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

Hello there oh waspish one!

How are you today - apart from being grumpy about the clocks changing? Is the wet and windy winter weather getting to you?

What's on the sunny horizon?


Frenchbean

Hi oh Waspish one's friend!!

Well. hale and hearty.

thanks for the explanation. But I still do not know WHY they changed it?

I am never out of step for long, thank goodness, but I was upset that morning because the sky looked so dark and grey and thoroughly foreboding.

a big

Also ran 1

Hi f/b

I did post it. I am getting "soft " in the head. Oh dear. More folic acid for me.

'Bye
AR1

The weather has such a bearing on some people's day, doesn't it? I count myself amongst them. It's one of the reasons I'm so looking forward to returning to Australia. In 3 years there I never once got fed up of waking up to another day of endless sunshine

I guess having lived in Africa, you must miss that a lot. Mind you, I have a colleague at work who lived in Zimbabwe then S Africa, for most of her life and she loves the cool temperatures and overcast skies here!

A sunny day brings out my sunny personality!

Have a good one, my friend...


F/b

Hello there AR

How are you? Did your early night do you good?

I've been bread baking today and the house is filled with wonderful smells. One of the loaves seems to be a brick though - I suspect that I might have forgotten the yeast! My marbles aren't what they used to be!

Must Can't miss Ski Sunday (reminds me of childhood in front of the fire with crumpets, drop scones, hot chocolate and dogs).


Frenchbean

Hello Waspish one

How are you doing? Did you get the beautiful snow? We had it at last, but it'll last only a day or so. Today has been glorious, with bright sun shining on the white countryside

I've been a bit under the weather for a couple of weeks, but I'm fighting fit and raring to go again now.

Hoping to go into Edinburgh on Saturday, for the last day of a Turner watercolour exhibition and a meal of sushi/sushimi


f/b

Hi f/b

Hope you are feeling better and that you enjoyed the Turner exhibition. I love him, and one of my wonderful memories ios going to a Turner exhibition years ago in the old Tate.

How are your plans and your clearing out. It is a real gift to make bread. I used to make it in Zim, using yoghurt and honey and sunflower seedss. It was very good. Now I eat Soya Bread with sunflower seeds

and it is so much better than I can make it!!.

Did you have tons of snow?

With affection

Also Ran

Hello AR1

Temporarily in gear??? gear of a vehicle or gear aka clothes?
Do you normally appear naked on h2g2???

The snow was a big disappointment for 2 reasons. It came down really heavy and lay in a wonderful 4 inch blanket, but was all gone the next day. And the day it was blizzarding was the day I was supposed to go to the Turner Exhibition in Edinburgh, so I couldn't go

Sunflower seeds are wonderful in bread . I make a big batch every 3 weeks or so, and freeze all but one loaf. Then I can get it out of the freezer as I need it. It's not quite as good from frozen, but sooo much better than the horrible stuff from the shops

All my ailments seem to have lifted at last. I've had about 6 weeks of feeling peeliewallie (pale and wan and under the weather), so it's a real joy to be pinging about again now.

The nights are gradually (and noticeably) getting shorter, which is a sign that I'll be sowing the first veggie seeds soon. I am really looking forward to filling up my airing cupboard with seed trays! It lifts my spirits like nothing else can. It's really odd to know that this is my last summer in my lovely cottage and garden. It's wrapped around me over the last 3 years, since I came back to UK, while I've been healing. I shall be very sad to leave. But on the other hand, I can't bear the thought of being trapped in UK for the rest of my life!

Did you go through times of confusion and regret and excitement when you left South Africa? I feel so mixed up some of the time - and terribly impatient to get moving !

Having lived in Australia for 3 years, I know that part of me is there all the time. Of course is there too - well his ashes are scattered on the Great Barrier Reef - and most of my memories of him are there. But I have a feeling of rootlessness: of not quite knowing where my heart lies; nor where home is. Sound familiar at all?

Crikey: that turned philosophical!


F/b