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

Thanks for the reassurance. I had an email with my induction programme in it. It looks great and I'll spend some time in Tasmania. I wonder if Warner Brothers ever went there before creating Taz. I doubt it somehow.

All that talk of Taz makes me want a nice tall glass of OJ...

You'll like Tasmania. Their beer's good, and they make decent pinot noir. The weather's gentler than it is on the mainland, as a rule. The landscape's interesting too. But there's also a lot of social inequality, for historical reasons.

Oooh!

It all started off as a bit of a pipe dream...

... Now it's all so very real!


*looks for her Ivan the Kangaroo*

I've started packing my brand new luggage. I couldn't take the family's stuff as they would have nothing to take on holiday when they go.

Why is it that nothing is where you thought it was?

23Kg is not very much to be lasting you for 2 years!

You might have to do some shopping when you get here...

Or take up naturism.

Oh, you'll have to sort out the interwebs first thing, so you can tell us all about your new life.

I've bought a shiny second hand netbook and made sure it works, so I should be up and running early on.

To be honest I have a face and body for radio so naturism wasn't the best of my ideas.

I have been playing the "Last time I'll ..." game for a couple of days now. This is my last Saturday in the UK for quite a while (12 months probably). It's my grandson's 12th birthday today and so we intend to go to a place with creepy crawlies and such. He'll love it and most of the rest of the party will be going round with their eyes shut.

Tuesday will soon be here. That's the last time I'll say that in the UK for quite a while.

I hope you have a marvelous 'Last Weekend' in the UK

Just think, next week you will be posting from Sydney.... rubbing vests with kangaroos and 'possums, sniffing gladdies and buying speedos - Speedos? No... let's not go there!

Have a safe journey

lil xx

Apparently I've heard some younger friends say that Speedo's in Oz are referred to as "budgie clutchers"... I'm not sure my ferrets will like that.

'Smugglers', not 'clutchers'. but don't worry, you'll pick up the language before long.

Have you finished packing yet?

'Smugglers'?

Does that mean he can't take his ferrets?

They'll have to spend a while in quarantine.

Poor Vestie, I don't think he's been parted from his ferrets before

I'm not sure you can unattach them without gender reassignment...
I knew it had something to do with budgies. I think I quite like clutchers, but a bit too provocative maybe?

I can't check in online with Etihad until 20 hours before I go - so that's 2320 tonight. I want the seat next to the pilot.

BTW has any one else come across SeatGuru from Trip Advisor. I'm going to try and use the extra bit of info it gives on which are the best & worst seats.

My uncle always sits at the tail end of the plane, because it's the last to leave the ground and the first to land

Noodles!!

Never heard of that guru. I usually try for a place near a window, and not too close to the wings cause they take the sight.