next topic may be Gargoyles (
can you believe nobody here has written the definitive entry on gargoyles?). Or it may be about Mount Ninderry, beneath which I lived in Queensland. Or it may be about Farmers' Markets - which have been touched upon elsewhere, but not covered fully. Or gurning - about which I can't find an entry either 
So many choices 
Fb
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It warms the cockles of my heart
Posted Feb 23, 2009
It is fabulous to hear that the National Trust in UK is handing over land for allotments. Even better is that there is a waiting list of over 100,000 people for allotments. And sales of vegetable seeds have overtaken those of flowers. 
Well done Britain 
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And about time too, Frenchbean!
Posted Feb 14, 2009
A thread about teacups (thank you Hyp) has just led me back to DNA's PS for the first time in a few years - U42. From there I had a quick scan of a few of his guide entries and I was reminded of the original thinking behind H2G2. It was an interesting and - for me - timely reminder. Read on...
In A550955 he said:
>>You will be able to read and write to the Guide wherever you are: at the station, in the plane, on a park bench, in your car (pulled over to the side of the road with the handbrake on, of course) in a café. And when you write in something as simple as 'The coffee here is lousy!' the Guide will know exactly what to do with that information and where to put it. And if you see, a few seconds later, a note which says 'Yes, but the cheesecake is good' it might be worth looking round the other tables to see who you've just made contact with.
The more people who use the Guide, the more useful it will become, and the more useful it becomes, the more people will use it. A long way down the road we see... well, I'll come to that in a later post.<<
There's been a bit of recent debate around the traps that I read about the purpose and shape of hootoo and its community. Whilst I reckon it's a healthy thing for the site to shift and move with the times, I also wonder whether we should be hanging onto that original vision. After all, that's what brought most people here (isn't it?).
As a result, I'm going to head back into the fray with guide entries that I feel meet DNA's vision. PR has been well-documented as ailing. Well, perhaps it's about time I stopped sitting on the sidelines and started contributing once more. I still think DNA's idea was fabulous and I feel slightly ashamed to have been a relatively passive bystander for a few years. We've been leaving it up to Gnomon for too long 
Any other budding guide-writers care to join me?
Fb
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The return of the Bean
Posted Jan 29, 2009
Hello Hootoo I'm back Feeling a bit weak, but otherwise totally healthy again.
I see there are 31 posts on the thread that F posted for me on Monday, so I should really go and read them, shouldn't I?
Full service will be resumed in due course
Fb
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In bed and sweating
Posted Jan 26, 2009
Hi. I'm F, writing on behalf of french bean. She has come down with a big infection in a neck gland. She is in bed with an enlarged neck. The doctor has given drugs but they are not working yet. She says not to worry, but please send healing thoughts.
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