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

Hooray, I'm going away on a sailing course tommorrow! It's centred in Bosham harbour so I'm staying with my Grandma who lives in Bosham. I'll be back next weekend. I can't imagine what they're going to think of me when I turn up wearing my Dad's old T-shirts that haven't fitted him since he left his teenage years, including (wonders beyond wonders!) Tim Clarke's Academy Of Happy Motoring!!! You have to hear the story to understand. I might tell Zoe... and Mike... and a few other people.
My Dad says, "Everyone who hasn't tried it reckons that dinghy sailing is just mucking around in boats, but in truth it's boating around in muck."
Ye-es...
And also, Tuesday is Lughnasadh! (Lughnasa, Lammas, whatever you know it as...) Go on, celebrate!
Bye for now,
~Jo~

Go on, tell us a story!

And what are we supposed to celebate?

*grins*

Oh the sailing! That was great.
We (my boat: Rus, Rosie, Tom and Moi) got so wet that people kept asking us whether we had capsized. We had a capsize drill on the last day. You know? Climb on the centreboard and pull on the jibsheet? That's sailing talk. There was a lot of seaweed around the bottom of the boat except it wasn't the bottom 'cos it was capsized. And fortunately this didn't happen to me, but a few people slipped on the centreboard and scraped their shins. Barnacles... Yeuch.
It was too windy to sail one day. And on the last day it poured with rain and then it was thunder'n'lightening-ing so we had to go ashore.
And if you can sort that rambling out then you're cleverer than me.

Jesus, you lost me. It's been over two years since I last sailed, and I never even learnt any lingo from it. So you capsized and some guys got hurt a bit? Enjoyed that? Wow!
And some days the weather was As You Like It. Great you enjoyed yourself, that's good

And what was it we needed to celebrayte??!!

Sorry, I thought you were joking. You typed celebate. Or did you mean to? Hmm.

Lughnasadh's the ancient celebration of the first harvest. August 1st.

Here's something interesting - Trial Marriages of a year and a day. The vows are traditionally said on Lughnasadh. Young couples join hands through a holed stone and promise to stay together for a year and a day. When that time has passed they can either renew the promises or formally bring the arrangement to a close.

Um. Anyway...

Of course I meant to type that. I do things like that all the time

And, damn, we're three weeks late! Next year then...
I had a Corn Sacrifice dream round the time of this year's Harvest thing, where in ancient times they sacrificed a kid to gurentee a good crop. What a thing to dream!

Satanist B******s. They're the ones who put these things into people's heads. Human Sacrifice and Ritual Child Abuse. Ha!
Burn the witches! Why not equally burn the preachers!

Kill your Komrades!

Satanists actually don't go around making nuisances of themselves, unlike christians. Christians do anything to publicise god (and thus their greedy selves).

I was talking of them as one and the same group of people. Sorry. I got angry.

Wheras I'm simply prejudiced. Anyway, where were we? Satan is my master? Nah, I could 'ave 'im.

I gathered that. We were talking about... Hmm.

Talking about boats and celebate but it seems that's to be left in the past. I don't know nothing about sailing anyways. I assume that you, of course, end up doing it a lot, yes? Like, I should know this! In fact I do know you sail quite a bit, so shoot me for talking to myself!!!

1. I don't have a gun

2. I don't want to, Honey...

1. Shoot to thrill, aim to kill, too many women and too many pills...

2. Whaddya do for money honey, where'dya get your kicks?
Whaddya do for money honey where'dya get your licks?

And in this forum I'm in a AC/DC mood!

*laughs*

But I'm not any more. You know AC/DC?

Vaguely remember hearing the name. Possibly from my Dad.

That would be right. Something I admire old people for is that they know all about the best music. One of my friends dad has the best LP collection ever. I've probably mentioned it before. Have I?

Not in my memory which doesn't extend very far anyway...

Well, his LP collection is mighty fine.

And, hey, I started playing one of the LPs I bought yesterday and it JUMPED! Constantly! Goddamn, this upsets me slightly. I can't wait til that friend gets back from Spain so I can use his dad's decent record player *^_^*

Actually, he really is a good friend. Respect...